Review: DILLERY, J. – Clio’s Other Sons. Berossus and Manetho. A Discussion of the First Written Histories of Babylon and Egypt. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2015 (XXXVIII, 494). ISBN 978-0-472-07227-9.

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September 25, 2026

AI Users Earn Up to 41.8% More Than Non-Users

Research conducted by economists at HSE University has revealed a significant correlation between the regular use of GenAI in the workplace and higher pay among Russian employees. The study found that individuals who frequently use GenAI in their professional activities earn notably more than those who reject these new tools or resort to them occasionally. The salary premium for highly qualified specialists reaches 41.8%. The article was published in the Voprosy Ekonomiki journal.

September 24, 2026

‘Feedback and Constructive Criticism Are Essential in Our Profession

Vincent Fardeau, Associate Professor at HSE ICEF, has reached a major career milestone: he recently published his paper ‘Asymmetric Thin Markets’ in the Journal of Financial Economics, successfully passed his major academic review, and received tenure. In this interview, Vincent discusses the story behind the paper, explains the concept of asymmetric thin markets, and shares his advice for young scholars aiming to publish in top-tier journals.

September 22, 2026

Personal Interest in Doctoral Thesis Topic Most Important for Confidence in Successful Defence

A researcher at HSE University analysed data on 1,539 doctoral students from 161 Russian universities to identify which features of a thesis topic are associated with academic success and engagement. The most important factor was found to be personal interest in the research topic, which was associated with almost all key aspects of doctoral programme experience—from engaging with the academic supervisor to research activity and confidence about successfully defending the thesis. The findings have been published in Higher Education.

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Review: DILLERY, J. – Clio’s Other Sons. Berossus and Manetho. A Discussion of the First Written Histories of Babylon and Egypt. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2015 (XXXVIII, 494). ISBN 978-0-472-07227-9.

Bibliotheca Orientalis. 2018. Vol. 75. No. 1-2. P. 105–117.

Ivan Ladynin, Alexander Nemirovsky

The review gives a critical analysis of a recent book by the American Classicist John Dillery (University of Virginia) on the fragment of the Greek works by Ancient Oriental historians Manetho and Berossus

Празднование славянской письменности в 1863 г.: как Россия "вспомнила" Кирилла и Мефодия

Chronopoulos D., Вестник Омского университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2027 № 1

В 1863 г. в России отметили тысячелетие славянской письменности. Имперские власти и церковные деятели осознавали общеславянский характер праздника и его важность для «славянского вопроса». В общественной дискуссии фигуры Кирилла и Мефодия были мобилизованы для осмысления ключевых вопросов — от народного просвещения до обострившегося в связи с восстанием «Польского вопроса». Парадоксальным образом обращение к «общеславянскому» прошлому ...

Added: September 24, 2026

Ордынский фактор развития русского церковного права XIII–XV вв.

Pochekaev R. Y., Тутаев И. В., Христианское чтение 2026 № 3 С. 254–269

The article presents an attempt to clarify the general trends and analyze some specific examples of how the form and content of canon law documents in the 13th-15th centuries were affected by the fact that Russian lands were under the rule of the Golden Horde khans. The discussion covers such aspects as the types of ...

Added: September 24, 2026

An Architectural Block with a Vegetal Scroll Pattern Ornamentation from Kepoi in the Cimmerian Bosporus

Stoyanov R., Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 2026 Vol. 32 No. 1 P. 1–13

This study examines the fragment of an architectural block adorned with vegetal ornamentation which was discovered at the ancient settlement of Kepoi, situated in the Asiatic Bosporus on the northern coast of the Black Sea (fig. 1). The block’s façade features a spiraling vegetal motif rendered in high relief with exceptional detail (fig. 2). The ...

Added: September 23, 2026

Greek and Latin Inscriptions on a Funerary Stele from the excavations at Parion

Ivantchik A., Зайцев А. В., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 86 No. 1 P. 141–152

This article publishes the inscriptions preserved on the funerary stele from Parion, discussed in the preceding article. The stele was used twice, and the Greek inscription, carved at the same time as the stele was created in the late second – early first century BC, was partly erased when it was re-used. It was reconstructed ...

Added: September 23, 2026

Agora I. Byzantine House in the Area of the Agora (Parion Studies 10)

Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2025.

This volume presents the results of the first season of a Turkish–Russian–French research project at Parion, one of the most important Greek poleis on the southern shore of the Propontis, in the northern Troad. Archaeological excavations were carried out in July and August 2021 as part of an international project devoted to the multidisciplinary study ...

Added: September 23, 2026

К вопросу о названии TABULAE VINDOLANDENSES

Данилочкина К. С., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 537–546

The article examines the issue of naming the wooden writing tablets from the Roman fort Vindolanda (late 1st - first quarter of the 2nd century AD), which represent a unique corpus of epistolary and documentary sources for the history of Roman Britain. Since their discovery in the 1970s, over a thousand specimens have been found, ...

Added: September 23, 2026

Социальный контекст как фактор, моделирующий систему метафорических образов в нарративах (на примере англоязычного дискурса о беременности и родах)

Chermoshentseva K., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2026 Т. - № 2(66) С. 227–243

The paper focuses on the system of metaphorical images used in modern English-language memoir narratives in prenatal and postnatal discourse. It reveals a set of social representations of pregnancy and childbirth, which act as a modeling factor for the formation of metaphorical images. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the decisive role of ...

Added: September 22, 2026

Акцентная система говора деревни Пятиусово: существительные а-склонения

Никитенко Д. Ю., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 188–207

This study explores a fragment of the accentual system of the Pskov dialect, with data obtained from both a corpus and fieldwork. The focus is on a-stem nouns (1st declension), with the accent types and stress patterns described. The accent types of nouns are presented in tables, while the stress patterns are given in a dictionary format, allowing for a combined approach to describing the dialect’s accentual system. Special attention is paid to stress placement in the accusativus singularis form of a number of words, which in this case ...

Added: September 22, 2026

Инсигнии в «большом кургане» Ц-74/Серг-1900 Гнездовскоего археологического комплекса

Щавелев А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 6(164) Статья 3

The present study considers a suite of insignia recovered from the large burial mound C‐74 (Serg‐1900) within the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, dated to the 10th century. The interment was performed in situ according to the cremation‐in‐boat rite. The richness of the grave assemblage, notably the presence of several paired high‐status items (two sets of horse ...

Added: September 21, 2026

«Игрок» Ф.М. Достоевского в радиоадаптации «Бабуленька» Н.С. Сухоцкой

Воробьёва О. А., Достоевский и мировая культура. Филологический журнал 2026 № 3 С. 230–246

The article examines the history of the creation of the radio play Babulyenka, directed in 1968 by N.S. Sukhotskaya based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler. An analysis of archival materials preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), including the typescript of the script, Sukhotskaya’s directorial notes, the working notes of F. G. ...

Added: September 20, 2026

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

Springer, 2026.

Two volumes of the SPECOM 2026 proceedings contain a collection of submitted papers presented at SPECOM 2026, which were thoroughly reviewed by members of the Program Committee and additional reviewers consisting of almost 80 experts in the conference topic areas. In total, 65 regular full papers out of 99 submissions made via the EasyChair electronic ...

Added: September 20, 2026

Понятие «народ» у славянофилов (1840–1880-е гг.)

Романенко А. А., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 71–95

В статье представлен опыт анализа славянофильского понимания «народа» — одной из ключевых тем учения славянофилов и одного из важнейших понятий их политической доктрины. Славянофильство нами рассматривается в «узком» смысле слова, как идейное объединение А.С. Хомякова, И.В. Киреевского, Ю.Ф. Самарина, К.С. и И.С. Аксаковых, А.И. Кошелева и других, сформировавшееся в начале 1840-х гг.; анализ нами доводится ...

Added: September 19, 2026

Роль анализа языковых средств в развитии профессиональной коммуникативной компетенции студентов в рамках курса по нарративной медицине

Пинчукова А. Е., Вестник филологических наук 2026 Т. 6 № 9 С. 176–186

The paper focuses on the study of language phenomena within the interdisciplinary paradigm and the notion of a narrative as one of the most popular ones for investigation in various fields. The purpose of the article is to single out the principles of the communicative competence development in the medical sphere, in which the area ...

Added: September 18, 2026

Богослужения 5 ноября как инструмент символического насилия в Ирландии 1691–1711 гг.

Kirilov D., Диалог со временем 2026 № 96 С. 146–160

This article examines Irish November 5th sermons published between 1691 and 1711. These government-issued texts are considered as instruments for shaping cultural memory and symbolic authority. Through teleological narratives grounded in a substantive philosophy of history, preachers drew parallels between biblical stories and the situation of Protestants in Ireland, transforming sacred history into lessons and ...

Added: September 18, 2026

Роман И.С. Тургенева «Отцы и дети» в драматургической адаптации Брайана Фрила

Tsvetkova M. V., Алентьева А. А., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 № 2 С. 385–397

The purpose of this article is to describe the specifics of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s adaptation of I.S. Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons for the theater and the reasons behind Friel’s transformations. The novelty of this study stems from the fact that the reception of Russian classical literature in Ireland in the 20th century has ...

Added: September 17, 2026

Гармония гласных и звукосимволизм в нганасанском языке

Гусев В. Ю., Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири 2025 Т. 56 № 4 С. 90–99

В нганасанском языке существует сложная система чередования гласных в суффиксах, которая восходит к противопоставлению переднего и заднего рядов, но в результате многих передвижений гласных лишилась фонетической мотивации. Из всех суффиксов есть один глагольный, который, присоединяясь к корням, выражающим визуально наблюдаемые свойства, способен принимать гласные обоих сингармонических классов, соответственно меняя гласные и всех аффиксов, следующих за ...

Added: September 16, 2026

Сравнительная степень в тунгусо-маньчжурских языках

Гусев В. Ю., Аралова Н. Б., Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири 2025 Т. 54 № 2 С. 81–95

Рассматриваются формы сравнительной степени прилагательных, которые возникли в диалектахсеверных тунгусо-маньчжурских языков. Морфологическая сравнительная степень ‒ типологически довольно редкое явление, которое отсутствует, в том числе, в большинстве языков Сибири. Однако во многих диалектах эвенкийского, эвенского и негидальского языков эти формы появились, грамматикализовавшись в континентальных диалектах из селективного показателя, а в быстринском эвенском (Камчатка) ‒ из аттенуатива. ...

Added: September 16, 2026

Vague stimulating ideas, images and metaphors in scientific thinking: researchers' work with horizons of unclear knowledge

Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.

Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...

Added: September 15, 2026

«Увидел он гордеца павшим…» Мятеж Амасиса против Априя и египетский поход Навуходоносора II в древней и средневековой традиции

Ladynin I. A., Немировский А. А., Банщикова А. А. et al., М.: Издательство «Альма Матер», 2026.

В коллективной монографии подробно анализируются источники, связанные с предысторией, ходом и последствиями малоизвестного эпизода истории древнего Египта и Ближнего Востока – узурпации власти в Египте военачальником Амасисом у царя XXVI династии Априя (570-567 гг. до н.э.) и вмешательства в их противостояние вавилонского царя Навуходоносора II (567 г. до н.э.). Рассматривается значимость этого эпизода в восприятии ...

Added: June 10, 2026

Система синтаксических инвариантов текстовой деятельности: статистические дескрипторы, семантическая структура и диагностические профили

Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.

The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...

Added: June 2, 2026

Почему растущие доходы не делают людей счастливее: эмоциональное объяснение парадокса Истерлина (Why Growing Incomes Do Not Make People Happier: an Emotional Explanation of the Easterlin Paradox)

Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.

This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...

Added: May 31, 2026

Некоторые мотивы египетского прошлого в «Аргонавтике» Аполлония Родосского

Ladynin I. A., В кн.: Сборник статей к юбилею Алексея Ивановича Солопова.: Р.Валент, 2025. С. 235–247.

Here is the English translation of the provided Russian text: In the poem *Argonautica* by Apollonius of Rhodes, there is the following passage (IV. 253-290): Argus speaks of the route for the Argonauts’ return home, discovered by “priests… those who left Tritonian Thebes,” at a time when the “sacred race of the Danaans” was still unknown ...

Added: May 5, 2026

Кубанская стела (Musée des Beaux Arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565)

Крол А. А., Кузнецов Д. А., Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 244–261

The publication presents a new translation and commentary of the Quban Stela of Ramesses II (Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565). This monument dates to the beginning of his reign (ca. 1287 BC); it was found near the ruins of the fortress of Baki, close to the Nubian village of Kuban. The composers of the ...

Added: May 5, 2026

Некоторые аспекты интеграции Нубии в египетскую государственность эпохи ранней древности

Ladynin I. A., Дашкина А. Р., Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры 2026 № 1(91) С. 24–37

The article examines two aspects of the integration of Nubia (with particular attention to Lower Nubia) into the statehood of ancient Egypt during early antiquity (up to the end of the 2nd millennium BC). During the First and Second Intermediate Periods, Nubia demonstrates the adoption of Egyptian traditions of royal power, incorporating its territory into ...

Added: May 5, 2026