Psycholinguists from the Centre for Language and Brain at HSE University–St Petersburg have shown that words that are frequently misspelled are processed more slowly by readers, even when presented with the correct spelling. The researchers confirmed this effect for the first time using Russian-language materials and found that response speed is most strongly linked to how confidently individuals can distinguish the correct spelling of a word from an incorrect one. The study has been published in The Mental Lexicon.
Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have developed a new digital tool for assessing children's phonological processing skills—the ZARYA (Sound Analysis of the Russian Language) test battery. It is the first standardised application in Russia designed to provide a fast and reliable assessment of children's ability to distinguish speech sounds, retain them in working memory, and perform phonemic analysis. The app runs on Android tablets and smartphones and is available for download from RuStore. Details of the test validation have been published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Europium is a rare-earth metal responsible for the pure red glow in displays and other luminescent materials. For a long time, however, it refused to emit light when surrounded by certain organic molecules known as acylpyrazolone ligands. Chemists have now uncovered the reason: in europium complexes with these ligands, a 'black window' appears—a charge-transfer state in which the energy absorbed by the ligand is dissipated as heat rather than emitted as light. Understanding this mechanism opens the way to designing more efficient red-emitting materials for displays, fluorescent thermometers, and chemical sensors. The results have been published in Dalton Transactions.
This study presents an interdisciplinary examination of the intersections between human capital theory, philosophical interpretations of property, and contemporary housing and aspirational patterns in Germany and the United Kingdom. Drawing upon classical economic thought, Hegel’s philosophy of right, and Marx’s theory of alienation, the analysis demonstrates that falling homeownership rates and the reorientation of youth ...
Kildyushov O., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 Т. 35 № 2 С. 6–21
This article examines a heuristic framework for analyzing the significance of Russian themes in Max Weber’s corpus, in connection with the completion of the complete edition of his works as a comprehensive source base. It highlights the ambivalent position of Russian themes in the his legacy: while Russia was never central to his scholarship, the issue ...
Gofman A. B., Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes 2025 Vol. 29 No. 1 P. 3–17
http://This article attempts to clarify the essence of Durkheim’s rationalism, especially in his interpretation of morality. The author distinguishes between two aspects, or meanings, of Durkheim’s rationalism: 1) epistemological one and 2) ontological one. In the first, epistemological sense, Durkheim was a convinced rationalist, defending rationalistic means of cognition of social phenomena. In the second, ...
The monograph is devoted to the autobiographical documents of poets and writers of the Silver Age: A.A. Blok, Andrei Bely, L.N. Andreev, D.S. Merezhkovsky, M.M. Prishvin, I.A. Bunin, and others. The authors of the articles examine the stylistic originality of letters, memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and notebooks, and determine their significance in the culture of the ...
Панченко В. Ю., Дегтярев М. А., Сибирский антропологический журнал 2020 Т. 4 № 4 С. 300–306
In Debate of the Sixth Rhine Landtag (Article One), Marx criticizes the distinction that is widespread in the minds of people between good and bad print. At the same time, the first one is a press, directed only to human passions, that is, capable of awakening only dark forces in society, spreading bad principles and ...
Ermakova L., Вестник Удмуртского университета. Серия История и филология 2025 Т. 35 № 6 С. 1403–1422
The article publishes and analyzes the correspondence between the historian of antiquity Elena A. Millior (1900–1978) and the classical philologist Yakov M. Borovsky (1896–1994), covering the years 1946–1960 and preserved in the archives of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana in St. Petersburg. ...
Иванова М. С., Исторический архив 2026 № 1 С. 170–178
This text reveals and publishes the materials from the review file of the writer Alexander Ivanovich Ertel for the first time. Comments on the content of the source are presented, as are reflections on the genres and formats of (auto)biographical texts of the late 19th century. The text also highlights the issue of "political unreliability" ...
Иванова М. С., Диалог со временем 2025 № 91 С. 159–169
In this article, using the example of the epistolary legacy of the writer and publicist Alexander Ivanovich Ertel, the trajectory of archiving personal collections is traced: from collecting, curation to publication of letters. The question of the social significance of epistolary practice in the post-reform era is raised through the study of the substantive and ...
Shmatko N., Маркова Ю. В., Социологический журнал 2025 Т. 31 № 1 С. 110–123
The article deals with the history and interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “social space”.
With the help of the concept, Bourdieu described a set of interrelated social phenomena that support
and reflect each other. He defined social space as a multidimensional distribution of agents (individual
or collective) over objective positions determined by the distribution of effective resources ...