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Securitising HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan: Framings, Policies and Practices
Europe-Asia Studies. 2022. Vol. 74. No. 2. P. 194–218.
Kluczewska K., Korneev O.
Building on previous work on the securitisation of HIV/AIDS, studies of framings, and the Copenhagen and Paris schools of security studies, this essay explores how policy framings of HIV/AIDS have shifted from the late Soviet period through to present-day Tajikistan. Pointing to both continuity and change, it shows how, under the influence of international actors and in accordance with nation-building priorities, Soviet-era medical and societal security framings gradually transformed into state security, demography and family-oriented framings. It also examines the resulting policy responses and practices that influence the everyday life of social groups who become identified as a public health concern.
Kazun A., Девятников В. Ю., Белов М. Д., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 Т. 3 № 32 С. 115–135
Как понять, хорош адвокат или нет? В данной статье мы описываем методологию, позволяющую измерять качество юридической помощи через разницу между тем, что предсказывает модель машинного обучения по объективным характеристикам дела, и тем, чем дело закончилось в реальности. Мы исходим из предпосылки, что если у адвоката дела стабильно заканчиваются лучше ожидаемого, то он делает свою работу хорошо. ...
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Almakaeva A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 1 С. 3–16
This paper examines the benefits and drawbacks of longitudinal (panel) studies. It highlights their enormous potential for researching social transformations, individual life course, causal links, and the outcomes of different social and policy initiatives. Significant drawbacks of this design cover organizational and financial costs, panel attrition, panel conditioning and seam effects. The text describes several ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
Today, more than ever before, the contribution of new technologies shapes the conditions of humanity's existence as a biological species, prompting a debate about its prospects for survival. This process of transformation—which spans every sphere of social and moral regulation, from family relations and child-rearing to the very meaning of life—is dividing public opinion between ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2026 Т. 35 № 2 (167) С. 4–29
In the context of the rapid changes in the modern world associated with globalization, informatiza tion, and the revision of ethical standards of mass behavior, legal theory faces a number of problems — the loss of consensus in understanding global constitutionalism, growing disagreements regard ing its values and principles, and unclear prospects for the future. ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2026 Т. 35 № 1 С. 53–77
Judges should be independent of politics, yet they are constantly ensnared by it. Politics haunts judges even where the full scope of constitutional guarantees for the separation of powers and an in dependent judiciary is in place, infiltrating the courtroom through variable interpretations of the val ues, principles, and norms of the constitution, the selection ...
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Kotelnikov M., Пути России. Журнал cоциальных и этнографических исследований 2026 Т. 4 № 3 С. 80–95
The article examines strategies for avoiding unwanted verbal interactions with dog owners while walking dogs. The study is based on the author’s autoethnographic expe-rience and interviews with “introverted” dog owners. The discussion focuses on five tactics aimed at reducing the level of social discomfort of the “introverted dog owner”: actively com-menting on your dog’s actions, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 № 2 С. 146–164
It is generally accepted that the basis of social and legal stability in any society is a consensus on vir tue — the fundamental values of proper behavior, ways of maintaining and reproducing them. And, conversely, the destruction of this consensus is a sign of the loss of stability and divergence of positions of social ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2025 Т. 34 № 4 С. 135–166
The communist morality created in the USSR to form a “new man” was based on a code of moral values that replaced traditional religious ideas with the ideological postulates of a one-party dictator ship. The crisis and collapse of this ideology in post-Soviet Russia led to the emergence of an “ethi cal vacuum” — moral ...
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Medakin S., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 409–422
The article analyses the phenomenon of positive representation in Soviet caricatures devoted to international relations. Both the peculiarities of the artistic and political phenomenon itself, atypical for the history of political caricatures, and its close connection with the foreign policy agenda, ideology, and the legacy of Soviet propaganda of the 1920s-1950s are studied. Visual sources ...
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The book focuses on the concept of “socialist market, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward. Encouraged by the success of non-capitalist mixed economies, market reformers (also called 'market socialists') offered the communist ruling elites a remedy for the persistent crises of the planned economy. Besides optimal planning and ...
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Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
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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, ...
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Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
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Goryushina E., Осмаев А. Д., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026
Статья предлагает критический анализ формирования и эволюции метанарратива о «воинственной Чечне» как устойчивой рамки российской политики памяти и имперского воображения в долгой исторической перспективе (longue durée). На материале административно-военного письма Российской империи, литературного канона XIX века, советских нормативных актов и репрезентаций (включая депортацию 1944 года и реабилитацию 1957 года), а также постсоветской государственной риторики и ...
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Smirnov A., Демографическое обозрение 2025 Т. 12 № 2 С. 35–68
The article summarizes the application of the network approach to the analysis of migration flows in Russia from the late Soviet period to 2023. Eleven datasets on international, interregional and intermunicipal migration flows were compiled. The data sources include the 1989, 2002, 2010, 2020 (2021) population censuses, vital statistics for 2015-2023 and the “digital traces” ...
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Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
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Young P. I., Scando-Slavica 2025 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 200–224
Not only Soviet and Swedish soldiers, but also Soviet and Swedish ideologies of war clashed on the battlefield in the Soviet-Finnish “Winter” War of 1939–1940. This article explores Soviet and Swedish ideologies of war in the Winter War in a comparative context. It shows that both Soviet and Swedish participants viewed the war as a ...
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Кайдышева Н. Н., Ученые записки НТГСПИ. Серия: История и филология 2024 № 4 С. 8–26
This article is devoted to the study of the history of volunteerism in the Soviet Union using the city of Nizhny Tagil as an example. The author substantiates the thesis that the social practices of Soviet citizens were a manifestation of charity. The work shows a wide range of forms of charity among the population ...
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Borushkina S., Gorodnichev A., / Elsevier. Серия -- "WPS". 2026.
Agglomeration policy has long been a widely accepted approach in spatial development, premised on
the assumption that large, integrated city-regions drive national economic growth through higher
productivity, innovation, and global integration. This paper examines how this paradigm is reworked
under conditions of polycrisis, understood as a durable state of overlapping and mutually reinforcing
economic, geopolitical, and institutional crises. Focusing ...
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Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
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Suleymanov I., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 25: Международные отношения и мировая политика 2025 Т. 17 № 4 С. 55–88
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental organization representing a unique research center, whose activities encompass the broadest spectrum of nuclear science. The formation and development of JINR are covered in dozens, if not hundreds, of books and articles published over the institute’s 70-year history. However, the process of its creation ...
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Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2024 № 4 С. 173–183
The article is the first to address the discourse of age as a resource for constructing the image of the enemy. It is based on the Russian government's official statements, politicians' comments and the country's leading media sources, as well the authors' sociological research. The first part of the paper examines approaches to the analysis ...
Added: January 27, 2026