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Activism and Patient Vulnerability: Resistance to Medical Authority and Regulation in Russia
FOLKLORICA. Journal of the Slavic and East European Folklore Association. 2022. Vol. 26. P. 1–33.
The paper analyzes the opposition and adaptation of Russian patients, independent perinatal specialists,and professional human rights activists to normative regulation of obstetric care, medical authorities,and the practices of the Russian maternity hospital. During my ethnographic research, I have collected personal stories about the clashes of women in labor and their assistants (primarily doulas) with the medical system, stories of collective and individual appeals to authorities, and protest flash mobs. The article presents the history of the transformation of the Russian system of obstetrics and the development of grassroots movements by midwives and doulas. It outlines the features of human rights and perinatal protest discourses and identifies the tactics of legal and vernacular resistance and non-resistance to medical authorities encountered during fieldwork.
Research target:
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Health Studies
Philology and Linguistics
Law
Language:
English
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Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
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Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series "SocArXiv". 2026.
“Leaderlessness” is widely held to be a defining feature of contemporary mass mobilization, yet the claim rests on a handful of recent cases. We offer the first systematic cross-national analysis of this phenomenon from 1791 to 2019. We show that the absence of leadership is real but older and more modest than claimed: the share ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Tikhomirova A., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 66–84
Given China’s rise as the world’s leading automotive producer and the radical
transformation of the Russian market, societal acceptance of new market entrants remains a dif
ficult communicative task. Against the backdrop of growing sales and persistent consumer am
bivalence, this study examines how Russian consumers discursively construct, challenge, and
renegotiate the legitimacy of Chinese automobile brands in online ...
Added: August 28, 2026
Kosevich E., Problems of Post-Communism 2026 P. 1–21
Since 2022, the Kremlin has revised its foreign policy priorities. Russia’s traditional Western partners have been designated as “unfriendly countries,” and Moscow has increasingly focused on intensifying rapprochement with states in the Global South, with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as the US’ closest neighbors, occupying a special place in this strategy. The region ...
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Fedorov D., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 134–166
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Added: August 28, 2026
Иванов О. С., Вестник экономического правосудия Российской Федерации 2026 № 7 С. 4–11
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Added: August 28, 2026
Shchennikova I., Закон 2026 № 8 С. 84–93
Digital twin technology is widely used in various sectors of the economy, modeling subjects and objects based on data about them and the environment surrounding them. In the broadest sense, the goal of a digital twin is to solve a problem including the problem of studying of the modeled subject or object and ensuring its ...
Added: August 28, 2026
Kolmogorova A., Явшиц Е. В., Сугян А. Х. et al., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: Лингвистика и межкультурная коммуникация 2026 Т. 24 № 1 С. 113–127
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Мн.: Нацыянальная бібліятэка Беларусі, 2026.
Зборнік змяшчае матэрыялы VI Міжнароднай навуковай канферэн цыі, прысвечанай 395-годдзю з дня нараджэння Сімяона Полацкага і 30-годдзю Музея-бібліятэкі Сімяона Полацкага. Канферэнцыя адбылася ў лістападзе 2024 г. у Нацыянальным Полацкім гісторыка-культурным музеі-запаведніку. ...
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Kazun A., Девятников В. Ю., Белов М. Д., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 Т. 3 № 32 С. 115–135
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Лескина Э. И., Журнал российского права 2026 Т. 30 № 8 С. 137–154
The transition to a data economy has allowed us to take a fresh look at such an asset as data, which is called a new fuel, a new asset, a new currency. Data is valuable, and its value can be expressed in monetary terms. This affects the data economy, digital sovereignty, and the distribution of ...
Added: August 27, 2026
Zaikin A., Vlasenko D., Zakharov D. et al., Diagnostics 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 1–15
Background/Objectives: Synolitic graphs (SGs) were developed for task-based fMRI, where
edge weights encode the discriminative power of pairwise regional features; whether similar
information can be recovered from resting-state data was untested. We benchmarked
SGs for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) classification using the multisite ABIDE-I dataset
(871 subjects: 403 subjects with ASD, 468 typical controls; 17 sites; CC200 atlas). Methods:
Using ...
Added: August 27, 2026
Batusova E. S., Shershneva-Tcitulskaya I., Институт государства и права РАН, 2026.
Монография посвящена разработке и исследованию актуальной и перспективных моделей регулирования трудовых, социально-обеспечительных и социально-защитных отношений в условиях гибридных правовых режимов. В четырех главах авторы обсуждают дискуссионные междисциплинарные вопросы формирования доктринальной модели гибридных правовых режимов, используя компаративистский и сравнительно-исторический подходы, исследуют проблемы обеспечения занятости, защиты трудовых прав и обеспечения производительного труда, а также свойственные им особенности ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Almakaeva A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 1 С. 3–16
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Added: August 26, 2026
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, ...
Added: August 26, 2026
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 ...
Added: June 3, 2026
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
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
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 ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
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Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Added: April 19, 2026
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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