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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
Klimov I., Chepeleva M., Gavrilov K. et al., Civil BRICS Council, 2026.
This research study was conducted at the initiative of the Civil BRICS Council for the purpose
of performing a systemic analysis of the non-profit sector (hereinafter, the ‘NPO sector’),
encompassing both non-profit organizations (NPOs) and non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), in each of the constituent member countries of BRICS. Since February 2025, BRICS
has consisted of 10 member states: Brazil, China, ...
Added: June 5, 2026
Недосека Е. В., Минина В. Н., Иванов С. А., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 1 С. 125–152
The socio-economic situation in small towns in Russia has long been at the center of the management agenda. The contradictory nature of support measures for such settlements lies in attempts to focus on the economic and managerial aspects of their efficiency. At the same time, both scientific literature and management practice pay insufficient attention to the typology of economic activity ...
Added: June 4, 2026
Mikhaleva V., Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование 2026 Т. 35 № 1 С. 36–70
This article investigates and systematizes methods for measuring folk beliefs about the objectivity of morality. The relevance of the topic stems from the growing interest in understanding how ordinary people, without philosophical training, perceive the nature of moral norms and their objectivity. Based on an analysis of existing approaches to measuring folk metaethical claims, the ...
Added: June 4, 2026
Kazartsev (Evgenii Kazartcev) E., Kirichenko N., Arts 2026 Vol. 15 No. 5 Article 97
This article offers a theoretically nuanced and empirically grounded investigation into the paradoxical afterlife of classical versification within the poetic practices of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde. Challenging the persistent historiographic narrative that equates avant-garde poetics with an unequivocal rupture from tradition, the study demonstrates that canonical metrical forms—most notably iambic tetrameter—continued to operate as ...
Added: June 4, 2026
Evgeny Kazartsev, Dmitry Pronin, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2026 P. 1–15
This article repositions Burrows’s Delta as a flexible family of distance measures for exploratory and unsupervised stylometry, where interpretability and stability are as important as predictive accuracy. We introduce two probabilistic extensions, Rank-Turbulence Delta and Jensen–Shannon Delta, by reinterpreting uncentred standardized word-frequency vectors as non-negative representations that can be normalized into probability distributions and compared ...
Added: June 4, 2026
Karabanova E., Чобанян А. Г., АРИСТАРХОВ А. Л. et al., М.: Издательский Дом "Городец", 2026.
This publication is a comprehensive scientific study of the current problems of state of legality in 2020–2024 and related trends, prepared by the staff of the Research Institute of the University of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, taking into account the developments that have been consolidated in the annual information and analytical notes ...
Added: June 4, 2026
Салагай О. О., Сахарова Г. М., Антонов Н. С. et al., Медицина 2026 Т. 14 № 2 С. 42–57
A global step in the fight against tobacco was the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2003, which includes the organization of monitoring of the prevalence of tobacco consumption. The main condition for monitoring is its organization based on representative surveys of the population and its individual groups, as well as ...
Added: June 3, 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
Лебедева Д. А., Вестник Воронежского государственного университета. Серия: Право 2026 № 1 С. 66–77
The article is devoted to the study of problems in the fi eld of ensuring the protection and
portability of patient data in medical information and analytical systems (hereinafter – MIAS). The
purpose of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the legal regulation of the MIAS of the constituent
entities of the Russian Federation. The study identifi ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Kirichenko V., Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия. Серия: Филология. Журналистика 2026 Т. 26 № 2 С. 200–209
This paper focuses on the fi gure of the fi ctional philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul and his role in the discourse of contemporary French literature. To analyze this character, the work employs the concepts of transfi ctionality and meta-character. Botul was invented by the French satirical journalist Frédéric Pagès. His creation gained a widespread popularity among ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Syukiyaynen L., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2026 № 2(95) С. 202–219
The article analyzes the specific features of Islamic law at the current stage of the Arab East countries’ development. The author notes that the main directions of the law’s evolution are determined by the interaction of two key factors – commitment to traditional Sharia guidelines and the influence of recent global trends. Their combination manifests ...
Added: June 2, 2026
Obukhov A., Маерле М. А., Минаева Е. И., Исследователь/Researcher 2025 № 3-4 С. 282–299
The article presents a preliminary synthesis of materials from an expedition conducted in the Ulyunkhan ulus, an Evenk
settlement in the Kurumkansky District of the Republic of Buryatia, in 2025, comparing them with materials from a 2005 expedition. The study focuses on the changes over the past twenty years as perceived by the local residents themselves (Buryats and Evenks). It compares ...
Added: June 2, 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
Афанасьев В. А., Новый филологический вестник 2026 № 1(76) С. 274–283
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien features a plethora of verse inser-tions in the form of poems recited or chanted (as songs) by the characters. These poetic texts are characterised by remarkable genre diversity, coinciding Tolkien’s aesthetic and literary preferences as well as his intention to imbue his Secondary World with literary works ...
Added: June 2, 2026
Университет прокуратуры Российской Федерации, 2025.
Сборник содержит материалы VI Всероссийского криминалистического форума, прошедшего в Санкт-Петербургском юридическом институте (филиале) Университета прокуратуры Российской Федерации в октябре 2024 года. Предназначен для работников органов и организаций прокуратуры, педагогических работников, аспирантов. ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Pozdnyakova E. A., М.: ИНФРА-М, 2026.
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Biryukova A., Zasimova L. S., Вопросы статистики 2026 Т. 33 № 2 С. 40–57
The paper examines changes in the economic affordability of cigarettes in Russian regions in 2011–2023. Using fixed-effects models, it estimates the impact of prices, incomes, and tobacco affordability (the ratio of per capita income to cigarette price), on three indicators: retail sales of cigarettes per capita, adult population spending on tobacco products, and the share of these ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Lapteva A., Государство и право 2026 № 3 С. 194–206
Juridical clauses are one of the remedies of legal influence, which are appeared by a reason of the complication of relations and the interpenetration of national and international legal systems.
In the process of the investment activities, the parties of the contracts quite often use of specific legal clauses, which could be called as "investment clauses". ...
Added: June 1, 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 ...
Added: April 22, 2026
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 ...
Added: March 15, 2026