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Боги и демоны болезней: Традиционные японские представления об эпидемиях и борьбе с ними
Обсерватория культуры. 2021. Т. 18. № 6. С. 596–611.
Steiner E. S.
The article discusses the mechanisms of protection against infectious diseases that have been employed in Japan through ages, and the religious, social, and individual practices considered effective in the struggle with epidemics. Studying the cultural and ethnoreligious roots of Japanese attitude towards epidemics is particularly relevant these days. The coronavirus pandemic has reanimated the memory of old popular beliefs and actualized traditional, even archaic, rituals and superstitions. Alongside obvious hygienic measures going back to the Shinto rites of purifications,
historically, the amplitude of responses (whether on state or local or family levels) oscillated from the ceremonies
of appeasing the demons of diseases to the rituals for exorcising them. Besides written historical sources, the main material analyzed in this article is visual: popular woodblock prints with mythological subjects, leafl ets on vaccination, children’s toys representing protective characters, and apotropaic amulets. The main focus is on the materials against
smallpox and cholera in the early modern period in Japan (the Edo epoch, mainly the 18th—19th centuries) and
the mass reaction (not medical but resurrecting traditional superstitions) to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paklina S., Parshakov P., Elena Rapoport, Scientometrics 2026 P. 1–26
Generative artificial intelligence has become a routine part of academic writing. While much of the debate has focused on questions of integrity and authorship, less attention has been paid to how AI-assisted writing may affect research evaluation itself. This paper asks a straightforward but important question: does the use of LLMs in academic writing change ...
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Кузнецова М. П., Klochko O., Современная мировая экономика 2026 Т. 4 № 2 С. 6–25
The article examines the positions of the world’s largest countries in the industrial robotics sector as one of the key areas for the physical artificial intelligence (AI). The aim of the study is to conduct a comparative assessment of the readiness of leading economies to develop physical AI based on an analysis of production, foreign ...
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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 ...
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Мартынов А. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 184–193
The article is devoted to reconstructing the difficult history of the acquaintance and subsequent collaboration of Merezhkovsky, Gippius and Repin. In particular, it examines the circle of their mutual acquaintances and the influence it had on the mutual assessments of the writers and the artist, and identifies the reasons for their rather critical judgments of ...
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Kantor V., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 11–37
This article paints a portrait of Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin (1877–1932), one of the greatest creative figures of the Silver Age, equal in power to the geniuses of the Renaissance. A poet, art historian, and author of works on Surikov, Saryan, and Konchalovsky, poems about Russia, Archpriest Avvakum, Cain, and Our Lady of Vladimir, and articles ...
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Kantor V., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 1 С. 11–41
He was a great, cruel, and strange satirist. He managed to cast a sharp and evil eye on Russian bureaucracy, despite being a high-ranking official himself — a vice-governor and a general. But he viewed modernity through the prism of Russian folklore, so his characters are half-human, half-fairytale monsters. And he was imbued with a ...
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Malich K., СПб.: мастерс, 2026.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Limits of Control / K. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. — 44 p.: ill. — (one cup book). Series: one cup book. Study guide. 16+. Recommended for students of design and art history, as well as the general public. The three masters featured in this series shaped the ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2025.
Le Corbusier: Light, Concrete, and Asceticism / K. A. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinct creative logic, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is. The architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris—who adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920—appears as ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinctive logic of creative thought, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is.
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect who stood at the forefront of modern architecture and defined the vocabulary of modernism alongside Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van ...
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Abramov R., Коммуникации. Медиа. Дизайн. 2026 Т. 11 № 1 С. 5–21
This paper examines the functions of corporate museums within the communication systems of contemporary Russian companies, focusing on the problematization of corporate history. The study investigates the ambiguous status of these institutions, which operate at the intersection of historical heritage preservation and managerial objectives for crafting corporate identity and image. The empirical foundation comprises in-depth ...
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Плакван П., Moiseev D., Patria 2026 Т. 3 № 3 С. 92–104
The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of Leftist Globalist political and cultural concepts on the transformation of traditional values in contemporary Europe. Using the example of the activities of European analytical centers and the dissemination of the concept of an ‘‘open society’’, the mechanisms of changing ideas about the family, national ...
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Malekova D. K., Veselitskaya N., Shashnov S. A., Форсайт 2026 Т. 20 № 3 С. 6–24
Technological development dynamics underscore the relevance of a comparative analysis of national priorities in science and innovation. This article identifies and typologizes promising technologies enshrined in the development strategies of 19 countries: the technological leaders—the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Spain, and Italy—and the countries of the Global South—Brazil, ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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Grishina D., , in: Handbook of Japan-Korea Relations.: Routledge, 2027. Ch. 1 P. 21–35.
The signing of a treaty of amity between a modernized Meiji Japan and the Kingdom of Chosŏn (Jp. Nitchō Shūkō jōyaku; Kr. Kanhwado choyak) on February 26, 1876, became a transformative moment that marked the beginning of a new era of diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula. The treaty itself, being similar to the so-called Ansei ...
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Routledge, 2027.
This Handbook examines relations between Japan and Korea from 1850 to the present.
Analyzing almost 200 years of Japan and Korea relations uncovers a relationship that has been both congenial and confrontational. This Handbook examines these relations in this age of modernity by dividing it into four periods: precolonial relations (1850–1905); colonial rule (1905–1945); post-war/post-liberation (1945–1965); ...
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Институт Китая и современной Азии РАН, 2026.
Ежегодник «Китайская Народная Республика» издается с 1970 г. и рассказывает о ; различных асктах жизни КНР. В настоящем выпуске читатель найдет подробную ; информацию по основным аспектам ситуации в Китае в 2025 году — году 80-летия великой Победы над немецким фашизмом и японским милитаризмом, в которую Россия и Китай внесли значительный вклад. Издание состоит из ...
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Суворова А. А., Kazantseva E., Podlednov D., СПб.: Алетейя, 2026.
The authors of the monograph examine three aspects of the phenomenon of marginality in artistic culture from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The first part of the volume focuses on the processes and actors of the “borderlands” in the context of art and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The ...
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Malinov A. V., СПб.: Интерсоцис, 2009.
This monograph is devoted to the development of history as a science in Russia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses on concepts of the historical process, the sociology of history, historical cognition, the structure of historical knowledge, the understanding of history as a scientific discipline, and the methodology of history. It ...
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Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
This volume is a product of the conference “Proizvodstvo, Dokumentatsiia, Interventsiia. Proizvedeniia iskusstva v usloviiakh neofitsial'noi sovetskoi kul'tury 1960-80-kh gg.” (Production, Documentation, Intervention. Works of art in the conditions of unofficial Soviet culture, 1960s-1980s), organized by Ilja Kukuj and Brigitte Obermayr at Munich University (LMU) in November 2018. The conference was financed by Professor Riccardo ...
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Киреева А. А., Добринская О. А., Chizhevskaya M. et al., Японские исследования 2026 № 2 С. 157–181
The Middle East (ME) region is vitally important to Japan, as it accounts for
90% of Japan's oil imports. For many years, Japan has sought to build friendly relations
with all countries in the region, often having to balance its own interests with its strategic
alignment with the United States, its only military and political ally. The seminar ...
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M.P. Chizhevskaya, Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 101–130
The article examines Japan's policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. A core dilemma in Japan's approach lies in balancing its loyalty to Arab nations, crucial for securing energy supplies and avoiding a repeat of the 1973 "oil shock", with its alignment to the ...
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Zelenev E., Korobochkina A., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 71–100
This article conducts a comparative historical analysis of the soft power strategies employed by Japan and China in Africa, emphasizing the utilization of cultural, educational, and economic instruments to augment their international
influence. Moving away from the traditional post-1990s perspective, this paper introduces an enhanced form of the timeline approach in order to examine the development process of their soft ...
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Emelyanova O., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 No. 1 P. 153–164
Food security in Japan has been under observation of analytics in both Japan and abroad as it is one of the key national security issues. Leading academic researchers of this issue in Japan include Suzuki N., Takeya T.,Yamamoto R. and Oguchi H. However, the main focus of their analysis is the social aspect. The English ...
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Brambila F., Gribkova D. E., Проблемы Дальнего Востока 2026 № 3 С. 123–139
Contemporary studies on Japanese science and technology (S&T) policy often focus on the limitations of various government initiatives in addressing the nation's developmental stagnation, overlooking distinctive institutional and policy features of its public-private sector symbiosis. This deprives policymakers of critical insights into demand-side governance mechanisms, including policy instruments and coordination frameworks. This research article provides ...
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