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From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation
Journal of Southern African Studies. 2022. Vol. 48. No. 5. P. 940–943.
Zelenova D.
This review is dedicated to the newly book published in Russian by a leading historian in the field of Southern African Studies, Professor Vladimir Gennadjevich Shubin. The review disusses the structure of the book, main arguments and suggests that it should be read as a historical memoir. It concludes by saying that the book is a must read for the historians of the field.
Romanova T. A., Полис. Политические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 141–156
Russia’s official representation of the EU became highly metaphorical as of 2022. The goal of this article is to demonstrate how metaphors explained fundamental changes in Moscow’s political course towards the EU. Theoretically the research is based on the critical metaphor analysis of J. Charteris-Black. Empirics consists of messages in the official telegram channel of ...
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Боголюбов Е. А., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России 2026 Т. 25 № 2 С. 373–385
The attitude of the Soviet government towards the palaces of former reigning personages in the early years was ambiguous. In their article, the author focuses on the palaces of the Emir of Bukhara, which had not previously been considered as symbolic objects. In 1926, the Uzbek SSR attempted to take over the palace of the ...
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М.: ИСАА МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова, 2023.
Издание представляет собой сборник материалов I Международной научно-образовательной конференция «Пейсиковские чтения: проблемы современного академического востоковедения», проведённой 21 апреля 2023 года в ИСАА МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова. В книге представлены работы сотрудников Института и приглашённых специалистов из ряда ведущих институтов России и зарубежных стран
Сборник в электронном виде можно скачать по ссылке http://iranistika.iling-ran.ru/Sbornik/ ...
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Gromova A., Научный вестник Крыма (Россия, ISSN: 2499-9911) 2021 № 2 (31) С. 1–13
The Iranian ‘Teleschool’ that was launched in 2020 on the base of standard schoolbooks published by the Ministry of Education, reflects the common vision of the glorious history of Ancient Iran and promotes the national cultural heritage. The present article aims to describe a comprehensive selection of new learning materials such as original texts and ...
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Gromova A., М.: КноРус, 2023.
Учебное пособие по лингвострановедению предназначено для востоковедов, изучающих персидский язык в рамках различных специализаций: регионоведение, филология, история и политология, экономическое развитие стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока. Пособие знакомит с реалиями современной иранской жизни и национальными новостными ресурсами, широко использует материалы Интернета. Книга оставляет известную свободу в выборе материала для занятий в зависимости от уровня владения ...
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Андрей И. Жданов, Андрей В. Коротаев, Социология власти 2026 Т. 38 № 2 С. 118–167
Imagining a cosmic future touches on many topics — but typically avoids the topic of death, burial, and attitudes toward deceased ancestors. Most of these developments concern life-support systems. This article analyzes the debate between American anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli and Russian cosmists. The subject of this debate is immortality and attitudes toward ancestors in the ...
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Boltunova E., Edelman O., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 7 P. 753–765
The primary work currently available that examines the negotiations between the Decembrists of the Southern Society and members of Polish secret societies is P.N. Olshansky’s monograph The Decembrists and the Polish National Liberation Movement (1959). Consistent with Soviet ideological expectations, Olshansky proposed an interpretation of the relations between Russian and Polish conspirators in the spirit ...
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Masagutova M., Антропологический форум 2026 № 69 С. 361-375
The book by Page Herrlinger constitutes the most comprehensive existing historical research on the movement of Brother Ioann Churikov’s teetotalers (trezvenniki), encompassing the period from the dawn of the community up to our day. Using an extensive array of documents, Herrlinger demonstrates the process of the development of the teetotalers’ identity and proposes some possible ...
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Gromova A., КноРус, 2026.
Предназначено для востоковедов, изучающих персидский язык в рамках различных специализаций, таких как история, политология, регионоведение, филология, экономическое развитие стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока. Рассчитано на студентов востоковедных вузов второго курса, знакомит с основными этапами истории Древнего Ирана, туристским потенциалом этой многоликой страны, с национальными новостными и тематическими онлайн-ресурсами. Книга оставляет известную свободу в выборе материала ...
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Egorov E., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 2 С. 505–522
This article examines the diplomatic practices of the Russian Empire in northern Europe during the mid-nineteenth century, with particular focus on the methods of observation and interpretation of political events as reflected in official dispatches. The focus is on the limitations of observation practices and how visual metaphors, comparisons and the stylistic features of diplomatic ...
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Alexandrov B., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 42–60
The article examines the system of political institutions of Emar during the Old Babylonian period (20th–16th centuries B.C.). The epistolary texts published in the last three volumes of the Archives royales de Mari series (ARM XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, 2019–2024) contain several dozen references to this ancient city in the Middle Euphrates valley. Unlike the era of the ...
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ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ ЗАСЕДАНИЙ НАУЧНОГО СЕМИНАРА «ФЕНОМЕН РУССКОЙ МЕДИЕВИСТИКИ: ЛЮДИ, КОНЦЕПЦИИ, ИНСТИТУТЫ»
Klyuev A., Средние века 2026 Т. 87 № 2 С. 160–170
The article presents some results of the work of the scientific seminar «The Phenomenon of Russian Medieval Studies: People, Concepts, Institutions», established in February 2023 as a non-institutional specialized historiographic platform aimed at a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of Russian medieval studies. ...
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Shams S., International Review of Sociology 2026 Vol. 36 No. 1 P. 262–289
Vertical disintegration reshaped economic activity and especially
employment, with the rise of contractual networks for the
production and distribution of goods and services that were once
under direct corporate control. With minor exceptions, much of
the recent research shows the decline in working conditions that
accompanies the demise of promotion trajectories, predictable
pay, and generally retentive labor practices that were a ...
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Shams S., International Sociology 2026 Vol. 4 No. 2 P. 183–190
The socioeconomic gap between the top earners and the remainder of the population has
expanded dramatically in the past few decades. Social scientists have been examining this issue
from several theoretical and empirical perspectives. Recently, the observation that the extent
and type of current global inequality is paralleling that of medieval feudalism is gaining a foothold.
This essay examines ...
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Kozintcev M. A., Славяноведение 2026 № 3 С. 100–111
In researches on the history of Russian-Turkish diplomatic relations of the second half of the 19th century published in the last 15 years, the work of Evgeny M. Timaev, Secretary of the Russian Consulate in Bitola (Manastir), and later Vice-Consul in Prizren, has been studied. Many facts of the diplomat’s biography are also reconstructed by ...
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Samsonov A., Sole Olle A., Xefteris D., Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2026 Vol. 248 Article 107642
We study a committee that decides on multiple issues and determines, for each, both the direction and the extent of reform, assuming that reform intensity is proportional to net support and that agents are ex ante symmetric. Within this environment, we investigate how logrolling shapes policy outcomes. We establish three main results. First, an essentially ...
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Sergunin A. A., Север и рынок: формирование экономического порядка 2026 № 2 С. 141–152
Abstract. The relevance of this study stems from the need to account for environmental considerations in the functioning of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) amid growing cargo traffic along this maritime corridor. The paper aims to assess the extent to which the blue economy principles have been incorporated into Russia’s current NSR development strategy. The ...
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Romanova T. A., Балтийский регион 2025 Т. 17 № 3 С. 4–22
The start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) created a conceptual vacuum in the European Union’s policy toward Russia. By classifying Moscow as a strategic threat, Brussels curtailed all contacts with it, instead prioritizing sanctions and support for Ukraine. The aim of this article is to examine how decolonization, understood as a socio-political category, has ...
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Федотов А. С., Uspensky P., Studi Slavistici 2025 Т. 22 № 1 С. 5–28
The article analyzes the Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem “Yes, Soldier! You in That War…” (“Tak, sluzhba! sam ti v toy voyne…”) (published in 1856), dedicated to the war of 1812. Since in the poem the peasant tells the story of the terrible murder of a captive French family, in which he took part, the main theme ...
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Bessmertnaya O., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2023 Т. 41 № 3-4 С. 14–31
The article is an introduction to this issue’s section “ Entangled History:
Muslims and the Others in Russia and Abroad”. It articulates
the foundations of the historiographical approach named “Entangled
History”, as seen by the author (who is also the compiler of the section)
and the authors’ team, and examines the new meaning this approach
has acquired in the context ...
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Zelenova D., М.: Институт Африки РАН, 2023.
The collection of articles is dedicated to the history and historical memory of the solidarity of the Soviet Union and its successor Russia in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The book describes how interaction took place in different areas of cooperation: military, humanitarian and economic. The book contain interviews with the Soviet veterans who recall various aspects of their work ...
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Degterev D. A., В кн.: Регионы в политике, политика в регионах.: М., Пермь: ФГБОУ ВО «ПГНИУ», 2023. Гл. 5 С. 103–121.
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A. M. Vasiliev, D. A. Degterev, Shaw T., , in: Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations. Rethinking Decolonization and Foreign Policy Concepts.: Cham: Springer, 2021. Ch. 1 P. 1–17.
In this chapter volume editors try to determine the disciplines through which the analysis of decolonization in modern science is carried out, and to reveal the ‘disciplinary proportions’ in the issue in recent years. The shift of decolonization studies from predominantly material into intangible sphere is demonstrated. In this context, the mechanisms of the transition ...
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Abramova Irina O., Amuhaya Clare Ayuma, Apuuli K. et al., Cham: Springer, 2021.
This book discusses the prospects for the development of the African continent as part of the emerging system of international relations in the twenty-first century. African countries are playing an increasingly important part in the current system of international relations. Nevertheless, even 60 years after gaining their independence, most of them are confronted with regional ...
Added: September 7, 2023