Keywords: Slovakia; Pope; Catholic countries; Pope’s visit; Pope John Paul II; Jan Sokol; Vladimir Meciar
The Pope’s visit to Slovakia comes in the midst of a battle for the character of the country.
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The society's worry about the well-being of pets, domestic, guard, test and zoo animals has sharply risen in the past decades. The main problems harming animals kept as pets are anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism common among pet-owners. Although discussion about the quality of life a pet-owner must provide for his pets is not finished, the consensus is that an animal must be afforded as natural a lifestyle as possible, has to be kept from enduring and strong negative emotions (fear, pain, etc.), being offered at the same time a maximum of natural pleasures and ensuring satisfactory health and growth as well as normal functioning of physiological and behavioural systems. The article introduces methods used for studying choices animals make.
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Keywords: Europe; East; West
With this issue, Valahian Journal of Historical Studies brings forward once more the topic of Europe’s political, ideological, cultural, etc. artificial division between East and West, and argues that only the knowledge of the problem could be the base of solving the problem.
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Keywords: Special Operations Executive (SOE); Iuliu Maniu; Chastelain; Rică Georgescu; Cătălin Vlădescu–Olt; Savet Lufti Tozan; Romania
The SOE’s hopes of organizing subversive actions against the German presence in Romania and Ion Antonescu’s regime focused on Iuliu Maniu. According to British documents, the SOE representative in Romania, Gardyne de Chastelain, started working with Iuliu Maniu in the summer of 1940 to establish the basis of an organization which, in the event of the country being occupied by the Germans, would have the task of maintaining contact with the British intelligence services. In September 1940, Chastelain met with Iuliu Maniu in Rică Georgescu’s house. The National Peasant Party (NPP) leader had engaged in provoking an anti–German rebellion in Transylvania, when the situation would allow it. Maniu accepted operational funds from the SOE and insisted on receiving a radio link with Cairo. He promised Chastelain that he would organize sabotage groups against oil targets but refused to accept the supply of explosives by the SOE, thinking that he could rely on local resources. Iuliu Maniu and the National Peasant Party played a very important part in gathering information. The SOE opened a special file under the name of “Resistance movements Maniu and National Peasant Party”. In fact, during the war Maniu was the main SOE collaborator in Romania.
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Keywords: publicație de calitate; articole științifice;
Academia Națională de Informații „Mihai Viteazul” publică, prin Institutul Național de Studii de Intelligence (INSI), Revista Română de Studii de Intelligence, publicație de calitate, indexată în bazele de date internaționale, editată în limbile română și engleză, a cărei apariție este bi-anuală.
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Keywords: rites of passage; wedding of dead; initiation; alms gift;
In April 2006 we conducted fieldwork in the Romanati ethnographical area (Olt County, in south-east Romania) and we shot the custom and practice hora de poamana (the round dance offered as tribute to the dead). The circulation of this custom and practice is testified as ritual post-funeral practice in similar variants in two other Romanian areas (Banat and Oltenia), as well as in the vlahi communities in Valea Timocului. It is dedicated to the young people dead (either married or unmarried) whose death happened earlier than 3 years ago. It is performed in a communitarian place (in the cemetery and on the grazing ground) and in a moment with religious significance (Easter hollydays). Its main actors are the closest family members, and its significance as tribute is emphasized by a lot of ritual formulas and by ritual food contextualized by the holy day. The ritual proves itself to be a communication channel and a channel to insure the social mediation, an apparatus for establishing rules and for symbolically treasuring the present and the future which enables the reproduction of the social order through the participation of the youngest representatives of the society.
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Keywords: Slovakia; politics; elections; populism; liberalism;
What will liberal politicians do after once again being left out in the cold, this time in Slovakia?
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Keywords: holiday; goodwill; cultural; artistic; trophy;
The days of Drăgănești - Olt were celebrated on September 27-29, 2019. The three days of celebration were marked by various cultural-artistic manifestations under the sign of the “Drăgănești tradition” and were mentioned in detail in the last issue of the publication “Drăgănești Courie
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