Around the Bloc: A Noble Gesture or Something Else?
Poland’s purchase of one of the world’s greatest art collections is touted by the government, but critics question whether it was even necessary.
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Poland’s purchase of one of the world’s greatest art collections is touted by the government, but critics question whether it was even necessary.
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The article presents the main results of the verification of East-Eurasian hypothesis of Dene-Caucasian Motherland through the light of genogeographical data – investigations of haplogroups of Y-chromosome, first of all. The genogeographical data supports the East-Eurasian hypothesis. So, we come to conclusion that the spread of R haplogroup from Eastern Eurasia into the western parts of the continent, which occurred in the end of Late Pleistocene – Early Holocene, was closely related to Sino-Caucasian peoples.
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Trial underlines secularist state’s uncompromising stance on Muslim radicalism of all stripes.
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Available reports suggest intelligence agents and Kaspersky Labs exec are suspected of giving information to a foreign government.
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Sent to people all across the world, the postcards aim to “make the war more personal,” says project’s initiator.
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In post-communist Albania’s schools, alongside regular textbooks of history for teaching the subject, school atlases of history are also employed as a prescribed or adjunct textbook. In the stories and facts related through texts and maps, the Ottoman past is curiously warped and marginalized. As a result, the average Albanian is left incapable of explaining why Albania is a predominantly Muslim polity, but with a considerable degree of tolerant poly-confessionalism. Furthermore, school history education in Albania propagates the unreflective anti-Ottoman feeling encapsulated by the stereotypes of ‘Turkish yoke’ or ‘the five centuries of Turkish occupation.’ This simplistic anti-Ottomanism of Albanian culture and public discourseis strangely at variance with the Muslim and polyconfessional character of Albania.
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The present article researches the works of Russian writers from the Republic of Moldova through the lensesof personality transformation in the circumstances of the modern world. Analysing a number of heroes from differentnovels, the author defines them as “actors” that play their own life on the personal and social stage. The playis the main principle that conceptualises the structure of the society from interpersonal relations up to the worldeconomy where the bets are materialised according to a prescribed scenario. The intense use of new technologiesin the world, the computerisation of life and conscience make us simple users of a play directed from outside.This tendency can only detach the human being from nature, manipulate with his/her reasoning to become atiny element in the colony system. In order to free their conscience, people must restore the harmonious relationswith the environment, control the increasing role of technologies and respect the eco-ethic principle
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In the article the question of the significance of the native language for the Belarusians of Moldova considered forthe survey materials, we conducted in 2009. The role and importance of the mother tongue for the Belarusians of Moldovais manifested in their language behavior and language competence. The significance of the native language for theidentity of Belarusians emphasizes its symbolic aspect. For Belarusians of Moldova Value is determined by the language,above all, its symbolic meaning – the language is a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity, collective emotive value. Thelanguage gives them a sense of cultural and ethnic identity
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The article describes a less studied period at the beginning of emigration of the modernist poet of RussianSilver Age – Piotr Potyomkin. Some materials, found by the author in the National Archives of the Republic ofMoldova, made possible to fill in the blanks in the poet’s biography and to restore the real facts of his escape fromSaint Petersburg to Bessarabia. The poems and essays, written in Kishinev, represent a turning point in his creativeactivity, thus changing the previously formed image of poet „of a light genre”.
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The article examines the reflection of some „everyday culture” aspects of the Bessarabian society of the 1920sof the interwar period in the journalistic works of Leonid Dobronravov (Donici). The object of this study is the authorhimself, as a person in the subjective circumstances of social and cultural life, and his interpretation of thesecircumstances. This makes possible to recreate the atmosphere of a particular historical time (the early years ofthe turning point of the interwar period), and to explore the features and the originality of the formation of theBessarabian mentality
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The article presents the life and scientific work of V. I. Sanarov, scholar in the field of Gypsy studies, who actively worked in the 1960s and 1970s. This was a difficult periodin the development of Gypsy studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. After publishing several articles in Russian and international journals, he married a Gypsy woman and suddenly disappeared from the sight of colleagues. Based on the personal correspondence, the memories of colleagues, Internet and other sources, the authors examine the main stages of V. I. Sanarov’s unusual biography and creation.
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This study is dedicated to Leonid Cerepovsky – famous interpreter of songs and gypsy romances, founder of the first group of Gypsy songs and dances in the Republic of Moldova, author of several books about the culture ofthe Roma, Gypsy folklore.
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The article provides the analysis of the „RusskoyeSlovo” newspaper in 2013–2015. The author reveals nodal points of discourse about ethnic groups: historical memory and the language issue that build the representation of ethnicity. The author gives a more detailed analysis of the historical memory reflected in the newspaper, analyzing the timeline reflected in this edition and the mechanisms of past-present connection. The article presents the analysisof the historical memory on the level of an objectified narrative and on a personified one.
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The article at hand discusses tiny gold and silver plaques in the shape of “Arab flower” (also named in the shape of “Lotus” or “Crin”) dating back to the 14th-17th centuries, which were found in the Carpathian-Dniester region. Based on typological, technological and stylistic analyses of the items from the Principality of Moldova, found in Costești village (Ialoveni region, Republic of Moldova), Suceava and Putna (Suceava region, Romania), and on recently discovered hoards from Drăgușeni village (Strășeni region, Republic of Moldova) and in Ucraine passim, as well as on a wide range of analogies from Eastern Europe, we propose three chronological groups of these decorative plaques.
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