We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
Short biographies and full biblography of the new BAS members: Mihail Petrov Arnaudov; Anton Mitov; Stefan Maldenov; Ivan Murkvichka; Boyan Penev; Stoyan Romanski; d-r Bogdan Filov; Karel Shkorpil
More...
On July 18 of 1863, a circular sent by Pёtr Valuev, Russia’s minister of internal affairs, to the censorship committees imposed restrictions on Ukrainian-language publications in the Russian Empire. In accordance with this document, the Censorship Administration could “license for publication only such books in this language that belong to the realm of fine literature; at the same time, the authorization of books in Little Russian with either spiritual content or intended generally for primary mass reading should be ceased.” The genesis of this circular, which was incorporated into a later act limiting Ukrainianlanguage publishing, namely, the so-called Ems Decree of May 18, 1876, has been the focus of numerous studies. Various historians (Fedir Savčenko, David Saunders, Alexei Miller, Ricarda Vulpius) tackled the emergence of the Valuev Circular from various points of view that appear sometimes complementary, sometimes kaleidoscopic, while covering loosely related aspects of the problem. In this paper, the Valuev Circular will be addressed in the context of the appearance of modern translations of the Holy Scriptures into vernacular Ukrainian, thus expanding conventional approaches to the initiation of prohibitive measures against the Ukrainian language.
More...
The political scene in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic change at the turn of the century. One of the major changes is the appearance of the ruling party, United Russia, whose presence is now expanding throughout Russia. Moreover, as demonstrated in the bill on the new gubernatorial appointment system – the majority party of the regional legislature recommends the candidates for governors – the existence of United Russia is considered to be a precondition in planning the Russian political system. Currently, most of the governors (sixty-nine governors out of seventy-six belong to United Russia as of April 2009) and incumbent elites from administrative and legislative organs at the regional and local levels belong to United Russia. As many observers have insisted, the governors seem to be struggling for an electoral campaign supporting United Russia in order to survive under the gubernatorial appointment system, inducing the regions to become organized into one unified political entity, which makes it difficult for them to resist the federal center.
More...
The issue of land in a sociocultural context is still an important enigma in Siberian anthropological studies. It is certain that the private property system was legally established following the collapse of the Soviet socialist regime, but land, particularly production land including forests and fields, remains somehow under the former ways of the regime. It enables local administrations to treat various matters at their own discretion. Oil and gas development launched more than a decade ago through state sponsorship strengthens this tendency. These institutional settings rather create these underlying complex social factors. The most important social space among the Siberian indigenous peoples overlaps these spheres of production land and mining, being strongly associated with their traditional cultures, economies, and identities. Here, I would like to examine the land property issue of the Siberian indigenous peoples in terms of the sociocultural context. My intention is to show the cultural richness in how the people relate with and manage their land or ordinary Siberian forest and grassland despite drastic institutional changes.
More...