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The Blue Whale contest is believed to be ? sinister teenage ARG based on a series of tasks given by the administrators of social network VKontakte (VK) groups over the course of 50 days. The overall goal is committing suicide, on the 50th day. It is assumed that by May of 2016 the game has been a reason of more than 130 juveniles' suicides in Russia. While the allegation on 130 deaths caused by game originally mentioned in the “Novaya Gazeta” was not confirmed officially, the prototypes of the game apparently exis...

Cultural heritage in a local and global perspective has a significant impact on the overall development of local communities as well as of the whole regions. The authors remind the sociological concept of culture, the importance of culture for society and for the identity of the individual. Culture is a product and expression of a particular social body, and at the same time it is the condition for its development. In common sense, culture is often understood very narrowly only as an aesthetic area. However, the s...

In article are considered the questions concerning tendencies in development and evolution of architecture of the military hospitals in Russia from the moment of their appearance in 1707 and till nowadays. Authors have tracked a trajectory of changes of facade decisions and have analysed the possible reasons influencing on the history course.

The role of spatial planning and urban planning is essential in terms of guiding territorial cohesionS policies, which is at the heart of achieving a harmonious, sustainable development throughout the European union. Although, different approaches are being developed in the development of spatial plans and strategies across countries, they are designed to help unite government programs by identifying a wide range of government policies in the fields of the health, employment, education, transport, environment , ho...

The paper discusses one of the most interesting historical landmarks in the development of Slovak Music Aesthetics – that of Socialist Realism. The period of constructive effort (normative aesthetics) followed by the normalization period, paradoxically quite indifferent in the attitude to the “scientific” exploring of aesthetics through the application of Marxist philosophy, make the focus of the study. The aesthetics of Socialist Realism (normative aesthetics) and movements in music culture in the second half of ...

The article discusses the relevance of key competencies in the education system, once analyzed various approaches to the definition of key competences, existing in domestic and foreign science. The article focuses on the fact that one of the priority strategic educational benchmarks are the key competencies that serve as a possible mechanism for enhancing the potential of human capital and the level of development of the economic welfare of the country. The classification of the components of the competencies that...

Customer service staff have to communicate daily in different situations both verbally and non-verbally, by means of personal discussions, telephone calls, e-mails. It is often said the first impression is decisive and that is why good communication skills are considered the essential condition of success of customer service staff. If the customer service staff are not able to communicate correctly, the probability of their failure increases. Explicitness, briefness, precision, completeness and politeness can be c...

Background: Professional self-determination in the educational system of modern Russia have no common policy in the sphere of it organization. UrFU is working with the secondary school students by the different technologies of professional self-determination. The University organizes the activities of schools and programs in various areas of training, such as "Test drive", "Pro debut, testing centers," Academy of power". Methods: The purpose of the article is empirical research’s results of three years of experien...

One of the greatest challenges at the current stage of Russian regions development is the transformation in the structure of production markets demand and supply. On the one hand, technological innovations caused by changing consumer’s needs affect the demand and supply equation parameters in the production and resource markets. On the other hand, imposing of international economic sanctions against Russia has stimulated shifts in both the demand for competitive domestic products and the supply of domestic goods a...

The relevance of this study in the context of the intensification of integration processes occurring in the world community in all spheres of human activity, including the system of higher education, is determined by the need to manage the processes of enhancing international academic mobility of students. The process of developing the migration of academically oriented young people, whose pace is very significant, provides access to recognized centers of knowledge - the place for the formation of leading scientif...

This article is devoted to the study of the concept “Siberia” and its specifics of visualization in paintings on the example of the contemporary Krasnoyarsk artist Anton Dovnar. Of particular interest is the fact that the authors propose to consider the concept of “Siberia” not on the verbal, but rather on the visual level. The relevance of the study is in determining the additional possibilities of forming a regional identity, in expanding the characteristics and content of the concept “Siberia” owing to the vari...

This article is dedicated to intellectual capital overview as part of country innovation development core factors. In the article the theoretical analysis of approaches to intellectual capital definition concept, essence and structure. Provided intellectual capital definition original interpretation, structural components allocation is given. The analysis and comparison of innovation development in various countries conducted in terms of patent activity, the volume of shipped innovative products, changes in the al...

Both now and always people use verbal aggressiveness to achieve personal, social and professional goals. There are a lot of examples of different methods, tactics, means and strategies of inter-professional communication within pragmalinguistic approach. Staff members are confronted increasingly with verbal aggressiveness. Aggression at the workplace may either be caused internally by colleagues or by external persons not belonging to the company: clients, visitors, suppliers. Aggression is a very strong emotion, ...

Information and communication technologies now provide a wide range of opportunities for improvement of the educational process, but the constant evolution of information and communications technology, including its implementation in education, places new demands on teachers who have to be prepared to work with modern didactic tools and technologies, and at the same time create appropriate educational materials for such tuition. That is why new demands are placed on the teacher in this modern teaching paradigm and...

Currently, the role of investment both in global and national economies is extremely high and is one of the most pressing problems. With the growing number of transnational corporations and their branches in most of the countries began a new stage in the development of international investment relations. As a result of increased export of capital over export and import goods, the Russian economy suffers from an acute shortage of foreign investment. It is necessary to create a favorable climate and to develop a sys...

This paper presents the problem of performing some of the Chopin's Etudes op.10, keeping in mind the basic principles of pianistic interpretation. There are different aspects of interpretative parameters such as form, tempo, rhythm, sonority, phrasing, fingering, which taken together lead to a qualitative interpretation of any musical piece. The purpose of this article is not to offer an exhaustive writing on how to perform Chopin's Etudes op.10, but to present how to make use of those factors in order to achieve ...

The research is dedicated to revealing the factors stimulating the labor migration growth trend of the Russian university graduates. In this article the growth rates are characterized, the factors increasing the youth orientation to building their career abroad are determined. The stages of the moving intention shaping process are defined and the identifying indicators are suggested. The authors approbate the diagnostic tools and receive the results, characterizing the distribution of the graduates based on the “l...

In SESC|Pompeia designed by Lina Bo Bardi, there’s a big atrium that links several exhibit, reading and living spaces, a stream where the water reflects the zenithal light, and a fireplace that not only warms up the air but also entertains. It’s a public covered "plaza" where one can play around, read in silence, stare at the reflections of the water or the fire, or simply seize the moment in peace, right in the center of the city. All these elements (light, water and fire) convey an absolutely peaceful atmosphere...

In this paper, the social project «House for pensioners», designed by the authors, is presented, it meets the requirements of the building concept of «passive house» with low energy consumption; in this connection it could be suitable for implementation both in European countries and in the climatic conditions of the Russian Federation. A special feature of this project is the authors' attempt to expand the construction concept of the «passive house» by using a new energy efficient technology to deliver natural da...

The humanities are rapidly changing nowadays. Since the late nineteenth century the humanities claimed to follow an own method: ‘hermeneutics’ (Verstehen). This method was different than the methods of the (natural) sciences. While scientists explain nature by way of counting, measurement, and formulating laws, scholars in de humanities try to understand (hermeneutics) particular and unique phenomena – such as texts, artworks, or for instance a historical period – by way of empathy and imagining. However, during t...

In a human thinking, hard affected by the indifference to soul, we want to bring into focus the Church vision about veneration of Chris icon and its impact on our days. The basic characteristic of the Orthodox Church is the use and veneration of the holy icons of Jesus Christ, the Theotokos and the Saints. The people praying in front of the icons feel that they are engaged in a live personal dialogue with the portrayed Saints of God. The icon can be paralleled as the God-loving interpreter of this dialogue and the...

The State Forests National Forest Holding (PGL LP), which manages the forest resources of the State Treasury, has a great impact and largely contributes to building ecological awareness of the society through taken activities in terms of forest education and the development of educational and natural infrastructure. These activities are an element of sustainable forest management. The objective of the article is to present the forest education system in Poland. For the purposes of this study, fundamental documents...

At present, the management of wastewater in the cities of Russian Federation has many problems. In this paper, we have analyzed the water supply and wastewater treatment systems in one of the cities of the Russian Federation (Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region). It was found that wastewater treatment facilities are obsolete. There is a significant excess of actual wastewater volume over the capacity of existing urban treatment facilities, low cleaning effect, open discharges of untreated domestic and industrial wastewat...

Professional deformation and burnout in our days are more and more recognized in many professions also in aviation industry. Aircraft cabin service staff starting work completely unaware that the work is physically and emotionally very heavy. This research task is to find are there professional deformation and burnout symptoms of them among cabin crew. The aim of research paper is to find is there professional deformation and burnout between cabin crew and is there any correlation between them. Research methods: R...

In 2008, the global economy experienced an acute phase of the crisis. The impact of crisis phenomena on the national economies of the world was not the same. The government's measures on anti-crisis regulation were different. Today, economic growth began. But the structural problems that caused the crisis are not fully overcome. The purpose of the article is to identify, using quantitative analysis methods, the specifics of the development of the crisis in different countries of the world, as well as to determine ...

The historically formed heterogeneity of the socio-economic space has a significant impact on the structure and efficiency of the development of the northern territories economy. Economic development of the North becomes stable if the territory settlement, the preservation of the traditional economy of indigenous peoples, as well as rational land use take place simultaneously. One of the focus areas for northern economy diversification is tourism, which is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the world econom...

Studying of socio-pedagogical and psychological issues of foreign students adaptation in Russian higher education institutions allows to determine the contradictions between: the demand of organization of educational support in first year of training that effectively promotes social adaptation and immaturity of these issues in higher school pedagogics; the demand of Russian higher education system in theoretical developments on issues of social adaptation of foreign students and the lack of educational background;...

Emotional competence - the ability to understand, express and regulate one’s own and other’s emotions - has an important consequence on personal and academic life of students, contributing to their wellbeing, mental health, resilience to stress, academic and social success. Emotions influence both minor and important decisions in real life: they can be crystallized as cognitive style in decision making, (e.g. avoidant, vigilant, preoccupied or intuitive). Most studies were focused on self-report emotional intellig...

Growth models are considered to be interesting to economists. The article shows the analyses of the basic approaches to growth models. Under the conditions of economic uncertainty the theories that take into account non-leaner relationships between development factors are considered to be very powerful. Moreover the solutions to the development factors that form cyclical path and the model based on the use of cyclical nature of economic development can be also very helpful. For this purpose special attention is gi...

The number of older adults is increasing in all European countries and these tendencies are also noticeable in Poland. Older adults are a group with substantial intellectual and social potential that can be used in many areas. The precondition for successful ageing is to maintain a good psychophysical status through participation in various forms of activity. With respect to the activity theory, the gerontologists emphasize that each human, even at older age, needs to be active and to feel needed while lost social...

The aim of this study is to investigate psychological factors contributing to the self-perceived creativity constructs (creative self-efficacy, creative role-identity and creative behavior). Based on previous findings, the first hypothesis is that the parents’ educational level will affect the way students think about their creative outcomes. Secondly, it has been investigated the role of intelligence and some integrated competencies (thinking, verbal) in creative self-efficacy. General intelligence was measured w...

The article presents the methodological aspects of control and analytical functions in the internal accounting system. Attention is focused on the problems of the organization of an effective system of financial accounting. The essence ofthe main approachesto the organization ofthe internal control systemis to determine theset ofregulatoryprocedures to ensurethe reliability ofaccounting data, thereforeimproving the quality ofinformation,tax recordsare of particularimportancein decidingthe users concerned. Discusse...

A fundamental element in the debate about public space is understanding and determining its meaning. Tadeusz Buksi?ski in his article O miejskiej sferze publicznej focuses on its prevailing social function and differentiates eight types of public realm: for presenting oneself, expression, worship and holy places, view/landscape/cityscape, authority, commercial, utility, leisure and entertainment.[7] In 1748 Giambattista Nolli had created a map of Rome, which most important feature is distinguishing public spaces i...

The paper explores the current challenges the international community faces in the context of migration crisis. The research follows comparative legal analysis standards and rests on the international legislation, national laws and legal administrative practices regarding the refugee child protection against exploitation and abuse in the countries that are part to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The paper aims to identify the issues that ...

Small and medium sized companies are reasonably considered as the backbone of the economy many countries. Thanks to their simple structure, they can respond quickly to changing economic conditions and meet local customers´ needs, growing sometimes into large and powerful corporations or failing within a short time of the firm´s inception. Therefore, they are significantly different from large companies from the credit risk point of view. We would like to show the importance to assess the SMEs credit risk separatel...

In the context of the need for cost reduction and consumption of electric energy, and environmental protection, the need of a continuous investments in clean technology, honorary in terms of pollution, transforming and improving the existing capacities of the production and distribution of electricity also upgrading infrastructure and services, necessary. The evaluation of savings through the regulatory process in order to achieve efficiency in electricity market, is necessary to establish the measures for the eff...

Any urbanized territory is a multicomponent system. The current tendency of management and planning of urbanized territories is aimed at finding a solution for a multidimensional multicriteria problem with a complex system of constraints and, sometimes, not deterministic (the existence of a multivariate choice of path and various kinds of risks). As any economic task, the urbanized territory can be considered as a place of various interests’ conflict: - various levels of power, from the federal level to the local ...

In the European vector, the Kingdom of the Netherlands certainly plays a key role and is one of the main political and trade and economic priorities in the foreign policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in September 1992, Kazakhstan-Netherlands cooperation has been developing dynamically and fruitfully. Political relations between the two countries are actively developing. The relationship is characterized by its intensity and constructive dialogue; trade and economic...

Accounting is an applied science, with its theories/methodology practically applied in business entities, and also its well-defined practical main purpose - meeting information needs of stakeholders. The information generated in accounting system, and later disclosed to outside recipients, is diverse in scope, form and value/quality, which results e.g. from the possibility of making creative financial and accounting decisions (so-called “the right to choose” in the accounting policy) and from accountants’ behaviou...

The article discusses the features of the economic category of "workplace", which have a direct influence on the choice of the performance criterion in estimating the amount of highly productive jobs in Russia.

The paper is devoted to the issues of lawyers’ communicative competence and intercultural interaction which are given the priority in international professional activities of lawyers. The author’s experience of teaching English to Bachelors and Masters studying at the Institute of Law, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) is analyzed. The process of studying the interlocutors, involved into professional communication in tactical and strategic aspects, should precede professional contacts; the...

The image of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is very popular in the world cinema. You can see Stalin in more than one hundred and thirty films. This is a record compared to other historical figures. How true is Stalin depicted in feature films? How did the trends of the times and the evaluation of society affect the process of creating his image? These questions require study and answer. All films where you can see Stalin can be divided into three categories: 1) "Comedy Stalin"; 2) "Stalin in the episodes"; 3) "St...

The article deals with a current phenomenon that grows up in (not only) European politics and society today. The subject of my investigation, rise of the nationalist populism, is analysed in relation to the increase of the social poverty and (reconstructed) media picture of the migrant crisis. In the following text, the both causes (poverty and media) of the populism are linked with the neoliberal political ideology that is hegemonic nowadays. The analysis is primarily focused on examples from the Czech Republic b...

This article highlights certain issues related to the multiple meaning of the term suspicious transaction and its complex nature. Following the basic international definitions of suspicious transactions, national legislations try to adjust them to domestic conditions. The results of selected legislative frameworks are presented through the statistical analysis of three Western European countries and the Republic of Croatia. The statistical analysis of the reversal which happened in suspicious transactions reportin...

The role of language is difficult to overestimate as it is the main tool of communication, both written and oral. Language ensures historical diversity. It is an important part of identity and can be observed as “a social event” (Mikhail Bakhtin). National cultures are best embodied through languages. Losing a language therefore means a loss of historical and social richness, as well as traditional values. Preservation of language provides tradition and continuity. Attitudes to language have changed over the centu...

In the context in which healthy nutrition, institutionalized nutrition and combating of childhood obesity are a strategic interest in improving the health of young people, this paper is constituted as a nutritional analysis of the quality of menus for school catering in Romania. An efficient system of products quality evaluation provided by the commercial and the social catering system can lead to optimizing the production processes, to improve the legal framework for beneficiaries and to support the education sys...

The sales comparison approach (SCA) usually represents the most important valuation approach. Besides this approach, there are two other performing valuation approaches at other bases. The sales comparison is a set of procedures, in which an appraiser derives a value indication by comparing the property being appraised to similar properties. Real properties vary considerably from one another, which is reflected by price-setting factors. Although price adjustments (caused by differences projected into price by the ...

Social media have become a driver for substantial changes in a number of fields, including business, education and learning practices. They are present in a dominating way in lives of young people in Bulgaria. This study examined the university students’ perceptions/adoption of social media based on the example of the students at the University of Economics – Varna (UE-Varna), Bulgaria. Data was collected and analyzed from online survey of 378 undergraduate students both from bachelor and master degree programmes....

Background: There are not many phenomena in life that are common to all people. One of such phenomena is death, but people´s perception of death differs, even though everybody is aware of their own mortality. In the formation of attitudes to death, which can be positive, negative and neutral, the spirituality of the individual is crucial, which means the life experience, the way of perception and personal assessment of what goes above and beyond us. The aim of this article is to present partial results of the rese...

Through employing a comparative perspective, major components of the intellectual contribution of Barrington Moore and Max Weber are presented; both of them made a unique contribution to the explanation of the formation of modern nations under capitalist conditions resulting from the interdependence of culture, industrialization and the transformation of social structures. First, Moore's and Weber's reasoning about the emergence of modern capitalism is clarified; while Moore ascribes crucial importance to social d...