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The occupation of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire holds an important place in the 19th century world history. It great influenced on the arrangement of forces in those times in the world and gave rise to Russian EmpireВ’s advance in the south direction, negative results of which we're still suffering today. The Caucasus War appeared to be hard for the population of this region. Many ethnos faced the threat of physical destruction, and some of them, such as Ubbis, disappeared from history, and over half a millio...

After the war in Kosovo, the country declared the independence, and the European UnionВ’s mission after KosovoВ’s independence will be the focus of this paper. The history of the newest state in the Europe and the course of its relations with Serbia over the last century will be reviewed in this paper is well. NATOВ’s intervention, which definitely split Kosovo from Serbia, has created the possibility for the EU mission in the country. One side as if had played a positive role in the region, as is considered by th...

The article deals with the prospects of interstate cooperation in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) - Russia's integration project - and the Silk Road Economic Belt (One Belt, One Road - OBOR) - China's initiative of building land trade routes from Asia to Europe. The author points out that the political consensus reached on implementation of the EAEU and the OBOR between the leaders of two countries significantly reduces geopolitical risks in Russian-Chinese relations and clarifies rules of regi...

The paper deals with the methods used by Czech companies for the evaluation of company performance. The evaluation of company performance remains a crucial topic for companyВ’s management. The development of business environment is influenced by globalization, which increases competition between companies around the world. This creates new obstacles as well as opportunities in the area of measuring company performance. Companies are constantly forced to increase their performance to retain their market shares and ...

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 scientific purpose of the research is, first of all, an analysis of currently in force and previously in force provisions of Polish law, aiming at identifying and pointing out the amendments, which took place in the Polish legal system with regard to an institution of public-private partnership agreement, and thus to show the evolution of the institution of this agreement. Passing an Act of 19 December 2008 concerning public-private partnership (Journal of Laws of 2015, item 696, with amendments) a legislator ...

The research in this article aimed to draw the entire design process, culminating in the identification of a set of characteristics to be implemented in the creation of an inclusive interior play space for preschool children. For this process, it was imperative that final users were part of the project, thus ensuring that their preferences/needs would be taken into account. To determine the process, it was necessary to understand the essential steps for a design project. It was important for the research to identi...

The educational system in Romania has known many transformations in the last 25 years of democracy. The orientation towards the European values, to multiculturalism, and also the liberalization of the work market, all in all let to a reevaluation of the domestic values and traditions. Family is one of the most important paradigms of establishment in this period of transition in the Romanian society. Without this important segment of our social existence the institutions implicated in the politics of education coul...

Nowadays youth feel freer and less limited by rules and dogmas. Is family influence on the choice of specialty as strong as before? This paper analyzes the changes in family influence on studentsВ’ career choices last five years in Russia (2010/2014). The factor of interest is the correlation between the studentsВ’ and graduatesВ’ specialties and what some family members previously studied. Based on the RLMS-HSE data collected in series of nationally representative surveys the panel data discrete choice model is c...

The article explores the figurative possibilities of the Russian hydronym Volga and its Tatar equivalent Idel as aesthetically significant elements of the poetic works language. The urgency of the work is due to the lack of publications in which these hydronyms would be analyzed from the point of view of realizing their figurative potential in the artistic text, and also the need to consider this issue for a more complete description of onomastic units and further development of the theory of artistic speech. The ...

Many authors (e.g. Aaker [1], Keller [2]) have highlighted the importance of the brand among the companyВ’s exploited assets. A number of papers dealing with the company brand and its valuation as a companyВ’s important intangible asset highlight the growing importance of this asset within the companyВ’s exploited set of assets. The focus is particularly on the brand ability to influence the consumer behavior and thereby achieve economic advantages compared to competitors in the form of higher profit margins, a hi...

The article is dedicated to finding the main features of the relationship between the church and the government during the first months of the Soviet power based on the analysis of the events in December 1917- January 1918 in Petrograd. That is where started a series of events, that accompanied the decree-laws concerning the church and religion passed by the new government. Based on a wide range of sources, the article shows the beginning of anti-religious persecution the Petrograd church went through, and outline...

The economic authorities’ decisions not only influence the economy, but also induce interactions between economic authorities. The recent crisis has provided evidence that the fiscal policy significantly shapes the decisions of independent central banks responsible for ensuring price stability – the main objective of monetary policy. This mechanism, described by the fiscal theory of the price level, is not a new discovery, because it has been debated on since the 1990s. The fiscal theory of the price level hold...

The relevance of the study what attitude employees have towards their organization is closely connected with its influence on the professional and economic efficiency of the individual professionals and the organization itself as a whole. The analysis of scientific resources has demonstrated that the attitude towards the organization is always substituted by the term loyalty, which characterizes a certain level of work perception both from the external and internal position, which determines the quality of profess...

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...

The article substantiates the hypothesis of existence of Siberian sub-ethnic identity on the basis of analysis of Siberian social practices, results of focus-groups, and literary texts. The Siberian sub-ethnic identity is based on ethnic, cultural, religious, political, regional, and territorial identities. The processes of globalization cause a reaction and give rise to new types of ethnic and cultural identities, associated with the territories. Siberian region is of great importance for the economic and politic...

In the article the historical periods of accession and development by the Russian State of outlying lands of North-East Asia, administrative and territorial structure and social and economic parameters of the North-East of Russia as a major macroregion are shown. Its social and economic development during the Soviet era (1917-1990) and in the post-Soviet period (2013-1991) are considered more detailed. Regional characteristics that significantly affect the formation of the structure, efficiency and growth in the e...

Today the name of Sebastiene Le Prêtre de Vauban is considered to be some kind of equivalent to the bastioned fortification itself. Of course his impact to the European fortification of the late XVII – early XVIII centuries was great. Nevertheless his ideas and his famous “three systems of fortification” were the result of the evolution of ideas that took place in France during the second half of the XVI - the early XVII centuries. Among the most prominent antecedents of Vauban there were J. Errard De Bar-l...

The fundamental raison d'être in the production of immersive technologies is the attainment of an absolute psychosomatic and physical embodiment, which Chris Milk, the founder of WITHIN application and a touted master per excellence in 360° video production, provides through his global digital platform where a sense “as if being there” is played out by many world’s VR creators. The hitch, however, for films shot in 360° space, is that their current narrative system as well as their visual configuration opp...

The aim is to construct a functional model of a centralized admission campaign in Russian universities. As a research tool used methodology for functional modelling IDEF0. The main result was the functional model, decomposed into blocks "Enter data in the federal information system to ensure the state final examination and receiving", "Carry the exam and the state final exams", "Enter the competition results", "Carry entrance examinations in higher educational institutions", "Conduct national competition". The mod...

The article is devoted to the study of the theory and methods of linguistic analysis of the folklore text. Material for the study consists of Tatar folk tales, baity (tragic folk song). In the study of the vocabulary taken into account baity dedicated to any historical events or personalities, describes the dramatic fate of the women, or personal tragedy. The leading method of research was used such as analysis, observation, experiment, generalization. The use of verbs in fairy tales and in baity has its own chara...

This article is devoted to the description of the gender representation of the lexeme muzhik in Internet-discourse. Currently, the study of the specific of online communication and of the functioning of language as a means of electronic communication are refers to the most relevant and current areas of linguistics. Scientific novelty of work is defined by the choice of material and a source of a research – the new technique of identification of a gender component of the men's and woman's speech by comparison of ...

Social value is an issue of crucial importance for comprehension of nascent forms of both social entrepreneurship and hi-tech business. In this paper I intend to substantiate the historically heterogeneous types of values created by entrepreneurs and to identify the distinguishing features of social value and modi of its creation. I resort to enactivist theory; the theory of regulative, normative and cognitive pillars of institutions; and the actor-network theory. According to the latter, socially constructed obje...

Background. Competitive advantages are one of the main elements of successful activity in the global market. This is relevant for the economy of any country, which in modern conditions is involved in the globalization of the world economy. World economic relations between different countries provide opportunities that can be used with varying degrees of economic success. Modern Russian entrepreneurial structures are actively trying to integrate into the world economy. This is very difficult, because all the produc...

Background: Originality is the main specific feature of mathematical Olympiad problems. Formulating these problems requires a special kind of creativity and only a few people have this ability. They are called problem composers, and Rosen Nikolaev is one of them. H? creates mathematical tasks every day. More than 14 of them have been selected for the The National Student Olympiad in Mathematic and more than 40 for the Bulgarian Mathematical Olympiad. Such specialists are unique, not only because of their special a...

The topic of the Holocaust was under an unofficial ban in the USSR. It was not even mentioned in the encyclopedia "The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", which was published in 1985 when Perestroika started. To denote all victims of the Nazi occupation policy in the USSR, the term "peaceful Soviet citizens" was used, without specifying nationalities. Valuable information on the destruction of the Jewish population in the Nazi-occupied territory of Russia can be obtained by studying the documents of war criminal ca...

This paper analyzes the problem of visual representation of "moon landscapes" in the poetic heritage of the French poet-symbolist Paul Verlaine. The appeal of poets and other artists of XIX century to the nocturne demonstrated new possibilities of the author's statement in the text characterized as synthetic, as a text in which different languages of art are intertwined. It declared a polycode method of representation, in which the symbolism of twilight and melancholic existence fixed the new metaphysics of the ni...

The present article is primarily devoted to the issue of the idea of culture as a factor that helps to create a symbolic level of specific form of the identity. In the first level, we are dealing with different definitions of the term culture. In the second level, we are talking about mythology as an aspect, which also forms a kind of cultural and political context. In the second level then we are talking about mythology as the aspects which also shapes the social and political identity. Social identity helps shap...

The idea of manipulation in broad Translation Studies context finally resulted into the significant translation concept and a relative category, which was shared initially by the Manipulation School representatives (S. Bassnett, T. Hermans, J.S. Holmes, I. Even-Zohar, A. Lefevere, G. Toury) and later by a certain number of modern professional translators and translation theorists (F. Farahzad, N.G. Kornaukhova, P. Kuhiwczak, N.V. Klimovich). The aforementioned concept and category are mainly based on the fact that...

The article reveals the main stages of the development of political thought in France in the XVII century. Political thought was focused first on the approval of absolutist ideas, and then on justification of the "power" and "grandeur" of the French state. During the second half of XVI - early XVII centuries the ideological suppositions of establishing the hegemonic aspirations of the French monarchy were evolved and later were implemented in the Age of Louis XIV. In the second half of the XVI century, the politic...

The research aim of this paper is to reveal the repertoire and the role of personalized images in the overall structure of the image of Europe as perceived by the young generation in todayВ’s Russia. The study is based on the theoretical model of the image of Europe as an integral part of the political picture of the world, this model encompasses the methodological approaches of phenomenology, constructivism and visual sociology. Twelve focus group discussions with representatives of various groups of youth includ...

The Gypsies are one of the most controversial ethnic groups. Periodically the actions of Gypsies (including their individual representatives) cause such violent surges of discontent that can be settled only by law enforcement authorities. For example, in August 2016 in Ukrainian village of Loschinovka there were pogroms of houses inhabited by Gypsy families, in response to the murder of a local girl by a Gypsy; in March 2016, in Tula village of Plekhanovo enforcement authorities were engaged in connection with the...

The image of the state created by another nation, would seriously affect his image, so the image of the state should be studied comprehensively. Research should not only sociological character, but also needs to involve related Humanities as psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. Our study aims to identify Russia's image in the language consciousness of French on the material of the directional associative experiment. The experiment was conducted among the French two generational groups from...

Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

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...

Disability studies as an independent branch of social sciences and humanities was established and initially developed in English-speaking countries (the USA, Great Britain, Canada) and at the end of the 20th century coincided with the contemporary topicalities of sociology, philosophy, feminism, post-structural criticism and the theory of national minorities (this issue has been considered from various perspectives by Miles Beauchamp, Wendy Chung, Alijandra Mogilner, Ashutosh Singh, Viktorija Sukovataja, Svetlana ...

Nowadays the success of organizations are becoming more and more dependent on leadership and the quality of workforce. LeadershipВ’s effect as a factor on organizational success and workforce loyalty increased its importance. In this study the effects of servant leadership and path-goal leadership on organizational commitment and turnover is being researched. The sample consists of 112 employees in 35 organizations in Г‡anakkale city. Data collected by unobtrusive measures and question forms is subjected to analys...

Trends in the Russian stock market are influenced by various internal and external factors, including economic, social, climatic, etc. Among the internal factors usually distinguished: the state of the national economy, industrial production, unemployment, high-volume issuance of government debt securities, increased the total volume of the issue of securities, payments crisis, the national currency exchange rate, trade balance, the size of the key rate, etc. By the significant external factors affecting the forma...

The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between paternalism, delegation collective organizational engagement and performance. The performance concept in this study consists of individual and organizational performance. Using quantitative analysis methods a study is conducted on the North Marmara Region of Turkey with a sample of 175 employees in different sectors. The result of the study show that there is a positive correlation between paternalism, delegation, collective organizational engagement,...

In working life occupational health and safety is an important issue. The factory workers who feel sick may not have high performance at work. The feeling of illness will lead the worker to depression. Some of the problems of workerВ’s health and safety arise from the individual some of them are from the workplace. With this study it has been aimed to build a model revealing the relations among the individual variants such as perceived pain, The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. The aim of this res...

The paper is aimed on lifelong learning of the adult population and assessment of the influence of selected determinants on participation in lifelong learning within the European Union Member States. Governments invest in education to help foster the economic growth, enhance the productivity, contribute to the personal and social development or reduce social inequality. A lack of skills strengthens the risk of unemployment and the differences in skills have an impact on earnings. Higher levels of educational achie...

The development of VAT revenue in the Slovak Republic depends on its macroeconomic base, which is mainly affected by the final consumption of households. In the Slovak Republic, the final consumption of households accounts for more than a half of GDP. Since 1993, VAT revenue has been increasing on a year-to-year basis from 911 million euros to 5.5 billion euros in 2015, except 2009 when there was a sharp decline due to the crisis. In this period, the VAT share in total tax revenue of the state budget increased fro...

Recent changes in the business environment exposed the insufficiency of financial data traditionally presented in financial statements. Available researches emphasize that recipients of financial statements demand comprehensive data about the business activity. Modern accounting faces the formidable challenge to reflect companyВ’s values not only by financial data but also by non-financial disclosures. The need for non-financial data disclosures has also been noticed by the Institutions of the European Union. The ...

The main objective of this paper was identifying the needs, wishes and expectations of Romanian customers in connection with their holidays, to the purpose of attempting the rebound of this economic branch, and the increase of the interest of as many potential customers as possible for Romania. The reason for choosing this topic resulted mainly from a desire to offer relevant information about a real-life situation on the Romanian tourism market, in which Romanians prefer spending their holidays abroad. In the res...

The paper presents the results of a quantitative research, based on a questionnaire, study of the opinion of the hospitality industry organizations in Romania regarding the necessity to develop a food safety management system (SMSA), designed according to the requirements of the international ISO standards, and the continuation of the investments for the implementation and its certification. After a decade of applicability of the ISO 22000: 2005 standard, there was a remarkable success in Romania regarding the evo...

The protection of the environment is surely the last frontier in the project for Naval Architects, as the new materials allow us to dare using complex shapes, open spaces, very appealing lines but the challenge is to match the increase in size of the modern mega yacht, who are often Ships of 90-100-120 meters and over, with the environmental protection and the capability for these enormous В‘toysВ’ to travel everywhere especially in the most suggestive corners of the planet respecting the air, sea and earth. The I...

This paper refers to the implementation of urban principles and the principles of sustainable development into the established policies of Czech Republic development, as significant tools of territorial planning as such. Urban policy represents a conceptual and purposeful activity of a public authority focused on the development of cities. In this case, it involves a biocentric agglomeration, whose centres are the regional cities of Hradec KrГЎlovГ© and Pardubice. The main goals of urban policy are based on the id...

In this Study we aimed to reveal the frequently underestimated role that bodyweight exercises may play in building Physical Fitness. Our own bodies offer us all the equipment we need to get in shape. Old-school, forgotten and disregarded Calisthenics, or more fashionable Pilates or Stretching exercises may offer us plenty of alternative tools to replace the machine’s assisted “modern” Fitness programs. Method: The study was conducted on 40 female Students of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy ...

Tourism is a business that involves interaction, communication and promotion. Tourists need a reason to visit a place: interesting things to do and see, in a word, attractions. They may be natural or man made an activity or an event. People will not visit a place just because it has attractions, these must be developed and promoted to attract visitors. Someone has to tell them about that place or community and teach them how it should be done through marketing communication and different communicational strategies...

Changes in the socio-economic and political environment after 1989, started the process of reform and decentralization of administration. This had a significant impact on the change in the approach to the urban policy formulation. Urban policy in Poland is growing in importance in the implementation of further steps in the process of reforming public administration in Poland. This is widely reflected in the assumptions of strategic documents mainly at the central level of public administration. The hypothesis is b...