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The present contribution aims to provide a fresh look at the short-term impact of a revolutionary and highly controversial political and juridical innovation: the Romanian electoral reform from March 1926. With the help of the sources from the epoch (archive documents, parliamentary debates, press articles, memoirs), I restored the decisive stage of the debates on this bill, I examined the main problems raised on this subject, and I recovered the most important contemporary perspectives – from authorities and from...

The article describes the main indicators of energy cluster development in Russia, the analysis of their impact on socio-economic indexes of regions. The paper summarizes the statistical data, shows regression and correlation analysis, gives the regression equation constructed and makes gross regional product projections of each region depending on the pace of clusters development.

This paper presents a novel approach in training for orthopaedic surgeons, developed within the ERASMUS + research project 2015-1-RO01-KA202-015230, ERASMUS+ VET "Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopaedic surgery”. Considering that classical education of orthopaedic surgeons, which is based on lectures, self-study, workshops and cadaver dissections, followed by supervised practical training within daily practice, quite often res...

The paper focuses on some medical and sociological problems of Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS), the so-called transsexualism. It reflects on an in-depth reading of publications exploring the question of transsexualism, as well as the experiences resulting from medical care of such individuals. In short, the analysis bases on both medical experience in diagnostics and treatment of people with this syndrome, as well as several publications in the field of social sciences. The aim of the paper is an ...

The paper considers the reasons for the low effectiveness of management activities. The fact that the poor quality of management training is not always the most urgent problem is determined. The reason for this situation is in the practiced management concept: it is necessary to develop new principles for management systems development. The management system itself determines the ways to achieve the determined goals, develops a specific program of actions. The paper analyzes modern transformational trends in manag...

Our paper tackles the long-discussed processes of internationalization and globalization that is taking place in the sphere of higher education. The purpose of the research is to determine the underlying factors in students’ choice of a university and a country of study. We carry out comprehensive evaluation of attractiveness of high education in the world according to the student mobility criteria. A research of English-language programs offering by the Russian top universities included in the QS World University...

Philosophizing of a child is a very multi-faceted phenomenon, as well as philosophy and childhood in general. On the one hand, there is the naivety of children’s asking and interpretation, and on the other hand, there is a metaphysical depth of the issues. Unfortunately, children as naive philosophers do not meet proper understanding and attention to their raised problems from adults. The cultural tradition paradoxically ignores the importance of naive philosophizing in development of a child. But in that case it ...

Division into periods of D.H. Lawrence’s creative activity mainly is based on his biographical facts, but we should find a point of his departure from the apprenticeship, from the traditions of the English novel of the 19th century. In many respects the author of Sons and Lovers departs from traditions, although he does not break with them completely. Lawrence creates a synthetic genre, combining the structure of a Bildungsroman and a Künstlerroman, giving his protagonist some autobiographical traits. Buthe does n...

The article examines the relationship between the armed forces of the Russian Empire and film companies in the early twentieth century. It shows the Emperor Nicholas II’s interest in the cinema. The history of A. A. Khanzhonkov’s company, which created the films "Defense of Sevastopol city" and “The Baltic fleet", is shown. The paper gives examples of military people participation in the feature and documentary films. It also shows the role of cinema in promoting the Russian Empire armed forces’ reputation at the ...

This article sets forth the problem of attitudes towards women in connection with the ethno-religious characteristics of the processing of their appearance (for example, hidjab (Islamic head-cover)). Research design. The object of the study were 500 people (250 male; 250 female), aged 18 to 25 years (mean age 20 years), residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Methods. The study used the author's questionnaire, which consisted of stimulus material (2 sets of photos of 4 girls; in one case it was a portrait shot from th...

The enforcement of economic security is one of the key tasks of state investment policy. The searching for effective solutions of this problem is really important in conditions of foreign policy disagreements and sanctions against recipient country. The purpose of this article is working out a concept of application in Russian Federation of range of limitations to foreign capital inflows. Abstract-logical, analytical, and dialectical methods of scientific knowledge were used in conducting this study. The used in i...

The priority of universal values, life and health of a person, free development of personality finds reflection both in organization of educational process that strengthens attention to a problem of education humanization and personalization of training. In this regard the inclusion becomes one of the priority directions of modernization of modern education in changing Russia. In article the task of finding of new means and methods in training of deaf and hearing-impaired students in discipline “English” is set. O...

After the war in Kosovo, the country declared the independence, and the European Union’s mission after Kosovo’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. NATO’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 the m...

In the period of variable economy the stability of mini-economic systems is becoming one of the main categories that should be subjected to research and management. However, to date, there is no single approach to the definition of this conceptual category. The concepts of financial stability and economic sustainability are often mixed up. In addition, the existing approaches to the definition do not take into account the dynamism of the enterprise environment. The article examines the conceptual differences betwe...

The paper examines the significance of an individual identity in the context of the postmodern era. The analysis touches upon the subject of self-identity, which is treated as a processual, dynamic and contextual phenomenon. According to contemporary deliberations, it is risky to state that an identity is something that one can possess. It is better to speak of a continuous process of identifications that allows individuals to define themselves or others. Although an individual identity is seen as the result (“pro...

The social dimension of state culture and art at the regional level is an important task of the state and involves the assessment of the quality of services once a year for several cultural organizations. We propose a unified model of independent assessment of the quality of services of organizations of culture using the automated information system of accounting of three metrics: opinions of recipients of services, and the availability of information on two official websites of the organization. The results of th...

Culture is a set of codes that prescribe to a person a certain behavior with inherent experiences and thoughts, thus controlling him. Culture plays an important role for maintaining and reproducing material and spiritual values, as well as intellectual products of human activity. Reproduction of culture is very closely connected with the notion of “cultural potential”. Potential is a collection of available resources and opportunities in a certain area that can be used to achieve a certain goal or solve a specific...

Currently, the most challenging issues in the digital economy are legal issues. Data protection in the digital world, and processing of a number of information on a daily basis is one of the most important achievements that must be accomplished when considering regulatory framework in micro and macro surrounding. Data and their protection are crucial and the most important issue in process of connecting and consolidating information. Data protection reform is one of the cornerstones of the Digital Single Market. T...

The article studies the educational potential of filmtext as a source of ethnocultural information and means of intercultural dialogue. At present, the implementation of cultural dialogue often takes place in the space of one of the key phenomena of contemporary culture - the cinematic space. We approach the study by analyzing the filmtexts of two feature films that represent two forms of broadcast of cultural information within the screen: historical (Cranes over Ilmen by Nikita Arzhakov) and cultural (Ofelas by ...

The issues of English intonation patterns are a significant part of phoneticians’ research. However, much in this field remains a matter of considerable debate. This can be largely attributed to the multifunctional nature of intonation, as well as the complex emotional and volitional aspects involved. Prosodic arrangement of business speech is a separate topical research issue. The speech of business people is typically characterised by some specific features, including intonation peculiarities, and reflects the s...

The International Exhibition is often identified with a chance for development for the applicant's city areas. Nevertheless, as the experiences of the host cities show, the sustainable use of change potential is extremely difficult. Therefore, already in the creation process of the exhibition theme, it is important for the exhibition to become an element influencing the evolution of the area and not the final stage of its development. The choice of revitalisation as the theme of the International Exhibition EXPO 2...

Nowadays we are witnessing the growing proliferation of social media in almost every sphere of our lives – from economics, to politics, society and education. Undoubtedly, the new opportunities of various social media applications such as social networking sites, collaborative projects, blogs, wikis, content communities, forums, etc., have their impact on educational process for both teachers and students. The main goal of this research is to identify some notable trends, opportunities and limitations regarding th...

Linguopolitical personology is a relatively new field of Russian linguistics, which focuses on the phenomenon of professional linguistic personality in the political sphere. This research discipline helps reveal new facets of homo loquens and contributes to political communication studies, enabling to highlight its discursive and national specificity. The present article reports the results of an analytical review of recent papers on politicians' speech behavior. The objective of the review was to specify basic te...

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 Králové and Pardubice. The main goals of urban policy are based on the iden...

The author is in this paper studying influence of digital media on changes in contemporary education. Through phenomenological and hermeneutic methods, he is exploring the basic structure (invariant) of the Internet – the key component of modern digital media. The author observes that the basic structure of the Internet relies on a very fast combining of symbols with dominance of images. Knowing the Internet’s invariant, he finds out that the Internet favours associationist (rhizomatic, image-based) thinking with ...

The junior football game requires a specific approach at the level of each academy, depending on the characteristics of the conception of the established game. So in our case, we will refer to how to approach the construction of the game - the attack phase - depending on the reality existing at the time of the competition, the preparation of the junior players of the Craiova University Sports Club, so that they will be able to react positively to their teammates’ behavior of as well as their opponents’. The paper ...

The article considers the peculiarities of Russian and Turkish etiquette, since it is very often that Turkish students perfectly knowing the Russian grammar and having a good vocabulary find it difficult to communicate with both Russian students and teachers. One may assume that the cause of these difficulties lies in the peculiarities of the national etiquette; in order to reveal these peculiarities, we have performed a comparative analysis of the Russian and Turkish etiquettes. Various examples were taken from d...

This paper identifies the steps, parameters and criteria for evaluating technologies in terms of its potential for creating new sectors in the economy of resource region. We established the key principles for prioritizing the directions of technological development: maximizing the technology’s potential for future economy, integrating the effects of regional development with national economy. The study is based on an analysis of the global and national trends in technological development, identification of technol...

The issue of spreading of radical Islam in East Africa is one of the most important in region’s development trends studies. In this regard, it is quite important to study the genesis, ideological and social background of the most active Islamist groups. Somalia plays key role in this process in East Africa. The spread of radical fundamental ideology in this country was determined by several factors such as specific mentality and social values of Somalia tribes, clan structure of the society, total impoverishment o...

Initially, only states were capable of running space programs. The period of rivalry between the greatest powers after World War 2 brought the dynamics of space exploration and the improvement of space technologies. During the cold war period, USA and the USSR were concerned that the other states could gain an advantage by sending armaments of mass restriction and conventional weapons to the orbit. In 1969, the first human landed on the Moon and stuck a US flag on its surface. Denis Tito flew in space in 2001 as a...

Background: The main goal of this article is the study of the citizen’s attitudes to corruption in Russian megalopolises as a problem of the human resources quality development. On the one hand we have got an information about level of negative citizen’s attitudes to corruption, but on the other hand there is opportunity to give them some rules to prevent from to be corruptors. Therefore, there is one of the channels for quality development of socially responsible members of society. Methods: The author have descr...

In the 1990s post-Soviet countries had to face an immensely unstable economic situation and were bound to cope with all difficulties of social adaptation to the new reality. Proceeded from the fact that an adaptive process often takes long and its fixation in the collective consciousness appears only after two of three generations, the problem of adaptation is worth investigating and thinking over. Moreover, this kind of radical transformation has had a lot of precedents in Russian history that is why the authors ...

In its analysis of various legal regulations and data from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic concerning harassment, and namely sexual harassment, the article highlights how sociological discourses and legal decisions have reflected upon this specific form of discrimination, which is regulated by international, European as well as national means. The article first considers two major principles of sexual harassment ? 'quid pro quo' and a 'hostile working environment'; later, international, European as well ...

Background: Nursing homes with special regime provide long-stay services to persons with reduced sufficiency due to chronic mental disease or addiction to habit-forming substances, as well as to persons with senile, Alzheimer's dementia and other types of dementia who have reduced self-sufficiency due to the above stated diseases and whose situation requires regular help of another natural person. The regime in those facilities providing social services is adapted to specific needs of such persons. When caring for...

In the article the questions connected with research of a modern condition of ecological tourism and prospects of its development in Russia are considered. To date, environmental tourism is one of the most promising and rapidly developing sectors of the tourism industry, occupying one of their leading positions. The methodological basis was the work of domestic and foreign scientists studying the problems of ecological and rural tourism and the development of special protected natural areas of Russia. In this cont...

Corruption is one of the biggest challenges of the time, a worrying phenomenon for the whole society, therefore society most oppose it by trying in various ways to prevent it. Corruption as a great evil, today is present in all societies in all its forms, certainly in some countries is more extended and in some other less extended. Corruption is one of the heaviest forms as a prevalent appearance in modern societies and unfortunately, some forms of the corruption have become an everyday concern in our country. Cor...

The issue of Russian influence in the Romanian Principalities, one of the most delicate and nebulous, with great emotional impact until today, was often the subject of many spiteful reactions, but unfortunately, only the few truly specialized studies documented and analytical. Political, legal and institutional Russian influence, defined today in the formula „political culture”, it was seen from the angle of positive-negative, without understanding the nature and its role to generate a constant concern and studies...

The paper explores relations beetwen philosohical views of language and the problem of intersubjectivity in interpretation of legal text. The purpose of the paper is to show and analyse the consequences and difficulties with aplying philosophical ideas of language to legal interpretation with respect to intersubjectivity of that kind of interpretation. Author characterizes two general phlilosophical views of natural language – the structuralist view and the nominalist view. The structuralist view is based on two m...

The objective of this contribution is to investigate non-formal media education projects in the European Union. [1] The study reviews initiatives and projects in the field of media education in the Member States. The most important finding of this study is the fact that the film education, film literacy and the practical skills of filmmaking are greatly developed in the EU countries. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania and the United Kingdom pay attention to the film literacy and film production....

Educational tourism, one of the fastest-growing tourism sectors in the world, can be developed in different areas that are characterised by accessibility and possess educational tourism resources. In order to efficiently invest in educational tourism, it is necessary to take into account economic peculiarities of a certain area. The research is aimed at constructing an economic portrait of the potential inbound educational destination ‘a modern Russian medium-sized urban area’, which has not yet received a thoroug...

The purpose of the article is to try to analyze the main online education technologies which are used today by the universities to identify their advantages and disadvantages in the educational system. The methodological approaches used by the author include the theory of synergetics and chaos, the theory of academic revolution, the concept of smart education, e-learning and open education. To achieve this goal, the methods of document analysis, statistical analysis, comparative analysis and content analysis have ...

The article presents a comparative analysis of the official industrial discourse in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods on the basis of "new political history" methodological approaches. There are different points of view in the historiography on the problem of genetic continuity of the "old" and "new" Russia. The study of production processes of the industrial discourse, its structures and context makes it possible to reveal the continuity of pre-revolutionary and Soviet industrial projects. The external b...

In the context of modern politics and social norms in Europe and in the world, it is important, now and then, to look into the ancient thought and find inspiration in the world’s classical philosophical literature. We approach here the structure and motivation of Aristotle’s two of his most important writings, Politics and The Nicomachean Ethics. We consider them to reflect the main characteristics of his rational approach on politics and morals; they enable us to see what lies at the historical foundation of thes...

Background. The relevance of this work is determined by modern trends in the development of society: the socio-psychological aspect - with each year the number of organizations and the number of specialists grow. Extremely topical are the problems of raising and maintaining a high level of psychological security in an organization associated with loyalty. However, the analysis of the relationship, the conditions that determine its formation, typology, planning of actions aimed at increasing loyalty and focused on ...

GIS provide enormous opportunities in the field of analysis of territories on the basis of thematic maps and satellite images when planning medical services in remote areas. The article considers the problems of providing a planned, emergency medical care outside of the city, as well as ways to optimize traffic routes, taking into account remoteness, natural and climatic factors, vegetation terrain, soil and soil, terrain, bodies of water permeability, the technical characteristics of vehicles on the bridge obstac...

The article presents a multifactor optimization model of balance sheet indicators of a company. The model enables to develop measures aimed at enhancing creditability of a potential borrower. The first steps offered in our research are the identification of all the items of balance sheet to be corrected and planning of measures for affecting the items of concern. The task of optimization is developed consisting of target function formulation and constraint system establishment. Under such constraints the model con...

Rapidly changing environment and intercommunication is becoming an increasingly important topic of large organizations business strategy choice. Calahane et al. [1] on organization climate research has stated that the organizational climate is the individual's collective perception in the common system of the work environment and the framework. Today's business leaders require high flexibility, agility and responsiveness what builds organization`s psychological climate. Kurt T. Dirk and Donald L. Ferrin [2] meta-a...

The article discusses the problem of choosing the system and general applied software for the support of distance learning by the teacher and the principles of the choice between proprietary and free software for its subsequent use in the educational process. Remote forms of instruction are formulated and appropriate recommendations are given. Distance learning more and more covers today not only extended education, but also main education itself, in particular, systematically they are applied in a case of the pos...

This paper studies the trends in higher education and internationalization policies in context of Singapore and Russia. The main idea of this research is analysis and comparison of education system policies in Singapore and Russian Federation in order to discover the key differences and possibilities for future development and growth factors. Correlation analysis of the economical and educational statistical data reveals common principles responsible for the economic success. Problems and possible actions in the a...

Financial health of companies is a topic that has been historically studied under various conditions. However, the current economy is a living organism and, the conditions affecting the financial health of companies are changing dynamically. There are many ways how to evaluate the financial health of a company. In addition to the use of the ratio indicators, complex models using one numeric indicator expressing the financial health of the company can be applied. These include, for example, bankruptcy and credibili...