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The Influence of Covid-19-Induced Unease Infrastructure on Cultural and Social Spheres

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023
Covid-19 challenged the entire population of the world, affected everyone and all spheres of life, and changed the content, and the ways, of communication. For example, medical discourse was integrated in a variety of discursive fields.
Sergey Troitskiy
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Calendar Festivals as a Form of Transnationalism and Cultural Strategy in the Mixed Finnish-Lithuanian and Greek-Lithuanian Families

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2019
The object of the paper is to research the celebration of calendar festivals within Finnish-Lithuanian and Greek-Lithuanian families in Finland and Greece respectively. The subject was approached mainly from the Lithuanian women’s perspective, since most
Akvilė Motuzaitė
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Emergency-Period Corona Lore in the Sphere of Interest of the Researchers of the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2020
On 12 March 2020, the Government of the Republic of Estonia announced emergency situation in Estonia until 1 May and imposed special measures to hinder the spread of COVID-19.
Mare Kõiva, Piret Voolaid
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“Bulgarian” Sites in Germany: People, Commemorations, and National Memory

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2022
Many monuments and places related to historical events and people connected with Bulgarian history can be found throughout Western Europe (and beyond).
Tanya Matanova
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Advertising Activity of Halal Restaurant Business: The Example of Kazan

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2019
The article, based on the analysis of the Internet sites giving information on halal restaurant services in Kazan, statistical and other sources, presents an estimation of their advertising.
Sergey Rychkov
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Lithuanian Ethnologist Angelė Vyšniauskaitė 100

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2020
Angelė Vyšniauskaitė 100 ...
Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė, Žilvytis Šaknys   +1 more
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Bulgarians in Morocco – Cultural Heritage and Sociocultural Interaction

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2022
The article focuses on migration and cultural heritage. It presents the processes of transmission and use of Bulgarian cultural heritage abroad. The study outlines the sociocultural interaction between the Bulgarian community in Morocco and the host ...
Mariyanka Borisova Zhekova
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Eschatological Notions in Post-Socialist Bulgaria

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2022
The text presents the most popular ideas about the end of the world that spread in Bulgaria in the post-socialist period. In the years of transition after 1989, social and political changes, as well as an economic crisis, favoured apocalyptic ...
Evgenia Troeva
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Sudden Death Memorials in Bucharest: Distribution in Time and Space

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2019
Only one year after the 1989 revolution, which ended the communist rule of Romania, Bucharest experienced a significant increase in the placement of memorials commemorating people who died unexpectedly. This study examines the unique set of circumstances
Irina Stahl, Barry L. Jackson
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Narrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2023: An Estonian Case Study on AI Lore

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023
With the rapid emergence of new technologies in contemporary societies, new reflections of human experience arise. One of the recent technologies introducing massive changes in human life as well as in human reactions is artificial intelligence (AI).
Andrus Tins
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