Illya Ilyich Mechnikov's contribution to the fight against tuberculosis: results of the 1911 Astrakhan expedition [PDF]
Our compatriot, well-known scientist, Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov left a bright mark not only in domestic but also in world science.
Bolshakova, G +4 more
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Translation and linguistic innovation : the rise and fall of Russian loanwords in literary translation into Dutch [PDF]
This paper examines the use of Russian loanwords in Dutch translations of Russian literary texts from the period 1970-2009. In an increasingly globalized world, as more information is exchanged across cultural borders worldwide, one might expect a growth
Van Poucke, Piet
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Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire [PDF]
This article reviews recent literature on legal and civic ideas of citizenship within the Russian empire, arguing that much of it fails to take into account the many legal and administrative inequalities which existed between European and Asiatic Russia,
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
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The Role of Education as a Tool for Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development
The UN has declared 2005 to 2014 the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. However, education is often viewed as an unalloyed good and consequently, there have been few empirical studies on the costs and benefits of different forms of ...
Howe, Caroline, Howe, Caroline
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Introduction. The Journal of Astrakhan Eparchy (Russ. Astrakhanskie eparkhialnye vedomosti) was the official periodical of Astrakhan and Yenotayevka Eparchy in 1875 to 1918. Quite a share of the published articles dealt with household life, customs, religion of the Kalmyks, and dissemination of Christianity in Kalmyk Steppe. Goals.
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Europeans and the steppe: Russian lands under the Mongol rule [PDF]
It was endemic on the medieval religious frontier not to admit consciously that one had borrowed institutions from conquered or conquering peoples of a different religion.
Neumann, Iver B.
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Kalmyks, Oirat Descendants in Russia : a Historical and Ethnographic Sketch [PDF]
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6674, Bakaeva, E.P.
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Comparative research into the landscape vocabulary in the mongolian languages from the perspective of language contacts [PDF]
The article looks at language contacts between the Kalmyk language and the language of Oirats living in Mongolia in the sphere of lexis. The lexical layer analyzed in the article is landscape vocabulary.
Balzhinimaeva, Bayarma Dashidondokovna +4 more
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From empire to multilateral player: the deep roots of autonomy in Russia [PDF]
This chapter focuses on Russia’s unlikely experiment in national cultural autonomy (NCA). I start with Russia’s accession to the Council of Europe (CoE) and the start of its experiment in NCA, both of which took place in 1996.
Bowring, Bill
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From Frontier to Borderland: Border Actors in Orenburg Province, 1735-75 [PDF]
This article examines the rise of borderland actors in Russia’s Orenburg province in the mid-eighteenth century. Established in the 1730s and the 1740s, the fortified line along the Iaik River became a hard border separating Russian-controlled Bashkiria ...
Leckey, Colum
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