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Meritocracy and Gender in Education Discourse: Language Matters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is an attempt to provide an answer to the question: to what extend the word "meritocracy" is justified and correct for all modern societies especially post-Soviet countries.
Семенюк, І. С.
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Online deviance in post-Soviet space: Victimisation, perceptions and social attitudes amongst young people, an Armenian case study

open access: yesDigital Geography and Society
This paper presents a survey-based case study of the experiences and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, various forms of online deviance amongst a largely female, educated sample of young people drawn predominantly from the Armenian capital city of ...
Tim Hall, Ulrike Ziemer
doaj   +1 more source

“This Is Who I Would Become”: Russian Jewish Immigrants and Their Encounters with Chabad-Lubavitch in the Greater Toronto Area

open access: yesCanadian Jewish Studies, 2020
Since the early 1970s, the Chabad Lubavitch movement has served as an important setting for religious, social, and cultural activity among Russian-speaking Jewish migrants to Canada and the United States.
Joshua Tapper
doaj   +1 more source

Становление внешнеполитической идентичности постсоветских стран в условиях общественно-политических трансформаций [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
У статті розглядаються особливості суспільно-політичних трансформацій на пострадянському просторі, що набувають зовнішньополітичного значення, впливаючи на характер формування міжнародної суб’єктності пострадянських країн.
Shinkaruk, К. О.   +2 more
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In Whose Interest is the Public Interest?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current government has implemented changes to the planning system in ‘the public interest’ and planners more generally aim to make decisions in ‘the public interest’. Yet, this concept is hard to define, and it has been much reflected on since the adoption of land use planning in 1947.
Kelvin MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space: Language, Politics and Identity

open access: yesEuropean Studies, 2018
IN RECENT YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN SUSTAINED ACADEMIC AND political scrutiny of externally located ‘kinsfolk’: that is, groups of individuals located outside of a nominally national ‘kin-state’, and over whom the state in question lays claim to various ...
A. Cheskin, Angela Kachuyevski
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Eurasian Economic Union: Prospects and Problems of Integration in the Post-Soviet Space

open access: yesVestnik RUDN International Relations, 2020
The article examines the state of integration processes in the post-Soviet area over the past decade, with a focus on the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which has contributed to a holistic, comprehensive picture of the current situation with previous ...
D. Belashchenko   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring hidden narratives: Conscript graffiti at the former military base of Kummersdorf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores the cultural significance and interpretative potential of graffiti left by Soviet conscripts at Kummersdorf, a former military base in the German federal state of Brandenburg.
Hack, H, Merrill, S
core   +1 more source

From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Unification of some biochemical methods of research in the pre- and post-flight periods [PDF]

open access: yes
The biochemical methods for determination of various parameters and factors during pre- and post-flight periods, as used by American and Soviet teams dealing with space flight medicine are compared.
Tigranyan, R. A.
core   +1 more source

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