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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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Slang in teaching russian as a foreign language

Russian Language Studies, 2013
The article deals with publicist texts, containing slang words, it also raises the problem of including slang in the process of teaching foreign students.
N A Minakova, E V Talybina
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Russian language in Pakistan: course analysis and development pathways

Russian Language Studies
Within Pakistan’s distinctive educational landscape, teaching foreign languages entails significant challenges alongside profound professional fulfilment. Teaching a foreign language is challenging but simultaneously rewarding.
Habibullah Pathan, Illahi Bakhsh
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Correlation of traditional methods of russian language, didactics and anthropocentric linguistics: a rhetorical approach to foreign bachelors learning

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2012
The article considers the methodological features of language education (in terms of teaching Russian as a foreign language) in the concept of a modern multi-level higher education in the undergraduate stage.
A V Morozova, T T Cherkashina
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN TEACHING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN MODERN UNIVERSITY

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2017
The article examines the teaching of Russian as a foreign language and Russian language and culture of speech from the point of view of modern innovative approaches. The relevance of this work defines it.
Elena V Orlova
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