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Alcohol consumption and self‐reported (SF12) physical and mental health among working‐aged men in a typical Russian city: a cross‐sectional study

Addiction, Volume 108, Issue 11, Page 1905-1914, November 2013., 2013
Abstract Aim To investigate the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and self‐reported physical and mental health in a population with a high prevalence of hazardous drinking. Design Cross‐sectional study of an age‐stratified random sample of a population register.
Agnete S. Dissing, Artyom Gil, Katherine Keenan, Jim McCambridge, Martin McKee, Alexey Oralov, Lyudmila Saburova, David A. Leon   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Udmurt auto- and hetero-stereotypes about physical beauty [PDF]

, 2016
For Udmurtians, physical beauty is an attractive and impressive physique. In the late 19th century, Udmurt criteria for evaluating physical beauty were influenced by the aesthetic ideals of neighbouring peoples.
Nikitina, Galina A., Galina A. Nikitina
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Forest Cover Change within the Russian European North after the Breakdown of Soviet Union (1990–2005)

International Journal of Forestry Research, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Forest cover dynamics (defined as tree canopy cover change without regard to forest land use) within the Russian European North have been analyzed from 1990 to 2005 using a combination of results from two Landsat‐based forest cover monitoring projects: 1990–2000 and 2000–2005.
Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Ilona Zhuravleva, Matthew Hansen, Alexey Yaroshenko, Alexander Manisha, Harri Mäkinen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic Momentum and Fertility Responses to Pronatalist Policies: The Case of Ethnic Minorities in Russia

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin, Sergei Zakharov, Sunnee Billingsley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova, Korney K. Tomashchuk, Alexandra S. Kogan, Nhu Q. Dang, Inna V. Skrynnikova, Vasilii A. Gromov, Tao Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
wiley   +1 more source

An Udmurt Flute

, 2021
The article gives a complete description of the uz’ygumy, the Udmurt traditional flute. Published articles by Russian researchers and new field material recorded during expeditions between 2004 and 2009 are used as the main sources. For the first time the process of manufacture of the instrument is observed, the territory of its existence is outlined ...
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Kama-taguste udmurtide pulmalaulud: poeetilised kujundid ja muusikalised iseärasused [PDF]

Mäetagused
The research is dedicated to the study of wedding songs of the Eastern Udmurts. Particular attention is paid to the poetic images and musical features, which form an integral part of the wedding ceremony and represent a unique symbolic language.
Tatiana Korobova, Irina Pchelovodova, Nikolai Anisimov   +2 more
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 1180-1195, July 2025.
Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo, Nikita Khokhlov, Jakob Tolstrup   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

POSSIBILITIES OF TEACHING THE NATIVE (UDMURT) LANGUAGE IN THE UDMURT REPUBLIC

Pedagogy. Theory & Practice, 2019
The article provides information on the attitude towards the study of the native (Udmurt) language by its speakers, gives a list of the basic measures aimed at promoting and developing the native language. The focus is on the existing possibilities of teaching the native language in the Udmurt Republic.
openaire   +1 more source