Attractiveness of Education in Russia: Achievements and Challenges by V. L. Petrov, V. F. Pugach

“…The paper considers an approach to assess the attractiveness of education in post-Soviet Russia. The authors present the findings of an analysis of the dynamics of population’s attitude to education in terms of verbal behavior indicators, such as opinions about purposes of saving and spending money on education depending on per capita income. …”
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN THE FIELD OF ECOLOGY: RATIONAL NATURE USE AND RESOURCE SAVING by Yu. G. Evdokimova, S. M. Sycheva, T. B. Shramchenko

“…The largest environmental issues in Russia have been considered in the article, their relationship with the development trends of the country’s economy and the legacy of the Soviet period has been traced, the directions of projects in the field of ecology, as well as the problems of their implementation have been reviewed, these issues have been compared with the practice of environmental projects in developed countries. …”
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Ukraine: Party politics, the Left and President Zelensky: An interview with Professor Olexiy Haran by Marina Slhessarenko Barreto

“…Departing from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the professor reconstructs the role of leftist forces – whether socialist or communist –, alongside the unstable party system and its cleavages, as well as a series of political upheavals, not to mention the Russian invasion in 2014 and its full-scale war from 2022 on. …”
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Digital Transformation of Technological Design in the Preparation of Design Engineers: History and Prospects by A. V. Petukhov

“…It was the general name for several types of Soviet minicomputers produced in the 1970s and 1980s) operating under the control of a real-time operating system, and ending with electronic complexes for information support of design and technological design based on PDM systems.…”
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Tangential Points: Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein Revisited by Tikka Pia

“…In the newly founded Soviet Union, Aleksandr A. Bogdanov and Segei M. Eisenstein, each in his own way, struggled to make sense of the world by means of the most recent findings in the sciences. …”
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Trade in Lithuania under Rule of the Nazis by Justinas Braslauskas

“…In spite of the fact that it was permitted to re-privatise the smaller retail businesses which had been nationalised by the Soviet power, both retail and wholesale trade in Lithuania during the Nazis' occupation was moribund due to the scarcity of goods and transport and unworkable wage and price policy. …”
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La morale sexuelle, la famille et les droits reproductifs vus par le réseau transnational des femmes communistes dans les années 1920 by Daria Dyakonova

“…Supported by the youth of the Soviet Komsomol, sexual liberation was, however, viewed with caution (and sometimes suspicion) by some communist women.…”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…Although the influence of Russian was strong and the Soviet school dominated terminology science, this period witnessed substantial development. …”
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HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE STUDY OF STATE PRACTICES AND THE JUDICIARY OF SOUTHERN UKRAINIAN TERRITORIES: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS by Oleg Vuyiv, Maryna Bulkat

“…For a long time, domestic historians of law and the state and other branch scientists, who were engaged in the study of the southern territories, were focused on the practices of the imperial period, and later – of the period of Soviet occupation. However, the approach to the analysis of the processes of development of the southern Ukrainian territories in the core branches of historical science has now been radically changed and deepened. …”
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The 15th Anniversary of the Seminar on the History of Higher School in St. Petersburg by T. V. Kostina

“…Petersburg, but also in the  territories of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Reports,  presented at the interdisciplinary seminar, deal with the educational policy,  the history of educational institutions, the methodology of studying the  history of higher education, the study of archival collections of educational  institutions, etc. …”
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Издательство “Всемирная литература” как первая советская литературная институция: история в документах... by Marina Arias-Vikhil’

“… The World Literature Publishing House (1918-1924), founded on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, is the first Soviet literary publishing institution designed to ensure interaction between the new government and the broadest literary and scientific circles of the Russian intelligentsia. …”
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Schools of Strategic Thoughts on Russia in the Us Expert Community by I. A. Safranchuk

“…The suggested methodology is retrospectively applied to describe the evolution of US schools of strategic thoughts on Russia in the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union and until the present. The article also dwells on the major contemporary US schools of strategic thought on Russia. …”
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Breaking and entering, or a feeling of heterotopia in tourism situations by Hécate Vergopoulos

“…This paper is based on the following field research conducted in 2010: (i) a tourist accommodation experience in Chora, capital of the Greek island of Skyros, in a house that in all likelihood was never originally intended for tourists; and (ii) a visit of the Estonian city of Paldiski, an important military port under Soviet rule. These two cases, a priori very different, generated intense feelings of uneasiness similar to both guilt and voyeurism in the two groups of tourists involved, which included the author of this paper. …”
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«No news on it and haven’t written...»: the sources of personal origin about the fate of the immigrant Nikolay N. Artamonov, Jr. by D. I. Petin

“…The author comes to the conclusion about the value of this type of documents in the study of culture, social life and everyday life of Russian emigration and Soviet society in the this period…”
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On Historiography of Fights for Independence and Creation of Lithuanian Army by Vytautas Lesčius

“…In the period between the wars (1921-1940), weighty publications came out which reviewed the activity of the army—journals on warfare and history, memoirs, etc. In Soviet times the problem was hardly investigated. …”
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Сurrent status and BAM’s development prospects by M. S. Simagutina

“…In recent years Russia has been discussing the development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, which in Soviet times was a grandiose construction project of the era and an embodiment of the country’s power. …”
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Wrestling on the Table: The Contemporary Wedding Meal in Latvia by Astra Spalvēna

“…The aim of present research is to reveal how different traditions intertwine in the wedding meal - new or borrowed, with ancient and national or Soviet traditions. While followers of a modern lifestyle are emphasising a challenge to traditions, it is nevertheless the wedding meal and symbolic practices connected with it that indicates a more or less intentional respect for tradition. …”
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Prospects for the development of rural labor resources under the impact of changes in the rural areas economy in the 2020s by E. A. Yugov

“…The paper presents the stages of changes in the development of labor resources in rural areas in the post-Soviet period, which prepared them for further transformations. …”
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The linguistic expression of power in political addresses of Polish prime ministers from 1945 to 2019 (quantitative analysis) by Citlak Amadeusz, Kozioł Pamela

“…The timeframe covers 74 years, between 1945 and 2019, including two important periods in Polish history: Soviet domination (1945-1989) and the time since the fall of communism and the return of an independent Poland (1989-2019). …”
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THE RUSSIAN STATE, LENIN AND THE CENTRAL ASIA by E. M. Korhzokin

“…However, it was a complicated task, because those nations were parts of the Russian and, lately, the Soviet state. State-building objectives include the creation of new historical narrative. …”
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