Russian national model of public policy: structure and special features by D. Yu. Znamenskiy

“…At the same time, the author relies both on the results of previous studies in this area and on the latest data from Russian Public Opinion Research Center. The analysis of the peculiarities of citizens’ perception of the main political institutions made it possible to draw a conclusion about their direct connection with the specifics of the domestic system of political representation.The main theoretical result of the research is to substantiate the author’s approach to public policy research. …”
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The “Nixon China Shock” in the Mirror of Japanese Domestic Politics by V. V. Nelidov

“…The paper shows the decentralization of the foreign policy making process, expressed in the limited ability of the Prime Minister to determine foreign policy, the presence of considerable internal contradictions in the MoFA of Japan, the factionalism of the ruling party, and the high degree of dependency of the government’s policy course on the public opinion. It proves that these factors were one of the reasons for Japan’s political leadership avoiding decisive actions to normalize relations with the PRC before the “Nixon shock”, cautious that it might damage its relations with the U.S. and unable to discern the signs of upcoming U.S.…”
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New Challenges Require New Solutions. Book review of ‘The Soft Power of the United Kingdom’ by E.M. Kharitonova by N. V. Yudin

“…The book examines, summarizes and structures a significant amount of data from various sources (the Parliament documentation, the UK political parties’ manifestos, media reports, surveys of public opinion and soft power indexes). In that regard the book under review not only yields a significant contribution to studies on the role of soft power in the foreign policy of the United Kingdom but may also serve aa a good basis for the formulation of practical recommendations for both improving RussianBritish contacts (for example in science diplomacy) and developing the Russian approaches to ‘soft power’.…”
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Rationalization of Evil through Media: A Twitter Discourse Analysis on Israel's Genocide against Palestine after October 7 by Filiz Orhan Çağlayan

“…Thus, reality is distorted by the discourse constructed by Israel on social media and the world public opinion is forced to look at the Palestinian issue from the framework built by Israel…”
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The Role of Iran’s «Soft Power» in Confronting Iranophobia by S. M. Mirmohammad Sadeghi, R. Hajimineh

“…«Soft power» is a set of activities designed by a government or regional and international actors aimed to influence external public opinion, promote external image or attract support for a particular policy, which is implemented through all the available tools and new technologies. …”
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Категория доверия к массмедиа в условиях информационной турбулентности: время обновлять концепции?... by Андрей Владимирович Вырковский, Юлия Фаритовна Шамсутдинова

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В поисках надежности: трансформация доверия в эпоху цифровых технологий by Андрей Анатольевич Сычев

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INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT by Vitaliy Tereshchuk

“…It was revealed that the BBC World Service in different periods of its existence practised different models of broadcasting, realizing their inherent goals — colonial broadcasting (maintaining the unity of the British Empire), counter-propaganda in the interwar period and the period of the Second World War (countering informational influence alienation of Nazi Germany and the USSR), propaganda during the Second World War (formation of favourable public opinion regarding the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition) and the Cold War (anti-communist propaganda), in the times of the bipolar and post-bipolar world — positioning itself as a "surrogate" media that provides truthful news in countries where access to independent sources of information is limited by political regimes. …”
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Allmänhetens syn på våldsbejakande extremism: En balans mellan sociala, ekonomiska och polisiära åtgärder by Lars Korsell, Tomas Axelson, Jonas Stier

“…These answers indicate that Swedish public opinion has a relatively balanced view of public measures against violent extremism, which is consistent withthe Swedish model of trust. …”
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Shadi Park Renovation with Social Development Emphasis: A Case Study Halabja City, Iraq by Mihraban Othman Mustafa, Masoumeh Faraji, Zaniar Jamal Salih, Muhammed Saeed Rasheed

“…In this research, based on field perceptions of the park and public opinion polls, prioritization and solutions to strengthen the presence of people has been pointed out. …”
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Цифровые формы занятости на российском рынке труда. Часть I: дистанционная занятость by Ростислав Исаакович Капелюшников, Дарья Игоревна Зинченко

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Madame de Genlis on the Victorian Stage by Juan Manuel Ibeas Altamira

“…Madame de Genlis’s popularity, however, did diminish in the late nineteenth century, as Victorian critics’ contempt for her work overpowered public opinion. This study offers an analytic historiographical revision of Madame de Genlis’s relevance to Victorian theatre and of the type of criticism her influence generated.…”
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George Desvallières et la Grande Guerre by Catherine Ambroselli de Bayser

“…Some of his canvases are directly related to the War and to his son’s death, and his impressive wall-paintings on a similar theme made a profound impact on contemporary public opinion. The “Drapeau du Sacré-Coeur” (Banner of the Sacred Heart) at the Church of Notre Dame de Verneuil (1919) was the starting point for these murals. …”
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Традиция или осознанный выбор на жизненном пути? Опыт анализа подходов к решению о рождении детей среди жителей сельских территорий и регионов Северного Кавказа... by Константин Игоревич Казенин, Екатерина Сергеевна Митрофанова

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The role of Religion during the Civil War in Russia (on the example of processes in the Omsk and Pavlodar Diocese) by A. V. Sushko

“…The religious factor is understood as the processes of the influence of religion on the beginning, course and outcome of the Civil War, on the activities of the opposing forces, political institutions and public opinion. The main thesis of this article is that in the Russian Revolution and the Civil War in Russia, for the majority of the population, religion did not play a consolidating pacifying role, but, on the contrary, became a factor in the disintegration of society and the escalation of civil confrontation. …”
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Philosophical and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Metaphor in Political Discourse by Ekaterina L. Kabakhidze

“…The presented methodology allows to analyze polymodal texts of political discourse, identify types of cognitive metaphors, analyze the structure of the sign, and reveal internal mechanisms of public opinion manipulation in the context of political discourse. …”
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Human involvement with the rise of artificial intelligence in the realm of Geospatial Health by Mahdi Fallah, Tajoddin Karami, Moosa Kamanroodi Kojouri

“…In this research, spatial questions were conducted by considering public opinion, stakeholders, and decision makers under varying mental and emotional conditions. additionally, two different statistical and ranking methods were employed to comprehend the intricacies of individuals' mental states in a mathematical environment. …”
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Contrastive meta-learning framework for few-shot cross-lingual text classification by GUO Jianming, ZHAO Yuran, LIU Gongshen

“…Many security risk control issues, such as public opinion analysis in international scenarios, have been identified as text classification problems, which are challenging due to the involvement of multiple languages. …”
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General Principles of Anti-Corruption in V4 Visegrad Countries: Experience of Hungary by V. S. Makarenko

“…The public procurement process and the tendering process are insufficiently protected from irregularities at the local level due to strong informal relations between business and representatives of government at the local level. Public opinion polls on general and specific corruption issues show that a third of Hungarians consider corruption and abuse of power to be widespread in Hungary’s public administration system. …”
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UKRAINIAN MEDIALANDSCAPE IN THE TIME OF WAR (2022–2024): TRANSFORMATION, RESPONSE TO THE WAR, DYNAMICS OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION by Svitlana Bezchotnikova, Nina Zrazhevska

“…Monitoring media consumption during wartime is important for the analysis of the public's opinion about how they use the media, how they perceive restrictions on media use, who is responsible for fakes and disinformation, as well as which sources inspire confidence.…”
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