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High winds, crew error, or a technical malfunction have all been suggested as causes for the south Russian disaster that killed 62.
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High winds, crew error, or a technical malfunction have all been suggested as causes for the south Russian disaster that killed 62.
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Treating the imperial experience as its departure point, the article identifies a parallel relationship between the empire and the people reflected by the relationship between a man and a woman, the former presented as a noble savage the latter as a victim of the imperialist situation. The space outlined between them is however further complicated by the counter-character of the “man of culture” who interrupts the purity of the idyllic environment and contaminates it with historical and ideological dilemmas illustrated, among other works, in Dostoyevsky’s novels.
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It’s not who you might think, says report released ahead of UN World Happiness Day.
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Masked men hurled abuse and projectiles at prominent human rights activist Igor Kalyapin during his trip to Chechnya.
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Riga police say over 1,000 people joined veterans who fought Soviets to mark key 1944 battle.
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MPs wants those responsible for Ukrainian pilot’s ‘capture, detention and illegal trial’ barred from Schengen zone.
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Officials’ asset declarations will soon be open to scrutiny as Kyiv fulfills a promise to Brussels.
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European watchdogs are set to probe new police law amid mounting fears of a constitutional crisis.
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European breeding programs are helping keep the critically endangered wild horse from extinction.
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as a local saint of Olonets and Petrozavodsk metropole. Special attention is paid to the letter written by Peter the Great in 1724 to the member of the provincial court of justice Mr. Muravjev. It contained a decree on the destiny of Faddei the Blessed. The analysis of the document helped to reveal essencial details on the history of relationships between the Russian Tsar and the Saint of Petrozavodsk.
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Ilinskiy Pogost located in Vodlozero is regarded as a special asset in the spiritual space of the Russian North. It is located on the so to say watershed – not a geographical divide, but a cultural and historical ridge. It absorbs both types of influence: the western (Zaonezhie) and the eastern (Poonezhe) ones and synthesizes them both. The Church of the prophet St. Elijah (1798) has a cubical covering, which is characteristic of the architectural tradition applied in the structures erected on the shores of the lake Onega. Long before that time, the Small Colgostrov had a tent-shape church – a wide range of such architectural structures can be found on the shores of Onega Lake. The main temple icon was executed by Ignatius Panteleyev in 1647. The Church was rebuilt several times, nevertheless, with all certainty, we can ascertain that in the period of 1708–1798 the image of “The Fiery Ascent of the Prophet Eli-jah” was exhibited inside the tent-shape church: verticalism specified by the semantics of the icon was supported and amplified by the dynamics of the octagonal tapering toward the Zenith of the coating. Such architectural solution incited doubled spiritual craving. This vector – aspiration to the sky – can be traced in the folklore material collected directly on the site. An attempt to restore the ho-listic context of the cult accomponing the prophet Elijah in Vodlozero is described in the article. The research also includs the study of Christian realities and pagan reminiscences associated with the worship of Perun. The aspiration toward sublime and heavenly is the most important intention of the local folk culture.
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Personal diaries of the Russian Guard officer V. S. Savonko, which were recently acquired by the Department of manuscripts of NLR, are a valuable source for the study of the history of the Russian Guard officers and especially for the history of pre-revolutionary era. To assess the value of the obtained historical source properly the system of officers’ training, developed in the strongest armies of Europe (Russian, German, French, Austro-Hungarian) by the end of the XIX century, was analyzed. The study of this issue has led the author to a conclusion that in all European armies the officer corps always enjoyed a status of an elite club. In different countries the barriers, preventing infiltration into the officers' environment for the people from lower social classes, had diverse execution tools, but they all acted equally effective. The barriers consisted of such measures as legislated class privileges, high tuition fees in military schools, long-term training, unspoken filtrations of applicants, selection of candidates for particular officers’ regiments, high living standards’ requirements for officers. The need to provide a sufficient amount of trained officers for the army led to the social stratification in the officers’ ranks, their identification, and further development of the more or less privileged groups. In addition, the armed forces of different countries were vested with the responsibility to perform the role of a nursery (especially in Russia) assistive in cultural and educational development, which meant assignment of additional missions.
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The article is concerned with the main milestones in the life of the Archbishop Ignite (Semyonov Matvey Afanasievich; 1790/91–1850). He was born in Arkhangelsk province. His spiritual ministry took place in Arkhangelsk, St Petersburg, Novgorod, Petroza-vodsk, Novocherkassk, and Voronezh. Upon his Episcopal ordination, Ignaty successively headed three dioceses: newly established Olonets diocese, Don and Novocherkassk diocese, Voronezh and Zadonsk diocese. The article provides analysis of the Archbishop’s activities in Petrozavodsk and Voronezh. The anti-cholera measures undertaken by the Archbishop in Karelia and Voronezh province are described. Special attention is paid to the library collected by the minister. The content of one of the latest books written by Ignaty is discussed. The book was published in 1848.
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Closure of Balkan borders has trapped nearly 50,000 refugees and migrants in increasingly squalid Greek camps.
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Case follows a pattern set by previous trials of opposition figures and their legal advisers.
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The article is concerned with the problem of military maintenance and munitioning of the Vyborg garrison. The challenge became essential in the early XVIII century (from the autumn of 1710 to the summer of 1712, when Vyborg was no longer an outpost and a reference point for further offensive operations) right after the capture of the Vyborg’s fortress by Russian troops. The results of the research are based on the study of special sources: multiple reports written by the Vyborg Commandant G. P. Chernyshev and the St. Petersburg Chief Commandant R. V. Bruce to the Governor of Ingeria A. D. Menshikov and archival correspondence of other officials involved in the solution of this problem. Difficulties with the fortress maintenance and food provision were conditioned by the severe climate conditions as well as by the fact that the Swedish army and navy tried to block Vyborg. Nevertheless, the problem of Vyborg’s supply and maintenance was solved successfully.
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Tanks, World of Warcraft showed that every fifth nickname is derived from a “strange” or a precedent proper name. This method of nominal modeling is a nominal transposition – a transfer of the name from one denotatum to another one. There are two main ways of nominal transposition. The first one is transanthroponimisation, which is understood as a transfer of the personal or fam-ily name from one individual to another. The following anthroponyms are used as nicknames: the names of musicians, athletes, politicians, book and film characters, etc. An essential requirement for transanthroponimisation between two denotata is based on the principle of their similarity and proximity. The second method of the nominal transposition (which is not as widely used as the first one) is transonymisation. It is a transition of the proper noun from one class to another. These self-nominations also have references to real and unreal denotata. Such nicknames are produced from the names of different brands, cars, cities, mythonimic marks, etc. The research has proved that the nominal transposition is a highly demanded type of self-nomination in the German-speaking web space. These nicknames have significant illocutionary content and connotations; they also characterize their author directly or indirectly.
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Arbitration process hit a major snag last year when Slovenia’s attempt to influence the case was revealed.
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The local climate conditions and characteristic features of Kostroma lowland soils created favorable conditions for the growth and cultivation of hop, which was widely practiced by the settlers from Miskovskaya district of Kostroma county. The types of ownership on the lands occupied by hop plants were different; therefore, different names were given to these plots: khmelniki (a common name) and nadelnye khmelniki (khmelniki - the lands given to some peasant families to use). In order to regulate taxation, the peasants working on the hop cultivated lands agreed on the local system of area measurement, which resulted in the appearance of such terms as kopeyka, denezhka, polushka, pirog, roubl, etс. The lands of corresponding areas, where hop was cultivated, had the same names. The differences in terms within a single cultural landscape connected to the land area are shown on the example of the lexeme kopeyka. In the middle of the XIX century, kopeyka as a measure of the plot “khmelniki” was divided into denezhka and polushka, pirog and polupirog. Other agricultural lands, also involved in hop cultivation and harvesting, were referred to by the same names. By the beginning of the XX century the repertory of the names changed. In the article, the author’s special attention is paid to the words beginning with the pol/ polu prefixes. According to our observations, prefixes of these words have “measure” semantics with the meaning – ‘a half of something’: polkopeyki is ‘a half of kopeyka’, polupirog is ‘a half of pirog’. The terms considered in the article have isoglosses, but their geography is limited by the boundaries of Kostroma lowland cultural landscape. Appearance of these terms in the speech of local residents and their repertory is associated with the local economy and its specific features.
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