Around the Bloc: Yerevan Protesters Denounce Russian Arms Sales to Azerbaijan
Kremlin says it will continue to supply arms to both sides despite renewed fighting in breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Kremlin says it will continue to supply arms to both sides despite renewed fighting in breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The article discusses the temporary migration when one contextually (does not) meets the culture, what is in turn visible in the migrants’ experiences. The consequences of (not) meeting the culture depend on occurrence and the strength of the mechanisms that anchor the migrants here and there. The aim of the article is to explain how the cultures interpenetrate in the context of economic migration. The temporality constitutes the central category and it is discussed in three contexts: (non) usage the language, (non) leisure time and (non) returning of the migrants. The paper is based on research data and is based on qualitative analysis of the interviews conducted in a research and artistic project “Opole Odysseys” carried out by the sociologists and artists of Opole University in 2013—2014.
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Is there a way to develop a country where there is virtually no trust in the state? If someone thinks so, please let us know.
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Intrepid archaeologist claims to have discovered another lost civilization.
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The paper presents Maghreb with its Mediterranean countries as a meeting place facilitating contacts with great civilisations and religions. Culture encounters have been taking place in different dimensions and contexts since medieval times. The text outlines relations at the language level (Berberic/Arabic/French); it also touches upon the influence of Andalusian and Ottoman music on local rhythms, and the specificity of Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan cuisine tastes. Another special dimension of culture discussed hereby is the one presented by the people born in Algeria with French or European roots, described as Pied-noirs (Black Foot). Their traces prove the crossbreeding of specific Mediterranean cultures.
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Fleeing the dangers of war, refugees leave behind their social and physical worlds of home. While in exile, they face economic hardship, insecurity and estrangement, trying to adapt themselves to a new, often very different, reality. In the case of those staying in refugee camps, the situation of forced cross-cultural contact can be analyzed on two levels, in regard to: (1) interactions between refugees and members of the host population, understood both locally and nationally; (2) relations between refugees themselves within the emergent camp community, most often composed of people coming from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The article describes the such-defined situation of cross-cultural contact as lived by the inhabitants of Al-Am‛ari, a Palestinian refugee camp established in 1949 in the vicinity of Ramallah, West Bank. The unique situation of the researched community, pertaining to both the length of their exile and the fact of being “refugees in their own land”, allows to address matters that are rarely reflected upon in the literature on refugees, i.e. the cosmopolitan aspect of the refugee condition and the formation of a hybrid camp identity.
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Activists protest against a proposed Kremlin-style bill that would impose the "foreign agent” label and restrict foreign funding.
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(Upper) Silesian cuisine is the research field where the mutual permeability of the culinary cultures is demonstrated. The typology of basic analytical concepts opposing popular practices to the official normative cuisine. Culinary practice is reduced to the triadic structure composed of (a) ingredients, (b) procedures and (c) functions in the wider context of a meal. Cultural marking might be proved for each of these elements. As the departure the officially recognized elements of Silesian cuisine had been chosen that appear however also in the other cuisines. Nevertheless the specific seems rather the general structure of the festive dinner that is perceived in the area as distinctively Silesian. This is however more regional/ethnic distinctiveness than purely culinary one.
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In sociological theory, there are several concepts in which it is possible to look for the impact of education on transmission of poverty and social inequality. We would like to point to educational system as integral and major part of the reproduction of society. The article shows how education largely affects the life chances and participation of the individual in society, which is closely related to unemployment and poverty. In sociological theories we can meet with several authors that respond to the question why society and social structure are reproduced from one generation to another. The article deals with education as an important factor of intergenerational reproduction of poverty. Based on significant authors dealing with these issues, such as Louis Althusser, Melvin Kohn, Pierre Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein and John Goldthorpe, the article aims at highlighting the idea that the strongest defence against the reproduction of poverty is education.
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Milner pledges $100 million and enlists Hawking and Zuckerberg in space quest.
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Decision by Gjorge Ivanov sparks protests and international criticism.
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Controversial Russian nationalist politician cast in bronze.
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Government launching a donation drive to help pay for classic Brancusi sculpture.
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Latvians bans another Russian media outlet while Estonia says it will just monitor, for now, and Lithuania is the victim of a cyberattack.
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Underdevelopment of rural areas; in spite of many advantages of living there; causes the need of searching for the new directions of the development of these areas. Due to the interaction between the rural area and forest; we can expect that the development of one area will be an opportunity for the other one. This is possible due to the implementation of sustainable development idea; taking place in current transformation of forest management and agriculture. The present policy of rural development in Poland is a significant tool for implementation of forestry-related activities. Therefore; the purpose of this article is to present that the rational forest management can be an instrument of influence on the development of rural areas. In the article; besides the results of a survey that was carried out; Polish and foreign literature; as well as statistical data were used. The empirical material that forms the basis of this work was collected during surveys conducted in 2011 on a sample of 21 representatives of managerial staff from the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Olsztyn. The results of a survey indicate that in the areas where we can find real and economically measurable effects of the implications of the rational forest management principles there are mainly: •• a reduction of unemployment rate by creating jobs directly in forest management; as permanent and seasonal work; •• development of forestry-connected sectors and owing to the fact growth of employment rate in the region (paper industry; furniture; woodworking); •• economic benefits and maintaining traditions associated with gathering undergrowth goods (fruit; mushrooms etc.); •• stable and reliable income to government budgets from forest taxes; •• collaboration with local institutions; associations; institutions in order to co-create strategies; develop plans and environmental awareness; •• support to hunting economy; •• enhance the advantages of the region in the context of the tourist and recreation services. The impact of the forest management is not limited to the described benefits that can be economically measured. We should not forget about a number of other advantages which are delivered for the society indirectly or which are difficult in the valuation; eg. the beauty of the landscape or clean air. In that case; it is worth perceiving a forest not only through the prism of a large area; but also as an economic sector strongly related to the rural development.
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In this paper the autor attempts to answer the questions: whether the demographic processes taking place in the test area are typical for mountain areas? What actions must be taken in order to reverse the negative demographic trends? An answer to the questions required a calculation of population density; population growth rate and the share of the population by age groups in the total population. To assess the commonness of demographic processes occurring in the Sudeten border mountain area results were compared with similar; obtained for Landkreis Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen. After defining main demographic problems; a number of actions; based on the experience of other mountain regions were proposed to local and regional authorities. These considerations have been preceded by a brief characterization of the Sudeten border mountainous area.
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