„Zaiste, nikt im losu zazdrościć nie może”. Robert Falcon Scott i Apsley Cherry-Garrard o swoich zwierzętach w drodze na biegun południowy

Author(s): Jacek Kurek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

The article is devoted to the attitudes of Robert Falcon Scott and his expedition companions towards animals on the way to the South Pole – both the animals they brought with them on the ship “Terra Nova” and those they encountered in Antarctica. Scott took 34 dogs and 19 Manchu ponies on this arduous expedition. None of them survived. This aim is to draw attention to the human dimension of the expedition, but it becomes a contribution to the history of relationships between humans and animals in Europe just before the First World War. Analysis of the reports of Robert F. Scott and Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a member of the expedition) allows us to conclude that the explorers felt a great deal of affection for the animals. In the face of their tragic fate, they often reflected on their own guilt and mistakes. The suffering of animals was marked firmly in their minds, and the only kind of justification was their desire to enrich humanity with new knowledge.

„Zielona Rewolucja”: demolowanie i rewitalizacja w kształtowaniu przestrzeni publicznej miast

Author(s): Jarosław Kazimierczak / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 28/2017

The starting point for the considerations presented in this paper is to outline theessence of dysfunctional urban areas as development barriers of various types that may need to bedemolished as a part of evitalization process. Urban dysfunction manifests itself in the state of disintegrationof urban space. In order to verify this thesis, there have been analyzed selected revitalizationprojects, which included demolitions of morphological elements disintegrating urban spaceand where green public space was implemented to (re)integrate the city. Based on the research results,it was found that green areas are an important structure of (re)integrating modern cities. Transportationused lands display the highest susceptibility to this type of radical revitalization projects.

„Българин по професия. Българин по потекло” (Записки върху идентичността)

Author(s): Mina Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

The aim of the article is to provide a possible interpretation of identity in one of the contested border regions on the Balkans well known for the competing politics and interests by the two bordering countries – Bulgaria and Serbia, for the past century. This region is known as „Western Outlands” in the social and political life. The communal memory of the Bulgarian minority in Bosilegrad, Serbia, leads the narration through different historical periods and their respective politics to uncover an identity which has become a survival strategy at the intricate periods. This will reveal a complex picture of the multiple identity levels where the individual and social identity are tightly related and are further shaped by the existing number of internal and external „others.“

„Български имена в Слънчевата система“ – обучение по астрономия с прилагане на иновационни методи, емоционално въздействие и ангажираност

Author(s): V. Radeva,Diana Kjurkchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2017

The article presents an innovative extracurricular education inastronomy. The topic of the training “The Bulgarian names in the Solar system”is being studied for the first time in the Bulgarian astronomy education. Thecombination of research methods for learning and the strong emotional impact onstudents resulting from the choice of topic results in high motivation in studentsand high effectiveness in the learning process. The students’ personal attitudeand commitment towards the investigated topic contributes to a high extend tothe acquisition of lasting and profound astronomical knowledge. The result of theeducation is the creation of a richly illustrated informative database of regionswith Bulgarian names on objects from the Solar system.

„ВИ СТЕ КРИВИ КАО НАРОД“ – КОСОВО И МЕТОХИЈА, ПРОШЛОСТ, САДАШЊОСТ, БУДУЋНОСТ

Author(s): Čedomir Popov / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 122/2006

Review of: "Vi ste krivi kao narod" - Kosovo and Metohija, part, present, future; Proceedings from the International Scientific Conference held in Belgrade 16-18. March 2006; editor: academician Kosta Mihailović, SANU, Belgrade 2007. by: Čedomir Popov

„ЈУГОСЛАВИКА“ - ПРОШЛОСТ И САДАШЊОСТ - ПОЛЕМИКЕ О ИСТОРИЈИ У ДРУГОМ ИЗДАЊУ „ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДИЈЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ“ 1981-1989

Author(s): Kosta Nikolić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2003

Scientific historiography did not manage to crucially influence the creation of historical conscience as far as the processing of themes on past in the second edition of Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia are concerned. Reality of Yugoslavia was contradictory and full of conflicts of various types in which even historians participated, each in their own way, sometimes even without being aware of it. The governing establishment feared the revealing of the past because it could spoil previous historical picture, especially the one that had nothing to do with the Second World War and state-political organization of SFRY. In addition to this, partisan generation was still very present in the public scene. Thus for them every reexamination of history was the conviction of their gained rights and casting of an unjust shadow on their own past. While Serbian historiography showed a great level of disunity, disharmony and hiding behind the principles of non-interference in political and ideological clashes in Yugoslavia of that time, by which it did support one concept, Croatian Marxist historiography was consistently defending the views of its Establishment, slowly preparing the field for overcoming the rigid national approach. The clashes between Serbia and Croatia in historiography showed two completely different concepts in the interpretation of the common past, two separate currents, as if these were two different histories.

„РАЗОМ НАС БАГАТО, НАС НЕ ПОДОЛАТИ”. GEOPOLITYCZNA RYWALIZACJA POLSKO-ROSYJSKA O UKRAINĘ W OKRESIE POMARAŃCZOWEJ REWOLUCJI I PO JEJ ZAKOŃCZENIU

Author(s): Grzegorz Baziur / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 07/2014

In the first part the author described the circumstances of the independence of Ukraine in 1991, the situation in Ukraine socio-political and economic to the autumn of 2004, the problem of separatism on the line: Western Ukraine - Ukraine East. The main part of the article is dedicated to the Orange Revolution: its causes, the conduct and consequences. The author discusses its course in the period 22 November 2004-23 January 2005, noting the protests and Polish diplomacy, the EU and Russia around Ukraine. He discussed the attitude of the government and the opposition, the role of the Polish and the EU in bringing about a repeat of 26 December 2004 the second round of the presidential election won by the candidate of Our Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. In the last part of the text the author showed the decomposition of the camp “orange”, completed in January 2010, the victory of pro-Russian Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych in the next presidential election. In its effect on Ukraine to favor returned oligarchs and Yanukovych's policy towards Russia was more dependable than in 2005-2010. The consequence of his policy was the crisis of the Ukrainian system, completed “Euromajdan” – the second revolution years of 2013-2014 and the collapse of Yanukovych. Its aftermath was the annexation of Crimea by Russia and support is still provided for pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country – but that requires a separate analysis.

„Скривена незапосленост“ у Републици Србији – обесхрабрени за тражење посла

Author(s): Natalija Mirić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 10/2013

In conditions of difficult economic situation in our country, discouraged persons, the category of inactive population, are gaining in significance. Because the job seekers are convinced that the jobs are not available, not all the discouraged job seekers do meet the definition of unemployment. But they want to work and are able to work when the job is offered, and an unused portion of labor resources can appear in the context of "hidden unemployment".

„Тъз история да се изкове на каменна плоча“ – за фолклорната биография на мястото и дописването ѝ

Author(s): Vladimir Demirev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 17/2019

A variant of interpretation of the folklore biography of the place Zhelyovi kamani near the village of Orizari in the region of Tvarditsa is submitted with a view to the opinion about the folklore biography of the place as a main topos with centre-organizing functions in the settlement space and an active participant in the construction of the settlement biography. The affair in question is the attitude to this biography, motivated through myths, legends, traditional ritualism in the local knowledge. It is expressed in the active appreciation towards the inherited knowledge and its own interpretation of its aspects even “faking” of the contents through the view of a local resident.

№105. A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation:

Guidelines for an EU Initiative

Author(s): Fabrizio Tassinari / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2006

This study advocates that the EU support a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder initiative to achieve synergy from regional cooperation in the wider Black Sea area. The background for this initiative is first provided through an overview of the challenges, recent developments and EU interests in this region. Different models of regionalism have been promoted by the EU in the European periphery, and these are schematised with a focus on their respective advantages and disadvantages. Finally guidelines for an EU initiative are set out under: 1) objectives and sector-specific actions, 2) its scope in terms of variable geographic geometries of desirable cooperation in the region and 3) a Framework of institutional and financial arrangements to support the process. An overarching mechanism is required to give political cohesion, ownership, visibility and strategic purpose to the process, and this could well be based on an annual, high-level meeting, drawing on the model of the Black Sea Forum Summit in Bucharest on 5 June 2006.

№109. 'Outsourcing’ de facto Statehood. Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova

Author(s): Nicu Popescu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2006

The international community has been increasingly concerned with the secessionist conflicts that have marked the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The conflicts in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan are no longer ‘internal affairs’ of the successor states of the former Soviet Union. The EU and NATO enlargements have brought these organisations closer to the conflict areas and have increased their interest in promoting solutions to these conflicts. In the context of the international fight against terrorism, there are fears that the existence of failed states or uncontrolled areas can have repercussions far beyond their respective regions. The relative stabilisation of the Balkans will allow the EU and NATO to pay more attention to conflicts that are further away from their neighbourhood.

日本留学は日本語学習者の「日本」イメージを左右 するのか―日本事情教育カリキュラムの関連性から の一考察―

Author(s): Tolga Özşen / Language(s): Japanese / Publication Year: 0

近年、日本のドラマのインターネット上の視聴サイトや小説及 び漫画のトルコ語版の数が著しく増えていると同時に、主専攻の学 科のみならず全国において 50 以上の機関に選択科目として日本語 講座が開講されている。このように、「日本」に対する関心が深化 し、多様化していく中で、トルコの日本語学習者が「日本」をイメ ージとしてどのように位置付けているのかについて考えることは、 今後のトルコの日本語教育の質を向上させる上でも重要な課題の一 つである。 日本人や日本語イメージに関する研究ついては、これまでにも トルコの大学の日本語学習者を対象にしたものがある。しかし、国 際交流の一環として、毎年十数人のトルコ人日本語学習者が日本へ 留学をしているという現状の中、学習者の「日本観」がどのように 変容しているのか、そしてその変容の背景にどのようなものがある のかについては「留学」との関係ではほとんど議論されていない。