dc.contributor.author

value: BELOUSOV, MIKHAIL

dc.identifier.citation

value: BELOUSOV M. DUTY AND MORAL WORLD-VIEW IN “THE PHENMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT” AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF DING AN SICH. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2023, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 502–530.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The question of the world in itself — the world beyond its correlation with experience in the broadest
sense — is one of the sore points of phenomenology and becomes especially acute in the light of
modern discussions around correlationism. These discussions, in one way or another, make phenomenology
come around to the classical distinction between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself,
with the help of which Kant outlines the field of ethics as a special world lying on the other side of the
correlation of knowledge and object constitutive for nature. Philosophy deals with the thing-in-itself
in the proper, positive sense of the word, not as phenomenology (transcendental philosophy, which
reveals the correlation of knowledge and reality in the world of phenomena and the futility of attempts
by theoretical reason to know anything beyond phenomena), but as a critique of practical reason. The
article attempts to consider the opposition of the thing-in-itself and the phenomenon in the context
of the criticism that Kant’s practical philosophy is subjected to in Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit and to explicate the arguments that this criticism makes available to phenomenology for rethinking
the problem of Ding an sich and the ethical dimension of the epoche. The first part of the article examines
the Hegelian analysis of the main contradiction contained in the Kantian opposition of duty
as something that is in itself, and nature as a phenomenon (this opposition forms what Hegel calls the
moral worldview): duty does not depend on nature and therefore does not need natural (phenomenal)
realization in actions, but at the same time, duty is nothing but the necessity of actions and, consequently,
the necessity of a phenomenon. This contradiction, as Hegel shows, leads to the disintegration
of the moral worldview and, thus, turns into the sublation of the absolute separation of duty (thing in
itself) and nature (phenomenon). The restitution of the difference between the moral an sich and the
phenomenon within conscience — a phenomenon that arises as a result of the destruction of the moral
worldview — turns into a new paradox, which demonstrates that the thing-in-itself (ethical good),
since it is freed from the phenomenon, is not only unreal, but also turns into its own opposite. The paradox
consists in the fact that the consciousness of duty, taken in its independence from the phenomenal
realization in actions, becomes evil itself, turning to hypocrisy in the moral judgment about other people’s
actions. In the second part of the article, the significance of the Hegelian critique of Kant’s practical
philosophy for the phenomenological destruction of the difference between the thing-in-itself and the
phenomenon and the problematization of the ethical dimension of the phenomenological method is
explicated. Tracing the naive origins of this difference in the natural attitude and their transformation
in Kantian philosophy, the author tries to consider the sublation of the opposition of the thing-in-itself
and the phenomenon in the field of ethics as one of the possible paths to phenomenology. It is shown
how the necessary relation of the supra-worldly an sich with the situational nature of its phenomenal
realization in actions calls into question the possibility of a phenomenological epoche. The author also
seeks to demonstrate that the problematization of the difference between the thing-in-itself and the
phenomenon does not turn phenomenology into a system in the Hegelian sense.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was prepared with the funding from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, grant
project “Critical thinking as an object of critics in the history of Russian and European thought”.

dc.subject

value: duty

value: moral world-view

value: thing in itself

value: appearance

value: phenomenology

value: Hegel

value: Kant

dc.type

value: Article

filename: 13_Белоусов.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: KONACHEVA, SVETLANA

value: PATKUL, ANDREI

value: REZNICHENKO, ANNA I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: KONACHEVA S., PATKUL A., REZNICHENKO A. I. THE REVIEW OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE WITH INTERNATOPNAL PARTICIPATION “ALЕSHIN ACADEMIC READINGS — 2022: PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE. DEDICATED TO THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES” (December 15–17, 2022, Moscow, Russia). Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2023, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 580–595.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Our paper is an overview of the anniversary All-Russian scientific conference with international participation
“Aleshin Academic Readings — 2022: Philosophy as a Way of Life. Dedicated to the 30th
Anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Russian State University for the Humanities,” which
was held at this faculty from December 15 to 17, 2022. The first day of its work was devoted to plenary reports, the other two days were connected with the work of sections and workshops. Speakers from
Moscow, Almaty (Kazakhstan), Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan (Armenia), Kaliningrad, Rome (Italy),
St. Petersburg, Simferopol, Tyumen, Ufa, Bochum (Germany), Essen (Germany) performed their
presentations at the conference. It discussed a wide range of topics, both classical and modern philosophy,
having some bearing on philosophy as a way of life and on the significance of a philosopher’s way
of life for philosophical knowledge. Particular emphasis in the course of reports and discussions was
placed on the problems of the relationship between theoretical and practical in philosophy, the limited
nature of the philosophy of forms and concepts and the possibilities of overcoming such limitations,
the existential sense of philosophizing, the possibility of explication of living historical experience by
means of philosophy, the role of philosophy for diagnosing modernity, the prospects of dialectics, the
relationship between philosophy and governments. Sections of the conference were also devoted to
methodological, historiographical, pragmatic and other problems of modern thought. No less wide was
the range of materials on which the speakers relied, starting with pre-Socratic philosophy and ending
with the most relevant examples of philosophy that have not yet received sufficient reception in our
country. Many talks also referred to the history of Russian philosophical thought.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 12; Issue 2

dc.subject

value: philosophy as a way of life

value: theoretical and practical in philosophy

value: the existential meaning of philosophy

value: modern philosophy

value: philosophy and modernity

value: method of philosophy

value: philosophy and society

value: philosophy and governments

dc.title

filename: 17_Коначева.pdf

format: Adobe PDF


dc.contributor.author

value: LIVADAS, STATHIS

dc.identifier.citation

value: LIVADAS S. THE TRANSCENDENTAL AND THE MUNDANE SPHERES: ARE THEY REALLY ONTOLOGICALLY DISCTINCT?. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2023, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 479–501.

dc.description.abstract

value:
As implied by the title this article deals with a key question running through the history of philosophy
virtually since antiquity. This is the question of the relationship, on ontological grounds, of the
transcendental and the mundane “universes” to the extent that the nature of transcendence, even as
detached from the metaphysical sphere and recalibrated in terms of immanence in the broadly conceived
subjectivist tradition, it is still a highly controversial issue primarily in continental philosophy.
This is especially true in view of the obvious incompatibility, at least in a naive sense, of the transcendental
and the mundane contexts for which the philosophical discussion on phenomenological
grounds is still open. My own arguments on the issue are mainly based on the Husserlian and Heideggerian
narratives and also on E. Fink’s approach to the transcendence versus mundanity ontological
problematic. On these prompts I set out to defend the position that there are serious reasons to regard
the realm of transcendence as ineluctably constrained by mundanity concerns. More concretely I will
try to show that there is no way, at least in the context of the phenomenological discourse, to do away
with a kind of mundanity influence even in the most pure transcendental level involving the cornerstone
of Husserlian transcendental phenomenology which is the concept of absolute ego. My overall
approach, more than an attempt at vindicating Fink’s objections as to the purely transcendental level
reached after the radical phenomenological reduction, is a demonstration of the conceptual pitfalls
or even circularities involved along the way in trying to establish a sound foundation for a purely
transcendental ontological level.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: absolute ego

value: Dasein

value: mundanity

value: operative concept

value: nature

value: transcendental reduction

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: MEDOVA, ANASTASIA

dc.identifier.citation

value: MEDOVA A. AUDITORY IMAGE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL LOCALIZATION OF THE PROBLEM. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2023, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 531–553.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article aims to concretize the phenomenological account concerning the problem of an auditory
image. The author considers auditory imagery as a scientific object and compares different treatments of
the problem to fix the potential and advantages of its phenomenological interpretation. In the first stage
of the study, the author distinguishes the key characteristics of the image by means the lexical analysis.
This is the perceptual (predominantly visual) nature of an image, integrality, and essentiality (image as
an idea). In the second stage, the understandings of the mental and auditory imagery in physiology, experimental
psychology, music psychology, musicology, and interdisciplinary studies are described. In the
third stage, the peculiar phenomenological ways of the comprehension of an auditory image are revealed.
The phenomenological interest is to pick out consciousness which perceiving of an image equally from
the process of perceiving and from entailing in an image. The specific phenomenological stance is placing
an auditory image on the bound of transcendent (the process of perceiving) and immanent (an image that
is already perceived). The auditory image is conceived as the unity of Modi of its givenness. Most fecks of
this Modi are original, they cannot be transferred into other science scopes: they are the interconnection
of all moments of the temporal unfolding, self-organization in the time, self-referentiality, non-semanticity,
periodicity/randomness, eventuality, quasi-embodiment (physicality). Solely phenomenological problems
are problems of the constitution of an auditory image, its life-horizon, intersubjectivity, and regional
matching. The author infers that phenomenology does not conceive auditory image as sustained auditory
representation, associated with acoustic memory. Its perceptual nature does not play a key role here.
Moreover, the perceptual-semantic duality of the image is not fixed by the phenomenological description.
The phenomenological approach is unique because it researches auditory data exhaustively but does not
use semantic and referential analysis of them. The main feature of phenomenological description is the
focus on the unity of auditory image: All the elements of auditory data are interpreted in their synthesis as
the different levels of the unity of hearing image. Thus, the phenomenological approach as a whole is the
most promising for comprehending such a dominant quality of the auditory image as integrality.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 12; Issue 2

dc.subject

value: elementary properties of sound

value: percept

value: image-idea

value: representation

value: noematic sense

value: musical image

value: semantics of image

value: acoustic time

value: acoustic space


dc.contributor.author

value: MIROSHNICHENKO, MAXIM

dc.identifier.citation

value: MIROSHNICHENKO M. MEDITATIONS ON GEORGY CHERNAVIN’S BOOK THE CONSCIENCE’S DOUBLE. Chernavin G. The Conscience’s Double. Moscow, 2023. (In press). Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2023, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 596–611.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The review analyzes the book The Conscience’s Double by Georgy Chernavin. I focus on the concepts of
false twins of conscience, guilt, and duty in the extended context of philosophical and artistic discourse.
The problem of the difference between conscience and its ersatz forms, which give rise to a distorted
ethical consciousness, is considered. The main emphasis is opportunistic conscience, neurotic guilt, and
false debt. The review suggests that Chernavin’s book studies the “sad theory” of moral disorientation and
requires the supplementation with a hypothetical “cringe theory.” In this case, the “sad theory” makes it
possible to expand the phenomenological discourse by including a discussion of conscience, illustrating
the uncertainty of the boundaries between the phenomenological and the symbolic, and highlighting the
subject’s dependence on what they are not. In this work, there is a potential for developing an original
ontology of the relationship between conscience and its evil counterpart, especially between a “spiritually
sighted” and a “blindly corporeal” person. The scrutinized guilt for the lost absence of guilt is an experience
that, although not lived, is important for the subject’s self-constitution. This experience, like the
inner side of the subject, determines its conscious functioning and forms something like a Mobius strip.
An Evil Genius makes this bond, and I am trying to conceptualize their “weakened” being.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out at the expense of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation
No. 22‑18-00450, “The Many-Worlds Conceptions as a Tool of Scientific Research and Interdisciplinary
Synthesis of Knowledge,” https://rscf.ru/project/22-18-00450/.

dc.subject

value: conscience

value: debt

value: guilt

value: paralyzing compass

value: symbolic institution

value: symbolic misadventure

dc.title

filename: 18_Мирошниченко.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: SHIYAN, ANNA

dc.identifier.citation

value: SHIYAN A. ТHE REVIEW OF ТHE INТERNAТIONAL SCIENТIFIC WORKSHOP “ТHE ТRANSCENDENТAL ТURN IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY — 8: ТRANSCENDENТAL MEТAPHYSICS, EPISТEMOLOGY, TRANSCENDENTAL COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND ARIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” (April 20–22, 2023, Moscow, Russia). Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2023, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 570–579.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article presents a review of papers of the international scientific seminar “Transcendental Turn
in Modern Philosophy — 8: Metaphysics, epistemology, transcendental cognitive science and artificial
intelligence,” which was held on April 20–22, 2023 in Moscow. The topics reviewed were the following:
“Transcendental Philosophy: Ontology, Metaphysics of Experience or Epistemology,” “Transcendentalism,
Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence,” “Reception and Development of Transcendental
(Phenomenological) Approach in Modern Philosophy,” as well as “Transcendental Phenomenology:
Ontology and/or Gnoseology”. The author analyzes the presentations of the participants, grouping
them around the following thematic and problematic nodes: the transcendental foundations of cognitive
sciences, the understanding and status of the transcendental unity of apperception, the relationship
between gnoseology and ontology in phenomenological research, receptivity and construction in
forming the subject of knowledge, etc. This approach makes it possible to identify different, sometimes
opposing positions of the participants on the same question and to outline ways to overcome the contradictions.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 12; Issue 2

dc.subject

value: transcendentalism

value: metaphysics

value: ontology

value: gnoseology

value: consciousness

value: phenomenology

value: cognitive science

value: artificial intelligence

value: Kant

value: Husserl

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Sharonova, Victoria G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sharonova V. G. Little-known Facts about the Activities of Consul A. T. Belchenko in Yingkou. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 440–458. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.302 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the activities of the Russian Imperial Consulate in Yingkou (Niuzhuang)
in the period from 1899 to 1909. Promoting Russian interests in South Manchuria,
Russia paid great attention to the acquisition of real estate in this open Chinese port on the
banks of the Liaohe River. At the initial stage, one of the main issues of the foreign mission was
to assist in the acquisition of land for the construction of the Russian concession, as well as in
the construction of the Yingkou station of the Yingkou — Dashiqiao branch of the CER. During
the period of the Provisional Russian Administration, the building of the Russian Imperial
Consulate, a doctor’s house and a bacteriological station were built here, the construction of
the Mayor’s House began, and at the same time land plots were acquired for various household
needs. The successful expansion of Russia in this region was disrupted by the Russian-
Japanese War (1904–1905) and its results. Starting from the end of July 1904 to the end of
November 1905, only one Russian citizen lived in Yingkou. The Russian Imperial Consulate
which was reopened in December 1905 actively dealt with the issues of returning consular
real estates and private property of its citizens. The Japanese military authorities, who were in
charge of Yingkou until November 23, 1906, interfered in every possible way with this process.
After the return of the city to the Chinese authorities, the Russian buildings were occupied by Chinese officials. However, thanks to the professional and well-coordinated actions of Russian
diplomats in China and Japan, in particular the employees of the consulate in Yingkou
A. T. Belchenko, V. K. Nikitin, Ambassador to Japan Y. (G.) P. Bakhmetev, delegate to China
D. D. Pokotilov, the Russian consular property in Yingkou was returned to its rightful owners.
Of course, the main role in this complex matter was played by Consul A. T. Belchenko, who,
after solving the tasks assigned to him in Yingkou, was transferred to the consulate in Fuzhou.
The choice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was determined by the high assessment of his
diplomatic service.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This research was funded by Russian Science Foundation project no. 22-28-00858 “Russian
diplomats in China (second half of the 19th — early 20th Centuries): political and socio-cultural dimensions”.
URL: https://rscf.ru/en/project/22-28-00858.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Niuzhuang (Yingkou)

value: Imperial Consulate of Russia

value: Mission in Beijing

value: A. T. Belchenko

value: D. D. Pokotilov

value: Provisional Russian Administration

value: consular real estate

value: land plots

value: buildings

value: Yingkou station

value: Liaohe

value: Chinese Eastern Railway


dc.contributor.author

value: Bernikova, Olga A.

value: Kizhaeva, Natalia A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bernikova O. A., Kizhaeva N. A. Peculiarities of the Arabic Language Processing: Morphological Modeling. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 459–484. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.302 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper deals with the features of morphological modeling of the Arabic language based on
the definition of the specifics of its formalization. Morphological modeling is one of the key
stages of automatic text analysis and includes tools for building a word form to a stem, root,
definition of a part of speech, automatic construction (generation) of a given word form, etc.
The objectives of the study are interdisciplinary in nature and include both the theoretical aspects
of studying the features of the Arabic language, which are most relevant for its automatic
processing, and the study of existing morphological analyzers and determining the specifics of
their work. The practical part is based on testing the CAMeL Tools, one of the advantages of
which is its comprehensive nature, which allows both preprocessing of text and solving applied
problems, including sentiment analysis. The criteria for selecting examples for testing took into
account the features of the Arabic language, which are difficult for its formalization (segmentation
of functional words with continuous spelling, morphological and lexical homonymy,
etc.). The variability of the generalized concept of “the Arabic language” is taken into account, which combines classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and modern Arabic dialects. Testing
tools for morphological modeling allows us to draw conclusions about the need to improve
the terminological apparatus, the variability of which is noted in the description of word forms.
Such kind of variation (divergence from the concepts accepted in general linguistics) potentially
leads to a distortion of the results of lexico-semantic analysis. During the analysis, some
gaps were noted related to the definition of part-of-speech belonging, the description of word
forms, etc. The results of the study are relevant both for linguistic research and for improving
the development of software applications aimed at processing the Arabic text.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out at the expense of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation
no. 22-28-01046, https://rscf.ru/project/22-28-01046/.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Arabic language

value: morphological modeling

value: analyzer

value: processing

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Mozol, Tatiana S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mozol T. S. Towards a New Typology of Korean Lexical Blends. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 497–514. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.304

dc.description.abstract

value:
The present research is devoted to neological trends in Korean and focuses especially on the
new lexical blends. Languages are constantly creating new words; this is an inevitable process
caused by the changes in the world we live. Blending has been considered as a minor word
formation process in Korean, but nowadays blending in Korean can be viewed as a separate
word formation process due to its increasing productivity and semantic change in resulting
blends. This paper first discusses the status of blends in the word formation system, then the
theoretical framework and the results of the analysis of Korean blends are presented. The paper
analyzes from the quantitative and qualitative perspective 301 blends collected from the
National Institute of the Korean Language Dictionaries of Neologisms. Our analysis of the
dictionaries showed that blending has become a highly productive and common way of word
formation for various lexical layers in Korean. An increasing speed of foreign borrowing, high
productivity of clipping and compounding in Korean can be viewed as the factors related to
this process to a certain extent. This paper proposes a classification of blends from a semantic
and cognitive viewpoint (coordinative, determinative, and derived blends are based on the
mirror, single-scope, double-scope, and double blending models).

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: lexical blend

value: blend neologism

value: Korean neologisms

value: conceptual integration

value: word-formation tendencies in Korean


dc.contributor.author

value: Lutfullaeva, Durdona E.

value: Yuldashev, Akmal G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Lutfullaeva D. E., Yuldashev A. G. The Peculiarities of Defining Сulturally Specific Uzbek Names in Associative Dictionaries. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 485–496. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.303

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article deals with the discretion of associative features of names of culturally specific
units in the Uzbek language. Also, this article highlights the issue of their classification. The
method of studying the associated experience of native Uzbek speakers (L1 users) with the
names of cultural units revealed the peculiarities of the emergence of the names of cultural
units in the Uzbek language, as well as their nominative expression in associative dictionaries.
The names of cultural units in the Uzbek language are different according to different topics.
They can be classified as names of national rituals, customs, and traditions, national food,
national haberdashery names, names of national cloth, national musical instruments, national
songs, national dances, national holidays, national architecture, architect devices (or material),
national games, national jewelry, make-up units, local organizations names, etc. The range of
the usage of these names is different in a literary language. In this article, a special attention
is given to survey how such names are presented in the associative dictionaries. The results
of the analysis of materials on associative experiences related to such names show that not
only linguistic factors, but extra-linguistic sources also can cause the associations. Specifically,
the human factor is studied in the cognition of the names of culture units by Uzbek language
native speakers. The issue of the comparison and contrast of other dictionaries with the Uzbek
associative dictionary was compiled for the first time.

value: culturally specific vocabulary

value: associative dictionary

value: archaic words

value: Uzbek language


dc.contributor.author

value: Abdullaev, Alexander M.

value: Zemlianskii, Dmitrii Yu.

value: Kalinovskii, Leonid V.

value: Medvednikova, Darina M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Abdullaev, A. M., Zemlianskii, D. Yu., Kalinovskii, L. V., Medvednikova, D. M. (2023). Socio-economic situation of Russian urban agglomerations in 2015–2021. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 443–470. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.302 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article provides a comparative assessment of the key socio-economic features and trends
in the development of urban agglomerations of Russia in 2015–2021. A distinguishing characteristic
of the study is the approbation of a method for assessing the level of economic development
of agglomerations using data from the Federal Tax Service of Russia on the volume of tax
revenues. The analysis confirms that agglomerations provide an extremely high contribution
to the economic development of the country and continue to form the basis for the growth of
the taxable economy. The most part of contribution to country development indicators is still
provided by the largest Moscow metropolitan agglomeration, the concentration of resources
within its borders has only intensified in recent years. The differentiation of the other agglomerations
also stays great, and the cumulative contribution of them (in sum) by a number
of indicators is comparable to one of Moscow agglomeration. The best economic results are
shown by agglomerations with industrial specialization, but the development of the economic
complex in them does not have a significant stimulating effect on the growth of labor market
indicators, household incomes and service sectors. The least developed agglomerations are
ones with a high role of “shadow” sectors in the economy and “administratively designated”
ones (Ulan-Ude, Penza, Ryazan), located in regions of the country with a depressed economic
situation. Reduced values of development are also typical for agglomerations of the Volga
region. At the spatial level within individual agglomerations, there is a clear manifestation
of center-peripheral differences by most indicators, however, the study showed that the level of development of the cores of agglomerations and their suburbs is not always high, and the
positive influence of the agglomeration core (with the exception of Moscow) rarely spreads
beyond the nearest belt of municipalities. The results of the study suggest a narrowing of the
approach to delimiting the boundaries of agglomerations and prove that the current state
measures for the development of the agglomerations (except Moscow one) have not yet made
a significant impact on accelerating economic growth and expanding the geography of the
influence of agglomeration factors.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The article was prepared as part of the research work of the state task of the RANEPA.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 68; Issue 3

value: cities of Russia

value: urban agglomerations

value: socio-economic development

value: economic growth

value: tax revenues

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Malashevskaya, Mariia N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Malashevskaya M. N. Five Journeys to North-Eastern China by Inoue Yasushi (1977– 1980): Ancient Towns of the Great Silk Road in Retrospect. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 530–548. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.306 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Japan-China cultural ties in the late 1970s and early 1980s received a powerful impetus for
development against the background of deepening interstate relations in 1970s. In this period,
it had begun the turn of Chinese foreign policy towards increasing ties with market economy
countries. Traditionally, cultural transfer from China to Japan was a mainstream in the interrelations
of the two countries, but during 20th century political relations and cultural dialogue
experienced a series of dramatic changes. After the end of World War II, despite ideological
contradictions, cultural contacts between China and Japan expanded steadily. This article
aims to study the travels of prominent and award-winning Japanese novelist Inoue Yasushi
to northwest China in 1977–1980 as an attempt by Japan to expand its participation in Asian
affairs and to consider in detail the multi-ethnic and multicultural China. To view and understand
real China. The main source of the analysis and reconstruction of the travel route is a
travelogue “My travel notes to Western Regions” (Watashi no seiki kiko:, in 2 vols) published
in 1983. This study summarizes information about Inoue Yasushi’s travels to the Chinese part
of Turkestan, clarifies the gradual deepening of cultural dialogue between Japan and China
and examines the images of the ancient cities of the Great Silk Road, which the writer, known
for his loyalty to China, created through a nostalgic “view into the past” in order to explain the
cultural unity and specifics of the region as part of China.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Japanese-Chinese cultural ties

value: Cold War

value: Western Region

value: Xinjiang

value: Dunhuang

value: travel

value: Inoue Yasushi


dc.contributor.author

value: Karachurina, Liliya B.

value: Mkrtchyan, Nikita V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Karachurina, L. B., Mkrtchyan, N. V. (2023). The experience of calculating distances between different types of settlements in Russia to assess the range of population migration. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 418–442. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.301 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The problem of measuring distances in migration is not trivial, but important, for example,
for delimiting the concepts of population migration and housing mobility.
In conditions of limited access to detailed spatial data, researchers solve this issue in different
ways. Only a few countries, such as Sweden, have the ability to calculate migration distances
between point locations using Euclidean distance (in a straight line). In this article, as applied
to Russia, the measure of correspondence between Euclidean distances and real distances
along transport routes is investigated. For this purpose, 3407 pairs of distances were calculated
for randomly selected 23 municipal districts of Russia directly and along transport routes —
roads. Also, 411 pairs of distances were calculated for settlements with no auto connection,
using air traffic. These distances give an idea of the migrations of different distances in Russia. As a result, for hypothetical resettlements within the selected municipal districts, real road
distances exceed Euclidean distances by 51 %. For resettlements between the centers of districts
and urban districts within the region, this indicator exceeds 40%, and for interregional
resettlements, the differences are 33 %. The air service used “straightens” the distances, but
even taking it into account, the real distances (mainly long-range, interregional) exceed the
Euclidean ones by 28.5 %. The calculations performed to give an idea of the deviations of real,
transport distances from the relatively easy-to-calculate Euclidean ones, which can be used in
the analysis of migration distances in Russia.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work/article is an output of a research project implemented as part of the Basic Research
Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 68; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: municipalities

value: population migration

value: range

value: regions of Russia

value: Euclidean distance

value: transport distance


dc.contributor.author

value: Lachininskii, Stanislav S.

value: Logvinov, Ilya A.

value: Vasileva, Vlada A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Lachininskii, S. S., Logvinov, I. A., Vasileva, V. A. (2023). Assessment of urban sprawl of St. Petersburg urban areas based on Landsat satellite images. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 471–489. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.303 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the context of urbanization processes and the territorial expansion of urban areas, the term
“urban sprawl” or “urban sprawl” is used to describe the “phenomenon of urban sprawl”. This
is a complex geographical process, which can be investigated on the basis of modern remote
sensing data, including the use of multispectral satellite images of the Landsat project. The study actualized the process of processing and analysis of images using modern GIS complexes.
As a result, the methodology of interpretation, mapping and calculation of changes
in the dynamics of urbanized area growth for St. Petersburg was presented and tested. Each
image was classified using machine learning by height standards. A class of urbanized areas
was separately identified for each year of analysis. As part of this work, a map of the dynamics
of urbanized territories over the study period was constructed, and the growth of the
area of territories over the analysis period was quantitatively calculated. As a result, Landsat
project space images, obtained due to the capabilities of the USGS database, turned out to
be quite effective for detecting urban areas, water bodies, unused land and vegetation cover.
Testing of the method on the example of St. Petersburg allowed seeing the results of expanding
the built-up territory at the expense of peripheral (suburban) zones, including the effect
of suburbanization. Over 25 years, urbanized areas have expanded due to the construction of
infrastructure road facilities and housing construction of both low-rise projects and residential
buildings, as well as large residential complexes. Further development of this study will
include the Leningrad region contact area as part of the St. Petersburg urban agglomeration.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 23-27-00084 “The spatial
and functional structure of the largest urban agglomerations of Russia in terms of increased geo-economic
risks: new approaches, tools and recommendations for improvement”).

dc.subject

value: sprawl

value: land use

value: St. Petersburg agglomeration

value: geoinformation systems

value: satellite images

value: remote sensing Landsat satellite images

value: spatial development of the city

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Gu, Junling

value: Zhang, Qian

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gu Junling, Zhang Qian. Ways of Conveying the Aesthetic Value of Tang Poetry in Russian Translations: A Case Study of Three Translations of Li Bai’s Poem “Thoughts on a Quiet Night”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 515–529. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.305 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Russian and Chinese languages belong to different language families, which makes it difficult
to translate from one language to the other. The translation of one poetic language into another
without making any changes is an especially difficult task, which is why conveying the
aesthetic value of the original poem becomes the embodiment of an ideal adequate translation.
The aesthetic values of Tang poetry lie in the integration of sound, thought form and
the poetic world, that is, in the beauty of rhythm, the accuracy of the line and the expression
of feelings depicted in the text. Rhythm, rhyme and poetic dimension belong to the form of
poetry; the meaning of words, sentences and text together form the meaning of poetry; and
the picture of life depicted in the text makes up the poetic world. If the Russian translation of
Tang poetry can achieve conformity of form, equivalence of meaning and consistency of the
poetic world with the original poetry, then it will be able to realize the aesthetic value of the
original poetry and will relate to the ideal complete translation of poetry. The poem “Thought
on a Quiet Night” is one of Li Bai’s masterpieces and it is included in Chinese language textbooks
for elementary school. Due to the high aesthetic value of this poem, it has become a
compulsory poem for Chinese elementary school students to study. To date, there are eight
translations of this poem in Russia. This article mainly considers the translations by V. A. Alekseev,
L. N. Menshikov, and V. F. Pereleshin. Through the comparative analysis on these three
versions about the “Thoughts on a Quiet Night”, it shows that different translators with different
aesthetic aspirations may produce disparate translation.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This article was written with the support of a grant from the Henan Foundation for Humanities and
Social Sciences in 2023, “Translations of ancient Chinese poetry into Russian: a critical analysis and search
for new ways of their dissemination in the Russian-speaking environment in the digital age”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Russian translation of Tang poetry

value: aesthetic value

value: poetic form

value: meaning of poetry

value: poetic world

value: Thoughts on a Quiet Night


dc.contributor.author

value: Akhmatshina, Enesh K.

value: Gerasimov, Igor V.

value: Luchenkov, Ivan R.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Akhmatshina E. K., Gerasimov I. V., Luchenkov I. R. Investigation and Preservation of the Palmyrian Historical and Cultural Heritage by Russian and European Researchers in the 17th– 21st Centuries. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 549–567. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.307

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article accents to a comprehensive study of the contribution by the Russian and foreign
scholars in the preservation and study of the Palmyrene archaeological sites. The paper aims to
systematize and synthesize the achievements of various scientific and archaeological schools,
field researchers, and philosophical thinkers collecting and analyzing data on the ancient city of
Palmyra. One provides the main milestones for the research of the historic and cultural complex
through the structural-functional and descriptive-compared methods. It identifies four major
successive stages, but at the same time completely not interchangeable between theological and
purely scientific-analytic paradigms. In this regard, one provides brief information about the
History of Palmyra and the study of the city. It compares the results of various European expeditions
and four Russian expeditions (1882, 1900, 2016, and 2019), while offering opportunities
for further cooperation in the region. In the context of the research, the paper attempts to give a
precise and holistic justification of the motivation for Palmyra by representatives of various intellectual
traditions. One covers the development of humanitarian scientific thinking over the past
300 years. It provides the primary intraregional context for several historical events that have
impacted both the preservation and destruction of these monuments. The current restoration of
Palmyra goes far beyond Russian-Syrian humanitarian relations, as the development of digital
technologies has enabled a large-scale work in the last five years. The experience gained will enable
me to develop an appropriate strategy for restoring World Cultural Heritage sites.

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: Syria

value: Russia

value: Palmyra

value: historical and cultural heritage

value: archeology

value: science diplomacy


dc.contributor.author

value: Mbombo, Jean-Marie Kasonga

value: Raji, Shittu Adewole

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mbombo J. M. K., Raji S. A. Interrogating the Commoditization of Force in the Sahel Region: A Case Study of Mali. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 619–632. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.311

dc.description.abstract

value:
Intra-state conflicts are on the rise in many parts of Africa where armed non-state actors strive
to take over political power from legitimate authority. In an attempt to overcome such armed
confrontations and restore peace, weak nations would seek external assistance and sometimes
make secret deals with private military companies that specialize in intelligence gathering,
training of fighters, and supply of state-of-the-art weaponry. Using Mali as a case study, this
desk study relies on secondary data available online and in print. It attempts to address the
question as to how the French-led multinational forces in the Sahel region of Africa has become
an endless conflict since 2013. In the light of the Game Theory, the study has found that
the commoditization of force that transforms well-equipped fighters into profit-making contractors
is instrumental to the trending nature of war against Islamism. The military takeover
in Mali translates the determination of the commander-in-chief to occupy the driver’ seat but
no one knows when the fighting will end, given that both multinational forces and insurgents
are rational players in the game. The paper recommends a strict adherence to the Geneva antimercenary
legislation to curtail the influence of private military companies in conflict zones.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

value: Jihadism

value: contractors

value: Mali

value: takeover

value: commoditization

value: France

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Mamynova, Bagdan K.

value: Anes, Garifolla K.

value: Anessova, Umit G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mamynova B., Anes G., Anessova U. The Beginning of the 20th Century: Spelling Features and Punctuation in the Process of Approbation the Letter Usul-Sotie (Tote Zhazu) in the Newspaper “Kazakh” (1913–1918). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 568–587. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.308

dc.description.abstract

value:
Changes and innovations in the language are normalized by writing. Writing is not only marks
the sounds of a language, but is also a factor in determining the future of a language both in
the past and in the present. The main goal of writing is to ensure the discreteness of the audible
word and the uniform recognition of the word, even if it is repeated many times in different
contexts using the alphabet. In the history of Kazakh culture, the reformed letter of A. Baitursunuly
“usul-jadid” (tote zhazu) was very important. Writing or the so-called tote zhazu
played a significant role in enlightenment, in writing the first textbooks and teaching guide in
the Kazakh language, in the development of literacy, as well as in the development of periodicals.
The reformed alphabet of A. Baitursynuly showed and introduced to the scientific community
the entire Kazakh people, as well as the first bright minds of the Kazakh intelligentsia.
With the help of the usul-jadid, the Kazakh intelligentsia under the leadership of A. Baitursunuly,
at the beginning of the 20th century, published the newspaper of national importance
“Kazakh”. In this regard, the article touches upon the issues of spelling, punctuation, problems
of Kazakh writing in the early twentieth century. Moreover, launch of “Kazakh” newspaper is
considered as a start of the systematization and codification of the literary Kazakh language
and national journalistic style.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was published as part of a scientific project to be completed in 2021–2023. Project theme:
“Written heritage and text analysis: spelling, word formation and linguistic poetics of a literary text in
journalism of the early 20th century” (АРО9260734).

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: usul-kadym

value: usul-sotie

value: spelling

value: newspaper language

value: literary Kazakh language


dc.contributor.author

value: Golionko, Boris G.

value: Georgievskiy, Alexander A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Golionko, B. G., Georgievskiy, A. A. (2023). Structural evolution of the southern part of the Suvanyak metamorphic complex and its framing (Southern Urals). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 553–579. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.307 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The mesostructural parageneses of the Suvanyak metamorphic complex that composes the
western part of the Uraltau zone (antiform), as well as the complexes that compose the western
side of the Zilair synclinorium and the Sakmara zone (allochthon), adjacent to the Uraltau
zone, are studied. The sequence of their formation and the structural evolution of the studied
region have been established. It is shown that in the deformational history of the studied region,
associated with the Late Paleozoic intercontinental collision, which assured the geodynamic
evolution of the Ural paleo ocean, three stages of deformation are distinguished. The
first stage of the D1 deformation, expressed in the formation of the F1 folds and associated
thrusts of western and southwestern vergence, is associated with the movement of the Sakmara
allochthon in an eastern direction. The second stage of the D2 deformation is marked by the
formation of the F2 folds and folded thrusts of eastern and northeastern, less often southeastern
vergence, due to back thrusting processes. Back thrusting occurred under conditions of
sublatitudinal compression directed from east to west, while the entire package of allochthonous
plates did not shift to the west. The reason for this could be the presence of a significant
obstacle that did not allow allochthon to carry out further advance in the western direction.
With continued pressure from the east, from the volcanogenic formations of the former Magnitogorsk
island arc and the impossibility of moving to the west, the more eastern complexes
moved under the more western ones, and the latter, respectively, moved eastward. The third
stage of deformation D3, marked by the formation of asymmetric S folds with steeply dipping
hinges, corresponds to the post-collision strike-slip movements widespread throughout the
Ural folded region, which finally shaped the structural appearance of the region.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The work was carried out in accordance with the state task on the topic of the Geological Institute of
the Russian Academy of Sciences no. 123032400058-6.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 68; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Uraltau zone (antiform)

value: Zilair synclinorium

value: Sakmara allochthon

value: structural evolution

value: deformation stage

value: asymmetric folds

value: hinge

value: linearity

value: Suvanyak metamorphic complex

value: Maksyutovsky complex

value: vergence


dc.contributor.author

value: Dmitrieva, Valeriia D.

value: Kondratenko, Sergey E.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dmitrieva V. D., Kondratenko S. E. Catholicism and European universities: From religious corporatism to the academic community. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 383–401. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.302 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The University is a European institution par excellence. Having emerged in the era of the mature
Middle Ages, it remains to this day the most important type of educational institution that sets the
patterns of western higher education development. Over the past centuries, the university, whose fate at the formation stage was closely related to the Christian tradition, has undergone significant
transformations. In the context of the institutionalization of nation states, the role of the Catholic
Church in university life has decreased. The European educational space began to acquire secular
features. If in the Middle Ages Catholic universalism created favorable conditions for international
cooperation of educational institutions, then in the XVIII–XIX centuries, universities were subject
to nationalization. It was only after the Second World War that the idea of European reunification,
embodied in the European integration project, marked the need for cooperation between
both secular and religious educational institutions. At the same time, it actualized the problems
of harmonious interaction between the church and the state, including educational policy issues.
The article examines the main milestones in the history and current status of relations between
European universities and Catholicism. The article analyzes the documents of the Holy See and
modern classifications reflecting the variability of Catholic universities. Particular attention is paid
to secularization as a long-term and predominantly European process of separation of religious
and political spheres, which was accompanied by the removal of religion from the public space,
and theology from the curriculum. The authors conclude that secularization is a key factor in
changing the university identity from a religious corporatism to an academic community.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation
no. 23-28-01601, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-28-01601/.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Catholicism

value: state

value: universities

value: Europe

value: religious corporations

value: academic community

value: higher education

value: education policy

value: theology

value: secularization

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Zakharchuk, Evgeniy A.

value: Sukhachev, Vladimir N.

value: Tikhonova, Natalya A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zakharchuk, E. A., Sukhachev, V. N., Tikhonova, N. A. (2023). Barotropic response of the Baltic Sea dynamic system to sea level fluctuations in the Kattegat strait. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 528–552. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.306 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
With the help of numerical experiments with a three-dimensional barotropic hydrodynamic
model, the response of the level surface of the Baltic Sea to different-scale level disturbances
propagating into the Baltic through the Danish straits from the North Sea is studied. For this,
53 harmonic oscillations with amplitudes of 10 cm and periods from 3 hours to 1 year, which
in the article are called “external”, in contrast to the perturbations of the level inside the sea induced
by them. The same amplitudes for all initial oscillations were set so that when analyzing
the results, quantitative differences in the amplitude spectra of “external” and “internal” oscillations
were clearly visible. It is shown that, with the exception of the frequency range of natural
barotropic oscillations of the Baltic Sea, in the Danish Straits there is an almost complete
filtration of oscillations specified at the boundary of the region with periods from 3 hours
to 10 days. In the range of periods from 15 to 35 hours, there is an increase in “internal”
oscillations due to the resonance of the initial oscillations with the natural oscillations of the
Baltic. In the mesoscale frequency range (periods from hours to several days), the response of
the level surface of the Baltic Sea to the impact of “external” oscillations is manifested in the
generation of progressive-standing Kelvin waves with pronounced amphidromic systems and
antinodes. For oscillations with periods of more than 10 days, with a decrease in frequency,
the filtering effect of the Danish Straits is weakened and for periods of about 60 days, their
amplitudes decrease by only 50 %. In the range of seasonal variability, hydraulic resistance in
the Danish Straits has the least effect on the propagation of “external” sea level fluctuations,
reducing their amplitudes by only 6–22 %. The highest amplitude is observed in semi-annual
oscillations, which are amplified due to the influence of the semi-annual overtone in the annual
oscillation generated by nonlinear effects.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was effectuated thanks to the Russian Science Foundation 22-27-00209
Grant “Spatial structure and mechanisms of interannual variability of seasonal fluctuations in the Baltic Sea
level”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 68; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Numerical hydrodynamic modeling

value: Baltic Sea

value: barotropic sea level fluctuations

value: Fourier analysis

value: natural oscillations

value: amphidromic systems

value: progressive standing waves

value: annual oscillation

value: semi-annual overtone


dc.contributor.author

value: Grummo, Dmitry G.

value: Zeliankevich, Natallia A.

value: Mojsejchik, Ekaterina V.

value: Skuratovich, Arkady N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Grummo, D. G., Zeliankevich, N. A., Mojsejchik, E. V., Skuratovich, A. N. (2023). Postaccident dynamics of flora and vegetation in the Belarusian sector exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 505–528. https://doi.org//10.21638/spbu07.2023.305 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The issues of vegetation cover dynamics in the Chernobyl accident area considered in the article.
The research carried out within the boundaries of the Polessky State Radiation-Ecological Reserve. The objects of research are the flora and vegetation of the region. The research is
based on as classical methods for studying flora and vegetation, as modern ones, using a longterm
archive of Landsat satellite imagery. The article interprets that the flora and vegetation
transformation processes of the Chernobyl exclusion zone are mainly due to natural changes
and anthropogenically stimulated processes associated with the economic activity cessation.
The authors noted a progressive increase of the vascular plant species number within the Reserve,
which explained by the restoration processes beginning of the vegetation cover after
the population evacuation and the economic activity complete stopping. The spatial isolation
of the Polessky State Radiation-Ecological Reserve territory led to the preservation of flora
synanthropization level, similar to the end of the 1980s. Evacuated settlements, wastelands,
former arable lands, linear objects (roads) and other former anthropogenic habitats are the
retention and penetration centers of synanthropic species within the Reserve. The forested territory
increasing is a key moment of the vegetation demutational successions in the Chernobyl
exclusion zone. A large increase of derived small-leaved forests participation characterizes
the dynamics of the forest vegetation formational structure during the post-accident period.
Indigenous coniferous and deciduous fen forests also tend to distribution increase, but their
dynamics is not rapid. Forests formation, bushing, waterlogging due to the degradation of
drainage systems are the processes of meadow dynamics. Fragments of unchanged meadows
preserved only in the Pripyat River floodplain. Restoration of bog-forming processes observed
on disturbed peatlands, part of unforested fens transformed into forested fens, sparse forests
and shrub thickets in the post-accident period. The processes of forest formation, local
swamping prevail on the former agricultural and residential lands.

value: Chernobyl nuclear power plant

value: exclusion zone

value: flora

value: vegetation

value: biotopes

value: dynamics

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Litvinenko, Ivan S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Litvinenko, I. S. (2023). Placer-forming properties of gold mineralization of the “Verny” site of the Degdekan deposits in the black-shale strata (Magadan Oblast). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 581–595. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.308 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The placer-forming properties of vein-disseminated gold-sulfide-quartz mineralization in
carbonaceous-terrigenous rocks of the North-East of Russia are considered on the example
of the “Verny” site of the Degdekanskoe deposit, localized in the Permian black shale strata
of the Ayan-Yuryakh antiktinorium of the Verkhoyansk-Chukotka folded region. According
to the results of studies of the conditions for the presence of native gold in sample material
crushed to 1 mm, it was established that the degree of release grains of gold in fractions of
0.1–0.25 and more than 0.25 mm from this type of ores with the given parameters of their
physical destruction averages 33 and 75 %, respectively. This determines the relatively high
placer-forming capacity of this type of primary sources. Calculation of the balance of native
gold during the formation of a segment of placer Degdekan Creek, closely associated with
the ore zones of the Verny site, showed its enormous placer-forming capabilities even under
conditions of periglacial lithogenesis.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 68; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: North-East of Russia

value: black shale strata

value: gold

value: mineralization

value: placers


dc.contributor.author

value: Chugunova, Nadezhda V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Chugunova, N. V. (2023). Transformation and differentiation of spatial development of Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk regions. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 490– 504. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.304 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The purpose of the work is to analyze the transformation, differentiation of spatial socio-economic
development of the regions bordering Ukraine as part of the Central Chernozem region
and their regional metropolises. The results of the study confirmed two types of structures of
regional settlement systems of the CCR border regions: Belgorod dual-core and monocentric
Voronezh and Kursk with established features of non-metropolitan reduction trends and different
vectors of development of border settlement. Dynamics of economic development of
the regions since 2010 it indicates a significant transformation and differentiation, a change of
leader, a stable nature of the processes of divergence of regions in the levels of development.
It is revealed that in 2020 the highest indicators of economic development were achieved by
the Voronezh region, the first signs of stagnation of the economic development of the Belgorod
region were established, in which a reduction in investment, a change in the geopolitical
situation in 2022, the border situation can lead to a decrease in the investment attractiveness
of large businesses, a further drop in the pace of economic development, the emergence of instability.
The reduction of the share of metropolises in the socio-economic development of the
regions, the formation of a new trend — “de-monocentricity” has been established. A retrospective
analysis of the population growth/loss ratio revealed a persistent trend of population
concentration in suburban metropolitan areas against the background of a continuing decline
in the population of the deep regions of the regions. The territories bordering Ukraine are characterized by different vectors of economic and demographic development. The conducted
research allowed us to establish the trends of uneven spatial development; the polarization of
the development of regional metropolises, non-metropolitan and border areas; the tightening
of the population in the regional capitals-metropolises and suburban areas. The methodology
of studying the spatial development of regions, regional metropolises provides an opportunity
to monitor their levels of development, identify priority problems, and make effective management
decisions.

dc.subject

value: settlement

value: spatial development

value: metropolises

value: population

value: borderlands

value: Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk regions


dc.contributor.author

value: Liu, Lifen

dc.identifier.citation

value: Liu Lifen. Connotation and Denotation of 公示语 (Public Sign) and 语言景观 (Linguistic Landscape). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 588–602. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.309 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Terminology is the crystallization of human scientific knowledge in language, and its standardization
directly affects the development of a discipline. The correct and standardized
use of terminology plays an important role for a discipline. The four basic features of a term
are professionalism, scientificity, monosemy and systematicness. The form and content of a
term must correspond to each other, that is, a term only represents one concept (monosemy);
a concept has only one reference (single name). The practical significance of this study embodies
Chinese scholars’ interest in the study of public signs and linguistic landscape because these two terms are similar, overlapped and confused. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish
between these two terms and their concepts. This paper analyzes the conceptual similarities
and differences between public signs and the linguistic landscape from many angles. These
two concepts are similar in content, but not identical. The purpose of this study is to clarify the
vague understanding of public signs and language landscape in academic circles, standardize
the use of academic terms, and provide correct definitions for the compilation of terminology
dictionaries.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Thе article was made with the financial support of the grant of the Scientific Social Fund of the
People’s Republic of China no. 22BYY195 in 2022.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: gongshiyu

value: yuyan jingguan

value: public sign

value: linguistic landscape

value: semiotics

value: linguistics

value: sociolinguistics

value: terminology

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kuznetsov, Maksim V.

value: Savatenkov, Valery M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kuznetsov, M. V., Savatenkov, V. M. (2023). Melting modeling of mixed peridotitic and mafic lithologies at shallow depths of the continental metasomatized lithospheric mantle: Implementation for the Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks of Eastern Mongolia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 68 (3), 596–617. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2023.309

dc.description.abstract

value:
The Eastern Mongolia volcanic area formed in the Late Mesozoic — Early Cenozoic within Central
Asian Orogenic Belt. The main volcanic events of the area occurred in the Early Cretaceous
when alkaline basaltic lavas erupted and formed the so-called cover volcanic complex. Geochemical
and isotope features of the cover volcanic complex allowed researchers to identify the following
mantle rocks as their source: metasomatized peridotites, eclogites, and pyroxenites. Thermodynamic
modeling in alphaMELTS program was performed to determine whether the simultaneous
melting of these rocks with subsequent processes of crystallization differentiation could
lead to the formation of the studied rocks. The modeling results show that the melting of the most
enriched with incompatible trace elements peridotites, eclogites, and pyroxenites cannot produce
the rocks of the cover volcanic complex. At the same time, the mixing of peridotite- and eclogite-
derived melts corresponds most closely to the mechanism of rock formation. However, Ti, K,
P, Rb, and Sr enrichment of the studied rocks also requires participation in magma generation
processes of mantle metasomatic veins enriched with rutile, apatite, phlogopite, and amphibole.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work was subsidized by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 23-27-00165) and the State
Assignments of Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
no. FMUW-2022-0005.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 68; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: Eastern Mongolia

value: Early Cretaceous volcanism

value: thermodynamic modeling

value: eclogites

value: pyroxenites

value: mantle metasomatic veins


dc.contributor.author

value: Ismailov, Ismail A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ismailov I. A. Turkish-American Relations during the National Struggle and the Government of Ankara: 1919–1923. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 603–618. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.310

dc.description.abstract

value:
During the National Struggle led by Mustafa Kemal Pasha and the Ankara government formed
by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkey’s most important goal in foreign policy was
to establish an independent and national state. Meanwhile, the United States closely watched
the struggle and tried to keep relations with Turkey under control. The reason for this was
the steps taken by the United States to get to know the National Struggle Movement and the
agenda of the issue of us mandate in Turkey. At the Paris conference, the United Kingdom offered
the United States a mandate over Turkey, and in a week later on Istanbul and The Straits,
as well as New Armenia, which would be established on the territory of Turkey. However,
although the United States was initially interested in this mandate, it did not accept it in the
end according to public opinion. As a result, at the Lausanne conference, the tendency of rapprochement
has increased between Turkey and the United States. On August 6, 1923, a new
agreement was signed between Turkey and the United States. The agreement signed between
US Ambassador to Switzerland Joseph Clark Kru and Ismet Inonu regulated political and
commercial relations. Despite the agreement, Turkish-American official relations still did not
start immediately. However, as a result of the policy put forward by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,
these relations began to develop year by year. The development of these relations showed that
the events that took place against the backdrop of Turkish-American relations and the accumulated
experience are always very interesting and important from the point of view of the
international community and history. In this article, the relations between Turkey and the
United States during the National Struggle period have been studied.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 3

value: Ataturk

value: Ottoman

value: Turkey

value: Ankara government

value: USA

value: National Struggle


dc.contributor.author

value: Gutorov, Vladimir A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gutorov V. A. The politology of Woodrow Wilson in the context of the evolution of American universities: An analysis of contemporary discussions. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 362–382. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.201 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, who served in this post from
1913 to 1921, is widely known primarily as great political leader who played one of the main roles
in shaping the new, extremely conflictual international order that arose after the First World War. In
modern historiography, for example, Wilson’s post-war foreign policy, associated with attempts to
implement his famous Fourteen Points, the creation of the League of Nations, and many others, is
studied in detail. Against the background of the dramatic collisions of post-war world politics, the
fact, well known only to “narrow specialists”, that Wilson was one of the most influential political
scientists, historians and theorists of university education of his time, remains in the shadows. His
influence is still constantly felt in modern concepts of reforms in American higher education. The
administrative activity of W. Wilson took place at the final stage of the process, the result of which
was a radical transformation of higher education in the United States. The stable notion that the
main contours of the reforms of university education at Princeton, initiated by W. Wilson, were quite
clearly outlined already in his theoretical works, has never been in doubt in the scientific world. At
the heart of Wilson’s reforms was the idea that the university should be seen as such an exemplary
example of a form of community that, even at the very center of modern society, is able to retain
its distinctive features. Wilson’s ideas and policies in the field of university education continue to
actively influence modern theoretical discussions, their “stimulating effect” is direct evidence that
they have stood the test of time in their own way, also because they were far from speculative and
never lost connections neither with the world historical tradition, nor with the real world of politics.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was supported by the grant from the Russian Science Foundation no. 23-28-01601,
https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-01601/.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 3

value: Woodrow Wilson

value: university

value: education

value: state

value: politics

value: reform

value: political theory

value: democracy

value: bureaucracy

value: government

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Lanchava, Alexander I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Lanchava A. I. Concerning the role of universities in the formation of Catholic conservatism in the USA. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 402–414. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.303 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the analysis of the main aspects of universities’ influence on the foundation
and modern development of the ideology of Catholic conservatism in the US. Introductory
part defines two basic strategies of defining and constructing Catholic education’s identity:
countercultural and adaptive. The former implies a strict student’s upbringing according to
the norms of Catholic morality, the latter — acquisition of skills that allow to assume leading
positions in country’s politics and economics. It is stated that their genesis and development
were caused by the unique political and cultural circumstances of the USA, in particular, the
church-state separation and hostile protestant culture. The first section offers the classification
of modern Catholic universities based on the degree of their integration in secular culture and
global economic. Five models are proposed: pluralist, dialogical, conservative, formational and
exclusivist. The section demonstrates how universities’ institutional structures represent the main
currents of the modern Catholic conservatism. The second section argues that the differences
between modern Catholic conservative critique of the secular universities and its mid-twentieth
century version point to the fundamental transformation of the ideology of Catholic conservatism
itself. The main difference consist in a realization of a connection between moral and economic
aspects of university, which manifested itself in the populist critique of the meritocratic principle in
higher education. This ideological shift allows to explain the reason for growing dissatisfaction of
conservative voters and politicians with a government funding of institutions of higher education
which are being perceived as hostile and dysfunctional.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 23-28-01601,
https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-01601/).

dc.subject

value: conservatism

value: Catholicism

value: counterculture

value: identity

value: populism


dc.contributor.author

value: Kachusov, Dmitrii A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kachusov D. A. Interaction of civil activists with institutions of power and local selfgovernment in the regions of Southwest Siberia: Mechanisms and problems. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 446–460. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.306 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The work deals with the study of the civic activism sphere and issues of interaction between
civil society institutions, local self-government and state power in the regions of Southwest
Siberia. The study was carried out on the basis of the reports analysis of the Public Chambers
of the regions, official resources of institutions supporting civil initiatives, regional media and
information agencies, pages of civil associations in social networks. The study also used the
results of an expert survey of leaders and moderators of civil associations conducted in 2021.
The study showed that the central and regional authorities consider it necessary to control the
forms of manifestation and the main directions of civic activity and coordinate the actions of its
subjects. To achieve this goal, existing institutions, primarily Public Сhambers, are involved, as
well as new ones are created in order to directly support socially useful initiatives. The forms
of interaction are also very diverse — from providing opportunities for dialogue in the form of
discussion platforms and round tables to direct resource support for specific projects. On the
other hand, the main goal of self-organizing civil communities remains the solution of “urgent”
local problems, which is the focus of their current activities. Although the situational relevance
of the raised agenda may attract a large number of supporters to them, they do not pretend
to participate in political power and are integrated into the proposed models of relationships. However, the interaction is complicated by the fact that associations of civil activists are often
informal, poorly institutionalized and are not considered by the authorities as equal participants
in political relations.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The publication was prepared within the framework of scientific project no. 20-311-90029
supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “Civic activity as a factor in the development
of local self-government in modern Russia (on the example of the regions of South-Western Siberia)”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: local self-government

value: civil activity

value: civil society

value: public organizations

value: public chambers

value: civil initiatives


dc.contributor.author

value: Shashkova, Yaroslava Yu.

value: Aseev, Sergey Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shashkova Y. Yu., Aseev S. Yu. Dynamics of the model of patriotism in the minds of senior students in the regions of Siberia in the context of the changing geopolitical situation. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 431–445. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.305 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article concerns the 9–11 grades students in the regions of the Siberian Federal District
and analysis of their ideas of the image of a patriot and the relevant normative models of behavior.
Based on a comparative analysis of the data of mass surveys conducted by the questionnaire
method in the fall of 2020 and 2022, the authors conclude that the young people
understand patriotism as love for the homeland most particularly, expressed through a complex
of emotional and cognitive qualities. At the same time, the authors note that as a result
of the significant government’s activation in patriotic education of the youth, as well as of the ongoing foreign policy confrontation, there has been an increase in the “blind” and “active”
patriotism popularity among high school students. Meanwhile, the number of respondents
who have not set their own understanding of a patriot image, is reducing. The students show
a peculiar reaction to the formalist nature of a significant number of patriotic events: the authors
observe the strengthening of students’ conviction in the individuality of the feeling of
patriotism and the absence of the need for its centralized formation. The use of cluster analysis
made it possible to divide the respondents into 5 clusters depending on their ideas of the
image of a patriot: 1) supporters of the “blind contemplative patriot”, 2) “blind active patriot”,
3) “constructive contemplative patriot”, 4) “constructive active patriot” and 5) “undecided”.
There is a predominance of clusters of “blind contemplative” and “constructive active”, and
among them, the age delimitation have been established. In conclusion, the authors note a
general increase in patriotic sentiments among high school students in the regions of the
Siberian Federal District, however, they raise the question of the degree and factors of sustainability
of this trend as a basis for further research.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out within the framework of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
grant no. 20-011-00346 “The factor of patriotic education in constructing the civic identity of senior
schoolchildren in the regions of the Siberian Federal District in the conditions of the information society”.

dc.subject

value: the youth

value: school student

value: patriotism

value: image of a patriot

value: political consciousness

value: political attitudes

value: Russian regions

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Morozova, Svetlana S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Morozova S. S. Formation of a dynamic model of e-government optimization in the Russian Federation in the conditions of new challenges and risks. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 415–430. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.304 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the context of modern challenges and risks, which, first of all, include the turbulence of
world politics and the world economy, the negative consequences of globalization and digitalization,
the COVID-19 pandemic, special importance is given to the tasks of the state to
ensure internal and external security, protect rights, freedoms and interests of citizens, creation
of favorable conditions for sustainable socio-economic development of the country.
The listed challenges and risks faced by modern Russia have increased the importance of
e-government and become a trigger for its dynamic development. Today, e-government promotes
fast, stable, secure and reliable interaction between citizens, the private sector and
the state. The article is devoted to the identification and analysis of successful practices in
the field of digital government development in order to form a dynamic model for optimizing
the electronic government of the Russian Federation. The research methodology is based on
comparative and compositional-graphical analysis, on the basis of which the authors compare
the features, approaches and quality of the leading countries’ in the UN e-Government
Development Index (EGDI) e-governments’ functioning. In the study, the authors pay special
attention to the issue of the effective e-government functioning, analyze current global trends
in the development of digital governments, and refer to the experience of advanced digital
states. As a result of the study, the authors identify the integral components of an effectively
functioning e-government, clearly demonstrate its model. In conclusion, the authors analyze
the problems of e-government development in Russia, and also formulate recommendations
for its dynamic optimization.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was carried out with the support of the Grant Council of the President of the Russian
Federation (Competition — MK-2021) (project no. MK-3016.2021.2 “Formation of a dynamic model
for optimizing e-government in the Russian Federation in the context of new challenges and risks”).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 19; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: e-government

value: digitalization

value: digital law

value: digital security

value: digital trust


dc.contributor.author

value: Karandeev, Ivan A.

value: Achkasov, Valery A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Karandeev I. A., Achkasov V. A. A history of African American separatism in the United States. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 465–474. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2023.307 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article analyzes the history of the development of the phenomenon of radical African-American
movements classified as separatist. The roots of the phenomenon go back to the abolitionist movement
of the mid-19th century, but most of these movements appeared in the USA in the 1920s–1960s,
after the migration of African Americans from the southern states, referred to the “black belt” to the
industrialized states of the North and their concentration in ethnically homogeneous ghettos of large
cities with a disadvantaged socio-economic situation. Irredentist movements that appealed to the
construction of African American identity based on ethnic and cultural nationalism, such as Back to
Africa, which aimed at universal immigration of blacks from the United States, and interpreting the
religion Nation of Islam, gained particular popularity. Separatist movements acted as a radical alternative
to the Civil Rights Movement, and the figure of activist Malcolm X, who came out of the Nation
of Islam, became a counterweight to Martin Luther King. With the development of the anti-colonial
movement in third world countries, organizations such as the Black Panthers and the Republic of
New Africa turned to the right of nations to self-determination and left-wing anti-imperialist rhetoric.
The activities of other organizations, for example, the Black Liberation Army, can be characterized
as terrorist. Later organizations, such as the New Black Panther Party, are often characterized by
experts as “hate groups”. Although with the success of the integration policy, the popularity of separatist
demands has fallen, the actions of African-American nationalist organizations in the conditions
of polarization of modern American politics indicate that the forms of struggle of the African-American
community for political independence in the future are not exhausted.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project
no. 23-28-00360 “Ethno-federalism as a form of national self-determination: a comparative analysis”.

value: separatism

value: black nationalism

value: irredentism

value: secessionism

value: autonomism


dc.contributor.author

value: Voinik, Anna A.

value: Snegur, Margarita R.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Voinik A. A., Snegur M. R. Motives for participation of youth in unauthorized protest actions. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 259–277. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.302 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
In-depth study of real motives for participation in protest actions could contribute a lot to
increase effectiveness of educational activities and preventive maintenance with youth. Young
people as a socio-demographic group have a high potential for civic participation and they are
going to determine the strategy of the country’s political development in a few decades. The
thesis deals with the analysis of the results of the field research on motives for the participation
in unauthorized protest actions, conducted in July — September 2021 for the Committee
on Youth Policy and Interaction with Public Organizations of St. Petersburg. The following
research questions arise: Why do the youth of St. Petersburg participate in unauthorized
political actions? What are the major political issues that concern young people most right
now? Are protests an effective form of political participation, according to the participants?
What are there other effective forms of political participation? Research method — focusgroup
with young people of different age, participated in unauthorized protest actions. We
revealed significant age differences in motives, perception of current socio-political situation,
and awareness of political issues. For adolescents the key motives for participation in unauthorized
protest actions are curiosity, interest, and the desire for new emotions, while for adult
youth — the desire to express displeasure with the current socio-political situation.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 16; Issue 3

value: political participation

value: protest sentiments

value: motives for participating in unauthorized protest actions

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Judina, Darja I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Judina D. I. Local actors and their agenda in the public sphere of social media. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 292–308. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.304 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The transformation of the public sphere, caused by the influence of social media on public
communication, encourages researchers to adapt existing tools for measuring public opinion
and develop new ones. One of these tools is the procedure for creating a sample of actors who
form public opinion in social media. Moreover, this procedure determines the methodological
component of the study and also reflects the theoretical approach to measuring public opinion,
which is derived from our view of the public sphere. In our study, we proposed and tested
our version of classification of actors in the public sphere of St. Petersburg, using data from
the social networking site VKontakte. Owing to the broad common agenda generated by the
coronavirus epidemic, we could analyze the great variety of actors shaping the public opinion
of citizens in the spring and summer of 2020. The final classification contains online communities
and personal pages on the city and district level owned by the media, government bureaucratic
organizations, politicians and parties, interest groups, business organizations and
entrepreneurs. We also described the main elements of their agenda and ranked St. Petersburg
public opinion makers by the share of interest from VKontakte users. The wide variety of
agenda types obtained as a result of the analysis: news, reports, complaints, propaganda, agitation,
advertising, entertainment, leads us to reconsider the indicators for selecting texts from
social media. The research has expanded the understanding of public actors engaged in shaping
public opinion in social media and their agenda.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared within the framework of R & D no. 121062300141-5 “Comprehensive study
of factors and mechanisms of political and socio-economic sustainability in the context of the transition to
digital society”.

dc.subject

value: public sphere

value: social media

value: public opinion

value: public actors

value: Russian media environment


dc.contributor.author

value: Osipova, Nadezda G.

value: Liadova, Anna V.

value: Zapletnuk, Maria A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Osipova N. G., Liadova A. V., Zapletnuk M. A. Mediatization of health in the Russian blogosphere. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 309–323. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.305 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Due the fast development of information and communication technologies, social reality is
increasingly transforming into a special media space, permeated with a variety of channels
and means of communication. Its characteristic features include such as: the convergence of
virtual and real, public and private, networking of social interactions, a certain media language,
plurality of content and special media technologies for its construction and broadcasting,
which allow to effectively influence a wide audience of new media. Modern media
extend their transformative ability to all spheres of public life, influencing their institutional,
regulatory and legal structure and established practices. The health sphere is not an exception.
Under the conditions of mediatization, health is considered as a media product. The image of
health and its maintenance practices constructed by modern media set certain attitudes and
patterns of perception of health risks, diseases and ways to prevent them, which, in the process
of their articulation through sedimentation and internalization, form social representations
and behavior of the population in the field of health. At the same time, these samples often
have an ambivalent and even destructive influence. Blogs are one of the dominant media consumption
formats today. The article presents an analysis of mediatization of health on the base
of studying the Russian blogosphere.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research is funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 23-28-01081. https://rscf.ru/
project/23-28-01081/

dc.subject

value: health

value: mediatization

value: blogosphere

value: blogs


dc.contributor.author

value: Kovalev, Daniil I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kovalev D. I. Relational sociology of Harrison White and his followers: Towards a theory of sociocultural duality. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 242– 258. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.301 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper presents an overview of the history of the cultural turn in social network analysis.
The cultural turn has proclaimed the crucial role of not only social but also cultural structures.
On the one hand, cultural structures construct a context for social interactions. On the other
hand, social network mechanisms determine the features of the use of symbolic forms by
actors. According to Harrison White and John Mohr, sociocultural duality can be defined as
a process of mutual construction of social and cultural orders. It should be noted that the idea of White about the mutual construction of culture and structure (the concept of netdom) has
become a starting point for theoretical and empirical debates on the duality of social and cultural
networks. The concept of network domain (netdom) includes both social networks (net) and
spaces of symbolic forms (dom). Hence, the task of this paper is to identify the theoretical and
methodological arguments of researchers emphasising the importance of sociocultural duality.
The paper discusses in detail the concepts of duality and relational sociology. But the main part
of the article is focused on the analysis of the relational sociology of Harrison White and his
followers (A. Mische, J. Fuhse, N. Crossley). Relational sociology rejects substantialist ideas and,
therefore, it is directed to the research of processual social and cultural structures. The final arguments
summarise cutting-edge topics for future research on sociocultural duality.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 16; Issue 3

dc.subject

value: relational sociology

value: Harrison White

value: duality

value: culture

value: social networks

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Tkach, Sergey

value: Sennikova, Maria A.

value: Rusakova, Maya M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tkach S., Sennikova M. A., Rusakova M. M. Social control of the activities of children’s organizations in the context of modern security challenges. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 278–291. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2023.303 (In Russian)

dc.description.abstract

value:
Children, as the target audience, require a special approach in the provision of services. This
determines the psychological aspects of the activities of children’s organizations. The purpose
of such organizations is to focus on the most significant risks and concerns associated with
children. The definition of such risks becomes a non-trivial task, which is formed from two
boundaries of understanding the danger: public opinion and personal experience. These two
boundaries represent the foundations of social control and the implementation of social control
measures in real situations of risk. For the analysis of the first boundary, the contour of
the most acute fears and fears of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg in the plane of the public
safety of children was identified. A population study was conducted in St. Petersburg, which
analyzed the perception of residents about possible threats to children in various organizations
— about their significance and prevalence. Among the most acute fears, residents single
out unfamiliar adults and teenagers, objects on the street and the Internet. The further steps
of the research involved the analysis of the second frontier — the identification of specific
risk situations that children encountered in these organizations, as well as how social control was implemented through the actions of employees working with risk situations. Within this
boundary, situations of psychological and physical violence against children were analyzed.
For this task, focused group interviews were conducted with adolescents and students of higher
educational institutions to analyze their interaction with organizations providing services
to children (schools, children’s circles, etc.). The data obtained in them made it possible to
formulate a number of general recommendations that are designed to reduce the risks for
children in organizations of this kind.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was realized with the support of the Sociological Clinic of Applied Research of St.
Petersburg State University.

dc.subject

value: children’s organizations

value: safety policy

value: public control

value: social risks