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An English translation of 'Rossiiskoe obshchestvo v raznykh izmereniiakh (Po materialam konferentsii, posviashchennoi pamiati L.A.Gordana).' Mirovaia ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 2006, no. 3, pp. 13-22. Adapted from the source document.

Examines characteristics of people open to changing their attitudes toward civil liberties; based on interviews with more than 2,000 respondents to a 1996 survey.

AbstractWinter precipitation can be very disruptive to travel by aircraft and by motor vehicles. Vehicle fatalities due to winter precipitation are considered "indirect" and are not counted in Storm Data, the publication commonly used to evaluate losses from meteorological hazards. The goal of this study is to examine the spatial and temporal characteristics of these indirect transportation fatalities that involve winter precipitation for the period 1975–2011. Motor vehicle fatalities were gathered from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, while aviation fatalities were collected from the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) Aviation Accident database. Statistical analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) were used to assess the spatial and temporal characteristics of these deaths. Most winter-precipitation-related motor vehicle fatalities occur during the daylight hours. Fatal motor vehicle accident rates are higher than expected in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, while winter-precipitation-related aviation fatalities are most common in the western United States. Vehicle fatality counts due to winter weather are compared to fatality counts for various hazards from Storm Data to highlight the differences between the datasets. Because of the exclusion of vehicle fatalities, Storm Data underestimates by an order of magnitude the number of fatalities that involve winter weather each year. It is hoped that a better understanding of winter precipitation mortality can be applied in order to reduce fatalities in the future.

Following the Egyptian defeat in 1967, the Soviet Government significantly increased both its aid and its presence in the Arab States. Today that presence is so great that the Egyptian Government has only limited control of its own armed forces.

The relevance of modern Russian political elite generations study is due to the rapid changes of the events, new forms of communication and the need to adjust the recruitment process, i.e. it is necessary to choose between the experience of the older generation and open-mindedness and ability to respond to the rapidly changing situation of the younger one. The paper contains the results of a study of key social and demographic characteristics of the older and younger generations of deputies and governors, i.e. their gender, age, place of socialization, education, etc. The authors contemplate types of career paths of young political leaders: professionals, party members, businessmen, officials, public figures, politicians, part-timers.
The paper provides a general description of the young generation of political elite, describes its advantages and disadvantages in comparison with its older one, and highlights the main areas of need adjustments of the current system of recruiting young politicians. It includes the necessity to consider specific factors of political processes and activity based on roles when setting the selection criteria, to annually monitor the forms and levels of recruiting young leaders, to work with young politicians to broaden their experience, and to work with the system of national values and symbols, as well as the ideological foundation of young politicians.

The paper discusses the migrational characteristics of the population of Vojvodina according to the results of the 2002 census. It analyzes the data about the immigrated population of Vojvodina according to the region from which the population came and according to the time of settlement. The results are compared with the data from other regions of The Republic of Serbia in order to achieve a qualitative evaluation of the process, specially at the time of intensive migrations. The paper analyzes the causes leading to specific migrational tendencies in the area of Vojvodina and points out to the economic and social implications of the realized migrational trends in the preceding period, as well as to the tendencies for their changes in the following period.

PurposeWith the development of social productive forces and the advancement of agricultural practices since the founding of New China, the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics has undergone a process from formation to continuous expansion and deepening.Design/methodology/approachIts evolution can be roughly divided into four stages: the exploration stage, the formation stage, the establishment stage and the deepening stage. The historical evolution of the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics demonstrates four typical characteristics, namely increasingly scientific logical premise, continuously diversified orientations, increasingly improved core contents and progressively maturing strategies of development.FindingsThe achievements of agricultural modernization have laid a solid foundation for China's industrial modernization and the rapid development of the national economy. Meanwhile, the authors have identified through practical exploration a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics. In recent years, academic research on the connotation of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics has gradually heated up, and relevant achievements have emerged constantly.Originality/valueThe Communist Party of China (hereinafter "CPC") has placed considerable emphasis on agricultural issues and has been committed to promoting agricultural modernization since the founding of New China. Through long-term persistence and unremitting efforts, China has made remarkable achievements in agricultural development: significantly improved agricultural production conditions and agricultural output capacity, constantly optimized agricultural structure and steadily increased the income of farmers.

This paper explores gendering in political journalism – the perceived imprint of gender on the media portrayal of politics and politicians, as well as the processes whereby gendered media representations materialize. Gendering here is understood as an ambiguous process, which can be either discriminatory or promoting, depending on its manifestations (e.g. gender stereotypes or counter-stereotypes, gender-spotlighting or gender-aware story). Moreover, this paper suggests to study this phenomena from intersectionality perspective (Davis 2008, McCall 2005) in order to understand gendering in the framework of other discriminatory and promoting mechanisms in political news. The paper is based on forty semi-structured interviews with political journalists working for the quality press in Russia and Sweden. The choice of the countries is driven by the wish to explore the difficulties and similarities of the journalists' conceptualizations of gendering in two very different political and cultural contexts. The paper shows that the journalists in both countries highlight the importance of not only gender mainstreaming, but diversity in the content in general as a democratic value, where gender stands in the same row with other difference-making categories (such as ethnicity, sexuality etc.). The paper highlights the difficulties and contradictions the Russian and Swedish political journalists face trying to achieve their diversity ideal. As such, the paper discusses the reasons for the "double othering" of foreign women politicians in the Russian press and the ridiculing of Russian male politicians in the Swedish press, the attempts of the Russian journalists to remain gender-neutral in the current homophobic context and their Swedish colleagues' striving for keeping gender as an issue on the media agenda when it is being replaced from the political agenda by the discussions of race and ethnicity issues. ; Panel: Media, Democracy and Politics in a Perspective of Intersectionality

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country's opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product characteristics in international economics and their impact on economic development. After an introduction to the topic, it analyzes the influence of product sophistication on growth, and offers alternative means of measuring product characteristics. In turn, the book provides evidence for the impact of foreign equity on the characteristics of the products that firms produce. Moreover, it presents empirical findings that prove that the quality of a country's legal and institutional framework is influenced by said country's predisposition to trade rule-of-law-intensive goods

"National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country's opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product characteristics in international economics and their impact on economic development. After an introduction to the topic, it analyzes the influence of product sophistication on growth, and offers alternative means of measuring product characteristics. In turn, the book provides evidence for the impact of foreign equity on the characteristics of the products that firms produce. Moreover, it presents empirical findings that prove that the quality of a country's legal and institutional framework is influenced by said country's predisposition to trade rule-of-law-intensive goods."--