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The article analyses the state of Chuvash prose in the mid-1980s – the first decade of the 21st century. In the course of the study, it was found that at this stage there is an intense search for modern landmarks, new forms and content in the Chuvash artistic literature. The following significant changes were revealed in the national prose – topics previously hushed up (social bottom, Stalinism, abuse in the Soviet army and the Afghan War) went public and new genre varieties (erotic, mystical, intelligent works) appeared; the possibilities and range of traditional literature expanded (lyrical-philosophical, lyrical-psychological, women's prose developed, psychologism deepened); literature with a complicated form of writing (postmodern works) has appeared recently; there has been an increased interest in the Chuvash national (history, mythology), etc. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the turn of the 20th-21st centuries in the national Chuvash literature there has been a kind of transition period, during which the features of new prose, free from the previous ideology, are determined.

У статті досліджуються доктринальні та нормативні підходи до формування дефініції і видів принципів податкового права та законодавства. Автор досліджує загальні (конституційні), галузеві та спеціальні принципи, вказуючи що саме на останніх ґрунтується система оподаткування. Резюмується, що принципи податкового законодавства перебувають у нерозривному зв'язку з податковою політикою та відповідною правозастосовчою практикою.

One of the most crucial topics among the promoters of EU integration at present is that of the definition of the EU's identity. Communicators from EU institutions are striving to reach out to EU citizens and to gain their support. Politicians have also realized that promoting Europe both internally among its citizens and outside its boundaries is a critical issue that needs special management. Communication which does not appropriately reach its target audience causes severe problems in the projection of communication messages and results in an incoherent EU image. The Lisbon Treaty has further strengthened the EU as a unique internal and external entity and provides a basis for a solid definition of its identity. This paper deals with the issue of identity in a special and as yet barely explored way, i.e. the building of identity through the use of a brand management approach. It presents theoretical research into existing branding techniques and models for building identity and provides an integrative analysis resulting in the author's proposal that there is an urgent need to employ such techniques in building the EU identity. The success of destination branding has provided reliable evidence that such an approach can lead to a successful branding of the EU, starting with identity building. By building an identity for the EU and treating the EU as a unique brand entity, valuable ground will be established for the preparation of targeted, successful and widely accepted communication strategies for EU institutions. These in turn will help in the creation of a desirable image for the EU, one reflecting its rich and unique identity.

The body is an important starting point concept throughout deconstruction, reconstruction and recontextualization of the body's concept. This change of focus in research that stems from the results to the process of contextualization means that the researcher should engage with texts or images, as they are reflected in the process of cultural development and exchange, through which decontextualization is exhibited. This article deals with the concept of new materialism and endeavors to explain, how discourses come to matter. It examines the issue of how new materialism tackles visual art in innovative ways – through the intersections of artistic practice, art-as-research, and philosophical analysis. Such definitions as Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "a bodily being", Julia Kristeva's "the abjection of the self", Arjun Appadurai's "the aesthetics of decontextualization" and "singularized object", Igor Kopytoff's "the cultural biography of things", and Nicholas Thomas' "entangled objects", constitute the methodological frameworks of our research. We will analyze such approaches as Hans Belting's concept of body as a "living medium", Giorgio Agamben's view on body as an object of commodification and Jacques Derrida's "trust in painting". An attempt to understand body reconceptualization and deconstruction through the categories of new materialism is the most important aim of this article. Karen Barad's concept of intra-action (that implies a clear-cut subject-object distinction) is crucial to our research, which underlines that bodies have no inherent boundaries and properties and that the analyzed representations are "material-discursive phenomena". The artworks under consideration will be confronted with a diagnosis that, according to Barad, all bodies come to matter thanks the intra-activity and its performativity. The case studies of Svajonė Stanikienė and Paulius Stanikas, Evaldas Jansas and Eglė Rakauskaitė works show how the image of the body is developed through the processes of their deconstruction and decontextualization.

The paper presents an analytical review of the conference held in the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature (November, 2014). It deals with deep historical and socio-cultural roots of the present-day religious dynamics of India, including its main political implications. The wide methodological principle of correlation between India's socio-cultural background and the current state of affairs in Hinduism is denoted as Indo-logics. The paper also deals with bilateral processes of internal consolidation of Hinduism within the Republic of India as well as of the gradual transformation process of Hinduism into one of the biggest religions on international scale. Both sides of these phenomena are analyzed in connection with ambivalent processes of the Indian inner modernization during the 19th-21st centuries, and also with general global socio-economic and intellectual trends of the current history, including mass migrations, the expansion of mass media, deep crisis of the present-day semi-industrial modes of school and university education, etc. The article draws special attention to problems of Indian subaltern strata in the present-day Indian religious dynamics, including the "neo-Buddhist renaissance" and Christian conversions among Indian "untouchables".

Part 1: Borderology as a project for the future -- Borderology and civilization -- "Alphabet" of borderology: The question of what is enlightenment?- The phenomenon of the border and the pandemic -- The boundaries of humanity -- European borders in migration and pandemic times: Paradigmatic changes -- Part 2: Philosophical and anthropological dimensions of the pandemic crisis -- Turning to face the non-human: New strategic ways to think about the pandemic -- Existential and cultural aspect of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The prospect of forming new cultural boundaries and the phenomenon of mood -- The border between hierarchical and network approaches to researching the coronavirus pandemic -- Part 3: Space and borders in the pandemic context -- How does the pandemic invalidate the sociological definition of the city?- New economic and cultural biases of strategic development in Lithuanian-Polish cross-border functional area under the impact of pandemic and migrations -- The fourteen critical factors for regional development in borderlands: Focusing on European Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) areas -- Portuguese perceptions on borders – From the escape path to the sanitarian imposition 1950-2020 -- The migrants, the 'Stayers', and the new borderlands in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit -- Between humanitarianism and security – The events at the Polish-Belarusian border -- Part 4: The contours of a new (post) pandemic reality -- Self-construction in the world web and the borders of freedom in pandemic times -- Public realm, privacy and the scholars' life-world – Reloaded. An unintentional voyeur in a Russian kitchen -- Pandemic, borders and new technology – Distance Breaking Media (DBM) -- Communication-contacts-dialogue: The transformation of education during the pandemic -- Education in the time of a pandemic: Towards a hermeneutics of closed borders and travel bans.

AbstractThe present study examines the issues of regional development of Kazakhstan in the context of history and real events. The relevance of the study is due to the need to search and adapt the accumulated advanced experience in regional development as a part of smoothing the differentiation of territories in the socio‐economic sphere and the search for effective methods of managing them. The purpose of the study is to search for and identify an effective theoretical model of regional development of the Republic of Kazakhstan that meets the urgent needs for the rational use of the resources available, which is a prerequisite for future economic development, and, as a result, improves the quality of life in the regions. The leading approach in this paper is a combination of analytical and information‐logical methods to determine the existing historical prerequisites and real grounds for the theoretical substantiation of the stages of regional development in Kazakhstan. The results of this study emphasize the need to objectively take into account the peculiarities of the development of the region and its actual state.

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The paper addresses issues related to the application of the General Theory of Classification in the development of a universal soil classification system. The requirements for such a system, a comparison of different approaches to its development, and obstacles on the way to it are outlined. Additionally, the problem of the definition of soils and the importance of distinguishing between differentiating and diagnostic criteria are discussed. It is shown that, from the perspective of the General Theory of Classification, a universal soil classification system should be natural, genetic, "fundamental-and-specific", and hierarchical. It is concluded that the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) does not meet these requirements and therefore cannot be considered as universal. Ways of addressing the problems of a universal soil classification system are suggested.

Статья посвящена реконструкции образа России, создаваемого на страницах американского журнала "Foreign Affairs" в 2021 году. ; The paper deals with the reconstruction of the image of Russia created in the American magazine "Foreign Affairs" in 2021.