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Reflecting on his audiencing experience of Westerns between the 1960 and 2016 remake of the movie, The Magnificent Seven, the author reflects on the social justice mission of the film plot. He comments on the complex presentation of the racialized/ethnic other in Yul Brynner and Denzel Washington as lead bad-boys-turned good, in a homosocial band of renegade brothers. The author uses a line from Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" as commitment to a stylized performance for justice. In the end, the author attempts to reconcile his queer desire for the cowboy figure, as a form of disidentification with a romanticized yet still violent character-type.

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This article is devoted to the analysis of public support for the contemporary political regime in Russia. The author points out the narrowness, artificiality, and instability of public support for the political regime of Vladimir Putin. Manipulation and bribery are regarded in the article as the main strategies of providing public support for the regime. The author shows that weakness of the Russian economy represents a serious problem for public support for the regime. In the conclusion of the article the author makes a forecast that in the nearest future in Russia are expected mass protests which may lead to the collapse of Vladimir Putin's political regime.

The article is aimed at studying the use of philosophical practices in the educational process and everyday life. The author proceeds from the idea that ancient philosophy provides rich material for understanding a person's lifestyle, on the basis of which anyone can create a set of spiritual exercises, philosophical practices for self-knowledge and selfdevelopment. In the research, the author describes the experience of role-playing, participating, in which students independently developed philosophical practices, based on the ideas and value principles of ancient schools. The author conducts a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of using these practices for the processes of self-knowledge and self-development.

В статье рассматривается содержание, условия и порядок назначения пенсии по случаю потери кормильца в качестве формы особой заботы о детях со стороны Республики Беларусь как социального государства. Выявлены международные основы особой заботы о несовершеннолетних со стороны государства. Сформулированы предложения по совершенствованию законодательства. ; In the article, the author considers the content, conditions and procedure for awarding a survivor's pension as a form of special care for children by the Republic of Belarus as a social state. The author reveals the international foundations of special care for children by the state. The author formulates proposals for improving the legislation.

Within the framework of the article, the author considers the evolution of dialogue development as a method of conducting a conversation and establishing communication in the context of the political thought of antiquity. In particular, the author concludes, that the dialogue occupied a central place in theancient Greek worldview, being an integral part of the ancient spiritual culture. And the ancient Greek social and political thought, according to the author, developed through the active use of dialogical technologies as the most effective and civilized mechanism for resolving disputes and contradictions, combining interests, and establishing cooperation between various subjects of communication interaction.

The following article aims to show complete reception of the interwar works of Adolf Rudnicki. The author of the sketch, starting from the repeated by literary scholars argument, that Rudnicki has been a favorite of reviewers since his debut, presents comments about subsequent books of the author, from the Polish press of the thirties. There emerges a completely different image of critics' relation to Rudnicki's work, than the one, which was created by the literary scholars so far. The position that the author occupied in the literary world appears to be much less privileged than it has been said so far.

The author presents a general overview of his contacts with "Statistical News" and research topics covered by the journal. He recalls the first editors-in-chief and cooperation with the editorial board. The author discusses some of his articles published in "Statistical News" devoted mainly to: sample surveys, quality of statistical data, methodology of poverty research and its analysis, consumer prices research, estimation method for small areas as well as total quality management (TQM). Finally, the author shares his reflections on 60 years of professional experience and mentions some of the achievements of national and foreign statisticians he cooperated with.

Nach der Toterklärung des Autors in den 1960er-Jahren kam es in den 1990ern zu einer Wiederkehr des Autors. Der Beitrag führt in einen Sammelband ein, der am Beispiel ausgewählter Autoren die Rolle von Autorschaft im Spannungsverhältnis von Religion und Politik untersucht. Dabei wird gezeigt, wie politische Funktionen und religiöse Semantiken interagieren und ein Verständnis von postsouveräner Autorschaft konstituieren, das den Autor als Funktion seines Werks begreift. ; After the 'death of the author' in the 1960s, the 1990s have seen the 'return of the author'. The article is the introduction to an anthology of essays that investigates the role of literary authors in the interaction of religion and politics. It looks at how political functions and religious semantics collaborate and create a notion of post-sovereign authorship that sees the author as dependent on his/her work.

The author considers arts (on the axis between the author-work-perceiver) as various forms of understanding and misunderstanding at the same time. The misunderstandings have several causes (cultural, religious, political, social, personal, artistic, aesthetic) and complicate or transform the way of perception and understanding of artworks and produce what the author calls "hushing" or shading aesthetic and artistic qualities of the work. The inability of recognize aesthetic qualities of an artwork complicate its aesthetic effect on the recipient and causes various forms of hostility towards art as a creation and against specific works of art and their authors.

How can we improve security in the immense area of the fifty-seven participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (osce)? The author addresses this question by appealing to the Final Report and Recommendations of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project. This Report is full of insights, and much of it is seen by the author as an honest account of the events and policies that divide osce countries. On the basis of the final report, the author offers twelve concrete recommendations that may promote trust in the osce area.

In this autoethnographic essay, the author explores her struggles and desires to learn about her life prior to adoption. She portrays her journey to search for her beginning pieces of her adoption narrative by an assessment of "narrative inheritance" (Goodall, 2006), attempts to reframe her adoption narrative, and reflects on how her adoption narrative changed over a period of time. The author highlights major events of her search and provides meaning and understanding to her experience. The author concludes by providing her reflections of her search and attempts to redefine her adoption journey and what it means to be an adoptee.

In this paper the author considers aspects of interconnection of activity of the social formations and functioning of state institutions, which, according to the author, cannot be considered outside the public system. The author also points out that on the contemporary stage of development in Russia, the legislator, by isolating all existing theories in aspects of public opinion and public control, has carried out legal reforms in this area. It is necessary, in its turn, to point out that by capturing the global trend of democratization of the state and law, Russia is taking a number of legislative acts that contribute to the partial disclosure of human potential.

How to keep users has become the most desirable knowledge to social network site (SNS) managers. In the current study, the author proposes a user's SNS continuance model by incorporating the information system continuance model and the impression management theory. The author finds that a user's actualization of the hoped for possible self and perceived informativeness of an SNS are two critical factors that can significantly positively influence the user's perceived usefulness of the SNS, perceived enjoyment on the Web site, and his or her SNS continuance intention. The author suggests that these findings provide several practical implications to SNS management and development.

In this article, the author examines the problems of Ukrainian modernization policy, in the context of which the author has analyzed the correlation of endogenous and exogenous factors, with specific reference to the socio-cultural component in the modernization process. The problem of rebirth of national cultural traditions has been foregrounded, with particular emphasis on the retraditionalization of state political system playing the key role in the process of further reformation of all spheres of public life. On the basis of retrospective analysis, the author discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the Ukrainian modernization process. Key words: modernization, endogenous and exogenous factors, retraditionalization, the national interest.

Through personal narrative, the author shows the experience of new motherhood by juxtaposing a social science relationship researcher role with middle-class cultural expectations of mothers. Autoethnographic scenes of the exhaustion of juggling expanding roles and cultural advice about what being a good mommy means with anxiety about being a bad mother help the author question (spank) entrenched mommy myths. The author uses poetic inquiry and personal narrative as forms to acknowledge, examine, and potentially alter the complex reality that although a mom might like and love her child, she might be anxious and abhor the prescribed role of being mommy.