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The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular were fettered by a culture of feminisation strongly influenced by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As Sentimentalism and its aesthetics began to give way to Romantic ideals, some provincial Russian women writers saw an opportunity to claim social equality, and to challenge traditional concepts of authorship and a view of women as mute and passive.

The Crimean Tatars, a Muslim Turkic ethnic group, remain the most oppressed group in Crimea after the 2014 Russian annexation. The Ukrainian public tends to view them as obedient victims forced to accommodate Russian demands, while scholars mainly avoid the issue. My ethnographic fieldwork in Crimea, however, demonstrates that what might seem like obedient behavior from the outside is, in fact, an expression of agency. This reading is based on close-range observations and conversations with people who speak and behave in ways that initially appear as compliant acts, but which do in fact challenge Russian authorities—arguably more so than other overt forms of resistance in this context. I argue that the ability to decipher many Crimean Tatars' behavior as tactics of resistance, depends on our understanding of authorities' contrary expectations. Portrayed as religious fanatics and a security threat, Crimean Tatars are stereotyped as terrorists, likely to engage in extremist activity. In light of this, Crimean Tatars' compliant behavior, expressed through patience and etiquette, festivity and humor, proves that narrative wrong. Furthermore, other seemingly compliant behaviors—such as accepting Russian passports in order to remain in Crimea—should be interpreted as an act of resistance to the political aims of state actors. By undermining the state's aim to push out Crimean Tatars and increase the Slavic population, the decision to remain in Crimea in fact challenges state power, rather than affirms it.

Today informatization is not just a local sphere of public life, it currently covers all spheres, and its consequences affect the life of a person, society, state, this influence becomes more and more significant. Society, using modern opportunities in the field of information, has acquired mechanisms, which allow to take control over the activities of the state and influence political decision-making. NATO is an organization which actively uses information technology, and therefore there is a need to consider it as an example of the effective use of information as a weapon. In our opinion, Ukraine needs to use the experience of NATO in the information war, which the Russian Federation is waging against it.

This paper provides the comparison of the Ukrainian system ofintergovernmental relations and international experience of developed and developing countries in the context of revenue sharing within current decentralisation trends. The paper analyses the role of income taxes (and personal income tax in particular) within the economic and legal framework and emphasises their importance in funding needs of local governments. Statistic and comparative analyses are employed for this aim. A set of directions for further reform is proposed, aiming at providing local governments with tools and levers to generate sufficient financial resources for efficient provision of essential local services.

AbstractOn the basis of original data from Moksha Mordvin (Finno‐Ugric), I argue that some languages have nominal concord even though modifiers of the noun generally do not show inflection. Evidence for the presence of concord comes from nominal ellipsis, under which inflection is phonologically realized and restricted in the same way as regular nominal concord. To account for the distribution of concord exponents, I develop a model that allows features to be present in syntax but avoid realization. In particular, I propose that (i) Spellout applies to a node as soon as its Merge and Agree features are satisfied and (ii) Agree features are by default illegible at PF and need to undergo an operation called Probe Conversion in order to become accessible to PF processes. The distribution of features then follows from the relative timing of Spellout and Probe Conversion.

Although people analytics (PA) draws attention and interest of the broad audience, it is still a stranger in a human resource (HR) management discipline. A literature review of academic and professional studies on PA revealed that there is a substantial gap between declared interest in PA among HR professionals and business and its actual use in decision-making. This gap was specified as a research problem. This study applies macro-view of institutional logics perspective to explore what types of logics underlie PA adoption and how institutional logics can explain low diffusion of data-driven practices within the HR field. By examining practices, experience, and insights of PA direct participants, this study reveals what values and basic assumptions (institutional logics) shape PA practice and how institutional logics complexity affects the PA implementation. Data were collected from December 2019 until March 2020 by interviewing 11 PA stakeholders (HR professionals, data analysts, HR partners, consultants, a researcher, and a software provider) from Europe and the European part of Russia. All participants were familiar with the PA practice and the research topic. Qualitative research methodology was used to gather and analyse data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted face-to-face and online, then transcribed, coded with Atlas.ti software and analysed to identify the themes signalling the institutional logics. The study explored that PA practice is constructed and shaped by HR professional logic, business, scientific, service, and compliance logics. Tensions between business and HR professional logics; HR professional and scientific logics; scientific and business logics; business and compliance logics, and internal complexity of the emergent PA field are the factors slowing down PA adoption. Compliance logic was observed by Finnish respondents only that displays diversity in the European institutional landscape. To scrutinize the change processes in HR practices towards digitalization and 'datafication', future research could be conducted as a longitude case study in a specific context (organizational culture, cultural, historical or industry contexts) through the lens of institutional work, institutional entrepreneurship or institutional complexity. This research contributes to existing knowledge concerning PA with a better understanding of what underlies people analytics adoption, what types of logics guide the stakeholders' actions, and what issues are associated with the specific logics. Beyond that, the study proposes interpretations of low and slow PA implementation based on revealed conflicting and cooperative institutional logics.

Energy security has an urgent priority as it can shape countries' policies and behavior. Consequently, the common understanding, concept and definition of energy security is very important in order to facilitate cooperation between states in this area. Increasing energy prices, the growing dependence of industrialized economies on energy, climate change, energy demand and competition, globalization, political and military conflicts and other factors contribute to the fact that energy security is becoming a national security issue for countries. That is why not only researches, but states and their governments are interested in defining a clear concept of energy security as it has a practical goal. However, there is no clear common understanding neither of the term "energy security" (ES), nor of what methodologies should be used to conceptualize or generalize it.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in The Polar Journal on 04/06/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2154896X.2019.1618558. ; The article examines China's Arctic policy features and the meaning of the first published White Paper of 2018 for the future behaviours of the PRC. The author reviews the interests of the PRC in the High North, and the political objectives and means. The article pays special attention to the origins of Chinese policy in the Arctic, including the national strategy, expert discourse and regional specifics. The author discusses the role of the Chinese public and private actors for the implementation of national achievements in the circumpolar region. The article examines Chinese interpretations of key international documents regulating activities in the Arctic, and the significance of these interpretations for the implementation of the PRC policy. The special emphasis is made of the diplomacy features and the role of the 'soft' and 'hard' power when China is interacting with different actors. The author explores the interconnection of the White Paper 'China's Arctic policy' with the implementation of the 'Arctic Silk Road'. As an outcome, the author indicates principles explaining China's Arctic behaviours in the long-term perspective.