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Is an essay on the two approaches to hermeneutic analyses of a visual text. The author addresses the "Old man with his grandson" by Domenico Ghirlandaio as a visual text that needs understanding and interpretation. The first approach is based on the creation of a new, quasi­artistic reality in the form of a dialogue in the classroom; it provides the holistic approach to understanding as a reconstruction­experience. The second one implements the proper hermeneutical analysis and involves tackling the interrelation of the basic hermeneutic concepts of "text" and "context". Interpretations that apply this strictly logical method resemble the process of "preparation" and lose much in terms of the holistic humanistic approach. The author puts a question: which of the two approaches is deeper and more meaningful? A reader is to make a judgement.

The author analyzes the most urgent problems of the Western Circassians (the Shapsugs of the Caucasian Black Sea coast and the Adighe of the Republic of Adigey) caused by the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Krasnodar Territory, as well as the religious context that took shape after the election of the new mufti of the Republic of Adigey in December 2012. The article is based on ethnographic field polls carried out in areas populated by Western Circassians, leading the author to conclude that the government should pay more attention to the social, economic, and cultural problems of the Shapsugs of the Black Sea coastal area and concentrate on preventing Islamic radicalization in the Republic of Adigey.

This article, which is based on materials found in three French archives, looks at several scientific questions relating to the activities of Caucasian émigrés in France in the 1920-1930s. The author concludes that Russians preferred to invite émigrés from the Caucasus to their Masonic lodges who had either served in the Russian army, been employed as civil servants, or been elected to legislative bodies, and also took into account their attitude to Russia, the Russian culture, and the future of the Caucasus as part of the Russian Empire.

The author draws on private archives of Caucasian emigrants in France to discuss the changing relations between members of the Caucasian ethnicities (the Western Adighes in particular), on the one hand, and Russians and Cossacks, on the other, in 1920-1930s in the context of European emigration. Dr. Babich dwells in detail on the Adighes who, having arrived from the Kuban Region, felt a certain affinity with the Kuban Cossacks. At the early stage of their life in emigration they hoped to return with them to their native land freed from the Bolsheviks. As part of the Caucasian community, the Adighes were inevitably aware of their kinship with those who initially belonged to another political camp.

In the 1990s, the Northern Caucasus was swept by ideas of setting up different kinds of statehood which to a large extent determined the directions of the national, Islamic, and political movements. The problem of statehood assumed its most complicated form in Chechnia.

Addresses the issues of the actual state of bibliographic activities in the field of culture and the arts. The author analyses the ongoing evolution of attitudes and norms concerned with scientific information, research activities in general, and higher education in the humanities. The history of publishing current bibliographies on culture and the arts at the Russian State Library is shortly traced and it is argued that the access to information and knowledge is provided not only by online services and digital technologies in general but also by the systemised representation of information flows and content­related search supported by the current bibliography.

Introduction. The aim of this article is to study the peculiarities of the formation of the North Caucasian political elite in emigration in France in the 1920s–1930s. This problem is solved using the example of the fate of major figures in the Mountain Republic, A.-M. Chermoev and the Dzhabagiev brothers. The main question of this study is the development of political thought and ideas about the state building on the North Caucasus among North Caucasian emigrants in France in the 1920s–1930s. Until 1917, the political development of the peoples in the North Caucasus was connected with Islam (Imam Shamil and his naibs, Muslim congresses, and the Muslim fraction in the State Duma). However, with emigration, the principles of the formation of the North Caucasian political elite and their views and activities were changed. Methods and materials. The study was prepared on the basis of the historical method with the primary archival sources, which were identified by the author in France (public and private archives) and in Russia. Analysis. The author of this article studied the desire of the North Caucasian leaders to form an alliance with the figures from Transcaucasia in order to create a single state and the principle of secularism in state building. These tendencies led to conflicts within the North Caucasian political elite, which they tried to resolve with the involvement of mediators – Transcaucasian leaders. Results. From the point of view of the development of the political culture of the peoples of the North Caucasus, political leaders of this region in emigration could make very big success in the formation of the North Caucasian political culture (political thought, political activity).

The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) 2019 is an assessment of the quality of the Ukrainian PFM system at the subnational level of and monitors the results achieved through PFM reforms undertaken since the 2015 central government PEFA assessment. More specifically, the PEFA assessment measures which processes and institutions contribute to the achievement of desirable budget outcomes, aggregate fiscal discipline, strategic allocation of resources, and efficient service delivery. The main purpose of the 2019 PEFA assessment is to provide the government of Ukraine with an objective and up-to-date diagnostic of the public financial management performance at the oblast level of subnational government based on the latest internationally recognized PEFA methodology. This assessment covers the Khmelnytskyi oblast administration which consists of seventeen budgetary institution