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"This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past twenty years as capitalism has emerged in a post-socialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution" or possibly, the author suggests, overconsumption. It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive growth in the fashion retail market, how ideal lifestyles portrayed in glossy magazines and other media have contributed to this, as have changes in the structure of economic institutions and markets"--

Purpose
This paper aims to answer the questions of what clothing practices related to sustainable fashion can be observed in young consumers' daily lives in Finland's capital region and what prevents their further proliferation.


Design/methodology/approach
This is qualitative research that draws from 22 semi-structured interviews with high school students in the capital area of Finland. The data were analyzed with the use of thematic analysis, a flexible method of data analysis that allows for the extraction of categories from both theoretical concepts and data.


Findings
This paper contributes to studies of young people's consumption with the practice theory approach, putting forward the category of following sustainable fashion as an integrative practice. The three-element model of the practice theory allows answering the question of challenges that prevent the practice from shaping. The paper further advances this approach by identifying a list of context-specific dispersed practices incorporated into sustainable fashion.


Practical implications
The study suggests practical ways of improving clothing consumption based on the practice theory approach and findings from empirical research. Sustainable practices require competences, knowledge and skills that the school, as an institution working closely with high school students, could help develop.


Originality/value
The study contributes to the current studies of sustainability and youth culture of consumption with a practice theory approach and findings, related to a particular context of a country from Northern Europe.

In this paper, city-status settlements of the Trans-Baikal Territory are
considered. The Trans-Baikal Territory is a territorial entity of the Russian Federation
located in the south of Asian part of Russia. Cities of the Trans-Baikal Territory are
economic and cultural centres of regions; they play an important role in development
and support of the surrounding territory. In this paper, demographic, migration, social
and economic conditions of the cities are reviewed. The analysis of conditions in cities
has been performed on the basis of statistical data collected from the administrations of
the cities of the region and other published statistical materials on the basis of a
comparative geographical method, as well as a review of the literature. The generality of
tendencies in the social and economic situation and regional peculiarities of cities are
shown. In all cities of the region there is a decrease in the population. The paper
concludes that, by now, the issue of migration loss is the strategically important
development problem in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

This article analyses the migration and investment activity processes in
constituent entities of the Russian Federation located in the Siberian Federal District
(SFD). The research was performed on the basis of official statistical data with
geographical visual reference. The study was performed in the mono-specialized cities of
SFD regions on the basis of official statistics within the context of the creation of Priority
Social and Economic Development Areas (PSEDA). A negative migration balance is
registered in SFD regions and mono-specialized settlements. Investment activity in SFD
territories, their regional potentials and risks were analyzed. Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tomsk
Region, Irkutsk Region, Novosibirsk Region, and Kemerovo Region stand out among the
SFD regions by their investment activity level and social and economic development. At the
current stage of social and economic development, Priority Social and Economic
Development Areas can be successfully created in the regions which are the most
developed both industrially and innovatively and in the mono-specialized settlements with
the most favorable start conditions.

This article discusses the concept of sustainable fashion, by which is understood fashion produced and consumed with a responsible attitude towards people and the planet. Drawing on literature, the article traces controversies and paradoxes within this concept. Sustainable fashion is analyzed in the context of Scandinavian countries, where it has gained popularity not only among fashion designers. Sustainable fashion has been linked to the circular economy, a regenerative economic system based on principles of 'closed loops'; a transition to the circular economy has become one of the policy goals of the European Union as well as of nation states in Europe. On a practical level, the article looks at three cases of Scandinavian fashion brands, which implement different elements of sustainable fashion. Overall, the article contemplates the reasons for the popularity of sustainable fashion in Scandinavian countries, where governments, businesses and consumers have been showing a growing level of interest in it.

Alongside the Arab Spring, the'Occupy'anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011-12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia's case spearheaded by the'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores the media, including the internet, film, novels, and fashion, through which the protesters have expressed themselves; and considers the outcome of the movements, including the new forms of nationalism, intellectualism, and feminism put forward. Overall, the book shows how the Russian protest movements have suggested new directions for Russian - and global - politics.

This article belongs to the Section 2D and Carbon Nanomaterials. ; Filling of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and extraction of the encapsulated species from their cavities are perspective treatments for tuning the functional properties of SWCNT-based materials. Here, we have investigated sulfur-modified SWCNTs synthesized by the ampoule method. The morphology and chemical states of carbon and sulfur were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy, Raman scattering, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopies. Successful encapsulation of sulfur inside SWCNTs cavities was demonstrated. The peculiarities of interactions of SWCNTs with encapsulated and external sulfur species were analyzed in details. In particular, the donor–acceptor interaction between encapsulated sulfur and host SWCNT is experimentally demonstrated. The sulfur-filled SWCNTs were continuously irradiated in situ with polychromatic photon beam of high intensity. Comparison of X-ray spectra of the samples before and after the treatment revealed sulfur transport from the interior to the surface of SWCNTs bundles, in particular extraction of sulfur from the SWCNT cavity. These results show that the moderate heating of filled nanotubes could be used to de-encapsulate the guest species tuning the local composition, and hence, the functional properties of SWCNT-based materials. ; This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project 18-72-00017), the bilateral Program "Russian-Germany Laboratory at BESSY II" in the part of XPS and C K-edge NEXAFS measurements, and shared research center SSTRC on the basis of the Novosibirsk VEPP-4 - VEPP-2000 complex at BINP SB RAS, using equipment supported by project RFMEFI62119X0022 in the part of S K-edge NEXAFS measurements. R.A. acknowledges the support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MAT2016-79776-P, AEI/FEDER, EU), from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme under the project "ESTEEM3" (823717) and from the Government of Aragon and the European Social Fund under the project "Construyendo Europa desde Aragon" 2014–2020 (grant number E13_17R, FEDER, EU). ; Peer reviewed