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Based on the materials of ethno-sociological and ethno demographic studies from the Soviet and post-Soviet times, carried out by Russian and Moldavian scientists, the article presents a dynamic, socio-cultural image of a Gagauz woman. Different aspects of a modern woman's life are considered: her life values, attitude to labour, education, wealth, marriage and family. The article also raises questions about religion, ethnic identity, language skills, labour migration of Gagauz women, the transformation of gender stereotypes in Gagauz society. Powerful globalization processes, socio-economic and spiritual crisis, a high level of impoverishment among the population, as well as the pandemic, have greatly affected the worldview system of people. In the Gagauz society, which is now at the stage of transitioning from a traditional to a modern type of society, the most important moral values and spiritual and moral orientations of women have embodied traditional as well as innovative features. The dynamics of the Gagauz women's spiritual world is strongly influenced by social transformations related to international labour migration that has to a great extent changed the habitual gender roles in the Gagauz family, the existing models and stereotypes of men's and women's behavior, their statuses and relationships.

The paper focuses on how the decipherment of Maya writing by Yuri Knorozov was promoted in the context of Soviet science diplomacy in the 1950s, and the reaction to this discovery in the foreign public sphere. The process of informing about Knorozov's breakthrough in the study of Maya hieroglyphs began in the summer of 1952 in "Literaturnaya gazeta", even before the official publication of his article. In response, "The New York Times" published two comments in which the name of the young Russian scholar was mentioned for the first time. Particular interest was expressed in Mexico, where all major newspapers reacted to the news from USSR. This motivated the Soviet embassy to publish an abbreviated Spanish translation of Knorozov's article in their bulletin in 1953. This publication, in turn, contributed to the spread of information both among a wider audience and among the academic community. After the defense of Knorozov's dissertation, when he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation), a new promotion campaign started. His report on the decipherment with an English translation was distributed to the participants of the 10th Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome (1955), and later he presented his discoveries at the 32nd International Congress of Americanists in Copenhagen, which caused a wide international responce. Publications in the Soviet public journals such as "Sovietsky Soyuz" (Soviet Union) and "Novoe Vremy a" (The New Times) played a special role. They paid less attention to the ideological confrontation and highlighted the achievements of Soviet historical science. By the end of the 1950s, the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs became one of the main elements of the positive image of Soviet science.

The study of the evolution of altruism and cooperation in human society is one of the central topics of modern anthropology. A promising approach to solving this problem is a comparative study of the behavior of cooperation and sharing of limited resources in a cross-cultural and ontogenetic perspective. The aim of this study was to analyze the principles of sharing the limited resources among children in two traditional African societies: Hadza and Iraqw. A statistical assessment of the contribution of a number of factors to the adoption of prosocial, egoistic and altruistic decisions in the direction of members of own group and strangers is presented. The sample was represented by 240 children and adolescents (130 Hadza and 110 Iraqw). Studies were conducted in rural areas of Northern Tanzania. The current results, along with the data on Meru children, obtained by us earlier, revealed that positive social selectivity (friendship) has an important stimulating role in making decisions of a prosocial and altruistic nature in children and adolescents in traditional African societies. For hunter-gatherers, the percentage of individuals focused on selfish and mixed sharing strategies, both in direction of friends and strangers, was higher compared with farmers. Along with that, we demonstrated a positive association between the adoption of altruistic decisions about sharing and the subjective happiness. Presumably, such association is a human universal.