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Статья посвящена фрагменту современной русской языковой картины мира, анализируемому на основе атрибутивной сочетаемости числительных, обозначающих десятилетние периоды российской истории (девяностые и нулевые). ; The article looks at a fragment of the modern Russian worldview, analyzed on the basis of attributive combinability of numerals denoting ten-year periods of Russian history (the 1990s and 2000s).

В статье рассматривается моделирование строительных метафор в политическом дискурсе М. С. Горбачева. ; In modern linguistics, studies of metaphors in political discourse are quite common, but among them there are relatively few in which the construction metaphor is an independent object of research. In particular, this metaphor has not also been considered in the political discourse of Mikhail Gorbachev. The existence of this lacuna dictates the urgency of this article devoted to the analysis of modeling of construction metaphors in the political discourse of Gorbachev.

In the past three decades, China's cities have experienced rapid urbanization in a transitional political and economic environment; correspondingly, the city image has become one of the most important symbols of the progress in Chinese development. Within the Chinese mainstream media, the transformation of the city image has long been heralded as a successful microcosm of Chinese political and economic reforms. However, the social reality behind the prosperous facade of the city's image is that city leaders are reshaping urban spaces to cater to the needs of the dominant class, multinational corporations, and global capitalism. Moreover, the construction of the city's image obfuscates the widening gap between rich and poor, class conflicts, and the reconstitution of capitalist class power. I hypothesize that the idea of the contemporary city image is a myth, and intend to reveal the meanings and connotations which the myth conceals. More specifically, I conduct a case study of the 2008 Beijing Olympic campaign by comparing the representation of the city image offered by mainstream and alternative media sources. I examine how the mainstream media helped to construct the myth in accordance with government directives and how it was contested within the alternative media. In this way, I explore the power relations and class struggle behind the myth from a social justice perspective.

Chapter 1 Background -- Chapter 2 Oil situation along with "the Belt and Road Initiative" and within GCC countries -- Chapter 3 Energy cooperation between China and GCC in the context of "the Belt and Road Initiative" -- Chapter 4 Maritime transportion security in the context of "the Belt and Road Initiative" -- Chapter 5 China's oil reserve from the view of oil supply chain -- Chapter 6 Risk analysis of energy cooperation between China and GCC under geopolitical view -- Chapter 7 Build joint oil stockpiling between GCC and China under "the Belt and Road Initiative" -- Chapter 8 Energy diplomacy and cooperation on oil stockpiling between China and GCC -- Chapter 9 Strategic thinking on energy cooperation between China and GCC under "the Belt and Road Initiative" -- Chapter 10 Conclusions and policy recommendations.

Based on Canadian Labour Force Survey data, we estimate the differential effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on seven labour market outcomes, and separate between recent and established immigrants relative to domestic-born Canadians. We also use Recentered Influence Function (RIF) unconditional quantile regressions to estimate the differential effects across the distribution of outcomes. We find that the pandemic had an adverse effect on the labour market outcomes for all workers, and that the adverse effects were generally larger for immigrants and especially recent immigrants as well as for immigrants at the bottom of the outcome distributions. The adverse effects were generally larger at the earliest waves of the pandemic, and for recent immigrants who were female, less educated, and those with child responsibilities, and for jobs at greater risk of contact with the pandemic.