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Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of'Paper Dreams'by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Russia) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

Scrinium: Revue de Patrologie, d'Hagiographie Critique et d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, established in 2005, is an international multilingual scholarly periodical devoted to patristics, critical hagiography, and Church history. This volume contains a partial publication of the papers of the 3rd Conference of the Asian Pacific Early Christian Studies Society which was focused on patrology, with special attention paid to patristic biblical interpretation.

The paper provides an overall view of communications across various areas of economic policy, aiming to help country authorities as they increasingly use communications as a policy tool in its own right. The paper identifies frontier communications challenges, drawing on a large body of research on the salient issues. Although communications can never be a substitute for good policies, economic reforms are more likely to fail or even be reversed if they are not understood or accepted by those whom they affect.

The use of electronic transferable records may bring a number of benefits to commerce due to speed and security of transmission, the possibility of reusing data and of automating certain transactions through “smart contracts”. Those features may be of particular interest for the finance and transport business sectors. Particularly relevant for developing countries is the possibility to establish a market for electronic warehouse receipts, which, in turn, may facilitate farmers'access to credit. However, an adequate legislative framework is necessary to provide certainty on the legal status of electronic transferable records and therefore enable their use. Building on existing UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce, and namely on the principles of functional equivalence and of technology neutrality underpinning those texts, the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records aims at legally enabling dematerialisation of transferable documents and instruments such as bills of lading, promissory notes, bills of exchange and warehouse receipts. It does so by setting forth the requirements for the equivalence between paper-based transferable documents and instruments, on the one hand, and electronic transferable records, on the other hand. Thus, the Model Law allows transposing the notion of “possession” in an electronic environment. The Model Law provides also guidance on the assessment of the reliability of the method used to manage the electronic transferable record, on change of medium (electronic to paper and the reverse), and on cross-border issues, among others. Being technology-neutral, the Model Law may accommodate the use of emerging technologies such as those based on distributed ledgers or blockchain technology. The Model Law is accompanied by an Explanatory Note to assist States in enacting its provisions and to offer guidance to other users of the text.

Korehito Kurahara and “Proletarian Realism”: Proletarian Literature in Japan in 1920s. This paper examines the proletarian literature movement that emerged in Japan in the 1920s, focusing on Korehito Kurahara, a leading proponent. Kurahara studied Russian literature and his theory, “proletarian realism,” was based on concepts promoted by the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). The paper analyzes two of Kurahara’s works from which proletarian realism originated. Both works are based on arguments between leaders of the proletarian writers’ organization and A. Volonsky. After Kurahara, Japan attempted to interpret proletarian literature from the perspective of literary history, which Kurahara incorporated into Japanese literature based on RAPP discussions. This suggests that Japanese proletarian literary theory developed under the influence of the Soviet Union.

The textbook “The Cultural History of Rossiya (Russia)” addressed to foreign students of the level A2–B2 is a brief discussion of the Russian cultural, scientific, artistic contributions to the universal culture of our civilization. The authors used the concept approach when selecting the materials for this textbook. They chose the facts, the names, the cultural events that had a defining role in forming the image of modern Rossiya (Russia). The textbook gives a retrospective coverage of the topics related to the main course of development of Russian cultural history: Slavic pagan history, the role of Christianity in the genesis of the Russian literary language and Russian classical literature; development of trades and crafts, urban development, creation of original artistic schools. The book is discussing the role of Russian literature, theater, cinematography, visual arts, music, science, philosophy and humanities in the world culture. A separate chapter is dedicated to geography and ethnography of modern Rossiya (Russia). The authors emphasized those Russian facts, persons, scientific and artistic schools that are widely known in the world. The provided translation into Czech language of difficult words and the key accent marks would facilitate for students the reading of the original Russian text. The textbook provides questions and assignments for classes and homework. Sample paper topics are proposed for students at the end of each chapter. The textbook is supplied with a Name Index, Subject Index, References, and Recommended Reading. There is an expanded electronic version of the textbook including additional color illustrations and music pieces. The electronic version includes expanded assignments which enhances the methodological content. The textbook can be addressed to university, college and high school students, teachers, persons doing research in culture and ethnography, experts in cross-cultural communication and to all those interested in Slavic history and Russian culture. The authors put in a conscientious effort and did their best to produce an interesting and useful reading.

This book presents research papers written by teachers of the Department of Finance and Credit at the Omsk branch of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. It is dedicated to study the current problems of sustainable development of the Russian Federation in light of the unstable economy. Particular attention is paid to the improvement of the efficiency of the state and municipal management system and their financial support as well as to the functioning of the financial and credit system of the Russian Federation under modern conditions. This book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, pupils, graduates, entrepreneurs, and workers in the area of state and municipal management, dealing with economic and social problems.

Collection of papers “Current issues of the Russian language teaching XII” is devoted to issues of methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, to issues of linguistics and literary science. It is a result of the international scientific conference of the same name which took place on 9–11 May 2016 in Brno (Czech Republic).

The sixth volume of the "Communications" of the German-Russian Historical Commission includes papers presented at the 2012 Hamburg Colloquium. Presented bilingually – as always – the fifteen essays by prominent German and Russian historians and cultural scholars examine a broad range of cultural interactions between Germany and Russia.

The journal'Ural-Altaic studies'is concerned with linguistic matters, connected with the Uralic and Altaic languages. It is bilingual; all papers are published in both Russian and English.

Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume consists of three parts. The first part contains papers of the National Committee of Estonian Slavicists for the 15th International Congress of Slavicists in Minsk, Belarus, focusing on current problems in Slavic linguistics. Papers in the second and third part of the volume are dedicated to Slavic lexicology and lexicography, and the problems of Slavic syntax and translation studies, respectively. Papers are published in Russian, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Yugoslav-Rusyn.

Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is the annual publication of the Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences’s project for 2022. It includes papers from the international conference of the same name held in Moscow on December 1–3, 2021. The book includes twelve articles by Russian and Israeli scholars who work on the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional traditions. The question of the perception of professionals in culture falls under the opposition “one’s own/another’s,” where belonging to “one’s own” or a “foreign community or class” becomes a defining marker. Traditionally, “social strangers,” to which representatives of various professions belong, were assigned a special role in calendar, magical, and occasional rites. Thus, professionals and social marginals were not considered outcasts: society assigned them a particular place and role, delegating special cultural functions to them. Like previous publications in this series, Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is notable for the large amount of field and archival material that it makes publically available for the first time.

In 1996, the Russian Federation became a member of the Council of Europe. Two years later, the Russian parliament ratified the Council's major document—the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). These papers were presented at a conference at Yekaterinburg in spring 2001. The collection represents a snapshot of Russian and Western approaches to human rights protection at a moment when Russia was going through an adaptation of the political system created by Boris Yeltsin to the new modes of state-society relations being introduced by Vladimir Putin.Contents: Sergey Alexeyev on human rights and Modernity; Rainer Arnold on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; Valery Mikhailenko on ethnic separatism; Julia Kharlamova on the impossibility of an ECHR-implementation in Russia; Yekaterina Khodzhayeva on human rights discourses in Tatarstan's mass media; Anatoly Azarov on the Russians'knowledge about the ECHR; Manja Hussner on the incorporation of international treaties into Russian law; Marat Salikov on the Constitutional Court; Anton Burkov on the detention of mentally ill persons; Igor Shirmanov on ambiguities in Russian legal norms; Olga Selikhova on human rights issues in the regions; Olga Aleksenko on the Human Rights Commission of Rostov; Yelena Goncharova on the right to a fair trial; Tatyana Gladkova on the Sverdlovsk Oblast Ombudsman; Andrey Lyamzin on Yekaterinburg's detention system; Andreas Umland with Oxana Stouppo on Western policies towards Russia.

The paper is about Sergej Ivanovič Zarudnyj, a central figure in Tsar Alexander II’s “great reforms”. Descended from the family of a Cossack staršyna from Sloboda Ukraine, Zarudnyj had a brillant career in the imperial capital as a engaged reformer of Russia’s backwards legal system. His cultural origins, his family’s history, and his education at Kharkiv University deeply affected his translation work and legal discourse; in both of these spheres, he aimed to introduce and popularize the products of Italian legal culture in the Russian Empire.

The paper analyses the general factual value of the imperfective verbs in Russian and Bulgarian. The first part examines the three main types of the general factual meaning in the past (‘referential’, ‘existential’, and ‘atelic’). We show that in Bulgarian these meanings are rendered by imperfective verbs in the aorist, perfect, and imperfect tense respectively. The second part is dedicated to the future tense. In Russian, the general factual reading of the analytical future has many restrictions while in Bulgarian the general factual meaning is the main meaning of the imperfective future.

In the paper morphological processes for creating aspectual pairs in Resian are discussed. A distinction is made between original Slavic verbs and verbs originating from other languages. In the former case the most productive process is prefixation (and perfectivation), whereas in the latter case for verbs of Romance origin the most productive process is suffixation (and imperfectivation). Verbs of Germanic origin also allow prefixation.

The paper is concerned with the history of the Russian verb past’ ‘fall’, which until the mid-19th century used to have biaspectual present forms. The analysis deals both with the historical motivation for this biaspectual behaviour and the factors behind its loss. The most important stage of the process seems to be the gradual disappearance of the primary spatial usages of past’: these came to be expressed by a newly created aspectual pair, padat’/upast’. The latter is close to the so-called two-stem perfectivation verbs, which I examined in more detail in my previous work.

This paper discusses the morphological means used to express verbal aspect in Resian. A marked difference can be observed between the native Slavic verbal lexicon, which mainly shows prefixation, thereby creating perfective forms, and that of Romance origin, where prefixation is almost completely absent and suffixation abounds, thereby creating imperfective forms.

This paper deals with Slavic micro-languages in situations of absolute language contact with German (Upper Sorbian, Burgenland Croatian) and Italian (Molise Slavic, Resian). The Slavic way of forming aspectual pairs has been preserved throughout, whereas aspect usage has changed. The behaviour of prefixes in borrowings varies according to the individual contact situations: Sorbian and Burgenland Croatian form prefixed partners even from loan verbs in contrast to Resian and Molise Slavic, borrowing telic verbs as perfectives and forming their imperfective partners by means of suffixation.

The aim of this paper is to compare the superlexical prefixes of Russian and Bulgarian. The main focus is on delimitative and attenuative po- in derived PF forms as well as in secondary IPF verbs. Using the Russian-Bulgarian parallel corpus, I show that there is a functional parallelism between PF and IPF delimitatives in Russian and Bulgarian. The semantic similarity between delimitative and attenuative meaning is the basis for expressing special pragmatic functions by means of both PF and IPF poattenuatives in Bulgarian, while attenuative po-verbs in Russian express specific pragmatic meanings primarily via PF forms.

This paper deals with the different meanings and functions of prefixes in perfective verbs derived from the indeterminate motion verbs chodit’, nosit’ and ezdit’. In some expressions with transitive verbs (e. g. vychodit’, donosit’ and naezdit’) the prefixes are lexical. Their function consists in creating accomplishment verbs with a resultative meaning. On the other side, the prefixes po-, za- and ot- in such verbs as pochodit’, zachodit’, ot’’ezdit’ are superlexical. They have the function of expressing additional meanings which refer to the duration, inception and cessation of the action.

This paper attempts to identify the factors that either limit the passivization and decausation of Russian idioms containing transitive verbs of movement. Most of these verbs are highly subject to passivization in free structures and produce causative-decausative pairs. But in phraseological units their transformation is not always possible. The purpose of this research is to reveal the semantic and grammatical features that restrict the above transformations, to identify their primary or auxiliary role and to determine the existence of common features that resist both types of transformation.

Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume continues the tradition of publishing studies on the history and culture of the Old Believers in Estonia. It includes research papers on the topic, as well as transcripts of recorded texts from the Old Believers. The special focus of the volume is on the island Piirissaar, its history, architecture, people and their language, customs and traditions.

This publication provides a model academic curriculum covering the entire spectrum of nuclear security topics for a master's degree programme or for an academic certificate programme in nuclear security. The first edition, entitled Educational Programmes in Nuclear Security, was published in 2010. Since then, the body of knowledge in the field of nuclear security has grown substantially and the IAEA Nuclear Security Series has expanded to cover more topics. The current publication takes into account the latest IAEA guidance, as well as feedback from the International Nuclear Security Education Network (INSEN) community and other international experts. The publication can be used by university curriculum developers as well as faculty and instructors from institutions that are implementing or considering educational programmes in nuclear security.

To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national security, it is important for life science data to be collected, digitized, secured, and shared responsibly. To exchange experiences and collaboratively discuss best practices for protecting life science data and promoting responsible data sharing in Central Asia, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop series titled Engaging Scientists in Central Asia on Life Science Data Governance Principles, held virtually across six 2-hour sessions in May and June 2023. The workshop series brought together early-career and established scientists, along with experts in data science, cybersecurity, and law, from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, the United States, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere to explore existing policies and practices, gaps and limitations, fundamental concepts relevant to data governance, and opportunities for improvement in data sharing practices and governance structures.

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Guaranteed to enrich a toddler's vocabulary, this simple and fun series of bilingual board books is ideal for helping children discover a foreign language. Highlighting more complex concepts that go beyond colors and numbers, titles in the series feature animals, fruit, home, and vegetables. This collection combines photographs, bright illustrations, and dual-language words in clear, bold text. Suitable for both individuals and groups, these books are a child's perfect introduction to exploring other cultures.

This is the Volume 3 of the First Russian Reader for Beginners series, which features easy-to-read texts that are both simple and amusing. The aspect of Russian verbs that indicates the completeness or duration of an action is explained with a lot of examples. The translations are provided on the same page, allowing readers to effortlessly learn the meaning of any unfamiliar words. Through repeated exposure to frequently used vocabulary and phrases in the book, readers can quickly pick up new Russian words. Without even realizing it, readers begin to remember these words and phrases, making it easier for them to recall them in the future. The book is equipped with online audio tracks that can be accessed through QR codes, making it easy to listen to the content without manually entering web addresses. This book has already helped many people unlock their language learning potential, and by dedicating just twenty minutes a day to studying it, readers can achieve success in their language learning journey.

This is the Volume 2 of the First Russian Reader for Beginners series, which features easy-to-read texts that are both simple and amusing. The translations are provided on the same page, allowing readers to effortlessly learn the meaning of any unfamiliar words. Through repeated exposure to frequently used vocabulary and phrases in the book, readers can quickly pick up new Russian words. Without even realizing it, readers begin to remember these words and phrases, making it easier for them to recall them in the future. The book is equipped with online audio tracks that can be accessed through QR codes, making it easy to listen to the content without manually entering web addresses. This book has already helped many people unlock their language learning potential, and by dedicating just twenty minutes a day to studying it, readers can achieve success in their language learning journey.

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers'Association. This bilingual edition is an intriguing solution for those wishing to learn Russian and English. Изучать русский и английский языки путем увлекательного чтения с высоким интеллектуальным тонусом поможет эта книга билингва Джозефины Тэй «Дочь времени». Герой романа — полицейский Алан Грант, который, оказавшись временно прикованным к кровати, расследует убийство племянников английского короля Ричарда III. Грант, который увлекался тем, что по фотографиям мог многое сказать о характере человека, решил изучить принесённые его подругой, Мартой Халлард, репродукции с портретов людей, с которыми связана какая-то тайна. Среди них его привлекает изображение короля Ричарда III, за которым в истории закрепилась слава злодея, тирана, деспота и убийцы своих племянников — принцев Эдуарда и Ричарда. По версии, опубликованной в 1990 году британской Ассоциацией писателей-криминалистов (CWA), книги «100 лучших детективных романов всех времён», «Дочь времени» является лучшим произведением жанра криминальный роман. Перевод Дмитрия Кабацкого. 1. Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time 2. Джозефина Тэй. Дочь времени Andrii Ponomarenko © Ukraine — Kyiv 2023

В данном документе содержатся технические рекомендации, касающиеся включения лесного хозяйства и агролесоводства в национальные планы адаптации. В нем также подчеркивается важность согласованности политики и участия уязвимых групп в процессе принятия решений.

Студийные, концертные и сборные альбомы Pink Floyd, а также сольные работы участников группы – тщательный творческий разбор. Книга охватывает период с середины шестидесятых годов прошлого века до 2022 года включительно.

Eta kniga — rezul'tat mnogoletnego issledovaniia o seksualizirovannom nasilii nad zhenshchinami v Vengrii vo Vtoroi mirovoi voine. S pomoshch'iu arkhivnykh istochnikov, interv'iu i lichnykh dnevnikov Andrea Peto vosstanavlivaet dramatichnyi opyt vengerskikh zhenshchin, udeliaia osoboe vnimanie prestupleniiam Krasnoi armii v Vengrii — teme, kotoraia prakticheski otsutstvuet v rossiiskom publichnom prostranstve. Transnatsional'nyi podkhod pozvoliaet Peto podcherknut'universal'nost'uiazvlennogo polozheniia zhenshchin vo vremia voiny. Kniga analiziruet seksualizirovannoe nasilie, sovershennoe armiiami SSSR i natsistskoi Germanii v Vengrii, i sravnivaet ego s nasiliem so storony soiuznykh voisk v zone okkupatsii na Zapadnom fronte, ekspluatatsiei'zhenshchin dlia utesheniia'v iaponskikh voennykh bordeliakh v 1931–1945 gg., a takzhe prestupleniiami protiv zhenshchin vo vremia Iugoslavskikh voin v 1991–2001 gg. Vo vtoroi chasti knigi Peto pytaetsia otvetit'na voprosy: Kakoi sled seksualizirovannoe nasilie vremen Vtoroi mirovoi voiny ostavilo v kollektivnoi pamiati grazhdan Rossii, Vengrii, Pol'shi, Germanii i Ukrainy? Kakie faktory vliiaiut na to, kak imenno oni pomniat — ili ne pomniat — o nem?

A private detective finds himself on an unexpected journey, pursuing the girl he's in love with. As a former air force pilot, he's about to encounter aspects of human nature that challenge his understanding. Join us on this adventure, perfect for readers in Russian language at the Elementary and Pre-intermediate levels, as we explore the complexities of love and the human spirit. The method utilizes the natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. Sentences from previous chapters are brought back around so you do not forget them. This incremental learning makes it easy to progress. The sentences are relatable and practical so you're learning useful Russian vocabulary and sentence structures. There is vocabulary for each chapter at the beginning so you can become familiar before you start and can refer back to easily. With the English translation on the same page, you can effortlessly learn what any unfamiliar words mean. You can quickly pick up new Russian vocabulary and phrases that are used over and over in the book. As you read the book, your brain begins to remember words and phrases simply because you are exposed to them several times. You do not even realize, until you must recall what you have learned, that you have already learned the new words and phrases. The audio tracks are available inclusive online. With the help of QR codes, call up an audio file without manually entering web addresses. Twenty minutes a day is the rule for success!

Война против Украины, развязанная режимом Путина, несет смерть, разрушения и страдания украинскому народу. Но эта война означает также и для России цивилизационную катастрофу. Группа из шестнадцати российских критически мыслящих интеллектуалов (философов, социологов, историков, культурологов) объединилась в этом сборнике, чтобы публично возвысить свой свободный голос на русском языке. Авторы находятся в России, в Украине, Европе и США. Но они солидарны в стремлении представить критический анализ происходящей катастрофы. В своих статьях они характеризуют эту катастрофу с этической, социологической и антропологической точек зрения и посвящают себя рассмотрению интеллектуальных факторов, которые сделали ее возможной. Der vom Putin-Regime entfesselte Krieg gegen die Ukraine bringt Tod, Zerstörung und Leid über das ukrainische Volk. Dieser Krieg bedeutet aber auch für Russland eine zivilisatorische Katastrophe. Eine Gruppe aus sechzehn kritischen russischen Intellektuellen (Philosophen, Soziologen, Historiker, Kulturwissenschaftler) hat sich in diesem Band versammelt, um ihre freie Stimme öffentlich in russischer Sprache zu artikulieren. Die Autoren leben in Russland, der Ukraine, Europa und den USA. Aber sie verbindet die Absicht, eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme der Katastrophe vorzulegen. In den Beiträgen charakterisieren sie diese aus ethischer, soziologischer und anthropologischer Sicht und widmen sich der Analyse der intellektuellen Faktoren, die diese Krise ermöglicht haben.

В этой детской книге вы познакомитесь с Амандой, маленькой девочкой, которой предстоит многое узнать о том, как нужно трудиться и как сделать, чтобы её мечты стали реальностью. Присоединяйтесь к Аманде в этом чудесном путешествии и узнайте вместе с ней, как найти свою цель и как достичь её. Вы увидите, как она сталкивается с трудностями, но никогда не сдаётся на пути к своей цели. «Мечта Аманды» — мотивационная книга для детей и их родителей. Это первая книга из серии мотивационных рассказов, которые помогут вашим детям выработать навыки и принципы для счастливой, содержательной и успешной жизни.

В этой детской книге вы познакомитесь с девочкой по имени Аманда, которая постоянно растрачивала своё время впустую. Так было вплоть до того дня, когда произошло нечто волшебное, и Аманда наконец поняла, что время – это самое ценное, что у нас есть; если тратить время попусту, оно будет утрачено навсегда. Для того, чтобы вернуть потерянное время, Аманда отправилась в путешествие и узнала о том, как правильно распоряжаться своим временем.

Механизмы альтернативного урегулирования споров в случае корпоративных споров, связанных с авторским правом и контентом в цифровой среде Доклад о результатах опроса ВОИС — MCST

This book offers a synchronic description of the dialect of a village in the western part of the Pskov oblast (north-western Russia). The dialects spoken there have long since attracted the interest of linguists. This is mainly due to features of the Old Novgorod dialect preserved in that area, such as the absence of the Second Palatalisation and cokan'e, i.e. non-distinction of dental and palatal affricates. The dialect of Ostrovcy shows a high concentration of such features. The book is relevant in yet another respect: it is one of the very few extensive descriptions of a Russian dialect. The description is based on fieldwork by the author in recent years. It concentrates on phonology, morphology and lexicon, but also gives an account of the most interesting syntactic and semantic characteristics.

Альфред Крофтс, доктор наук Денверского университета, специализирующийся на истории дальневосточных стран, и Перси Б...

В данной книге рассматривается проблематика невербальных средств при устном и письменном переводе, в особенности их специфика в рамках славянских культур. Описывается место и роль внесловесных сообщений в межличностной коммуникации в целом, их появление и вид в переводных текстах, предлагаются методы переводческих решений и демонстрируется важность их межкультурных отличий для межязыкового общения. Особое внимание при этом уделяется жестикуляции с культурно зафиксированным соотношением между формой и содержанием. В качестве иллюстративного материала используются примеры чешских переводов русской художественной литературы и устных переводных дискурсов. Книгу замыкает обзор специализированных атласов жестикуляции, мимики и поз, которые служат практическими пособиями для переводчиков.

Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students is a multi-level textbook for learners of Russian that targets contemporary films in Russian. These films will deepen learners'understanding of today's lifestyles in the post-Soviet space as well as add to their understanding of Soviet and Russian history and culture. They represent a variety of genres ranging from romantic comedy to art-house cinema. These films present standard Russian and are appropriate for various audiences.Russian through Film builds on students'listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding their cultural literacy. The textbook aims at improving learners'ability to analyze films by carefully investigating the films'plot, structure, conflicts, and main characters. Through task-based, inquiry-based, and project-based activities, the textbook focuses on developing learners'skills in various modes of discourse (narration, description, comparison, explanation, and summary).The textbook can serve as a primary text for a course on contemporary Russian films or a supplementary textbook in intermediate and advanced level classes. Separate chapters may be included in thematic classes on youth culture, Soviet history, sports, geography, folklore, contemporary social issues, and the arts.

As an innovation policy tool, business incubators (BIs) have great potential to catalyse innovative entrepreneurship by providing incentives, support, connections, and an enabling environment for people who want to develop and try out new ideas. Experimenting with ideas to create value and solve problems more systematically is essential for sustainable development and is therefore high on the policy agenda among the transition economies of the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), i.e. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This handbook reflects upon the lessons learned from incubator practices around the world and in transition economies, providing examples of initiatives in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, including the respective roles of universities, government, and the private sector. The recommendations and tools here target national and local governments, universities, as well as those parties involved in the development and management of business incubators and similar institutions, such as pre-incubators, accelerators, and entrepreneurship support centres in the SPECA countries.

Где именно сосредоточена инновационная деятельность? Ответ на вопрос, как за последние десятилетия изменилась география инноваций, содержится в Докладе о положении в области интеллектуальной собственности в мире 2022 года, подготовленном по итогам анализа миллионов патентов и научных публикаций.