scholarly journals „Zoo” i „makieta”. O dominujących sposobach pisania o Birobidżanie.

Adeptus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Maksimowska
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Pipe Dream ◽  
Negative Sense

A “zoo” and “mock-up”: On the most frequent ways of portraying BirobidzhanThe article analyses the most common ways of depicting Birobidzhan by journalists, bloggers, film-makers and writers. Established in 1934, The Jewish Autonomous Region is an administrative unit within the Russian Federation. Foreign visitors and visitors from other parts of Russia usually perceive it as “exotic”, “funny”, “absurd”, “grotesque” or “artificial”. Its history is seen as a “failure”, especially when compared to Israel. In various representations, the notion of “utopia” is used in a very narrow, negative sense of “unrealistic pipe dream”. This orientalisation results in the objectification of local residents and delegitimisation of their practices of making sense of the region's history. „Zoo” i „makieta”. O dominujących sposobach pisania o BirobidżanieW artykule przeanalizowane zostały najczęstsze sposoby opisywania Birobidżanu przez dziennikarzy, blogerów, filmowców i pisarzy. Utworzony w 1934 r. Żydowski Obwód Autonomiczny wciąż istnieje jako jednostka administracyjna w ramach Federacji Rosyjskiej. Zazwyczaj traktowany jest przez odwiedzających z innych części Rosji lub z zagranicy jako „egzotyczny”, „śmieszny”, „absurdalny”, „groteskowy” czy „sztuczny”. Jego historia postrzegana jest jako „porażka”, zwłaszcza w porównaniu z historią Izraela. Autorzy rozmaitych przedstawień Birobidżanu posługują się także koncepcją „utopii” w jej zawężonym, negatywnym rozumieniu, jako „nierealnej mrzonki”. Orientalizacja Żydowskiego Obwodu Autonomicznego przyczynia się do uprzedmiotowienia jego mieszkańców i delegitymizowania ich praktyk nadawania sensu historii regionu.

Localization of Ethnic Groups in the Regions as a Factor in Cross-Regional Variations in Voting for United Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-153
Author(s):  
Eleonora Minaeva ◽  
Petr Panov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
Political Machines ◽  
Ethnic Networks ◽  
Electoral Authoritarianism ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
The Russian Federation

Abstract In the context of electoral authoritarianism, political mobilization is likely to be a more reasonable explanation of cross-regional variations in voting for the party of power than the diversity of the regions’ policy preferences. In the Russian Federation, the political machines which coordinate various activities aimed at mobilizing people to vote for United Russia demonstrate different degrees of effectiveness. This article examines the structural factors that facilitate machine politics focusing on ethnic networks. Although strong ethnic networks are more likely to arise if the members of an ethnic group live close to each other, and at the same time separately from other ethnic groups, so far researchers have neglected to consider the localization of ethnic groups within the territory of an administrative unit as a factor. In order to fill the gap, we have created an original geo-referenced dataset of the localization of non-Russian ethnic groups within every region of the Russian Federation, and developed special GIS (geographic information systems) techniques and tools to measure them in relation to the Russian population. This has made it possible to include the localization of ethnic groups as a variable in the study of cross-regional differences in voting for United Russia. Our analysis finds that the effect of non-Russians’ share of the population on voting for UR increases significantly if non-Russian groups are at least partially geographically segregated from Russians within a region.

scholarly journals Assessment of food security of the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation

2022 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 04013
Author(s):  
A.N. Pestryakov ◽  
N.V. Sbrodova ◽  
M.A. Albycheva ◽  
E.A. Reutova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Zone ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Russian Federation

Ensuring food security and promoting the development of agriculture are included in the priority goals of sustainable development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation until 2035. The structural complexity and multidimensionality of food security in the region requires a clear methodology for its assessment. The article presents the results of a study of food security in the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. This study is based on an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of existing methods for assessing food security in the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. The authors proposed a methodology for assessing the food security of the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, which makes it possible to translate a phased multivariate analysis (the methodology was tested on the example of the Chukotka Autonomous Region).

From Kosovo to Crimea and Beyond: On Territorial Integrity, Unilateral Secession and Legal Neutrality in International Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone F. van den Driest
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
International Court ◽  
Unilateral Declaration ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

In the aftermath of the Ukrainian Revolution, Ukraine’s autonomous region of Crimea declared independence and filed an application to subsequently join the Russian Federation. In seeking to justify these acts, both the Crimean authorities and the Russian Federation referred to international law, including the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence. In this Advisory Opinion, the Court indeed found that the principle of territorial integrity merely applies in the relationship between States and concluded that general international law does not contain a prohibition on unilateral declarations of independence. These findings and the interpretation of the Advisory Opinion as put forward by the Crimean and Russian authorities, however, raise pertinent questions. This article therefore aims to shed light on the scope of the principle of territorial integrity of States and its implications for the legality of and perceived legal neutrality concerning unilateral secession under international law.

Этнопоэтические константы как показатель текстовой репрезентации ключевых звеньев сказочного нарратива (на примере синьзян-ойратской и калмыцких версий сказки об Ёёт Мерген Темне)

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Evdokia E. Khabunovа ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Content Model ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic

The article discusses the text realization of the ethnopoetic constants in the fairytale narrative of the Xinjiang Oirats and Russian Kalmyks. The study is based on the theory of literary constants of V. M. Gatsak that are defined as “manifestational-verbal matter with ‘core’ overarching words and word-combinations”. The analysis covers national versions (Xinjiang Oirat and Kalmyk) of the fairytale “Yoot Mergen Temen” recorded at different times from different storytellers on the territories of the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region of PRC and the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation. It is pointed out that constants help to identify the key links in the structural and content model of the fairytale narrative and determine the ethnic specific character of the folklore pieces of work.

Some Issues of Territorial Organization of State Power in Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
A. N. Rykov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
State Power ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Local State ◽  
Constituent Entity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article deals with the composition of territories and boundaries of administrative-territorial units, and the analysis carried out by the author leads to the conclusion that in contemporary Russian legal reality differences between the municipal-territorial and administrative-territorial organization of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation are formal and, to a certain degree, artificial. However, at the same time, when defining a number of the most important issues of human life as a circle of tasks being solved at the level of local self-government, that is, in essence, relying on the constitutional understanding of local self-government and offering residents (citizens) to decide for themselves, the federal legislator does not provide local people with the mechanisms of implementation of their right to local self-government, as well as it does not vest necessary powers in local self-government bodies. Territorial subdivisions of government bodies exercising their powers in the territories of municipalities are not accountable to the bodies of local self-government. The general conclusion is that, formally, the public authority in a municipality belongs to its inhabitants and is implemented by them through local self-government, and, in fact, it is exercised by local state bodies that exist in the state of "separation" from local residents.

scholarly journals Islamic Immaterial Culture and Ethnopolitical Symbols in Georgia and the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-98
Author(s):  
Babak Rezvani
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Coats Of Arms

This article discusses the ethno-political and immaterial cultural representations of Russia’s and Georgia’s Muslim minorities as reflected in their anthroponyms, toponyms, flags and coats of arms. It is obvious that Such representations reflect cultural expressions, as they may depict ethnic or religious symbols. Both Russia’s and Georgia’s attitudes towards Islamic cultural expressions are rather liberal. Symbols and names tell a lot about a people’s cultural freedom and orientation. However, it appears from research that religious practice and freedom do not necessarily correlate perfectly with representation of symbols. In accordance with the legacy of the Soviet nationalities policy, by which certain ethnic groups were afforded privileges in an autonomous region, the current representations of immaterial culture and ethno-political culture seem to have a territorial rationale.

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