The Online Media Environment of the North Caucasus: Issues of Preservation and Accessibility in a Zone of Political and Ideological Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Kit Condill
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Web Content ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Additional Risk ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Languages

Abstract:As one of the world's most ethnolinguistically-diverse and conflict-prone regions, the North Caucasus presents particular challenges for librarians seeking to preserve its rich and varied online news media content. This content is generated in multiple languages in multiple political and ideological contexts, both within the North Caucasus region and abroad. While online news media content in general is ephemeral, poorly-preserved, and difficult to access via any single search interface or search strategy, content relating to the North Caucasus is at additional risk due to ongoing insurgency/counterinsurgency activity, as well as historical, political and linguistic factors. Various options for preserving and searching North Caucasus web content are explored.

scholarly journals Understanding RT’s Audiences: Exposure Not Endorsement for Twitter Followers of Russian State-Sponsored Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 194016122098069
Author(s):  
Rhys Crilley ◽  
Marie Gillespie ◽  
Bertie Vidgen ◽  
Alistair Willis
Keyword(s):  
Computational Methods ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Audience Segmentation ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Insight Into

The Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) has attracted much attention as a purveyor of Russian propaganda. To date, most studies of RT have focused on its broadcast, website, and social media content, with little research on its audiences. Through a data-driven application of network science and other computational methods, we address this gap to provide insight into the demographics and interests of RT’s Twitter followers, as well as how they engage with RT. Building upon recent studies of Russian state-sponsored media, we report three main results. First, we find that most of RT’s Twitter followers only very rarely engage with its content and tend to be exposed to RT’s content alongside other mainstream news channels. This indicates that RT is not a central part of their online news media environment. Second, using probabilistic computational methods, we show that followers of RT are slightly more likely to be older and male than average Twitter users, and they are far more likely to be bots. Third, we identify thirty-five distinct audience segments, which vary in terms of their nationality, languages, and interests. This audience segmentation reveals the considerable heterogeneity of RT’s Twitter followers. Accordingly, we conclude that generalizations about RT’s audience based on analyses of RT’s media content, or on vocal minorities among its wider audiences, are unhelpful and limit our understanding of RT and its appeal to international audiences.

SCREENING OF WHEAT LR-GENES FOR RESISTANCE TO PUCCINIA TRITICINA IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS REGION CONDITIONS

1970 ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
G. V. Volkova ◽  
O. A. Kudinova ◽  
O. F. Vaganova
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Leaf Rust ◽  
Puccinia Triticina ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Lr Genes ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
The North ◽  
Wheat Rust

Currently, more than 70 wheat rust resistance genes are known, but few of them are effective. The purpose of this work is to screen lines of Lr gene carriers for resistance to leaf rust under conditions of the North Caucasus region. Investigations were carried out in 2016-2018 at the infectious site of VNIIBZR. Research material was 49 near isogenic lines of winter wheat cultivar Thatcher. Infectious material was the combined populations of P. triticina, obtained as a result of route surveys of industrial and breeding crops of winter wheat in the areas of the Krasnodar, Stavropol Territories and the Rostov Region, conducted in 2016-2018. According to the assessment, the genes are ranked as follows: - highly efficient genes (plants with no signs of damage): Lr9, Lr42, Lr43 + 24 and Lr50; effective (1R-5R) Lr genes: 19, 24, 29, 36, 37, 38, 45, 47; moderately effective (10MR-20MR) Lr genes: 17, 18, 21, 22a, 28, 32, 41, 52. The remaining Lr-lines were susceptible to P. triticina (25 MR - 90S) to varying degrees. Highly efficient and effective genes Lr9, Lr19, Lr24, Lr29, Lr38, Lr42, Lr43 + 24, Lr47 and Lr50 showed resistance in the seedling phase and can be recommended for inclusion in breeding programs to protect wheat from leaf rust in different phases of plant ontogenesis in the North Caucasus region.

DISTRIBUTION, DIAGNOSIS AND PATHOGENESIS OF RETROVIRAL INFECTIONS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS REGION

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 946-954
Author(s):  
Sergey Abakin ◽  
◽  
Vladimir Orobets ◽  
Viktor Zaerko ◽  
Inna Klimanovich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Retroviral Infections

Epizootic situation on invasive diseases in the north Caucasus region

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (84) ◽  
pp. 261-265
Author(s):  
Oleg Chernykh ◽  
◽  
Alexander Shevchenko ◽  
Lyudmila Shevchenko ◽  
Yuri Drobin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Invasive Diseases

scholarly journals Resistance of winter wheat varieties to tan spot in the North Caucasus region of Russia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Yu. Kremneva ◽  
Nina V. Mironenko ◽  
Galina V. Volkova ◽  
Olga A. Baranova ◽  
Yuri S. Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Tan Spot ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Wheat Varieties ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Winter Wheat Varieties

Famous teachers and educators of the first half of the XX century about the problems of the North Caucasian muslim education.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-222
Author(s):  
Nadezhda O. Bleich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Past Century ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
New Type ◽  
Historical Heritage

The article is devoted to the consideration of the worldview positions of famous educators of the past century regarding the state of school education among Muslims of the North Caucasus region. It is proved that the enlighteners advocated the creation of a new type of national non-class school and the construction of the didactic foundations of the educational process in it. The novelty of the work is that, based on the analysis of the views of the advanced intelligentsia of the region, aimed at understanding the current socio-cultural situation, an attempt was made to scientifically understand the problems and prospects for the development of the Muslim educational system of the past from the point of view of the modern scientific paradigm. The practical significance of the publication lies in expanding the understanding of the system of Mohammedan education in the context of its historical heritage, which will help to comprehend modern problems associated with the reform of general and vocational education in the national Muslim republics.

VIRULENCE OF THE NORTH CAUCASIAN POPULATION OF PUCCINIA GRAMINIS PERS. F. SP. TRITICI

1970 ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
G. V. Volkova ◽  
Е. V. Gladkova ◽  
O. O. Miroshnichenko
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Caucasian Population ◽  
Puccinia Graminis ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Wheat Varieties ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
Pathogen Virulence ◽  
The North ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Wheat Lines

The aim of the study was to monitor the virulence of Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici in the North Caucasus.  The objectives of the study were to collect P. graminis infectious material from sown winter wheat varieties and evaluate the long-term dynamics of the pathogen virulence in the North Caucasus region in 2014-2019. As a result, an analysis of the virulence of the stem rust pathogen population of wheat collected in Krasnodar, Stavropol Territories, and Rostov Region was carried out. 81 mono-empty mushroom isolates were isolated and differentiated.  The genes Sr5, Sr31, Sr38 were characterized by high efficiency.  On the lines with the genes Sr7b, Sr8b, Sr9f, Sr9g, Sr10, Sr11, Sr12, Sr13, Sr14, Sr21, Sr22, Sr23, Sr26, Sr29, Sr32, Sr33, S35, Sr37, SrDp2, SrWLD, a variation in the virulence frequencies of P. graminis was observed.  Significant changes (in the direction of increasing occurrence) in the North Caucasian population 2014-2019  the pathogen was noted in the frequency of clones virulent to wheat lines with resistance genes Sr11, Sr21, Sr22, Sr26, Sr32, Sr33. A decrease in the frequency of clones virulent to Sr8b, Sr9g, Sr10, Sr12, Sr14, Sr35. At approximately the same level, the occurrence of clones virulent to the genes Sr6, Sr7a, Sr8а, Sr9a, Sr9b, Sr9d, Sr9e, Sr13, Sr15, Sr16, Sr17, Sr19, Sr20, Sr24, Sr25, Sr27, Sr30, Sr36, Sr39, Sr40, Sr44, SrGt, SrTmp. Effective genes that have shown their resistance to P. graminis in the seedling phase are proposed for use in breeding in southern Russia to create new varieties of wheat.

CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE REGIME AND PRECIPITATION REGIME OF WARM AND COLD PERIODS IN VARIOUS CLIMATIC ZONES OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS REGION

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Boris Azretaliyevich Ashabokov ◽  
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Fedchenko ◽  
Lara Asirovna Kesheva ◽  
Nanaliya Vyacheslavovna Teunova
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Regime ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Precipitation Regime ◽  
Climatic Zones ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The North

scholarly journals Institutional Factors Affecting the North Caucasus Region in Connection to its Russian Identification

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
Abdullakh Abdulgamidovich Mallakurbanov ◽  
Elena Vladimirovna Baboshina ◽  
Ilmira Abduragimovna Abdulaeva ◽  
Irade Safaratdinovna Guseinova
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Factors ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
The North
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