Diplomatic heritage of a prominent live

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana L. Musatova
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Cement Plant ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
Creative Contribution ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
Foreign Ministry

22.06.2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the prominent Soviet diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR L. N. Musatov (1921–2001). His handwritten legacy reflects the stages of a great life, from the party leadership (since 1957-second secretary of the Ulyanovsk Regional Party Committee) to work in the USSR Foreign Ministry, where he became "one of the best ambassadors"-Africanists. Ambassador to Mali (late 1965–1970), Guinea (1973–1978), Guinea-Bissau (1974–1975), Madagascar (1980–1986), he always worked with enthusiasm, achieving great achievements, for which he was awarded orders. He was a non-capitalist theorist with an "African face", in the most flexible economic forms. He focused on economic diplomacy, the study of which during the Soviet period is just beginning. These developing countries now rely on the bauxite plant in Guinea, Kindia, a cement plant and gold mining in Mali. L. N. Musatov emphasized common values in the development of cooperation, the donation of cultural objects, the sending of Africans to study in the USSR, which helped to form a benevolent elite towards Russia. Such facts contributed to the birth of the traditions of Russian-African cooperation and the holding of the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019, as well as to the adoption of strategic decisions on the revival of bilateral cooperation. L. N. Musatov made a great contribution to the study of classical diplomacy, "the diplomacy of trust " (first, on the experience of his communication with the President of Madagascar). He loved working with people, and a whole galaxy of new Russian diplomats with the rank of ambassadors and envoys came out of his embassies. In general, the memory of a diplomat is determined not only and not so much by appointments and business trips, but by the creative contribution of everyone in their field of work, embodied in constructive deeds. Only they remain in history and are in demand by descendants.

Symbolic Figures of the Decembrists in the Memorial Space of Irkutsk (Early 20th Century - 1991)

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Yekaterina I. Krasilnikova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Memorial Space

The author explores the problem of reflecting the collective memory of Siberians about the exiled Decembrists in the memorial space of Irkutsk at different historical stages. The aim of the article is to characterize the developing dynamics of a segment of the memorial space system that includes Irkutsk's memorial places associated with the Decembrists in the chronological framework of the Soviet period of Russian history. The study is based on the principle of historicism. The methodological reference point of the research is the problem field of memory studies; the concepts of the places of memory of P. Nora and cultural memory of J. Assmann and A. Assmann are used. The author also employs historical-genetic and historical-comparative methods. Within the framework of the Soviet period, three stages of forming the segment of the Irkutsk memorial space associated with the memory about the Decembrists were identified. The first stage, from the 1910s till 1925, reflects the general weakness of Irkutsk city residents' collective memory about the Decembrists, which was manifested in neglecting memorial sites, and the beginning of the awakening of interest in the Decembrists among the local liberal-minded intelligentsia. At the second stage, from 1925 (the 100th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising) till the 1960s, under the influence of the state politics of memory that recognized the Decembrists as the first generation of Russian revolutionaries, the intelligentsia of Irkutsk were actively forming the locus of the Decembrists' memorial space in their city. Based on the memory about the Decembrists, the intelligentsia was constructing their social identity. But the local authorities did not provide the intelligentsia with the desired support, which significantly complicated achieving the memorialization tasks. At the third stage, in the 1960s-1980s, the memory about the Decembrists' stay in Irkutsk was in demand among the local authorities, who used it especially actively during celebrations dedicated to the anniversaries of the city. Many memorable places were designated, and their protection was improved. The sharply increased attention of Irkutsk local administration and city residents to the exiled Decembrists reflected the growth of their regional identity. The author revealed the dependence of reflecting the collective memory about the Decembrists in the Irkutsk memorial space on the state and regional politics of memory, as well as on the local intelligentsia initiatives, for which the memory about the Decembrists served as one of the foundations for constructing their social identity.

Economic Diplomacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Lee ◽  
Brian Hocking
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Foreign Ministry

Mainstream studies of diplomacy have traditionally approached international relations (IR) using realist and neorealist frameworks, resulting in state-centric analyses of mainly political agendas at the expense of economic matters. Recently, however, scholars have begun to focus on understanding international relations beyond security. Consequently, there has been a significant shift in the study of diplomacy toward a better understanding of the processes and practices underpinning economic diplomacy. New concepts of diplomacy such as catalytic diplomacy, network diplomacy, and multistakeholder diplomacy have emerged, providing new tools not only to recognize a greater variety of state and nonstate actors in diplomatic practice, but also to highlight the varied and changing character of diplomatic processes. In this context, two themes in the study of diplomacy can be identified. The first is that of diplomat as agent, in IR and international political economy. The second is how to fit into diplomatic agency officials who do not belong to the state, or to a foreign ministry. In the case of the changing environment caused by globalization, economic diplomacy commonly drives the development of qualitatively different diplomatic practices in new and existing economic forums. Four key modes of economic diplomacy are critical to managing contemporary globalization: commercial diplomacy, trade diplomacy, finance diplomacy, and consular visa services in relation to increased immigration flows. The development of these modes of economic diplomacy has shaped the way we think about who the diplomats are, what diplomats do, and how they do it.

Again About a Unique Academic Study of Spatial Development of Post-Soviet Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Alexander Nikolaevich Shvetsov
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article summarizes the results of many years of fundamental interdisciplinary research on a wide range of socioeconomic problems of the spatial development of Russia in the post-Soviet period. An overview of the content and main results of four programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, carried out on this topic in 2009–2020, is given. We are talking about an unprecedented megaproject for domestic and, apparently, for world science, which marks a new — interdisciplinary — type of research on a wide range of priority theoretical and applied issues for modern Russian reality, which form the supporting framework of the latest topical spatial problems. This is a large-scale, polythematic, complexly organized project that has been carried out for more than ten years. The article provides a characteristic of the theoretical and methodological approach, methodological tools and forms of organizing scientific research within the framework of the project, as well as an assessment of the results obtained in it. The issue of scientific support for the development of state strategic decisions for the spatial development of the country is being discussed. It is proposed to use the results of scientific research obtained during the implementation of these programs as a scientific basis for strategic planning of spatial development.

The Fightback

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-170
Author(s):  
Peter Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Tiananmen Square ◽  
Sports Diplomacy ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Ministry

This chapter tells the story of the events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre inside the foreign ministry and follows the painstaking efforts of Chinese diplomats to salvage China’s reputation. In the aftermath of the massacre, the country’s diplomats made painstaking efforts to salvage China’s international reputation. Channeling the same impulses they’d used to woo the world in the 1950s, the country launched a new charm offensive with its neighbors, embracing tools from economic diplomacy to sports diplomacy, media management, and arms control to try to win friends. At the same time, China’s diplomats were branded traitors by nationalists who saw engagement with the United States as a throwback to China’s humiliating past after the 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Italian cooperation with Mozambique: explaining the emergence and consolidation of a normative power

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-270
Author(s):  
Daniela Sicurelli
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
Cooperative Relationship ◽  
Foreign Ministry

AbstractItaly has developed a long-dated partnership with Mozambique, where it has emerged as an actor committed to norm promotion in the fields of conflict management, debt relief, and sustainable energy cooperation. This paper challenges the dominant interpretation of such a cooperative relationship that emphasizes ideational motivations and focuses, instead, on the role of Italian investors in the sectors of infrastructure and energy and of the Italian economic diplomacy. A favorable institutional and political climate in Italy has channeled investors' demands in the policy process since the independence of Mozambique. The late institutionalization of Italian development policy, the long gestation of the reform of development policy, and the lack of clear-cut borders between the competences of foreign and development cooperation institutions have empowered business groups that shape the investment strategy of the Italian foreign ministry as actors in development policy-making. Finally, convergence of interests between Italian investors and the NGO Sant'Egidio, which ultimately led to a partnership between these actors, has increased the legitimacy of Italian foreign and development policy toward Mozambique, contributing to consolidating Italy as a norm promoter in the country.

SERVICE TO TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY AS A LIFE CREDO OF PROFESSOR I.V. FYODOROV

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Nikolay D. Titov ◽  
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Valeria A. Goncharova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
State University ◽  
Regional Society ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
University Life

3 February marks the 100th anniversary of I.V. Fyodorov's birth. He will remain in the memory of his students, colleagues, postgraduates and doctoral students as a kind, intelligent and great professional. The article "Service to Tomsk State University as a vital credo of Professor I.V. Fyodorov" is devoted to the main stages of life and scientific-pedagogical activity of Doctor of Law, Professor I.V. Fyodorov, who devoted more than forty years of his life to the service to Tomsk State University. A significant part of scientific and pedagogical activity of I.V. Fyodorov at TSU falls within the Soviet period of the Russian state. The university life period of I.V. Fyodorov began on October 01, 1958, when he was hired at TSU. The main period of scientific and pedagogical activity I.V. Fyodorov fell in the 60-80 years of the last century. In pedagogical activity I.V. Fyodorov professed a number of own criteria of teaching: there is nothing more practical than a good theory, knowledge of principles easily replaces ignorance of some facts, students should be taught the law, and not the laws. The main object of I.V. Fyodorov's scientific interests was the civil law contract and its variant, the commercial contract. He studied these contracts as early as in his candi-date's thesis, and then from 1965 he continued in his doctoral thesis and in numerous articles. The main scientific conclusion of his research lies in a capacious formula: The contractual regulation of economic relations is a method of influencing the economy of the USSR. The authors of the article are convinced that I.V. Fyodorov's works have not only scien-tific and historical value. Certain positions of I.V. Fyodorov on the most topical problems of civil law, the main ideas which were expressed by him in the Soviet period of work have not lost their relevance in the post-Soviet period, and some - in the present time as well. These are, for example, the ideas about the fundamental basis of civil law, the relationship between the contract and the obligation, and the importance of fault in contract law, including in busi-ness activity. In his scientific and pedagogical work, I.V. Fyodorov paid much attention to individual work with students. He supervised 20 postgraduate students and was academic adviser to 2 doctoral students. Besides his scientific and pedagogical work, I.V. Fyodorov also took an active part in educational and methodical work at the Department: he was the co-author and editor of different educational and methodical textbooks and practical works on the general part of the civil law. Until 1995, he read the special course Business Contract (50 hours), and since 1995 he led the special course "Contract Law of Russia". During different periods of his life I.V. Fyodorov fulfilled numerous public assignments: he was elected a member of the Tymsk District Committee of the All-Union Komsomol of the Tomsk region, was a member of the CPSU, was elected to various party bodies, was the Chairman of the Tomsk Regional Society "Znanie". I.V. Fyodorov was awarded a number of state medals, he was also marked with TSU badges.

scholarly journals Test for Resistance or Picture of the Époque in the Interior

2018 ◽  
pp. 851-854
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Bozhko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Foreign Ministry

Memories of the prominent Ukrainian diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Volodymyr Khandohii titled “Diplomatic Chapters: True Stories of Career Diplomat” may be significantly distinguished among the other books of this popular genre due to its sharpened polemics. All in all, it is quite logical. Having been voted out of the office of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom in summer 2014, he decided to resign since he had not received any proposals from the Minister. It was when it seemed that he had plenty of time and energy to work. In fact, this book is not about the critical attitude towards the mistakes of the young “reformers team” that came to power in Ukraine on the roar of the revolutionary wave. It is about a difficult but important Soviet period of “phantom diplomacy”, which became a solid brick in the foundation of Ukrainian statehood. Speaking about the diplomat, the author uses interesting associations, unexpected retrospectives, and parallels with modern times. He does not omit the evaluation of important failures, including one that have been made in personnel assignments, namely concerning “Ukrainian leaders with prefix “acting”, who made dramatically significant decisions in spring 2014.The motive of institutional memory preservation is constantly evolving in the book. The author is more than convinced that this issue is relevant for the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. It should be noted that Volodymyr Khandohii is one of those few domestic diplomats who has not missed any career stage, starting from the position of the “fairy” attaché (as one of the veterans of the Ukrainian diplomatic service noted) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR in far 1976, and to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in near 2009.While turning pages of this solid work (which is almost 600 pages of folio format) sometimes you may find yourself thinking that you are reading the history of the entire Ukrainian foreign-policy establishment that, despite certain ornamentality of the Soviet period, played a significant role in the establishment of independent Ukraine and protection and advocacy of its national interests in the world in modern times, rather than the biography of an individual. In other words owing to the memories of Volodymyr Khandohii, a reader has a unique opportunity to look behind the scenes where the history has been created and is still being created. It is likely that not everyone will agree with some of his points concerning the activities of individuals or their roles in Ukrainian diplomacy. In particular, as for me, the author could be more critical, while mentioning certain personalities, especially acquaintances from joint work in the Soviet Foreign Ministry. On the other hand, such subjectivism is quite natural, taking into account the personal character of memoirs as a genre. In the end, V. Khandohii emphasizes that his book is “a sketch of epoch portrait in the interior of author’s own assessments and associations”. Let me add – the epoch that tests our independent state and our people, including Ukrainian diplomats, for resistance. Keywords: Volodymyr Khandohii, “phantom diplomacy”, memoirs, history, Ukrainian foreign policy.

scholarly journals ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVITY OF DMITRY YABLONSKY. ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Hanna Yablonska
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Full Member ◽  
State Programs

The article is devoted to the creativity and activities of the architect Dmitry Yablonsky (1921-2001), doctor of architecture, professor, member of the Union of Architects of Ukraine, full member of the Academy of Architecture of Ukraine. He was a well-known scientist, founder of new directions in architectural theoretical research, author of the famous book "Portals in Ukrainian architecture" in 1955, pioneer of mass industrial housing construction, researcher, organizer of scientific work at the leading institute of Ukraine for experimental design, specialist in quantitative methods of assessment. modeling and forecasting of housing objects, a public figure and, the first in independent Ukraine, who among architects began to design and build temples after 1985. The article gives an idea of the main directions of his architectural activity, namely: the study of the monuments of the Ukrainian Baroque of the Left-Bank Ukraine of the 17th – 18th centuries; participation in the design of the first experimental panel residential buildings and mass residential series for Ukraine; the development of the foundations of the typology of dwellings; application of system, mathematical methods and programming in the design of residential buildings; creation of an innovative dissertation work "Quantitative methods for solving problems of the typology of housing", 1968, participation in the development of state programs to provide the population of Ukraine with housing (1990-2000). And also, Yablonsky was the first who began to design and build new sacred buildings in the post-Soviet period in Ukraine (1986-2000). According to his project, was built the Orthodox Cathedral of St. George in the city of Makeyevka (1991-2001). The article is illustrated with materials and photos from the family archive of D.N. Yablonsky.

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