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Saint Petersburg State University

This article analyzes the interaction of state, scientific, and expert communities in order to determine the prospects for introducing the methods of “evidence-based policy” into the Russian practice of public administration. It reveals to what extent the representatives of the state&...

The article presents the outcomes of an empirical study in three small towns of the Russian Federation in 2012–2015 and 2019–2020. The main empirical material was obtained through in-depth interviews (101 interviews in total) with the main actors of local politics. The study...

The authors discuss the cultural and psychological aspects of media reality within the framework of constructivism, and trace the nature of the information flow about Russia in Brazil over time. The article examines the form and content of the Brazilian press narration about...

The purpose of this article is to present the main persuasive function of various types of narratives based on the analysis of messages designed to influence and impel to make a decision. An additional purpose is to show that different narrative forms were used thoughtfu...

Methods of realizing the adaptive role of contemporary journalism are considered on the example of urban-oriented network media that emerged as an independent segment of the Russian media in the 2010s. An accommodative role is one of the main institutional functions of ...

The article studies the financial and content participation of the addressee in the implementation of media projects through special digital platforms. Successful experience of media crowdfunding is associated with such digital platforms as Planeta.ru, BoomStarter, “The Power of the ...

The article provides an overview of Russian articles on media linguistics. In the articles, PRspeech is described in terms of media linguistics. The purpose of the article is to present a spheral approach to the study of PR activities. PR-speech is described as an ...

Mass Political Repressions in Chelyabinsk Region, 1937–1938: Testimony of the Security Officer

A Report by French Captain Paul Pelliot on the Situation in Eastern Siberia and the Far East in Russia in the Winter of 1918

This article examines the historical educational literature published in the post-Soviet states of Central Asia. The author identifies the goals and methods of interpreting historical phenomena and highlights the features of presenting material in textbooks and manuals of the various ...

The article discusses the book Forgotten Personnel. Female labor on the railways of the Russian Empire, written by V. A. Serdiuk. This book belongs to the popular scholarly trend of “gender history,” but it is not only a work on the history of women on the...

Talgenism, as a new teaching method, was discussed at the XIII Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in N. I. Bukharin’s report “On work among young people” in 1924. This article analyzes details and presumed possible consequences of that critical speech again...

Art historian, artist, and critic Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (1870–1960) collected and systematized his archive both before and after emigration from Leningrad to Paris in 1926. According to his own assessments and according to contemporaries, the materials contained in the archive ...

The Ural Republic serves as an illustration of the struggle for expanding subjects’ independence and transforming Russian federalism in the early 1990s. The purpose of this study is to explore the Ural Republic in the context of the search for a Russian model of fe...