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Saint Petersburg State University

First International Conference “History and culture of Sudan: Modern and Contemporary Times”, SPbSU, March 5–6 2019.

The article is devoted to the problem of ensuring security of North and Central African countries in the age of informational globalization. Today there is a new up-and-coming social and economic order based on telecommunications. The central place in this new system of ...

The decision-making process in Egypt at the ruling time of its fourth president Hosni Mubarak was dominated by the president and a very small core group composed mainly, but not exclusively, of advisers whom he appointed and dismissed. The level of their influence on&#x...

This article is devoted to analysis of public opinion regarding the activity and position of traditional leaders of the Ngoni ethnic community using data from sociological surveys of the Afrobarometer 2005–2015. Apart from the Ngoni respondents as monitoring category, Chewa, Yao...

This article is devoted to the problem of the Manden oral literature genres’ classification. The first thing that we believe to be important in studying the cultural and psychological characteristics of any people and its folklore it is the task to put ourselves in ...

This paper provides information on the 6th–8th centuries Dagestan history on the basis of translation, commentary and comparative analysis of excerpts from the Arabic historical work Tarikh ar-rusul wa al-muluk (History of the Prophets and Kings) of at-Tabari which contains data...

The article “Lāmiyya by al-Shanfarā and its commentaries: Copies available in the holdings of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts and the Oriental Department collection, Gorky Research Library” reviews the problem of studying and describing oriental manuscripts, which gains more re...

The present paper provides an initial comparison of the image of “the West” in Chinese history teaching materials in the 1950s and 1980s. The focus lies on secondary education, i. e. lower and higher level secondary schools, with an occasional mention of the primary...

Modernization in historically later developed countries is an amalgamated process, where all its elements must be analyzed both as a whole picture and as variety of its components. Early Japanese Marxists thinkers, scrutinizing political systems that emerged after the Meiji revo...

Since the beginning of the period of reforms and openness, which began in the 1980s, intensified the process of the natural evolution of oral and written Chinese language. Active international contacts inevitably led to changes in the Chinese language itself, it started to&#...

Since the beginning of the period of reforms and openness, which began in the 1980s, intensified the process of the natural evolution of oral and written Chinese language. Active international contacts inevitably led to changes in the Chinese language itself, it started to&#...

The paper examines the translation and publication in the Russian language of the contemporary Chinese prose in 2009–2018. On the basis of full database of translations from the last decade the author analyzes the influence of traditional and new factors in the literary ...

Fluoride contamination of irrigated alkaline soils (Irragric Anthrosols) is a common problem in the areas of vast cotton production in Uzbekistan. Large number of laboratory measurements using corresponding models allows deeper studying the fluoride mobility in contaminated soil in t...

The leaf surface, or phylloplane, is inhabited by various microorganisms. Micromycetes are typical organisms of the phylloplane that are able to exert negative effects on plants. Seventeen species of micromycetes were indicated in the phylloplanes of G. gnemon and G. montanum.&#...