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О Сергее Радлове и Осипе Мандельштаме (По архивным источникам) [Sergei Radlov and Osip Mandel’shtam: Some Newly Discovered Sources]
No full textThis article aims at summarizing the life story of a Russian theater director Sergei Radlov (1892—1958) with an emphasis on his friendship with Osip Mandel’shtam. It includes a whole series of previosly unpublished Radlov’s letters to various correspondents, confirsm Radlov’s co-authorship of the collective play Kofeinia razbitykh serdets (The Coffee Shop of Broken Hearts), and establishes a new event in Mandel’shtam’s life: his poetry recital with Nikolai Gumilev at the Radlovs
«Новая назидательная книга»: Неизвестный отзыв Н. С. Лескова на перевод “The Pilgrim’s Progress” Дж. Баньяна [“A New Didactic Book”: An Unknown Nikolai Leskov’s Review of a Russian Translation of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan]
No full textThis is a prefaced publication of a previously unknown Nikolai Leskov’s review of The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, which he read in the translation by Yulia Zasetskaia (1835—1882), a philanthropist and an ardent follower of Lord Radstock
Bigger is Better or how Governments Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Megaprojects
No full textMegaprojects, with their sheer size and their physical and emotional impact, can emerge as central elements around which political elites construct an ideology. Following a comparison of the narratives surrounding the Strait of Messina Bridge in Italy and the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan, I find that similar narratives appear in arguments for mega projects across different regime types, as advocates portray large infrastructure as a panacea for varied problems and thus justify the significant investment such projects require. Politicians in both Italy and Tajikistan have embraced images of heroic progress toward a better future to frame megaprojects as inevitable signs of progress and national well-being
Political vs Everyday Forms of Governance in Uzbekistan: the Illegal, Immoral and Illegitimate
No full textBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Uzbekistan, this article looks at the way official state narratives are challenged by silent, unorganised, often unaware gestures of resistance at the bottom of a society. Footing on a framework suggested by Scott’s definition of infrapolitics (2012), we propose to incorporate informal practices in a definition of informality that is more inclusive and better explains the anatomy of a modern state, whose functioning rests on a combination of formal and informal practices. We suggest that this everyday dimension is of particular importance here when trying to understand the governance trajectories, as it allows to look critically, and from a broader perspective, at situations where individual and state perception of events, but also individual and state morality, diverge.
By doing this, we propose that governance in transition states and societies may be regarded as a space where formal institutions and citizens (or informal institutions) compete for power and resources and thereby produce informal, alternative ‘legal orders’ and mechanisms that regulate public life in a given area. We will suggest that such a space of informal negotiation is vital in contexts where collective mobilisation and public articulation of social claims is not a preferred, or even available, strategy for citizens
Book Review: Power and Water in Central Asia
No full text Power and Water in Central Asia by Filippo Menga, 2017, London: Routledge.
What Is Compliant Presentation under the Law of Documentary Letters of Credit?A Critical Analysis of Article 14 of the UCP 600
No full text Documentary letters of credit are among the most popular methods of payment in international transactions. The key to their success is in reducing the risk for exporters by replacing importers’ financial undertakings with a guarantee of payment from a bank. Within the framework of a complicated process, a bank will guarantee to honour the seller’s presentation of complying documents with terms of credit on behalf of the creditworthy buyer, who will compensate the bank based on another contract. By applying two principles of autonomy and strict compliance, documentary credit mitigates the existing commercial risk of trade between a buyer and seller who are in different countries and have no information about the financial capacities of each other’s businesses. These two principles are regulated under the Unified Customs and Practices for Documentary Letters of Credit (the UCP), which was promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce for the first time in 1933. The constant revisions of the UCP (current version UCP 600), which reflected current market practices, resulted in a global turnout of traders and its recognition as one of the most successful sets of rules introduced by the private sector. The main idea behind the introduction of the UCP (as confirmed by ICC officials) was to harmonise rules applicable to international LC transactions at the global level. However, it should be noted that the UCP has no power of law, and in case of any conflict between its provisions with national law or absence thereof among its provisions, national law will prevail. Therefore, it is of crucial importance that its degree of harmonisation with national laws in preventing possible losses to traders and bankers active in the practice of international trade finance be defined.
This paper studied general requirements for compliant presentation within 14 articles of the UCP 600 in comparison with requirements under English Law. In order to provide a complete picture to the reader, this paper analysed the respective sections of other ICC publications, including ISBP 745745, DOCDEX decisions, and ICC Banking Commission Opinions along with the UCP. The main purpose behind this paper is two-fold: Firstly, it tries to provide a legal analysis of the general framework of compliance requirements for documents under the UCP 600. Secondly, it strives to find existing conflicts between respective provisions in the UCP 600 and English Law. Recognition of such conflicting areas can be used as advice for the drafting committee of the UCP to achieve their goal of further harmonising the practice of international trade finance.
Postimperiaalne sõjapidamine. Ida-Euroopa pärast 1917. aastat [Postimperial Warfare: East and Central Europe after 1917]
No full textWith the failure of the Kerensky-Off ensive the latest, war in East Central Europe acquired a new shape distinct not only from the norms of the Western Front but equally distant from the pre-1916 local situation. The most notable feature of the post-imperial order were new military units, either national or revolutionary, that gradually took over the leading role from imperial armies. The article analyses some basic characteristics of these new armed forces, such as uniforms, provisions, recruitment, rules of conduct and tactics. Special attention is given to the role of railways both in military operations and on the home-front as well as to the phenomenon of the ‚green cadres‘, deserter bands cum peasant armies destabilizing large territories in the wake of independent statehoods in East Central Europe
100 aastat Eesti sõjamuuseumi kogu
No full textEesti Sõjamuuseumi - Kindral Laidoneri muuseumi tegevusest
Aspectual triplets in Estonian
No full textEstonian has lexical perfective-imperfective ‘doublets’, as in mõõtma ‘measure’, välja mõõtma ‘measure (out)’. The ‘doublets’ render the Estonian lexical aspect similar to that of Germanic, e.g. Dutch meten ‘measure’ and uitmeten ‘measure out’. Finnish uses object case alternation for the expression of the opposition, e.g. mitata/mitoittaa ‘measure’. However, Estonian also has regular morphological means to express aspectual ‘triplets’, like Slavic, as in the Russian imperfective simplex merit’ ‘measure’, the perfective izmerit’ ‘measure (out)’ and the secondary imperfective izmerjat’, approximately ‘be measuring out’. The third member of the Estonian triplet emerges via combining the particle and the partitive object case
Labour Market Flexibility and Home-leaving in Different Welfare States: Does Labour Force and Contractual Status Matter?
No full textThis paper examines the impact of the labour market and the employment status on leaving the parental home in France, Germany and Italy. In particular, temporary employment has concentrated disproportionately among young labour market entrants without safe labour market anchorage. One consequence for young adults remaining in unemployment or non-permanent jobs is the postponement of important decisions in their private lives such as home-leaving; whereas the length of postponement depends on the institutional context. Less attention has been paid to the analysis of education-specific patterns in the effects of employment precariousness on individual decision-making. The paper aims to fill this gap by analysing whether and how the employment status (employed/unemployed) as well as the type of contract (fixed-term/permanent) influences the first transition of leaving the parental home, and how this effect varies according to the level of education in three different institutional contexts. To this end, the paper uses a mixed method approach, combining results from a quantitative analysis of data from the European Labour Force Survey 2010 with findings from qualitative research based on interviews and focus groups with people aged 20-45 to highlight the mechanism driving young peoples’ decisions