Monitoring researches of jackdaw (Corvus monedula) size evolution are made by
the authors of the article. The article presents the study of spatial distribution of birds within the
out of nest period, as well as the ways to make the species sinanthropic. Observations were
made in towns and cities of Meschorsk lowland. The authors analyzed literary sources containing
the data on jackdaw population density in the towns of the Russian Federation. It was
ascertained that jackdaws prefer the most urbanized territories. The data received can be used
as a basis for biological monitoring of synanthropic bird species in the urbanized landscapes.

The examination of 34healthy piglets fed with plant nutrition showed the decrease
of the amount of lipid peroxidation products in their blood against the increase of their plasma
antioxidant potential activity. There was found the increase of anti-aggregatory activity subscript
range of the vascular wall with all the tested inductors and their combinations against the
background of low levels of healthy piglets endotheliazitemia. In the gradual increase of PGI2
synthesis and NO action in the blood vessels the aggregation inductors invariably do not infl uence
the platelet receptors. That depends on the adequacy of regulation of fi brinogen receptors
expressiveness by the vascular wall. It is stated that the A2 phospholipase activity regulating the
withdrawal of the arachidonic acid from phospholipids is rather low in that process.

The article considers the problem of a citys ecosystem. The author describes
the world and Russian experience in designing, constructing and exploitation of ecological
buildings and settlements. Moreover, the ways of energy saving in buildings in the process
of installing the systems of lighting, heating and ventilation were shown. The conception of a
passive house (in other words: an energy-effi cient house) with green roofs and green walls
is considered. The author notes the necessity of designing, constructing and exploitation
of such buildings and settlements which would never threat to damage the environment
and the inhabitants health, especially in conditions of the modern society transition to the
sustainable development. The article shows the perspectives of the ecological construction
in Russia.

The article considers the governors protests against resolutions of Moscow province
zemstvo assemblies. The main directions of administrative supervision concerning zemstvos selfgovernment
institutions are analyzed on the basis of the unpublished archival materials. Special
attention is given to the consideration of the protests connected with the cost estimating, the organization
of zemstvos activities and their employees responsibility. On the basis of the research
results the author concludes that granting the governors the right to evaluate the correctness of
zemstvos resolutions wasnt a determinant of their administrative supervision activities. Its stated
that the main number of protests was applied against zemstvo assemblies illegal decisions.

In 1705 - 1710 the recruiting system of the Russian army functioned during the
entire period of Peter I reign with the highest effort. It was closely connected with the events
of the Northern War (1700 - 1721) as well as with the large-scale reforms of that period,
particularly with the Province Reform, which began in 1708. The recruitment was a severe
burden for the population. It is since 1705 when the representatives of the most numerous
category of the Russian population - peasantry - were recruited to serve in the Russian
army for the fi rst time during the Northern War

This article reveals the problem of the evolution of the image of Field Marshal
Mikhail Kutuzov in the national culture of the twentieth century. Evaluation of Field Marshal
depended on the period of development of our country and of the ideological content that this
period was characterized. The evaluations were based, as a rule, the class approach and
views of the head of state. Propaganda images of national heroes in the Soviet era was an
example of a clever PR, disseminate knowledge about the heroic past of the country, forming
a love for their country and its history.

The present paper deals with some problems connected with the creation of the
new Bible versions in different historical periods. Their appearance may be stimulated by a
number of factors (the necessity of the correction of the errors, found in existing translations,
the wish to make the text of the translation corresponding to the modern language norms,
new discoveries and interpretations in Bible studies, etc.). The last decade is also characterized
by the striving to adapt the source text to contemporary reality and make it more politically
adequate, what may sometimes lead to rather disputable results.

The article reviews the prerequisites for the formation of ancient synthetically
predicative statements, centered on the verbal-nominal substrate. The analysis is based
on the three provisions of psycholinguistics: the activities of the channels of information
processing, the ancient grammatical structuring and especially the perception of hieroglyphic
text. The author draws a comparison of the results of psycholinguistic research
with the particular historical development of the Indo-European and Semitic languages
that support the primacy of synthetically predicative structure of ancient statements.

The article grounds the application of cognitive approach to translation, expands
the terminology of contemporary translation studies. The process of creating literal images
can be seen as a cognitive phenomenon closely connected with such phenomena as transmitting
and processing information. Linguistic presentation of literal image refl ects cultural
conventions and the image itself refl ects nature. It is the national and cultural component of
the given phenomenon which is the most diffi cult for translation. Scientifi c research of literal
images as a sum of mental and linguistic structures helps to reveal its national component
as well as to avoid certain diffi culties in the process of translation.

The article analyzes the concept of ICT competence of a teacher and gives the
authors interpretation of the concept. The article describes a system of the independent
certifi cation of a teachers ICT competence developed by the authors. The system includes:
the purpose, the objectives of certifi cation, the procedure, the substantiation of skills levels,
the evaluation criteria and a set of measuring materials. The author describes in detail the
basic principles of the certifi cation: accessibility, fairness, voluntariness. The challenges and
benefi ts of implementing the certifi cation system at universities are also analyzed.

The article considers the issues related to specifi c functions of the educational
system at a University. The author dwells on the justifi cation and approbation of the criteria
and indicators system for the assessment of the effi ciency of functioning and development
of the educational system. A group of criteria has been selected; the complex assessment
of the system structure, as well as of the system-defi ning and system-forming factors, is
presented. The author evaluates the above mentioned factors as priority ones, determining
the level of effi ciency of the educational system of a University.

The paper is devoted to the study of the specifi c features of modern schoolchildren
cognitive development, as well as to the research of the effective ways for developmental
teaching Physics. 274 students of 5th to 10th grade participated in the experiments. The
results obtained show that the majority of schoolchildren lack both space-time perceptions
development and logical thinking structures, demonstrating Piagets phenomena which is
characteristic for preschool children and primary school pupils. The study presents the descriptions
of pedagogical methods intended for developing childrens cognitive structures
and creating the conditions for a successful transition to formal thinking.

On the basis of the analysis of experience of scientifi c and pedagogical postgraduates
research work supervision in the creative environment of the current seminar
the author discovers the mechanisms and principles of successful scientifi c cognition and
young researches scientifi c potential development. In the context of the competence-based
approach the author analyses the activity of a seminar instructor, shows the role of his pedagogical
and research competences and the signifi cance of the seminar instructors scientifi c
and professional achievements for young researchers development. The article gives the
notion of scientifi c and pedagogical supervision as a prolonged invariant process of assistance
and support to young researchers in their development as participants of the scientifi c
seminar.

The present article is the continuation of the authors previous work. It examines
the evolution of the views expressed by the theorists of modernization of the late 1960s -
early 1990s. It is noted that within the period mentioned the researchers abandoned the
treatment of modernization as a single-line and universal process. The scientists of the late
1960s -early 1970s dispelled the myth that there was a single way to modernity for the
whole West. The central research topic of the 1980s was the question of the ratio of western
values (modernity) to the national ones in the culture of the country being modernized. This
ratio was considered as a factor determining the model of the future of a certain country. The
collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Socialist bloc of countries led to a new
round of scientifi c debates of the way to modernity which revived the concepts of the late
1950s - early 1960s.

In modern Russia the signifi cance of the religious factor is growing, the political
audience of the «Orthodox» people is increasing. They identify themselves with the Orthodoxy,
considering it to be the Russian traditional religion. Informational and symbolic
resource of the traditional religion (Orthodoxy) is actualized in modern Russia in the process
of the nation politics сonstruction (identity politics). The political resource potential of the
religious factor is in the complex of religious images and symbols which are associated by
the « orthodox believers» with the Russian statehood and national history.

This article is the second in the series of papers devoted to the analysis of the political
symbolism of the «color revolutions». Using the frame analysis the author reveals the
general and particular character of the political opposition used in the «color revolutions» in
Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon. The technologies of political symbols
development and testing have also been studied, the failed «color revolutions» in Belarus,
Armenia, Moldova taken as an example, as well as the so-called «twitter-revolutions» in
Tunisia and Egypt. Studying the «color revolutions» the author not only found similar political
symbols, but proposed a hypothesis that they all were developed by the same political
consultants.

In this paper the main emphasis is made on the questions of changes in the
housing sector, which affect the interests of millions of people and have become a fi eld of
acute social confl icts. The author showed the main trends and results of these changes. The
article gives proofs of the necessity to deploy residential education which is an essential tool
to escape confl ict situations/ Besides itll stimulate the transformation of the relationship of
the main factors of the housing sphere out of enemies into partners. The author states
that such education contributes to the citizens more active and constructive participation in
improving the living environment, gives lessons of housing democracy and becomes a fi eld
of social partnership

The article is aimed at the solution of urgent problems in the fi eld of psychology
of labour and is devoted to the search for opportunities to optimize the professional activity
of the psychologist working with disabled children. The article presents the data of one of
the stages of the empirical research, in the process of which some professional diagrams
of different specializations of the psychologist were developed. The comparative analysis of
the obtained results has revealed the specifi city of the psychologists labour in the sphere of
complex rehabilitation of children with the limited possibilities of health

The paper describes linguistic means of expressing the position of the speaker,
which is explicated in the grammatical and semantic structure of bi-substantive sentences.
The position of the speaker in this type of sentences is an obligatory component of meaning,
so its implicit representation is grammatically and semantically important. The article
describes the input components to the value of authorship identifi cation, assessment, characteristics,
and analyzed declensional prepositional-case forms designating the authorship
of an assessment and characterize the values associatied with the position of the speaker.
The absence of a bi-substantive structure offers components to the value of the subject of
identifi cation, evaluation, characterization indicates that it is the speaker who is the author of
the expressed evaluation and characterization, etc

The article deals with the public and poetic reception of the French invasion of
Russia in 1812. The author states that the heroic events of 1812 stimulated the interest to
Pan-Slavist ideas in the Russian society. The moral power the Russian defenders showed in
the fi ght with Napoleon and the might, connected with the orthodox acceptance of the world,
embodied in Lermontovs poem Borodino, found their expression in the works which did
not have direct indications to the French invasion of Russia in 1812. The object of studying
is both Lermontovs poetic works and his contemporaries letters. The offi cial documents of
that time are also the object of studying.

The article examines the special features of the artistic interpretation of the frontier
theme in J. Londons storybook Smoke Bellew (1912). The author pays special attention
to the analysis of themes and motives, poetic means of their realization, which make it
possible to speak about the connection of his late stories with the writers early Northern
stories, and of some special features of his creative evolution. The dynamics of the main
characters development, traced in the article, makes it possible to make conclusions about
the continuity in J. Londons views in the context of his interest to the person - nature -
civilizationproblem.

The given article touches upon one of the most productive model of word-formation
in a proto-Slavic language - the derivatives with the formal element -(d)lo in the
diachronic-comparative aspect. Basing on the data from different historic and modern dictionaries
the author studies the semantics, the level of invariance, the derivational activity of
the lexemes with -(d)lo in such languages as Proto-Slavic, Old Russian, Modern Russian,
Czech, and Slovak. The undertaken study enables to draw some conclusions on the reasons
of the loss of the productivity of the given derivational model in the Russian language and
its high level of activity in the Czech and Slovak languages. This can be explained not only
with different modes of display of their puristic tendencies, but also with their specifi c national
cognitive dominants.

The article is about the phenomenon of infantile egocentric speech, as a natural
stage of a «speech personality» formation. On the basis of a large amount of examples the
author drew conclusions on the psycholinguistic regularities of infantile egocentric speech
and the specifi c character of a childs world perception and verbal refl ection of impressions
of the surrounding world. The phenomenon of infantile egocentric speech is considered as a
tool to understand the inner world of a child and at the same time as the evidence of the early
period of the language development, where a word and a thing, denoted by the word, are inseparable.
The author concludes that the infantile egocentric speech research is signifi cant
both for teachers, psychologists and linguists, language historians, mythologists.

The article provides a general description of Goncharovs gift and his main
achievements as an artist. It is shown that the author of the famous novel- trilogy is not
just a brilliant chronicler, and a master of artistic generalization, converting originally local
and private characters (circumstances) into the images of the ontological and thus enduring
meaning and signifi cance. The author singled out the resources (folklore, archetypal
and mythological), which were used by I. Goncharov in his creative work, particularly while
creating the central characters of Oblomov. Due attention is paid to Goncharovs talent as
one of the great philosophers of love (family) and its place in the public relations. The article
gives some brief characteristics of a unique genre of Goncharovs literary travel Frigate
Pallada .

The culture created by a person in the XX century put at stake the existence of
mankind, bringing into the forefront such schools of thought as philosophy of life, existential
philosophy and literature, which made the problem of the authentic I of a person the most
topical one. The research of this problem involves such humanities as history, sociology
and psychology. The author would like to trace the change of the dynamics of researches in
psychology, beginning with the study of an abstract person and to the comprehension of the
problem of a person in modern society. Besides, the author is interested in the exact aspects
of a mentally healthy and integral personality, and in the methods of treatment of neurosis
existing in modern psychotherapy. Though the study does not claim to be exhaustive, still
the research brings out the key developments in the fi eld of studying the identity, being used
in modern psychology and psychotherapy

The article reveals the potency qualimetric assessment in an examination of the
extent of the approximation degree of the individual characteristics of an innovator. The author
has developed the matrix of the innovators abilities estimation and has synthesized the
model of an index assessment of the innovative capacity of an enterprise. The quantitative
methods of interpretation of the potential components are created: an innovators potentialities,
his knowledge and skills, idea level. The author suggests the economic-mathematical
methods of formation of indexes of components and the complex indicator of innovative
potential at micro level. Besides the article presents the method of an assessment of investment
appeal of an innovation, on its perspective novelty for the market and the current stage
of technological readiness for the introduction in mass production replication.

The article shows the manifestations of pluralism in the ownership relations, highlights
and analyses two approaches to the implementation of ownership institution: both in
narrow and wide sense. In this context, in the fi rst case the forms of income from specifi c
types of property are explored (profi t, rent, interest, rental fee, dividends, etc.), and in the
second case the institute of ownerships implementations are described in various relations
and forms, at different levels. The article focuses on the second approach, as the socioeconomic,
legal and psychological forms of ownership make the institute of ownership real
and connect it with the system of social relations

This article is devoted to the issues of industrial enterprises restructuring as one
of the methods of adaptation to the conditions of the transforming external environment and
to the overcoming of the crisis in fi nancial and economic activities. The article considers the
basic values of an enterprise and the main objective of any project of restructuring taking
them into consideration. Besides, the author considers the mechanism of restructuring to be
an ordered set of means and methods of infl uence on the enterprise, and highlights its elements
as: objectives, principles, methods, stages and means of support.

The article gives grounds of the concept of marketing a new vector of communication
services - interactive television. The analysis of the literature has confi rmed the fact that
the theoretical basis of the problem discussed is not enough developed. The author offers
to consider the interactive services marketing as a set of three areas: service marketing,
new product marketing and e-marketing. To organize an operators marketing activity the
author suggests the use of appropriate tools. The proposed concept takes into consideration
the two-component origin of the retail offer, which consists of the content and services. The
author states that it also takes into consideration the process of obtaining reliable data on
services consumption, which in combination defi nes the effi cient strategy for service development.

The article states that the Federal Family Legislation does not reveal the concept
of a single mother. The approaches to the defi nition of a single mother in the legislation of
the subjects of the Russian Federation are considered in the article. The author enumerates
the conditions under which an unmarried woman, who gave birth to a child, can obtain the
status of a single mother. The conclusion is made that it is necessary to supplement Art.
51 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation (the Family Code) with the term a single
mother in order to eliminate the gap in the legislation based on the lack of this defi nition. The
article presents the analysis of the legislation with the purpose of identifying the benefi ts and
guarantees provided to single mothers.