Aim. To reveal the essence, content, goals, tasks and methods of operational combinations of American intelligence services associated with a series of statements by W. Burns (“Kiev in three days”) and S. Hersh (“undermining the Nord Stream pipelines”).

Methodology. The study was carried out using the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and interpretation of the results.

Results. It has been established that, according to their scheme and style of execution, “Kyiv in three days” (an operation carried out by the US special services against Russia on the eve of the Special Military Operation) and the series of statements made by S. Hersh about the Nord Streams are operational combinations of the US intelligence services that fully fit into their basic organizational and technological scheme, which appeared in American intelligence in 2015 - immediately after the Panama Papers. The methods and techniques to carry out the covert management, which include the technique of "management of expectations”, were identified in the course of the study.

Research implications. Information about the latest forms and methods of organizing and conducting information operations can be used in the work of state bodies responsible for organizing the systemic counteraction to the information aggression of foreign states, and will also be useful to political scientists, political technologists and specialists in countering destructive political technologies.

Aim. To identify the specifics, features and factor relationships of the electoral process in the election of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region in 2022.

Methodology. Content analysis has become the key research method; event analysis and comparative method are also used.

Results. The analysis of the actor structure and political forces of the electoral process is carried out. The dynamics of the electoral turnout of voters is analyzed. Municipalities with a high percentage of government and opposition support have been identified. The elector’s vote cost for candidates has been set. Based on the results of the study, the author’s interpretation of the results is presented.

Research implications. The practical significance is in determining the specifics of the election of the Sverdlovsk region governor’s election in 2022.  It seems possible to use the research theses for scientific and practical purposes.

Aim. To examine possible variants of ideological concepts as state ideology of the modern Russian Federation and compare their foreign policy potential.

Methodology. The paper uses methods of comparative, historical and political analysis.

Results. The analysis concludes that none of the broad and narrow ideological conceptions used in recent decades is capable of becoming as significant a tool of Russia’s foreign policy as the communist ideology was in Soviet times. The reviewed ideological concepts are either too narrow in their target audience, or too widespread in the world and the international community does not recognize Russia as a leader in their implementation, or they are too controversial and have low potential attractiveness for other states in the light of more pressing issues of international relations and world development.

Research implications. The results of the study may be used as an important argument in the ongoing dispute in academic and political circles between supporters and opponents of introducing state ideology in Russia.

Aim. To analyze Russian Foreign Policy Concepts of 1993, 2000, 2008, 2013, 2016, and 2023 and to find out what changes were made to the chapters dealing with Russia’s foreign policy towards the post-Soviet states after the EU had started its active policy in the region.

Methodology. The study relies on the source analysis, historical-chronological and comparative analysis. Comparison was made of Russia’s Foreign Policy Concepts from different years in terms of their formulations regarding the development of the EU’s Eastern policy; the study of EU documents was carried out.

Results. The adjustment of the Russian foreign policy tasks towards the post-Soviet states was caused by the EU's Eastern policy. But, despite the obvious increase in tension between the key participants in international relations, in Russian Foreign Policy Concepts of 2008, 2013 and 2016 proposed to generally consider the Euro-Atlantic space as a zone of cooperation with the West. Only in 2023 the policy of the West was defined as unfriendly in Russian strategic documents.

Research implications. The results of the study can be used in the analysis of international relations among the post-Soviet states and in Europe in general.

Aim. To analyze the process of evolution of the military-democratic system of Little Russia in the context of international relations and Russian politics for two centuries.

Methodology. By employing the methods of historical and genetic research combined with content analysis, the author reveals the internal dynamics of the transition of Little Russia from stateless, semi-anarchic forms of social life to integration into the administrative system of the Russian Empire.

Results. It is proved that the concept of “Ukraineˮ, in terms of the state-formation, is a completely artificial construct that has no basis in the very past to which the modern Ukrainian ideologists so diligently appeal.

Research implications. The author comes to the conclusion that the appeal to the history of Little Russia as to the civilizational forerunner of the modern Kiev regime can be justified only in case of illustrating the continuity between the Ukrainian anarchy of the XVII century and its modern modifications.

Aim. To consider the diplomatic dimension of American–Soviet chess rivalry amid the advent of détente.

Methodology. Based on the analysis of declassified documents, the article examines the motives for the involvement of Soviet and American diplomats in the problems that arose from the championship. Historic-genetic method and the method of critical analysis of historical sources are used.

Results. The conclusion is made that Soviet and American diplomats deemed this event to be untimely. The unwillingness of the US to exacerbate ideological tensions around the championship is emphasized, as well as its steps to reduce the negative effects of the event.

Research implications. The results of this research allow us to conclude that Soviet and American diplomats interpreted sports events in the macro context of the ideological confrontation between those two systems.

Aim. To consider the Soviet perception of Russian post-revolutionary emigration in the context of the key foreign policy challenges to the Soviet Country of the first half of the 1920s.

Methodology. On the basis of the principles of historism and scientific objectivity, the authors analyzed a number of archival and official Soviet documents, as well as parts of the memoirs and journalistic heritage of the Russia Abroad related to the research.

Results. It is concluded that during this period the Bolsheviks considered the post-revolutionary emigration as one of the biggest threats to the security of the young Soviet state.

Research implications. The article introduced for the first time into the scientific circulation some archival documents that give a more detailed idea of the formation of the Soviet position regarding the plans of F. Nansen for a large-scale repatriation of Russian emigrants to their homeland in the 1920s.

Aim. To analyze the Russia-EU energy relations in the first quarter of the XXI century to find out the reasons for a trend change in them – from cooperation to confrontation.

Methodology. The research was conducted with the use of the historical, comparative, systemic and structural-functional methods, and is based on the assumptions of the realist, liberal and constructivist schools of the theory of international relations.

Results. The author concludes that the Ukrainian crisis erupted in 2014 substantially undermined the cooperative trend in the Russia-EU energy relations, but the special military operation launched by Russia against Ukraine in 2022 ultimately reversed it into confrontation. The trend reversal can be explained either by the willingness of Brussels and Moscow to use energy for political purposes in the logic of political realism or by the deep value and political gap between the EU and Russia that made it impossible to maintain their energy interdependence.

Research implications. The results of the research contribute to a proper scientific understanding of the Russia-EU energy relations in the XXI century, and may substantially facilitate future studies in the same field.

Aim. To analyze the role of perceived social support and effortful control in the psychological well-being of juvenile delinquents and adolescents in difficult life situations.

Methodology. In the course of empirical research based on a sample of 82 male adolescents from 11 to 17 years old, diagnostics were carried out using the scale of perceived social support MSPSS by D. Zimet, the scale for studying effortful control in adolescence by T.O. Rippinen, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) by B.P. White, and the multidimensional students’ life satisfaction scale (MSLSS). In the course of processing the results, correlation and regression analysis were used.

Results.

It is demonstrated that school well-being depends only on effortful control, while self-satisfaction, satisfaction with relationships in the family and with friends depends on perceived social support and effortful control. In the course of controlling perceived support and effortful control the contribution of perceived stress to well-being becomes insignificant, which indicates the likely importance of these resources for coping with stress and reducing its impact on well-being.

Research implications. The study clarifies theoretical ideas about the role of perceived social support and effortful control based on a special sample of adolescents, as well as confirms the conclusion that is important for practice about the decisive role of voluntary regulation in school well-being.

Purpose. To show how the Dogon minority language is preserved in a traditional African family in the multilingual environment of the capital of Mali, Bamako.

Methodology. The study used sociolinguistic methods of conducting a survey questioning the respondents, who were members of the same Dogon family, consisting of 13 people, as well as an included interview with a written record of the interviewing process.  Further, a survey of residents of Bamako was conducted, involving 94 people of the Dogon ethnicity aged from 18 to 45 years.

Results. The family members are in a constant contact with the three languages: Dogon, the language of cultural identity which they defend; Bamana, the lingua franca of the capital which dominates in their environment and serves for social integration; French, as the official language with the role of an intermediary. Thus, informants specifically choose one or another language depending on the communication situation.

Research implications. The study is of practical importance for the development of a competent language policy of Mali in relation to the languages of ethnic minorities. It makes a certain contribution to the typology of language situations in a multilingual state.

Aim. To prove from the standpoint of sociolinguistics, namely, from the plan of genre expression of the works of J. D. Passos at the lexical level, the affiliation of the writer's literary texts of the 20s–30s of the twentieth century to the texts of the group of American authors of the “lost generation” of the same period of time.

Methodology. Applying the method of contextual analysis of a literary text and based on the vocabulary selected by us earlier by the method of continuous sampling, we analyze the text using descriptive and comparative methods. The counting of the selected tokens is carried out through the use of a quantitative method, after which the results of the study are interpreted.

Results. Having considered, within the framework of sociolinguistics, the lexical level of the genre expression plan in the four works of J.D. Passos and having analyzed the lexemes “war” and “idleness” that are in the field of the main social contexts, we proved that the plan of expression at this level in the works of J. D. Passos, in general, coincides with the plan of expression of the texts of the group of “the lost generation”, so in this aspect we can suppose the affiliation of not only the literary texts of J.D. Passos (lexical level), but also the writer himself with the mentioned group of writers from the standpoint of social linguistics as well.

Research implications. The results obtained show the importance of applying the methods of sociolinguistic analysis of the literary texts genre to isolate socially marked vocabulary in them, which makes it possible to identify and meaningfully interpret new social knowledge in other texts and by other authors. The application of this method lies in explaining social reality, actions of participants in communicative contexts in the general social context will help better understand the history and culture of the country and its priorities.

Aim. To systematize and classify the religious terms of architecture in accordance with the type of their assimilation in the recipient English and Russian languages.

Methodology. This work uses the common formal-structural, morphemic, and statistical analyses of special vocabulary units. The terms are viewed both in synchrony and diachrony.

Results. The work analyzed 50 Russian terms and 50 English ones. The  article states the structural changes that occurred to them, or, as in the case of the “zero” group, their absence. There is a variety of assimilation processes in the terminology of two languages, according to which they were divided into the following groups: zero, complete, root, dropout, change, addition of inflection. The detailed results of the work are given  at the end of the article.

Research implications. The study results may be of use of the terminologists to organize and systematize the process of loan words assimilation, to facilitate the process of transferring new lexical units in a more appropriate version of the recipient language. These results can be applied in the classes of linguistics, terminology and, possibly, architecture studies. The results of the work may be of interest in terminological translation and editing.

Aim. To study approbation as a strategy of intersemiotic translation, evaluation of transformations and polymodal means of transmitting a conceptual picture of the world reflected in the original text – Pushkin’s fairy tale poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. The center of research issues is an analysis of the boundaries of permissible transformations of intersemiotic translation.

Methodology. The material is the verbal text of A.S. Pushkin's fairy tale poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” and polymodal implementations of different years: the films “Ruslan and Lyudmila” of 1914, 1938 and 1972 and the animated film “Ruslan and Lyudmila: Reloading” of 2018. The total volume of the empirical base is 4 hours 50 minutes of screen time. The work applies general scientific methods of observation of factual material, analysis, synthesis, generalization and abstraction, as well as quantitative analysis, description and linguistic methods of discursive, stylistic and comparative analysis.

Results. Comparison of the monomodal verbal text of the original “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by A.S. Pushkin with the polymodal audio-video-verbal text “Ruslan and Lyudmila: Reloading” in 2018 reveals distortion and alienation as the main strategies of “adaptation based on…”. Differences in the character composition, storyline, speech and behavioral stereotypes of characters, substitution of the author’s text, distortion of the author’s pragmatic task were found.

Research implications. The conducted research reveals the fundamental impossibility of identifying appropriation as a result of intersemiotic “translation”, being an experience of another form of intercultural communication approaching a linguistic and cultural war. The devaluation of the author and the deformation of the original text allow us to formulate the thesis about the unacceptability of appropriation in intersemiotic translation as the destruction of the original text and linguistic and cultural identification, violation of authenticity and ethics of translation aimed at discrediting cultural heritage.