Historical memory of 90th XX century in Russia: psychological aspects

Episodes of Xx Century Cosmology: a Historical Approach

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Cosmological lessons from earlier centuries 3. From nebulae to galaxies 4. The emergence of the idea of expansion 5. The principal cosmological models of the first half of the century 6. The discovery of background radiation and some implications 7. The COBE results and the analysis of the fluctuations 8. Changes in the epistemological status of cosmological research...

Historical Culture: Russia in Search of Itself

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

A XXI-century alternative to XX-century peer review

The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante topdown PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficiency and effectiveness criteria. It then goes on to analyse the roles of Peer Review and how good the system is at fulfilling those roles. The paper then proposes an alternative system for evaluation o...

Peculiarities of studying foreign languages in Russia in different historical periods

In the context of the humanization and humanitarization of education a lot of attention is paid to individual abilities of a person. He becomes an active participant of the educational process. Studying of foreign languages becomes one of the main components assisting a child to develop his/her individuality, to form intercultural communicative competence which helps successful communication wi...