Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA, Zoology Institute, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, 17489 Greifswald, Germany, UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Groupe Chiroptères de Midi-Pyrénées (CREN-GCMP), Toulouse, France, Center for Integrated Spatial Research...

The Bulgarian Encyclopedia Scientific Information Centre is a constituent part of the Academy Sciences, responsible for compilation and publication encyclopedias encyclopedic reference books. Its work follows tradition knowledge in culture dating back to medieval collections from court Tsar Simeon I 9th 10th centuries. Encyclopedic content also contained first schoolbook, published 1824, growin...

The article is devoted to the study of evolution views on issues alcohol production and abuse by largest ideologue Russian conservatism M. N. Katkov – editor-publisher newspaper “Moskovskie Vedomosti” magazine “Russkii Vestnik”. It analyses speeches famous publicist his associates pages these publications aimed at alterations in excise system, force since 1863, order limit excessive consumption...

Abstract After the Archipelago expeditions of Russian Navy in 1769–1774 and 1805–1807, thousands Greeks fled Ottoman Empire resettled province Novorossiia (southern Russia). Among migrants were prominent merchants who strongly supported Philiki Etaireia (Friendly Society) cause for Greek independence. Although Tsar Alexander I could not openly support insurrection that broke out 1821, Russia pr...

A historiographical analysis of the events Petrine era in Caucasus demonstrates that problem personal contacts Tsar Peter I with ruling elites Dagestan during his campaign 1722 remains one poorly developed historical aspects. The tsar’s foreign were part imperial policy expanding territories Russian state, involving new subjects sphere political and legal space empire, ensuring their loyalty co...