It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

The collapse of the Soviet Bloc caused devastating economic crises in Cuba and in the Russian Federation but triggered remarkably different public health responses: while mortality rates in Russia increased substantially the crisis was barely visible in Cuban public health statistics. Fundamental social, political and cultural differences in the two countries and the respective specificities of...

This paper presents a corpus analysis of the addresses that the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia deliver every year before the New Year. The content of a New Year address is strongly codified and usually contains references to important events of the previous year. Analysis of the ways that the lexical patterns used in the New Year addresses are transformed and follow changes that have oc...

The formation of the national identity is determined by the process of comparing “yourself” with “the other”. The feeling of the national identity is fixing the differences “our – strangers”, “ours – not ours”. When the ethnic culture is formed there is an intensive process of self-reflection, self-identification, “the image of yourself” is made up in relation to the “images” of other people, c...

J udging from some of the titles of recent books on Russia—for example, Richard Sakwa’s The Crisis of Russian Democracy, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism inside Russia, and Tom Remington’s The Politics of Inequality in Russia—all is not well 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Corruption abounds, and state institutions are weak where they should be...

The title compound, C26H20N6BrRu(BF4), crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group P2(1)/n and consists of discrete complex units. The Ru(II) ion is octahedrally coordinated to one 2,2':6',2"-terpyridine (tpy), one 2-(phenylazo)pyridine (azpy) and a Br atom in trans-axial position at a distance of 2.547(5)A. The shorter Ru-N (azo) distance (1.960(3)A) than the Ru-N(py) distance (2.061(3)A) ...

The computational viral extension direct and inverse problems are problems of long-standing interest in mathematics, epidemic and natural disaster studies. We designed and developed a set of algorithms for the construction of the closure of the arbitrary chaotic set that can efficiently be used in evaluations of the propagations autooscillatory waves. The algorithms presented in this paper are ...