This paper reports the principles behind designing a tagset to cover Russian morphosyntactic phenomena, modifications of the core tagset, and its evaluation. The tagset and associated morphosyntactic specifications are based on the MULTEXT-East framework, while the decisions in designing it were aimed at achieving a balance between parameters important for linguists and the possibility to detec...

A relatively small number of Russian industrial tycoons, or “oligarchs,” control a substantial share of Russia’s economy. Are these oligarchs likely to be agents of economic and political change or opponents of such change? Some consider the oligarchs to be the engine of Russia’s economic recovery and institutional reform since 1999 (Boone and Rodionov, 2002; Aslund, 2004). As oligarchs are the...

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) ...

This article touches upon the different ways of specialization of courts and judges that exist under the legislation of the Russian Federation. The lack of a unified and circumspect approach is noted. The formation of specialized courts, according to the national legislation, takes the form of their establishing within the existing subsystems of regular and arbitration courts. As for the specia...

The disintegration of the USSR caused certain new social and demographic developments in the Russian Federation. Immigration from the former Soviet republics, mainly to Russia’s largest cities, is a new phenomenon for Russia. This process led to the formation of new diasporas in Russia and to the development of the traditional ones. This article examines the case of the Armenian diaspora in a g...

The term “Eastern Europe” defined in a number of manners and depends on perspective and personal definition. There exists conflicting views over which countries are listed under Central Europe and which are in Eastern Europe. For example, the United Nations clearly defined Eastern Europe that includes following countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Rus...

Address: 1State Pediatric Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2Scientific and Research Institute of Hematology and Transfusiology, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, 3Federal Center of Heart, Blood and Endocrinology, named by V.A. Almazov, SaintPetersburg, Russian Federation and 4Federal Scientific and Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Mosco...

The paper reviews existing chronic heart failure (CHF) registers, a number of randomized trials, and meta-analyses on CHF. It provides a rationale for the need to create a CHF register in the Russian Federation, which will be able to assess the physician adherence to the guidelines for the guidelines for and the quality of medical care.

Breakfast is often considered the most important meal of the day and children and adolescents can benefit from breakfast consumption in several ways. The purpose of the present study was to describe trends in daily breakfast consumption (DBC) among adolescents across 31 countries participating in the HBSC survey between 2002 to 2010 and to identify socio-demographic (gender, family affluence an...