This study is based on a comparative analysis of extensive material of Carabus (Archiplectes) satyrus Kurnakov, 1962, its various forms and related taxa recently collected by the authors and some other collectors in Abkhazia. The status or specific affiliations of several subspecies are changed and a subspecies is described. Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus Kurnakov, 1972, stat. n. is treated ...

The purpose of the article is to study essence right peoples self-determination on example some post-Soviet countries. methodological basis consists methods cognition (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, comparison), general scientific methods, formal-logical method interpretation law, etc. components base are objectivity and a combination critical rational, constructive approac...

A new oribatid mite genus, Coronabelba n. gen., with its type species, unicornis sp., belonging to the family Damaeidae, is proposed and described from Abkhazia. The genus differs close Metabelba Grandjean, 1936 by shape of notogaster, notogastral setae their insertions on distinct apophyses leg chaetotaxy (nine femora I-II). species other known representative platynotus 1954 comb. absence prod...