Mental threats to individual and group identity lead a large-scale crisis jeopardize the future of Russia Russian world as civilizational (not ethnic) project. Globalization processes their specific side effects pose significant danger mentality. The most serious destructive effect on mentality is exerted by external manipulation practices, in particular, instruments “soft power”. problem influ...

Л.Е. Нечаев - писатель, чье творчество характеризуется национально-патриотической направленностью, утверждением идей державности, обратился к истокам русской народной духовности, ментальности, исторического православия. В его рассказах и повестях звучит мысль о жизненности национальных идеалов, чистоте красоте нравственности эстетики. L.E. Nechav, a writer whose work is characterized by nationa...

This article analyses Boris Akunin’s writing concept of national identity and the possibility or impossibility overcoming cross-national non-communication. The analysis is based on texts different genres (the Erast Fandorin’s Adventures project, Tales from All Over World, Russian Man in England, a self-study book fiction). It noted that “solution question” during thirty years writer’s work lite...

Subject A. Male?colored?about 60 years of age, shown as a wild man. He was microcephalic, but it was impossible to measure his head as he would not submit to it. Before he would sit down to the test at all, he took the examiner by the hand and led her up to a case where two little chickens were crowded together in one corner. He pointed, said "Chicks?" in a most inquiring tone, and was told "Ye...