Pluractionality, also referred to as verbal plurality (Yu 2003) or event plurality (Wood 2007), is a morphological category that indicates some sort of “multiplicity” in the semantic reading of a verb. The prototypical interpretation of a pluractional verb is that of iterativity (repeated actions). This reading is illustrated in the following examples from Ingush, a Nakh language of the Northea...

African swine fever (ASF) is now established beyond Africa, in the Caucasus and the Russian Federation, where it is having a particularly devastating impact on small-scale pig farmers, who are losing a valuable protein source and cash income. In the past, the virus was already detected outside Africa from the 1950s to the 1980s in Europe, the Caribbean and Brazil. The recent developments in Eas...

In the second half of the 1990s, Islamist terrorism emerged as a serious security threat to both Europe and Russia. For Europe, in contrast to the United States, Islamist terrorism became an increasingly domestic threat, stemming from cells formed primarily by Muslim firstand second-generation migrants. In Russia, the radicalization of an internal armed conflict in the North Caucasus was the ma...

The biochemical mechanisms of resistance to persistent organic xenobiotic p-nitrochlorobenzene (NCB) of bacterial strains isolated from two cave clays ecosystems-Mushkarova Yama (Podolia, Ukraine) and Kuybyshevskaya (Western Caucasus, Abkhazia) have been established It has been determined that chemoorganotrophic karst caves strains could interact with NCB and transform it reducing the nitro gro...

A new species of the family Lyctocoridae, Lyctocoris ichikawai Yamada & Yasunaga sp. nov., is described from Shikoku and Kyushu, southwestern Japan. The species was found to inhabit near the sap-exuding parts on the trunk of Sawtooth Oak, Quercus acutissima Carruth. (Fagaceae). Lyctocoris ichikawai is considered to be most closely related to L. zhangi Bu & Zheng, 2001 from continental China and...

A revision of material of a minute land snail species from the Caucasus region usually named Vertigo (Vertigo) sieversi (Boettger, 1879) (Pilsbry 1919; Schileyko 1984; Sysoev & Schileyko 2005; Egorov 2008; Sysoev & Schileyko 2009), including types of all described varieties revealed that adjustments of the delimitation and the nomenclature of this insufficiently known taxon are necessary. We re...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

this article  studyies political identity of dagestani people in the north caucasus. at the first, i have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with dagestanis. this theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

the expansion of grey- black pottery tradition in the iranian plateau, on the basis of iron age theory of cultural dynamism, was emerged by the end of the 2nd millennium bc. such a pottery tradition is regarded as a cultural sign to point migrants who entered in the iranian plateau from the northern outside of caucasus the major. according to the theory, the migrants passed the river valley of ...

Adaptations of Abies nordmanniana, Picea orientalis, Pinus sylvestris, Fagus and Carpinus betulus to the abiotic environmental conditions study area largely determined their predicted distribution in Caucasus. The ecological niches species mostly coincided two analyzed complex factors (characteristics water regime topographic parameters). humidity factor was main determining potential forest-fo...