The article identifies the main areas of cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan in the Caspian Sea region. As the most promising, we see cooperation in fuel and energy industry, military cooperation and humanitarian cooperation in science and higher education. Yet, Russia now has to compete with Turkey and China for the influence in the region, as Kazakhstan tends to promote multi-vector foreign policy. Moreover, the US and the EU share a strong determination to keep Kazakhstan’s fuel and energy industry under their total control, and this is the reason why they maintain sanctions policy in this territory. We conclude that Russia-Kazakhstan relations have a potential for constructive cooperation.
The study aims to reveal factors facilitating healthy lifestyle of modern students. This article presents the findings obtained in the case study “Our health” carried out in Moscow bi-region in October 2019. A group of researchers from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics surveyed students using online questionnaire method (N=2600). According to the findings, the widely-recognized health promotion activities are regular exercise, Sport classes at university, mental exercise, walks in the fresh air, listening to music. Some unconventional activities, for instance, walking upstairs, dancing and spending time on a hobby, also gained approval. The respondents showed little concern with oriental health-promoting activities and healing methods. Basically, most students prefer dynamic exercise to static one. Young adults rarely visit doctors or use medication. The respondents are not concerned much about their mental health, and thus, rarely apply for professional psychological help. The majority of the respondents value long and steady relations and speak against casual sexual relations, which proves their awareness on sexually transmitted disease prevention. In conclusion, we need to draw attention to certain discrepancy between intended value-based orientation towards healthy lifestyle and its translation into action.
The article substantiates the relevance of the propositional approach to analysing the denotative structure of secondary texts as products of a reader’s interpretational activity. Stage-by-stage organization of the study has allowed the authors to identify the denotations of the original and secondary texts and to discover inter-denotational relations. The research findings are as follows: the authors have developed propositional models of the original and secondary texts, modelled global propositions, concluded on the propositional content of secondary texts and identified possible causes of errors when interpreting the main event of a text.
The article considers the problem of translating literary colouronyms from Russian into English. Scientific originality of the paper involves a new approach to studying colour term semantics: literary colouronyms are considered as a means to express intermedial relations. Relying on the conducted analysis, the researcher identifies the basic difficulties in translating authorial colouronyms: their synesthetic nature and complicated chromatic pattern of the original text.
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