Victoria Mishina

Religious Eeducation: How to Teach Children to Love

Religious education: How to teach children to love. 2012. The article includes an interpretation of love from a religious point of view. It presents methods of teaching which help children to realize what love is. Also the question about religious education in Russian and American schools is considered.

Victoria Muzalevskaya

Is the Decline of the West Inevitable?

The historical debate has an ancient origin and different points to think about nowadays. Consideration of the West as interdependent part of the world finds out new horizons of its sunrise.

Evgenia Nasledskova

The Kuril Islands Dispute

The Kuril Islands dispute, also known as the Northern Territories dispute is a dispute between Japan and Russia about sovereignty over the South Kuril Islands. The disputed islands, which were occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II, are under Russian administration as South Kuril District of the Sakhalin Oblast, but are claimed by Japan, which refers to them as the Northern Territories or Southern Chishima, being part of the Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō Prefecture.

Ekaterina Nekrasova

Teaching Universal Values through Language Education at School:

Principles, Technologies and Process

Values education is one of the most urgent topics in education today. We can point out three concepts that, taken in interconnection, foster personality growth with all the features and values necessary for today’s world. These are creation of axiological environment, employment of value-targeted communication and utilization of student-centered technologies while teaching the English language.

Maria Nikiforova

NATO’s Interests in Kazakhstan and the Alliance Policy towards the Country

After the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the interest of the Alliance in Central Asian region has risen immensely. Kazakhstan is characterized as the most influential state in that region. NATO policy toward Kazakhstan has focused on the joint efforts to combat terrorism, proliferation, and trafficking in arms, drugs, and people.

Vera Pavlenko

The Category of Time as the Form of Representation of the Concept “Death” in the Novel “Invitation to a Beheading” by V. V. Nabokov

This article is a part of the big research «The concept of “Death”». Its aim is to analyze linguistic figures that form the concept “death” in the novel. The main problem is to analyze the process of creating the concept “death” with the help of linguistic means. New in the work is the attempt of linguistic interpretation of the category of death.

Victoria Peregudova

Dijon as a Tourist Capital of Burgundy Region

I'm going to present my research on the French town of Dijon, the capital of Burgundy region. This region does not have a huge number of tourists yet, but there are exciting things of all kinds: historical, entertaining, gastronomic for each tourist. This region will be a popular destination in some years.

Nadezhda Petryanina

Semantic Complication of Words in Anna Akhmatova’s Lyric Poetry

The research deals with a problem of transformation of words in the works of art. Comparative analysis of the types of semantic complication and special usage of words in Akhmatova’s poetry is carried out in accordance with different contexts of dating scenes.