Moscow Time Research Articles

A poet of oxymora. Sergey Gandlevsky

The article is concerned with the works of S. Gandlevsky and analyzes his selected poems collection Rust and Yellowness [Rzhavchina i zheltizna] (2017). Quoting and conducting an ‘image-by-image’ and ‘plot-by-plot’ examination of Gandlevsky’s best known poems (including ‘To find a job at a motor pool’ [‘Ustroitsya na avtobazu…’], ‘On the Death of I. B.’ [‘Na smert’ I. B.’], ‘Something about the jail and separation…’ [‘Chto-nibud’ o tyurme i razluke…’], etc.), the author summarizes the basis of his poetics: the generous use of cento, oxymoron, a plot that centres around a lyrical hero, a ballad-like quality, as well as a combination of the highbrow and the vulgar, and of the classical and the profane in vocabulary and semantics. Without claiming to have discovered something new about the poet, the article provides a valuable summary, a digest of the main reviews of his work and a critical essence of the key motifs of Gandlevsky’s prose and poetry contributing to Moscow text in Russian literature. In addition, Safronova tries to establish the place occupied by the poetics of the Moscow Time [Moskovskoe Vremya] group in general, and its star member Gandlevsky in particular, with today’s readership.

Primary disability as a result diseases of the urinary system of an adult population in Moscow

The analysis of primary disability as a result of diseases of the urinary system with the outcome of chronic kidney disease among the adult population of Moscow, the Central Federal District and the Russian Federation for the period 2015-2019 has revealed that the extensive indicators for the number of certified as disabled for the first time in Moscow is comparable in terms of primary disability in the Central Federal District and are lower than in the Russian Federation. Intensive indicators in Moscow are lower than in the Central Federal District and the Russian Federation. Extensive and intensive indicators of primary disability in Moscow, the Central Federal District, and the Russian Federation tended to increase. The age structure of the certified as disabled for the first time contingent as a result of diseases of the urinary system in Moscow, the Central Federal District and the Russian Federation do not differ significantly in values and dynamics among young and middle-aged population. The predominance of persons of retirement age was revealed with a tendency to increase their level. The severity of disability was dominated by I group of disabled people with a tendency to increase their specific weight. The second place was taken by disabled people of III group with a tendency to increase their share and a stable level of disability.

Moscow Screening: Lung Cancer Screening With Low-Dose Computed Tomography

For the first time in Moscow and Russia, a program of selective lung cancer screening has been implemented with a comprehensive approach, including organizational, management, medical, technical and educational aspects and quality control. Unique ultra-low-dose protocols (ultra-LDCT) have been developed to implement the screening program. These protocols allow performing high-quality chest computed tomography for lung nodule detection with an effective dose of less than 1 mSv. The possibility of using neural networks ("artificial intelligence") for quality control of screening results has been proven for the first time.

The role of suggestion in public opinion shaping of the audience of the Internet editions

Introduction. Mass-and socially communicative technologies, that produce the content of modern mass media, are aimed at changing the beliefs, worldview, value orientations of the society, formation of certain behavioral patterns, and transformation of public opinion. Consumers of information, in particular, the audience of Internet editions, become an object of external influences and information aggression. Thus, a comprehensive study of the influence of semantic and structural organization of the content of the modern mass media on public opinion formation is really an actual and urgent task. The purpose of our research is to determine the role of such kind of manipulative technology as a suggestion in shaping the public opinion of the content consumers of the Internet editions (on the material of the electronic versions of the popular newspapers «The Guardian», «USA Today», «China Daily», «The Day», «Moscow Times»). In addition to theoretical, the basic methods of research were also empirical, in particular sociological research, for which the questionnaire was compiled. The respondents were offered to answer 13 questions, 10 of which were of a closed type and 3 questions on an assessment by a scale from 1 to 10. The questionnaire consisted of two blocks. The first block «Target Survey» contained 5 questions, the second block «Associative experiment» – 8 questions Anonymous survey was conducted in December 2018 – March 2019. The audience of the survey consisted of postgraduate students of different specialties, lecturers, and students of the departments of Germanic philology, journalism, and philology at Sumy State University (1st, 2nd, and 3d year students). According to the results of the survey, the most popular sources of information are social networks and electronic information portals, and newspapers. The level of confidence in the popular mass media is 75 %, while most consumers trust electronic information portals and newspapers. The level of influence on the personal opinion of the consumers of information is 60 %. The overall efficiency of the suggestion is 80 %. By the level of influence in its initial effect on the change and formation of reactions, the most effective instruments of suggestion at the lexical level are irony, emotionally-marked vocabulary, contrasts, set-expressions, metaphor-symbols, and also the instruments at the communicative-strategic level (emotionally-evaluative judgments). Keywords: public opinion, Internet editions, content, suggestion, survey.

From Milan Ǵurčinov’s Memoirs “Comprehension of Reality”: The Firstl Time in Moscow

From Milan Ǵurčinov’s Memoirs “Comprehension of Reality”: The Firstl Time in Moscow

Operative Scheme for the Short-range Complex Forecasting of Wind

We describe our scheme of the operative wind (and possible gusts) forecasts with the lead time up to 3 days and evaluate its success. It uses joint statistical processing of the results of several best operative forecasting hydrodynamic weather forecasting schemes. This approach allowed us to reduce the error with respect to original schemes. The operative forecast and its evaluation for the period of 2014–2016 is implemented for ~ 2800 cities of Russia, Belarus, and Central Asia. The update results are represented at the official site of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia every day at 8:30 (a.m. and p.m.), Moscow time.

Установление повестки дня газетой «Moscow Times» в контексте внешней политики России

The aim of the present study is examination of the relationship between the position of the newspaper «The Moscow Times» and the interpretation of Russian national soft power by studying the agenda setting of the newspaper. «The Moscow Times» is Russia’s only daily English-language newspaper owned by the independent media, and it makes an excellent resource for the review of the Russian political events. The theoretical basis of the study is online agenda setting theory, the so-called third agenda setting theory, which consists in the fact that both the media agenda setting and the public agenda setting exist in an internet-form. This article considers, how newspaper «Moscow Times» establishes the content in order to provide explicit or implicit impact on the audience, directing them what and how to think about certain events.

THE INTENSITY OF TRANSPIRATION OF THE LEAVES OF GLYCINE MAX (L.) MERR. DEPENDING ON THE GROWTH PHASE AND THE TIERED ARRANGEMENT ON THE PLANT

The thematic core facilities plan, CCU of Orel state agrarian university Genetic resources of plants and their use for a joint program with Shatilovskay of Institute of leguminous and cereal crops, of field and vegetation experiments on the study of specific features of manifestation of the activity of transpiration leaves of soybean are achieved. The object of the study were 10 varieties of soybeans that were grown on plots of 15 m 2 in four replications. Seeding was carried out breeding seeder calculated 600 thousand of viable seeds per hectare. the way the plots were allocated systematically with offset. The care of crops was carried out in accordance with the recommended regional events. It was demonstrated that leaf transpiration activity of the culture increases sharply in the transition of plants to the generative period of development, reaching a maximum in the phase of mass fruit formation, when the most active growth and, consequently, the demand for assimilate. The intensity of transpiration of leaves during this period of plant development was by 8.22 mmol H 2 O/m 2 c. The highest transpiration activity was typical for the upper leaves located in the generative sphere of plants, the lowest - activity was fount for the lowerst leaves. On the 5th node from the bottom, its value was 2.2 times lower compared to the assimilating leaves at the top of the plants (3-4 knots top). Thus, the most intensive evaporation of the water by leaves are held from 9:00 to 13:00 hours Moscow time. The intensity of transpiration in this period amounted to an average of 5.42 mmol H 2 O/m 2 c, which was 19.9% higher than in the morning (from 7:00 to 8:00) and 42.3% in the afternoon (from 15:00 to 17:00).

Soils in the bipartite sediments within the Moscow glacial limits of the Russian Plain: Sedimentary environment, pedogenesis, paleolandscape implication

The basal tills of the Late Moscow (MIS 6) Cryochrone form an important component of landscapes in northern Europe, including the center of the Russian Plain. The till is often covered only with a thin cover layer (30–50 cm as an average) – veneers of sands, sandy loams or silty loams, so that surface soils (Retisols) are formed in the bipartite sediments. The study of such soils allows identifying a set of pre-depositional, syn-depositional and post-depositional (pedogenic and cryogenic) features. An assemblage of (macro, meso and micro) morphological features together with analytical data confirmed that soils had been formed within several climatic cycles starting from the Late Moscow time till now, including the last Thermochrone, when the well-developed Argic horizon had been formed. Modern pedogenesis forms embedded profiles within the cover layer depending on the bioclimatic parameters (with Humic, Protospodic or Cambic horizons). The clear record of the final stages of sedimentation and ancient pedogenesis within profiles of soils in bipartite sediments may help to derive paleoclimatic interpretations from the last interglacial - glacial cycle till present. Correlation of these records with other archives in glacial and periglacial areas opens attractive research perspectives.

Experience in Organizing in Metropolis Mobile Immunization to Vaccinate Adults against Flu

With the aim to increase the coverage of preventive vaccinations of the adult population of Moscow against influenza in the epidemic season of2016 - 2017 for the first time in Moscow there was organized the work of mobile vaccination centers on the basis of sanitary transport in the places of mass concentration of people. Since the 5th of September to the 1st of november 2016 in walking distance from 24 metro stations and the railway station Krukovo (administrative district - Zelenograd) were working vaccination points equipped with the account of sanitary and anti-epidemic requirements and providing conditions for the safety of immunization. The new approach to the vaccination against influenza allowed to increase the availability of vaccination services for the population, to cover a hard-to-reach group of employed working residents of Moscow and also to implement a new method of public health education in the area of adherence to influenza vaccination.

Reflections of Cultural Trauma in Romualdas Granauskas’s novel Duburys (The Pit) and Ramūnas Klimas’s Maskvos laikas (Moscow Time)

Cultural trauma is defined as the damage done to people’s lives when epochal breaks impact identity. Psychological, sociological, and literary research has shown that trauma discourse is still relevant today, that it is crucially important to talk about traumatic events related to Soviet-era experience. These two novels contribute to the powerful works exploring cultural trauma and attempting to grasp the scale of the damage it has effected.Romualdas Granauskas’s 2003 novel Duburys (The Pit) draws attention to the experiences of a Soviet individual who has left his rural origins: the struggle to adapt to city life, the loss of roots and lack of spiritual framework, the submission to fate. This is a passive Soviet-era person – someone lacking any sense of initiative or belonging, who leaves no sign of his existence. Granauskas depicts the complete erasure of this individual’s original identity and how his new one is marked by the conflict of hiding his true nature as he is overwhelmed by a new, foreign context.Another view of the Soviet era is revealed in Ramūnas Klimas’s 2005 novel Maskvos laikas (Moscow Time), which depicts the intellectual circles, the awakening of consciousness as opposed to oblivion; here the work of memory is focused on childhood events, in particular the humiliation of the protagonist’s father. The novel focuses a great deal on the state, and process, of being “under someone’s boot” and how this kind of degradation can be carried into adulthood. Although the novel does not depict overt resistance, it describes the character’s refusal to accept the condition of degradation; the Soviet occupation is understood as a period of degradation during which a coercive system caused deep psychic damage. The author of this article presents Klimas’s novel as the judgement upon the Soviet period inspired by the awakening consciuosness, a judgement in which the reader is invited to take part.

What’s in a frame? A comparative content analysis of American, British, French, and Russian news articles

Drawing on the agenda-setting and framing literature, this quantitative content analysis examines how le Figaro, the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, and the Moscow Times covered the Syrian war before and after the chemical weapon attack of 21 August 2013. Overall, the nationalization frame was most frequent, followed by the responsibility and conflict frames. Despite the large impact of the conflict, the morality, human interest, and economic impact frames were hardly present. Although all newspapers followed a similar pattern, the Daily Telegraph was the most heavily framed. Moreover, the stories barely provided any context while discussing several solutions largely in keeping with the suggestions of the governments. These findings raise questions about the neutrality of the newspapers and their impact on public opinion.

NO QUICK FIX

NO QUICK FIX

DRUG TSAR, DETHRONED

(By Mikhail Fishman. The Moscow Times, May 19, 2016, p. 6. Complete text:) On May 10, an unusual post appeared on Facebook, apparently signed by Viktor Ivanov, the head Russia’s Federal Narcotics Control Service (FNCS): Comrades and fellow soldiers, it began. want to apologize that I couldn’t save our organization. We protected our national interests honestly. Someone somewhere seemed far from happy with the decision to dismantle one the largest government agencies. ... For any former senior-level official to question [Russian] President Vladimir Putin’s logic is, in the context the Russian system, a demonstration significant disloyalty. The post - allegedly written by Ivanov himself - disappeared from Facebook within an hour. The FNCS press office described the publication as a provocation against the service and its head. ... The decision to disband FNCS, along with the Federal Migration Service, was announced on March 30 as part a broader reform, including the creation a new National Guard [see Current Digest, Vol. 68, No. 14, p. 9]. Under the plans, in a little over one week, the agency will be no more, and Ivanov, a longtime associate Putin, will retire. According to various sources in and around the government, Ivanov had been kept in the dark about the plans until the very last minute. ... is a quite unusual way doing business in Putin’s universe, and seems to be a sign serious dissatisfaction somewhere within government. ... Ivanov’s name features prominently in any account Putin’s rise to power. A career KGB officer, he moved to St. Petersburg in the 1990s to take up a role within the city administration. According to some reports, he did this on Putin’s own recommendation. Since then, their careers have dovetailed. When, in the late 1990s, Putin headed the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, Ivanov was assigned a top position in the service. ... Ivanov always dealt with paperwork, not fieldwork, a former official who knew him at that time recalls. was always the HR manager, he says. ... When Putin was elected president, the manager, albeit with KGB roots, enjoyed a meteoric rise to become presidential deputy chief staff. was a position enormous authority. It placed Ivanov in charge the Kremlin’s HR department, and gave him control over all issues relating to national awards and staffing within the justice system. It was here that he developed a reputation as the Kremlin’s forceful power broker - alongside Igor Sechin, a similarly faithful assistant hailing from Putin’s St. Petersburg days. ... The extent Ivanov’s omnipotence was publicly revealed in court in 2008, when a leading Supreme Arbitration Court judge testified that Ivanov’s staff directly intervened in judicial appointments. is unconstitutional. One Ivanov’s former colleagues agreed that of course this was what was happening - this is how the system works; they were acting in the interests the state, and besides, it has only gotten worse since. ... It was around this time that Ivanov’s rise was checked and his career problems began. He first had a run-in with Dmitry Medvedev, who became president in 2008, and who found it difficult to deal with Putin’s KGB associates. Ivanov was asked to move out the Kremlin, and, in a clear demotion, he was transferred from his top position within the presidential administration to become head of the recently formed FNCS. ... The idea creating a special federal agency for drug control came from another one Putin’s St. Petersburg security associates, Viktor Cherkesov, in 2002. It was largely modeled on the US Drug Enforcement Administration, which was created in the early 1970s to fight drug smuggling. ... The idea creating the new agency came naturally enough. The drug threat had by the early 2000s become very serious, with Russia forming a huge market for opiates coming from Afghanistan and Central Asia. As a former security services official says, the Internal Affairs Ministry was simply unable to deal with the inflows due to its own involvement in drug trafficking. The new agency was given priority resourcing: 40,000 officers, all necessary operational hardware and, more importantly, the authorization to use it. The FNCS wiretapping department gained legendary status. ... Their investigators were given a full forensic set their own and didn’t need to stand in line to get it, explains one former FNCS official. This was quite a big deal. ... Every Russian law-enforcement agency has a natural inclination to look to expand its authority and area control, and the FNCS was no exception. As the years passed, it began to prosecute businesses that had little to do with trafficking but dealt with, for example, industrial drugs or chemicals. They targeted veterinarians, industrial chemical entrepreneurs, and even bakers producing poppyseed muffins.

WHY DIDN'T YOU RUN?

WHY DIDN'T YOU RUN?

MR. MEDVEDEV GOES TO MUNICH

(By Matthew Bodner. The Moscow Times, Feb. 11, 2016, p. 4. Complete text:) At last year's Munich Security Conference, Foreign Minister Sergei took to the stage to defend Russia's actions in Ukraine [see Current Digest, Vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 8 - 11]. Scheduled [to speak] between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the US vice-president, Lavrov faced a tough sell. ... He did his best to toe the government line, declaring Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 [see Current Digest, Vol. 66, No. 12, pp. 3 - 11] more legitimate than the reunification of Germany in 1990. It was all too much for the audience of heads of state, foreign and defense ministers, and experts. He was laughed at. ... Lavrov accuses the EU of ‘supporting a coup d'etat' in Kiev. I hope he feels somewhat ashamed of having to market such rubbish, former Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, a staunch critic of Russia's actions in Ukraine, wrote at the time. ... was, of course, pandering to a domestic audience. His points were not meant to sway international opinion of Moscow's foreign policy, but to reinforce Russian state media narratives of the crisis in Ukraine, regardless of how it looked abroad. ... This year, it appears is changing tack. While will attend the Munich conference, Russia's official delegation will be led by Prime Minister Dmitry - the message seems to be that is ready to talk about relief. ... Medvedev is a positive sign that means Moscow is taking the event more seriously now, said Yury Barmin, a political analyst. All in all, I think the Russian delegation will try to smooth out the disagreements with the West, and Medvedev's presence might help. ... provides a soft face with which to wrap Russia's intransigence on issues like the Crimea, the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and Moscow's support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Whether true or not, is viewed in Moscow as the West's Russian sweetheart. ... According to Dr. Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security affairs, will be looking for clarity on relief, or, at least, some hope of widening divisions over the issue. will relay the usual Russian talking points, but sanctions are the absolute central issue. ... Official Russian foreign policy positions in Ukraine and Syria have not changed since was laughed off stage last year. But Moscow has been forced to show flexibility in finding a solution to its standoff with the West. ... The reason for the softening of Russia's position is simple: The nation is experiencing its worst economic crisis since 1998, and Western are part of the problem. Consumers and companies are in desperate need of relief from the recession. ... Economists from Russian banks said that were lifted tomorrow, Russia's economy would receive considerable stimulus, as companies could begin refinancing their debts in foreign currencies - which would provide the ruble with a measurable boost. However, some economists doubted that the relief would be significant enough to entice the Russian government into capitulating to Western demands in Ukraine. ... There is, however, something to be said for the government's fear of economically motivated public unrest. Negotiating an end to sanctions, even if the relief is more symbolic than substantive, would send a positive message to concerned Russians. ... The Kremlin faces a daunting balancing act: It cannot be seen as abandoning the separatist forces it supported in eastern Ukraine - especially if Kiev pulls back from implementing the political side of the Minsk agreements [see Current Digest, Vol. 66, No. 37 - 38, pp. 3 - 6 and Vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 3 - 7]. Equally, it cannot afford to continue its fight with the West. ... Russia wants a repeat of the 2008 Georgian War scenario - getting back to business as usual with the West without having to cede any ground, said Vladimir Frolov, a Russian expert on international relations. ... As such, will look to explore Russia's maneuvering room. Meanwhile, the Europeans will themselves look to discuss sanctions, according to US Senator John McCain, who is scheduled to participate in the conference. ... Medvedev's peacemaking effort is part of a broader attempt to reopen diplomatic tracks with the US. The extent of this apparent detente was underscored last month by a mysterious and surprising meeting in Kaliningrad between Kremlin adviser Vladislav Surkov and Washington's [Assistant Secretary of State] Victoria Nuland [see Current Digest, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 10 - 11]. ... Following the meeting, US Secretary of State John Kerry mentioned for the first time that could be lifted. But agreeing on an acceptable schedule of relief won't be easy, as the crisis in Ukraine is not over. ... The key to relief is implementing the Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement.

Analisis of population structure of Polygonatum multiflorum L. in the “Bitsevsky forest” natural and historical park

The authors of the article studied the structure of populations of Polygonatum multiflorum (L.) All., related to rare species and included in the Red book of Moscow and Moscow region. For the first time in Moscow in the Bitsevsky forest Park were identified and described stages of ontogenesis and age structure of population of this species, the peculiarities of the age structure population loci. The presence of all age States in population, which indicates the dynamic stability of this species in the studied community.

BOGGED DOWN IN THE MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA LOSES HONEST BROKER IMAGE

BOGGED DOWN IN THE MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA LOSES HONEST BROKER IMAGE

THE DEVELOPMENT OF BALKA HEADWATERS IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MIDDLE-RUSSIAN HIGHLAND DURING THE END OF MIDDLE - LATE PLEISTOCENE

History of development of little buried erosion forms in the centre of Middle-Russian highland is reconstructed. The regularities of their erosion-accumulation dynamics are related to landscape-climatic changes during interglacial-glacial macrocycle. Four large stages of their development are distinguished: deepening and linear growth in the Late Moscow time, stabilization during the Mikulino Interglacial, rapid filling at the Mikulino - Early Valdai boundary, and slow filling during the most part of Valdai epoch.

International Association of Procedural Law

At the initiative of the Moscow state university, and especially dmitry Maleshin, the International Association of Procedural Law held its annual conference for the first time in Moscow on 18–21 september 2012. the main topic of this conference was ‘Civil procedure in cross-cultural dialogue’. this event was successful. delegates from all around the world discussed such topics as Dispute Resolution in Different Societies: formal and informal procedures; Goals of Civil Justice; Civil Procedural Systems: pro and contra; Cultural Dimension of Group Litigation; and Harmonisation of Civil Procedure in Eurasia. the history of the International Association of Procedural Law, founded in florence in 1950, is the history of a collective challenge. generation after generation for over sixty years, we are writing together this history like a novel chain. this writing of this history needs editorial supports everywhere in the world. It is the reason why, on behalf of the IAPL, I am very pleased to welcome the launching of the Russian Law Journal. this first russian law review published in English language will surely help to promote intellectual exchanges between proceduralists worldwide. opening the russian legal system to the world and, conversely, opening the world to the russian legal system are the two faces of an exciting challenge.