The article demonstrates that the Russian National Security Strategy righteously regards culture not only as something super-valuable, that unifi es the nation, shapes people’s souls and determines their uniqueness, as something that must be preserved but also as something that acts as a specifi c form of social regulation, has its own powerful potential for managing an individual and the society. Hence, the preservation of culture is shown to be a precondition of the national security of any country.
The article discusses the concept of soft power potential and its capabilities used in the global world. The capabilities of soft power are based on the attractiveness of its resources (material and spiritual culture, people’s living culture, political ideas and values, history) and its potential, which is measured by certain methods.
The article reveals the problem of the Middle East in general and in particular that of the Persian Gulf and Iraq. The abundant oil reserves and advantageous geographical location motivated Great Britain to initiate the military, diplomatic, and political intervention into the Kurdish issue. The authors display it was London that laid the “time bomb” by initially supporting and subsequently rejecting the idea of an autonomous/independent Kurdistan establishment. Since then, the Kurdish national question has become a manipulation object and tool for external forces. The information in the article can be useful in preparing for lectures and hands-on in International Relations, Political Science
This article deals with the sense of pitch in children of early school age. The sense of pitch occupies the most important place among the abilities for music, and auditory sensations are dominating for the musical activity. The article contains valuable guidelines that may be useful in training Music Pedagogy professionals.
The article is devoted to the study of the similarity of Urartian and Lezgin languages. A whole layer of related and close words, a number of lexical, morphological, and syntactic parallels were revealed. The ways of noun and verb formation were examined, and their comparative analysis was carried out. The article can be useful in preparing for classes in Linguistics.
The article shows that media communication is among the most eff ective ways of social interaction today. The historical review of the evolution of individuals-tothe Worldwide Web interaction suggests the technological development of the Internet did not occur consistently: by the time the advanced communication services appeared, it had become clear that information itself was meaningless, the unstructured knowledge was too voluminous to fi nd a key to it. The author claims that the knowledge that passed the internalisation stage is important. At this stage of personal assignment of information for a unit of time, it became necessary to get the maximum information.
The article conceptualises the stages that humanity has passed on the way of technological development: the transition from agricultural production to the fi rst steam engines, from mastering the power of steam to electricity, from electricity to digital technologies; and, fi nally, the transition that we are witnessing: from digital technologies to the creation of complex interconnected cyber-physical systems based on autonomous self-learning machines.
The article demonstrates that the digital economy means economic, social, and cultural relations based on the digital technology use. The digital economy is often referred to as the Internet-based economy, due to the dramatic changes that digital computing and communication technologies brought to the economy in the second half of the 20th century.
The article reveals the problem of the Middle East in general and in particular that of the Persian Gulf and Iraq. The abundant oil reserves and advantageous geographical location motivated Great Britain to initiate the military, diplomatic, and political intervention into the Kurdish issue. The authors display it was London that laid the “time bomb” by initially supporting and subsequently rejecting the idea of an autonomous/independent Kurdistan establishment. Since then, the Kurdish national question has become a manipulation object and tool for external forces. The information in the article can be useful in preparing for lectures and practicals in International Relations, Political Science.
