Category: Other Publications

Abstract The primary objective of this study is to critically examine the cultural impacts of the U.S. and allied presence in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. Utilizing a critical paradigm and a qualitative research approach, this study explores the perspectives of Afghan cultural and social … more info

Abstract This article seeks to explain the printing activities of Doctor Francis Skaryna through the prism of the eschatological tensions at the turn of the sixteenth century. By focusing on Skaryna’s prints, including the Ruthenian Bible of Prague (1517–1519), Malaia Padarozhnaia Kniha, Liber Viaticus [The … more info

Abstract The main aim of this research has been to sociologically examine the role of tourism in promoting social convergence in Afghanistan. The study is practical in terms of its goals and expected outcomes, resorting to a survey method with a descriptive-explanatory approach. The research … more info

Abstract It is widely recognised that top-down constitutional referendums in post-Soviet states reinforce the president’s power, at the expense of other branches of government. This article examines referendum engineering as a factor that undermines the balance of power, establishes a constitutional basis for long-lasting autocracies, … more info

Abstract This study investigates factors influencing Iranian citizens’ attitudes toward Afghan immigrants. It is an applied, large-scale research conducted through a survey using a descriptive-explanatory approach. Data were collected via a researcher-made Likert-scale questionnaire. The statistical population included Iranian citizens, with 384 participants selected through … more info

Abstract In this article, I explore the ambivalent and recurring theme of feeling at home as it emerged in my doctoral research. I conducted twenty-nine in-depth interviews and four focus group discussions over three years with women involved in nine common spaces that had been … more info

AbstractThe article examines the development and context of the problem of passive constitution in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. The thematization of passive synthesis arises primarily in the later period of his work — in the Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis, the Crisis of … more info

AbstractIn the interview with artist A. S. Zaslavsky, conducted by N. A. Artemenko, a deeply personal story of the formation of his artistic path and worldview unfolds. The first impulse toward painting came from life itself — childhood in Kiev, the postwar atmosphere of antisemitism, … more info

AbstractThe present publication offers the second part of the lecture notes by Nelly Vasilievna Motroshilova (1934–2021), a distinguished Russian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, and Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For more than twenty-five years, Motroshilova … more info

AbstractThe article analyzes the development of the problem of passive constitution in Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. While passive synthesis becomes a central theme mainly in his later works—Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis, The Crisis of European Sciences, Cartesian Meditations, and writings on intersubjectivity (Husserliana XIII–XV)—its … more info