Modern studies of the cryosphere of the Zeravshan and Gissar Ranges (Tien Shan)

The paper presents brief results of the modern studies of the cryosphere of the Zeravshan and Gissar ranges. Also the rate of decrease in the area of glaciers over the last almost a hundred years and the presence and degradation of permafrost during that time were considered. The actual description of the methodic for estimation of the depth of the ground freezing based on air temperature and snow thickness data were also given. An experience of application of this method for estimating the depth of ground freezing on the mountain slopes in order to compile the maps of the permafrost zone of the Zeravshan and Gissar ranges was described

Preparation Of ZnS Thin Films by the Chemical Bath Deposition Method

The work was financially supported by program 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation (№ 02.A03.21.0006)

Physicochemical and biochemical properties of the Keplerate-type nanocluster polyoxomolybdates as promising components for biomedical use

The paper discusses the results of a research on physicochemical and biochemical properties of the Keplerate-type molybdenum-based nanocluster polyoxometalates (POMs), which show promise in the field of biomedicine as a means of targeted drug delivery, including the transport to immune privileged organs. POMs can be considered as components of releasing systems, including the long-acting ones with feedback (for controlling the drug active component release rate). POMs are promising drugs for the treatment of anemia. Also, the paper deals with the results of studies of POM effect on living systems at the molecular and cellular levels, at that of individual organs, and on the organism as a whole. The mechanism and kinetics of POM destruction and possibilities of stabilization, the oscillatory phenomena manifestation, the formation of POM conjugates with bioactive substances which can be released during the destruction of POM, with polymer components, and with indicator fluorescent dyes, as well as forecasts for further research, are considered. © 2021, ITMO University. All rights reserved.The paper was prepared in the framework of implementation of the State Assignment from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Projects Nos. AAAA-A20-120061990010-7 (FEUZ-2020-0052) and AAAA-A18-118020590107-0), as well as of the Program for Increasing Competitiveness of UrFU (financially supported according to the Decree No. 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation, Contract No. 02.A03.21.0006). The research aimed at creating the long-time drug release systems with feedback was carried out within the framework of the project of the Russian Science Foundation No. 19-73-00177

End of organised atheism. The genealogy of the law on freedom of conscience and its conceptual effects in Russia

In the current climate of the perceived alliance between the Russian Orthodox Church and the state, atheist activists in Moscow share a sense of juridical marginality that they seek to mitigate through claims to equal rights between believers and atheists under the Russian law on freedom of conscience. In their demands for their constitutional rights, including the right to political critique, atheist activists come across as figures of dissent at risk of the state's persecution. Their experiences constitute a remarkable (and unexamined in anthropology) reversal of political and ideological primacy of state-sponsored atheism during the Soviet days. To illuminate the legal context of the atheists’ current predicament, the article traces an alternative genealogy of the Russian law on freedom of conscience from the inception of the Soviet state through the law's post-Soviet reforms. The article shows that the legal reforms have paved the way for practical changes to the privileged legal status of organized atheism and brought about implicit conceptual effects that sideline the Soviet meaning of freedom of conscience as freedom from religion and obscure historical references to conscience as an atheist tenet of Soviet ethics

Modern studies of the cryosphere of the Zeravshan and Gissar Ranges (Tien Shan)

The paper presents brief results of the modern studies of the cryosphere of the Zeravshan and Gissar ranges. Also the rate of decrease in the area of glaciers over the last almost a hundred years and the presence and degradation of permafrost during that time were considered. The actual description of the methodic for estimation of the depth of the ground freezing based on air temperature and snow thickness data were also given. An experience of application of this method for estimating the depth of ground freezing on the mountain slopes in order to compile the maps of the permafrost zone of the Zeravshan and Gissar ranges was described