Minor Letnica: (Re)Locating the Tradition of Shared Worship in North Macedonia

This paper addresses trajectories of historical and devotional continuity of the annual pilgrimage to a Marian shrine. It analyzes the ways in which traditional worship of the Catholic Church in Letnica (Kosovo)—a major regional sanctuary of the former Yugoslavia—is relocated and replicated in a small chapel of St. Joseph in Skopje (North Macedonia). Both sites have been for a long period of time institutionally connected and shared by followers of different religious traditions (Catholic and Orthodox devotees, and especially by Muslims). Drawing upon fieldwork carried out in Macedonia and Serbia between 2014-2019, I focus on the processes of social construction of the Catholic chapel as a holy site where today Muslims from local Roma communities are the predominant worshipers. I look at how the established scenarios of the organized shared worship in the Letnica church, being localized in an altered social context, are reconstructed, adjusted and regulated by divergent social actors through transmission of official and personal narratives, as well as through devotional practices

Team learning in a matrix organization: case study of a software development center in Mexico

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Karte ledenih špilja: iskustva iz Rusije

The paper is devoted to the history of ice cave mapping in Russia starting in the eighteenth century. The plans of Kungur, Shulgan-Tash, Ik, Nizhneudinskaya and Abigi-dzhe Ice Caves are considered. The cartographic works are displayed with short descriptions of the ice formations. The differences from the European approach to ice cave mapping are discussed.U radu se opisuje povijest kartiranja ledenih špilja u Rusiji od 18. stoljeća. Govori se o kartama sljedećih ledenih špilja: Kungur, Šul'gan-Taš, Ik, Nižneudinskaja i Abigi-dzhe. Prikazani su kartografski radovi s kratkim opisima ledenih formacija. Raspravlja se o razlikama u odnosu na europski pristup kartiranju ledenih špilja

Youth at risk in the Russian Federation: reasons for social protection

The article analyses the main reasons as to why children and teenagers are at risk and are committing crimes. The most serious reasons are related to crises in family relations due to the growth in poverty rates, the decrease in living standards, the deterioration in moral values and the educative potential of families. So-called ‘exterior’ reasons; namely, ineffective youth offence prevention, the general growth in crime, the influence of TV and advertising, the influence of a child’s mates or ‘bad street children’ are important as well, although their influence is less intensive as compared to problems which exist within individual families. The analysis shows that in contrast to general trends, regions and municipalities have certain specific characteristics. In some regions the most common problems are drug addiction, youth unemployment, child neglect and homelessness and juvenile delinquency. The negative general trends and regional characteristics require the creation of a multi-level system of social support and protection for young people at risk and their families

Scientific Conferences as a Part of Research and Development Area of Modern Universities

The given paper summarizes key trends of modern higher education. The authors describe the structure and objectives of research and development area of modern universities revealing the experience of the Udmurt State University. Conference activities are regarded as a major component of the university research and development area which is supposed to provide students with the competences required for the beneficial integration into the global educational system and presumably to shape their professional trajectory. The article considers university research and development area from the perspective of such current tendencies as globalization, modernization, internationalization and integration. While analyzing the structure of university research and development area the authors highlight the specific position held by conference activities, describing principle requirements and stages that should be followed while organizing and holding scientific conferences of different levels