Foreign funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent restrictions and implications

© 2017 Olga Oleinikova. The opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist societies is continuously starved by legal framework. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other post-Communist states have traditionally looked abroad for their funding, and are dismayed at recent legislation setting up new barriers to this practice. This paper discusses the new laws and restrictive amendments to legislative acts on the operations of foreign funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, adopted since 2011

Interdisciplinary Approach in Modern Linguistic Field

This article links studies of interdisciplinary approach in the linguistic comprehension of the world picture. Scientists agree that the future lies behind interdisciplinary trends in science, as this approach forms a certain horizontal plane in the study of a certain problem with the integration of general scientific and research methods used in specific scientific fields. The source of the new vision of science is synergetics, as the theory used to generate new knowledge, integration, synthesis and cooperation of complex language systems

The Role of Author’s Neologisms in Literary Text

One of the central and current problem of modern text linguistics today is the problem of investigation of new words created by the writer or authors’ neologisms in the texts of different genres. It is topical to study the lexical units in the texts of works of science fiction and fantasy as specific genres of literature. Such literary works are especially saturated with author’s neologisms that have not yet found their place in the typology of new words, first of all, because of their relevance to virtual language created by the author himself

Coping With Post-Soviet Transition: Achievement Vs. Survival Life Strategies Of Post- Independence Ukrainian Migrants In Australia (1991 - 2013)

This thesis discovers and explains post-independence Ukrainian migration to Australia through the analysis of migrants’ life strategies, seen as the outcomes of personal characteristics and individual actions as well as of cultural frames, institutional and structural conditions (relating micro and macro levels of analysis within agency-structure perspective). Relying on the 51 interviews with migrants in Australia, this study examines the survival and achievement life strategies of migrants across two spaces, the sending and receiving countries, in three ways. First, it examines how micro structuring life strategy components (values, aims, needs and sense of agency) are formed by life in Ukraine and by Australia migration policy (macro structuring factors of life strategy). Second, it examines how Ukrainians utilise the international migration and how they adopt it in order to get into Australia and change their temporary visa status into permanent. Third, the thesis explores how life strategies are recreated or changed after migration. In all three aspects of the thesis the central questions of inquiry are: how are survival and achievement life strategies formed and implemented in relation to migration and how has the migration experience impacted on the ways in which the participants’ life strategies were enacted in two different migration periods (1991–2003 and 2004–2013) and how they determine the success or failure of integration in the Australia society. This study resulted in a collaborative research to the body of knowledge on the post-independence Ukrainian immigration to Australia with a potential for contribution to the development of social and migration policies of both countries. The originality of this research is in its approach that brings the concept of life strategy within migration methodology and deploys it in sociological context rather than its original psychological focus

Linguostylistic Peculiarities of the Danube River Description in Fiction

One of the perspective areas in modern linguistics is Anthropological Linguistics. Understanding and perception of the language as an anthropocentric phenomenon is one of the leading trends in the development of modern Ukrainian onomastics. The relevance of this article is to consider the author's individual style, which relies on the usage of various lexical microstructures of the text. The stylistic devices, describing the Danube hydronym, are analyzed and investigated in this article. The study shows that the usage of different linguostylistic devices allows a reader to imagine the depicted object more vividly and to understand all the writer’s peculiarities of particular fictional work’s language.&nbsp

Investigation of Science Fiction in the Danube Basin Countries

The science-fiction genre specificity determines not only the particular organization of theliterary text, but also the formation of the world depicted in it. All three major components of anyliterary text: time, place, characters can be revealed in the typological peculiarities of formation andthe representation in the text. The dominant principle of constructing the counterfactual reality is theprinciple of the shift. It deals with a spatial shift, the alienation of represented space from real locativeparameters, where the author of the literary work and its readers are located