Irina Kuznetsova

This book analyses how war and bordering impacts daily life and mobility and immobility tactics. It brings to light the memories of people who were displaced from Ukraine’s eastern regions because of Russian aggression against Ukraine started in 2014. Based on extensive in-depth research including interviews with individuals who were direct witnesses, participants, and victims of the events in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the study presents a novel perspective. It explores everyday experiences of war, bordering, and (im)mobilities through the lens of ‘inconvenient people’ including their hard journeys and resistance in occupied territories, the loss of home and struggles to find housing, volunteering, and the traumatic responses. The book amplifies the voices and agency of civilians experienced the war and displacement, including older adults and people with disabilities and provides theoretical and practical implications beyond Ukraine in a context of global uncertainties and growing mass population displacement. The book urges politicians and experts to look at the experiences of both displaced and immobile people who lived through the war in Ukraine before the full invasion. It will be of great interest to scholars of Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies, European Politics, Security Studies, Migration Studies, Human Geography and War and Conflict Studies.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socio-environmental issues and sustainability challenges facing Russian cities. It encompasses a three-year project in Moscow and Kazan which includes population surveys, mass-media analysis, and interviews with different groups of stakeholders. The authors offer extensive analysis of the main components of sustainable cities such as air and water quality, sustainable transport and mobility, energy efficiency and energy consumption, waste management, green and blue zones, environmental governance and politics. The conclusion provides critical reflections on how understandings of Russia's sustainability challenges can be used to build more tailored and effective environmental governance for its cities.

Posobie "Sovremennyj kitajskij dialog" rasschitano na shirokij krug lits, osvoivshikh bazovyj uroven kitajskogo jazyka i prodolzhajuschikh izuchenie s prepodavatelem ili samostojatelno. Tselju posobija javljaetsja formirovanie ustojchivykh navykov ustnoj rechi i audirovanija, pozvoljajuschikh uchaschimsja gramotno i legko vzaimodejstvovat s predstaviteljami KNR v razlichnykh bytovykh situatsijakh. V posobie voshli 366 dialogov, sgruppirovannykh po 12 razlichnym temam. Avtory postaralis maksimalno priblizit izuchaemyj material k segodnjashnim realijam: dialogi sostavleny na osnove uznavaemykh zhiznennykh situatsij i zatragivajut aktualnye voprosy sovremennogo obschestva. Posle kazhdogo dialoga dan perevod slov i slovosochetanij, ne izuchavshikhsja v bazovom kurse, a takzhe maksimalno sootvetstvujuschij perevod rechevykh oborotov, ustojchivykh fraz i vyrazhenij. Izdanie soprovozhdaetsja audioprilozheniem, zapisannym prepodavateljami - nositeljami jazyka Instituta Konfutsija MGU.