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Book
Digital Economy: 2023 : Pocket Data Book
This pocket data book contains the main indicators of the digital economy development in the Russian Federation: gross domestic expenditure, use of digital technologies by households, individuals, and enterprises, personnel, infrastructure, ICT sector enterprises activity, etc. The data book includes information of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Federal Customs Service of Russia, Russian Central Bank (Bank of Russia), European Statistical Office (Eurostat), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Scopus database, and results of methodological and analytical studies of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. In some cases, the presented data specify those published earlier.
National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2023.
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Article
If I ignore it, maybe it will go away: how Russian engineering students perceive the gender inequality issue
This study investigates how gender inequality in engineering is reproduced in the discourses of Russian engineering undergraduates. The empirical data come from interviews with 22 women and 22 men enrolled in undergraduate engineering programs at six Russian universities. We employ discourse analysis to connect the student narratives about gender differences with participants’ situated identities and the gender stereotypes in Russian society. The analysis demonstrates that gender inequality in engineering is reproduced by both faculty and students through communicating low expectations for women. Although the interviewees noticed a problem of gender discrimination in faculty treatment and relations among classmates, none of our participants openly acknowledged that this problem requires special attention or a solution by university administrators. Young women enrolled in engineering majors may take the position of ignoring or refusing to consider discrimination as a negative phenomenon to cope with negative emotions.
European Journal of Engineering Education. 2023. P. 1-20.
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Book chapter
Death, memory and power: public memorial culture of Moscow necropolises
My work is dedicated to the study of Novodevichy – Moscow necropolis, where many famous people are buried. This cemetery is an interesting case among similar celebrity cemeteries: burials in both Moscow cemeteries are allocated by the government, and among those buried in the cemeteries there are mainly famous politicians, doctors, doctors of the USSR and Russia (and their relatives). The emergence of such cemeteries-museums, necropolises for famous people, is an interesting phenomenon itself: why did it become necessary to create separate necropolises? Why were they initiated? What cultural and social preconditions precede their appearance? In my work I will focus on understanding the necropolis as resource in the battle for meanings as (an essential aspect of the political field) aimed at producing and maintaining specific ways of understanding social reality. The subject of my interest will be how the necropolis embodies the specifics of contemporary public memorial culture in Russia. I will be interested in the institutional history of the cemetery, as expressed in both official and unofficial sources. Accordingly, I am interested in what cultural background was behind its creation and what metamorphoses it has undergone over its history. I will argue that Novodevichy is not just a museum but a powerful cultural artifact in Russian memorial context that echoes to the framework of the Commemoration of Heroes shaped in the USSR.
In bk.: The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death. Routledge, 2023.
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Working paper
Meanings Attached to Pets by Young Women with Anorexia: Triggers of Mental Health Problems, Neutral Beings, Sources of Emotional Support, Care-Targets, or Fully Fledged Family Members
Animal-assisted therapy and intervention have demonstrated their effectiveness in improving the quality of life of people with mental health issues that are connected to social functioning difficulties. Anorexia is a mental health disorder that is associated with problematic formation and maintenance of long-lasting personal relationships. There is a limited number of papers that describe how people with eating disorders, including anorexia, treat their pets. Since the perceptions of people with anorexia of their pets are largely unexplored, in this article, I aim to contribute to this lacuna. In particular, I study the meanings that young women with anorexia attach to their pets. The data on this topic was collected through semi-structured biographical interviews and the concentric circles method (N = 50). The narratives were analyzed using thematic qualitative analysis. The findings indicate that pets are scarcely included in personal networks. Only seven women out of 50 mentioned them as members of these networks. Pets as parts of personal networks are referred to in five ways: (1) as providers of needed emotional support, (2) as targets of care that help to find the reason to be alive; (3) as triggers of depression and other mental health problems, (4) neutrally, or (5) as family members who are both in need of care and capable of providing support. Based on the results of the present research, I suggest the cautious implementation of animals in the provision of mental health services for young women with anorexia because these individuals tend to create strong bonds with their pets and the sudden cut of these ties (for instance due to pet death) could result in the worsening of the mental health of these vulnerable women.Animal-assisted therapy and intervention have demonstrated their effectiveness in improving the quality of life of people with mental health issues that are connected to social functioning difficulties. Anorexia is a mental health disorder that is associated with problematic formation and maintenance of long-lasting personal relationships. There is a limited number of papers that describe how people with eating disorders, including anorexia, treat their pets. Since the perceptions of people with anorexia of their pets are largely unexplored, in this article, I aim to contribute to this lacuna. In particular, I study the meanings that young women with anorexia attach to their pets. The data on this topic was collected through semi-structured biographical interviews and the concentric circles method (N = 50). The narratives were analyzed using thematic qualitative analysis. The findings indicate that pets are scarcely included in personal networks. Only seven women out of 50 mentioned them as members of these networks. Pets as parts of personal networks are referred to in five ways: (1) as providers of needed emotional support, (2) as targets of care that help to find the reason to be alive; (3) as triggers of depression and other mental health problems, (4) neutrally, or (5) as family members who are both in need of care and capable of providing support. Based on the results of the present research, I suggest the cautious implementation of animals in the provision of mental health services for young women with anorexia because these individuals tend to create strong bonds with their pets and the sudden cut of these ties (for instance due to pet death) could result in the worsening of the mental health of these vulnerable women.OSF Preprints. OSF. Series, 2022
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