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This exciting book is the first systematic study of how international environmental agreements are transformed into political action in Russia. Using three illuminating case studies on the implementation process in the fields of fisheries management, nuclear safety and air pollution control, this book fills an important gap in existing literature. While the focus in current social science debate on international environmental regimes is accumulating knowledge on 'implementing activities' at both national and international level, this book goes one step further and examines implementation at national and regional level. This topic is of great theoretical relevance to the study of environmental politics since some of the main sources of environmental degradation in Europe are to be found in the Russian Federation. It is also of relevance to the more general debate on contemporary Russian politics and offers valuable new material on regional politics in Russia. With its emphasis on the politics of environmental and resource management, it continues the description and discussion of political processes where most accounts of Russian politics tend to stop. This book will be invaluable for undergraduates, postgraduates and academics studying environmental politics and Russian politics at regional and national level.

russia --- pollution --- russian --- environmental

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Kniga Belorusskij jazyk: Sociolingvističeskie očerki vključaet rjad rabot avtora, opublikovannych v 1992-2002 gg. v lingvističeskoj periodike Germanii, Avstrii, Pol'ši, Novoj Zelandii, a takže v meždunarodnom žurnale ,Russian Linguistics'. V sovokupnosti stat'i dajut kartinu jazykovych problem v Belarusi: analiz etnojazykovych tendencij poslednego desjatiletija, rjad istoričeskich ekskursov i ocenki perspektiv razvitija belorusskoj situacii.

Linguistics --- Russian --- Belorusskij --- jazyk --- Linguistik --- Mečkovskaja --- očerki --- Russisch --- Sociolingvističeskie --- Soziologie --- Sprachwissenschaft --- Weißrußland

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Cognitive linguistic research suggests that Slavic verbal prefix semantics may be profitably described by assuming a spatial prototype, and that non-spatial (abstract) prefixes derive metaphorically from this prototype. This dissertation uses a cognitive linguistic framework to establish a concise, systematic description of prototypes for prefixes and prepositions in Russian and Czech, and evaluates the nature of the relationship among the various senses of prefixes. The research presented here is aimed at carefully establishing the spatial meaning of prefixes. The primary motive for this research, however, is to evaluate the nature of the relation between spatial uses and abstract uses and to determine if abstract uses do indeed involve primarily spatial metaphor. A significant portion of the dissertation, therefore, is devoted to a discussion of the connection between spatial and abstract prefixation. A secondary purpose is to compare the spatial and abstract uses of prefixes in Czech and Russian, and to see whether differences in the verbal systems of these two languages can be correlated with underlying semantic differences at the spatial level.

Czech --- Experience --- Goal orientation in narration --- prefix semantics --- Prefixation --- Prefixes and deixis --- Privileged --- Prototype vs. invariance --- Role --- Russian --- Semantic features for Path preposition --- Shull --- Space --- Spacial