Russia in Serbia – soft power and hard interests. OSW COMMENTARY No. 150, 2014-10-29

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Serbia on 16 October has demonstrated Moscow’s willingness to secure its interests in the Balkans and use Belgrade in its confrontation with the West. It seems, however, that Russia does not have much to offer to Serbia’s authorities, which are reluctant to make more concessions towards Russia. However, Moscow has already gained a strong position in Serbia, which is due to the country’s dependence on Russian natural resources and, in particular, strong support for Russian policy on the part of Serbian elites and society. The traditional pro-Russian attitudes have been strengthened as a result of a series of Russia-inspired, wide-ranging soft power initiatives which have proved so successful that a large part of society has begun to believe that Russia’s interests are consistent with Serbia’s. Russia’s increasingly active policy towards Serbia and the Serbian minorities in the neighbouring countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo – has been part of a larger plan aimed at hampering the integration of the Balkan states with the Euro-Atlantic structures and maintaining an area of instability and frozen conflicts in the EU’s near neighbourhood. Russia’s policy is also becoming increasingly effective due to the EU states’ diminishing support for Balkan countries’ European integration.

Digital workers by design? An example from the on-demand economy. CEPS Working Document No. 414/October 2015 Monday, 19 October 2015

Recent organisational and technological changes à la Uber have generated a new labour market fringe: a digital class of workers and contractors. In this paper we study the case of CoContest, a crowdsourcing platform for interior design. Our objective is to investigate how profitable this type of work can be, also from a cross-country perspective, and why professionals choose to supply work on such a platform. Given the low returns, one might expect to see a pattern of northern employer/southern contractor. Yet analysis reveals a more nuanced pattern, in which designers supply their work even if they live in Italy, which is a high-income country. For these designers work on CoContest can make sense if they are new to the labour market and face high entry barriers, although crowdsourcing does not offer them profitable employment full time. The case of Serbia, the second-largest supplier of designers, is different, however. As a result of differences in purchasing power, if the market grows experienced Serbian designers can expect to make a living from crowdsourced contracts.

Refranes de Sancho Panza. Aventuras y desventuras, malicias y agudezas del escudero de don Quijote.

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La religión en el idioma; ensayo paremiológico.

"Obras consultadas": p. [247]

Narodnai͡a Rusʹ. Kruglyĭ god skazanīi, povi͡erīi, obychaev i poslovit͡s russkago naroda.

Mode of access: Internet.

Les maximes du scribe Ani d'après le papyrus hiératique no IV du Musée de Boulaq avec double transcription, traduction analytique et commentaire perpétuel,

Forms vol.I-II of "L'egyptologie" a monthly periodical of which no more was published.

Poslovi︠t︡sy russkago naroda : sbornik /

In Cyrillic characters.

[Commentary on the Old Testament]

[v.1] Genesis, 1841--[v.2] Exodus [1813?]--[v.4] Numbers, 1841--[v.5] Deuteronomy, 1841--[v.6-7] Joshua, Judges, 1842--[v.9-10] I&II Samuel [1805]--[v.11-12] I&II Kings, 1843--[v.18] Job, 1844--[v.19] Psalms, 1843--[v.20] Proverbs, 1844--

Glasnik Hemijskog društva Beograd = Bulletin de la Société chimique Beograd.

Title from cover.

Petit livre de proverbes /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [11]-12) and indexes.

Orígen y significación de algunas frases, locuciones, refranes,

Mode of access: Internet.

Raccolta di proverbi toscani /

Mode of access: Internet.

Mikra ot gedolot : im 32 perushim

Title also in Russian.

Assaig de bibliografía paremiológica catalana;

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The Gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868 /

Includes bibliographical references.