C O N T E N T S:

P A G E :
         CULTURE,  IDENTITIES,  RELIGIONS 
• Serkan DEMIREL, Hasan Umut KIVRAK, Elif YAVUZ ÇAKMUR
The Mother of Gods in the Pontic Regions: Syncretism, Local Adaptation, and Religious Interaction		7
• Volodymyr MYLKO
Management of the Odesa Educational District in the Second Half of the 19th Century (on the Example of Bessarabia and Kherson governorates)		37
• Wojciech Adam ŚWIĘCH
Institutional Censorship of Documentary Films During Martial Law in the People’s Republic of Poland (1981-1983) – a Legal and Historical Approach		57
         SOCIETY,  ELITES,  CONFLICTS 
• Oleksii BALUKH 
The Impact of the Ukrainian Cossacks’ Campaigns into the Moldavian Principality on the Situation of Chernivtsi and Khotyn Regions (Throughout the 80s and 90s of the 16th Century) 		87
• Ionel Constantin MITEA 
Comparative Analysis of British, Austrian, and Greek Consular Networks in the Romanian Danube Ports (1850–1900)
107
• Sergiu CORNEA 
The Territorial Organisation of the Subnational Public Power in the Preliminary Constitutional Drafts Developed by the Political Parties in Romania (1921-1922)		129
• Dinu BALAN 
Juan Pedro de Aladro, the First Chief of the Spanish Legation in Bucharest		157
• Larysa SHVAB, Anatoliy SHVAB, Mariana SHVAB 
Poland in World War II in the Context of German and Soviet Eastern European Policy		179
• Serhii SEHEDA, Dmytro VIEDIENIEIEV, Serhii LEVCHENKO, Oleksii POKOTYLO 
On the Eve of the Invasion. Formation of an Offensive Group of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Near the Borders of Ukraine (2020-2022)
201
        POLITICS  AND  INTERNATIONAL  STUDIES
• Dacian DUNA 
The European Union’s ‘Geopolitical Awakening’ in the Wider Global Geopolitical Context		225
• Nazrin ALIZADA 
The SCO’s Iran Expansion in the Regional Equation		251
• Ezgi ŞAHIN, Merve Suna ÖZEL ÖZCAN 
The Polar Compass: Türkiye’s Foreign Policy and Arctic Observer Status		273
         BOOK  REVIEW
• Oana NESTERIUC 
The Survival of Byzantine Sacred Art from Cappadocia in the 21st Century
297
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
303
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS309