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P A G E :
         CULTURE,  IDENTITIES,  RELIGIONS 
• Bereket Karibaev, Zere Maidanali, Meiramkul Bizhanova, Aknur Koshymova, Yedil Noyanov
New Methodological Approaches to the Study of Political History of the Golden Horde in the 13th-16th centuries
7
• Radu Cârciumaru
Simion Florea Marian and the Legends about the Beginnings of Moldavia
31
• Antoniy Moysey, Iurii Mosenkis, Oleksandr Strokal
Archaic Elements of Vegetation Cult in Traditional Customs of the Population of Ukrainian-Romanian Bordering Zone of Bukovina
45
• Mariia Oliynyk, Liudmyla Tymchuk, Tetiana Fedirchyk, Marianna Marusynets
Adult Learning and Education Development in Bukovina (1861-1940): A Case Study of the Ukrainian-Speaking Community
63
• Tatyana Titova, Elena Frolova, Elena Gushchina, Anastasia Blagoveshchenskaya
Confessional Groups in the Republic of Tatarstan: Identity and Features of its Design
87
         SOCIETY,  ELITES,  CONFLICTS 
• Myroslav Voloshchuk
Ruthenian-Polish Matrimonial Relations in the Context of the Inter-Dynastic Policy of the House of Rurik in the 11th-14th Centuries: Selective Statistical Data
95
• Dariusz Milewski
Konstanty Ostrogski as an Opponent of the Tatars in the Eyes of Polish Historians of the 16th Century
127
• Alexandr Sych
Post War (WWI) Central and Eastern Europe: Time of Civilizational Choice
143
• Roza Zharkynbayeva, Ardak Abdiraiymova, Kulimkoz Santaeva, Kadyrzhan Smagulov
New Independent States of Central Asia: Mobilization Experience of Local Communities
159
        POLITICS  AND  INTERNATIONAL  STUDIES
• Oleksandr Dobrzhanskyi
Nikolaj von Wassilko. Bukovinian Statesman and Diplomat
181
• Olesea Palamarja
The Relationships between the Socialist Republic of Romania and the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Matrix of Brezhnev's Socialism and Ceausescu's National Communism. The High-Level Visits (1976)
203
         NOTES
• Vasile M. Demciuc
In Honorem Academician Răzvan Theodorescu
221
         BOOK  REVIEW
• Nadezhda Nizhnik
A New Outstanding Work on "Women's History"
223
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
233
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS239