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P A G E :
         CULTURE,  IDENTITIES,  RELIGIONS 
• Larysa Shvab, Yulia Tokarska
1580s Transfer Attempts of the Ecumenical Patriarch's Seat to the Ruthenian Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita)		7
• Hilal Çiftçi
Mediation as a Diplomatic Tool in Ottoman Capitulations		29
• Vyacheslav Stepanov,
German Colonists from Bessarabia in Russian Historical Literature of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries 		55
         SOCIETY,  ELITES,  CONFLICTS 
• Olena Syniavska, 
Educational Aspects of Slavic Charitable Societies Activity 19th – Early 20th Centuries (Saints Cyril and Methodius Slavic Charitable Society of Odesa)
73
• Sergiu Cornea, 
The Metamorphoses of the Territorial Organization of Local Authority in the Republic of Moldova in the Post-Communist Decades: from the “Soviet Rigor” to the “Democratic Incertitude”		91
• Murat Nassimov, 
Election Programs and Political Slogans in Kazakhstan		115
        POLITICS  AND  INTERNATIONAL  STUDIES
• Volodymyr Fisanov, Natalia Nechaieva-Yuriichuk, Oleksandra Hissa-Ivanovych, 
Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”: Between the Diplomacy and Propaganda (Origins of the Liberal Paradigm)		145
• Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu, 
Chinese Impact in the Western Balkans: the Effect of the Belt and Road Initiative on the EU’s Normative Role		171
• Sertif Demir, Alper Bahadir Dalmis, 
NATO’s Historical Challenges and Analysis of its Crises
203
         BOOK  REVIEW
• Harieta Mareci-Sabol, 
The Epic Anatomy of the Body. New Historical-Humanistic Approaches to the Medical Image 		229
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
237
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS243