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Aging women in Russia: Between sexless and sexy oldies.
J Women Aging
January 2025
Department of Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia.
Women's sexuality as a dimension of embodied identity is shaped and constrained by social norms of gender and age and negotiated by women in complex ways. Discourses of hegemonic bodily normativity ascribe a sexless subjectivity to Russian women in their post-reproductive years, contributing to their social exclusion. At the same time, in modern Russian society a neoliberal concept of "successful active aging" is gradually changing understandings of aging, making later-life sexuality more visible and legitimate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultiple Lurias. Reconstructing Alexander Romanovich's Life-Writing.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci
January 2025
Archives Henri Poincaré, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
While widely considered Alexander Luria's (1902-1977) autobiography, The Making of Mind. A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology, published posthumously in 1979, is not a true autobiography but rather an autobiography with heterobiographic elements. However, the largely overlooked Spanish book, Mirando hacia atrás.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence of resistance-associated substitutions (RAS) in hepatitis C virus in the Former Soviet Union countries.
BMJ Open Gastroenterol
January 2025
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana, Kazakhstan
Objective: The emergence of resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) poses a significant challenge to the effective treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection using direct-acting antivirals. This study's objective was to observe the prevalence of HCV genotypes and RAS within the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries.
Methods: We analysed 60 NS3, 313 NS5A and 1119 NS5B sequences of HCV deposited in open-access databases from 11 FSU countries for the prevalence of genotypes and the presence of RAS using the Geno2Pheno software.
Neuropathology in 1984: a deadly shot into the heart of Europe.
Free Neuropathol
January 2024
Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Department of Neurology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Just 40 years ago, Europe was divided into the Eastern communist bloc, which included the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR) and was dominated by the now historical Soviet Union, and the Western bloc comprising democracies such as Austria. The Iron Curtain, a heavily guarded and deadly border zone, separated the two blocs and constrained, in prison style, the populations of the Eastern bloc. The present neuropathological article relates the sad fate of František Faktor, a 33 years-old Czech who was shot by ČSSR border guards when attempting to flee to Austria at the border between and .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploring dental students' knowledge on oral cancer prevention: a cross-sectional study in Moldova, Armenia, and Belarus.
BMC Oral Health
January 2025
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway.
Background: Survival rate of patients with oral cancer (OC) remains to be very low despite advancements in therapy and surgical techniques. This is attributed to the fact that most OC cases are discovered at a late stage. Dentists play a vital role in early detection of OC through oral mucosal examination, and in informing the patients about avoidable risk factors of the disease, such as tobacco and excessive alcohol use.
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