Vladimir Popov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1554416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Popov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Popov |
| SIGNATURE | POPOV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6565-8730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Growth of human capital in the regions of the Russian Empire in 1897-1913
The previous research with incomplete data revealed that zemstva expenditure on education per capita were higher in regions with low level of education, but these spending did not make much of a difference – human capital in these regions remained relatively low (Popov, Konchakov, Didenko, 2024). The results reported in this paper provide additional and more rigorous proof that zemstva activities and the increase in their spending for education i…
The Transformative Role of Digital Tools in Comic Book Preservation
Traditionally viewed as static repositories, archives are now seen as dynamic entities capable of continuous reconfiguration and reinterpretation. This study examines how digital practices in comic book archiving maintain historical and emotional integrity, while making these artefacts relevant to contemporary audiences. This paper explores the theories of Wolfgang Ernst, Michel Foucault, Lev Manovich, and others in order to explain digital archi…
Novel missense variants in brain morphogenic genes associated with depression and schizophrenia
However, the functional significance of the SNVs identified has still to be confirmed in cellular and animal models. Once it is fulfilled, these SNVs have the potential to complement the diagnostic toolbox for assessing susceptibility to mental disorders. The data obtained indirectly confirm the importance of adequate brain structure formation for its correct functioning and preservation of mental health
Annual Festivals and Potlatch-like Forms of Redistribution in Early Political Formations of Upper Guinea
The article proposes a reconstruction of potlatch-like forms of redistribution in early political formations of Upper Guinea. Annual festivals (such as Aкanian Odwira and Dahomeyan Anun'gbome) are interpreted as peculiar inversions of gafol (poludye in Russian history) and potlatch-like institution. These multifunctional festivals and gafol were the major mechanisms of alienation and redistribution of the surplus product in the early political fo…
Contemporary Aesthetics of NFTs
This paper explores the contemporary aesthetics of one of the latest forms of digital art known as non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs, and how and why they are affecting and shaping today’s society. Using Manovich’s theory of metamedium, Lanza’s theory of biocentrism, blockchain technology, and NFTs can be theorized as a form of medium which represents many other media while augmenting them with many new properties. The main theoretical problem with N…
Successes and Failures of Industrial Policy in Transition Economies of Europe and Asia
This chapter discusses the achievements and failures of various models of industrial policy in post-communist countries. If industrial policy is needed, how are industries that have to be supported to be selected? What are the appropriate tools/instruments to support particular industries? Eastern European countries in general did not have any explicit industrial policy, either via tax concessions and/or subsidies, or via under/overpricing the ex…
Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism
The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted Roma communities’ living strategies and vis…
Letter to Stalin’
From the beginning, academic research on Gypsies in Western Europe has presented their nomadic way of life as their most important and essential feature, a key pillar of their community identity. Measures for their sedentarisation were perceived as a shackle in a chain of persecutions, and the policy of sedentarisation conducted in the 1950s–1970s in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe has continuously been interpreted as an example of the…
Beginning of Romani literature
This article traces the beginning of Romani literature. It focuses on the work of Alexander Germano in the context of the history of a unique Romani literacy project developed in the USSR before the Second World War. It shows the peculiarity of the Soviet Romani literature and in particular the personal activities and contributions of Germano, the man considered the progenitor of contemporary Romani literature (with works in all three main genres…
Roma Voices in History
This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as 'Gypsies' in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma them - selves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in origina…
Natural Text
The article proposes two algorithms for substandard texts filtering. The first of these is based on the fact that the frequency of n-grams occurrence in a quality text obeys the Zipf law, and when the words of the text are rearranged, the law ceases to act. Comparison of the frequency characteristics of the source text with the characteristics of the text resulting from the permutation of words enables researchers to draw conclusions regarding th…
The promise and perils of using big data in the study of corporate networks
Network data on connections between corporate actors and entities - for instance through co-ownership ties or elite social networks - are increasingly available to researchers interested in probing the many important questions related to the study of modern capitalism. Given the analytical challenges associated with the nature of the subject matter, variable data quality and other problems associated with currently available data on this scale, w…
Algorithm of Key Words Search Based on Graph Model of Linguistic Corpus
One of the problems of computer corpus linguistics is an automatic determination of keywords inthe text. The solution is a statistical method based on calculation of various frequency characteristics of the text. In this case, the most commonly used model is a “bag of words”, which does not take into account the order of words in the text. In this paper, we propose a graph model of the text that allows us to calculate the frequency characteristic…
Politics of Multilingualism in Roma Education in Early Soviet Union and Its Current Projections
This article presents the history of the politics of multilingualism (or lack thereof) in regard to Roma (formerly known as ‘Gypsies’). In the 1920s and 1930s in the newly established Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, against a backdrop of proclaimed principles of full equality of all peoples living in the new state, commenced a rapid creation of schools for Roma children with instruction in Romani mother-tongue along with special training of …
Mortality in Transition
In addition to reinforcing existing evidence linking smoking, hazardous drinking and unemployment to mortality, the PrivMort dataset will investigate the variation in transition experiences for individual respondents and their families across settlements characterized by differing contextual factors, including industrial characteristics, simultaneously providing information about how excess mortality is distributed across settlements with various…
European Policies for Social Inclusion of Roma
The article analyzes contemporary political discourses with regard to social inclusion of Roma on the basis of comparison with achievements and failures in the previous historical period of the communist rule in Eastern Europe. It argues that since the vast majority of the European Roma had lived in the past and continue living nowadays in the countries of Eastern Europe, no successful policy for their inclusion is possible without taking into ac…
Gypsy’ groups in Eastern Europe
Two types of ethnonym – endonyms (used within a community itself) and exonyms (used by other Gypsy groups and the macro-society) – correlate in complex ways. We concentrate on cases characteristic of the Balkans and the Gypsy groups who migrated from there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among these groups, ethnonyms are formed on the basis of the economic activities characteristic for a given Gypsy group (so-called professionyms), for…
The Culture of New Mobility in Russia
The paper considers the development of the culture of new mobility in Russia from the perspective of the quantitative analysis of the changes occurring in the structure of traffic movements and flows and communication using mobile phones, the internet, and other mobile gadgets. The culture of mobility is defined as a set of the interactions which are carried out apropos and during mobility. It is argued that the culture of new mobility in Russia …
Migrations West to East in the Times of the Ottoman Empire
This article presents the community of the Romanies/Gypsies called the Zargar, who live in contemporary Iran. For centuries the Zargar had not been aware of the existence of other Gypsies. Only nowadays, with the means of modern telecommunications, including the Internet, have representatives of the Zargar 'discovered' that there are other Roma in the world, and they have begun looking for their place within the international Romani community. La…
Innovations in Microblade Core Production at the Tigrovy-8 Late Palaeolithic Quarry in Eastern Russia
The importance of innovative behavior in highly resource-poor seasonal environments is highlighted by the flexible stone working technology at the Tigrovy-8 late Pleistocene basaltic glass quarry, recently discovered in the Primorye region of eastern Russia. Although risky, investing time and energy in developing new flaking techniques was particularly important in this setting, because multiple strategies could help prevent failure in acquiring …
Source selectivity
Artifacts made from volcanic glass have been found in archaeological contexts dating from the Late Palaeolithic (ca. 20,000 yr B.P.) through to the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 2700 yr B.P.) in the southern Primorye region of Far East Russia. A geoarchaeological survey of volcanic glass outcrops assessed the various potential sources to determine their potential for sustained exploitation. A characterization study of source samples and artifacts fr…
Resurgent Russian Economy
On 1 October 2007, two months before parliamentary elections of 2 December 2007 and less than half a year before presidential elections of 2 March 2008, President Vladimir Putin agreed to put his name on electoral ballot sheet of largest Russian party that had always supported him-United Russia-although he had never been a member. In December's parliamentary elections, United Russia received 64 percent of votes, whereas Just Russia-a party that w…
The Gypsy Court in Eastern Europe
The Gypsy court is one of the central and most elaborated subjects in Romani studies. Its nature and origin have been widely discussed. The article presents, for the first time, rich comparative material on Gypsy courts gathered from Gypsy groups in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe. The data form the basis of a description of the main characteristics and types of Gypsy courts, dispelling, in the process, some scientific myths and errone…
ONG, mouvements et partis roms en Bulgarie
Romani NGOs, movements and political parties in Bulgaria: Competing forms of organization and definitions of group interests The Romani community has become involved in politics and in NGOs, which have grown quickly since 1989. Given international funding and "expertise", a "Gypsy industry" emerged during the 1990. Though supposedly providing answers to the problems of Roma in Bulgaria, it has had an ambiguous impact on defining common interests …
Russia Redux
A balance-sheet of Russia’s post-Soviet fortunes, placing the devastating collapse of the 1990s and recent revival under Putin in comparative context. Vladimir Popov warns of the dangers—overvalued currency, oil dependence, crumbling infrastructure—on the road ahead
The promise and perils of using big data in the study of corporate networks
Network data on connections between corporate actors and entities - for instance through co-ownership ties or elite social networks - are increasingly available to researchers interested in probing the many important questions related to the study of modern capitalism. Given the analytical challenges associated with the nature of the subject matter, variable data quality and other problems associated with currently available data on this scale, w…
European Policies for Social Inclusion of Roma
The article analyzes contemporary political discourses with regard to social inclusion of Roma on the basis of comparison with achievements and failures in the previous historical period of the communist rule in Eastern Europe. It argues that since the vast majority of the European Roma had lived in the past and continue living nowadays in the countries of Eastern Europe, no successful policy for their inclusion is possible without taking into ac…
Source selectivity
Artifacts made from volcanic glass have been found in archaeological contexts dating from the Late Palaeolithic (ca. 20,000 yr B.P.) through to the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 2700 yr B.P.) in the southern Primorye region of Far East Russia. A geoarchaeological survey of volcanic glass outcrops assessed the various potential sources to determine their potential for sustained exploitation. A characterization study of source samples and artifacts fr…
The Gypsy Court in Eastern Europe
The Gypsy court is one of the central and most elaborated subjects in Romani studies. Its nature and origin have been widely discussed. The article presents, for the first time, rich comparative material on Gypsy courts gathered from Gypsy groups in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe. The data form the basis of a description of the main characteristics and types of Gypsy courts, dispelling, in the process, some scientific myths and errone…
Roma Voices in History
This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as 'Gypsies' in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma them - selves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in origina…
The Culture of New Mobility in Russia
The paper considers the development of the culture of new mobility in Russia from the perspective of the quantitative analysis of the changes occurring in the structure of traffic movements and flows and communication using mobile phones, the internet, and other mobile gadgets. The culture of mobility is defined as a set of the interactions which are carried out apropos and during mobility. It is argued that the culture of new mobility in Russia …
Segmentation vs. consolidation
Processes with different directions, velocity and frequency flow constantly among Gypsy groups. These processes can be reduced to two main contradictory and correlated tendencies: segmentation of the group into separate subgroup divisions, and consolidation of the separate subgroup divisions into one group. In both cases, the newly formed communities gradually accept the dimensions of a new, unique Gypsy group. The purpose of this article is to e…
Gypsy’ groups in Eastern Europe
Two types of ethnonym – endonyms (used within a community itself) and exonyms (used by other Gypsy groups and the macro-society) – correlate in complex ways. We concentrate on cases characteristic of the Balkans and the Gypsy groups who migrated from there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among these groups, ethnonyms are formed on the basis of the economic activities characteristic for a given Gypsy group (so-called professionyms), for…
Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism
The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted Roma communities’ living strategies and vis…
Beginning of Romani literature
This article traces the beginning of Romani literature. It focuses on the work of Alexander Germano in the context of the history of a unique Romani literacy project developed in the USSR before the Second World War. It shows the peculiarity of the Soviet Romani literature and in particular the personal activities and contributions of Germano, the man considered the progenitor of contemporary Romani literature (with works in all three main genres…
Politics of Multilingualism in Roma Education in Early Soviet Union and Its Current Projections
This article presents the history of the politics of multilingualism (or lack thereof) in regard to Roma (formerly known as ‘Gypsies’). In the 1920s and 1930s in the newly established Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, against a backdrop of proclaimed principles of full equality of all peoples living in the new state, commenced a rapid creation of schools for Roma children with instruction in Romani mother-tongue along with special training of …
Migrations West to East in the Times of the Ottoman Empire
This article presents the community of the Romanies/Gypsies called the Zargar, who live in contemporary Iran. For centuries the Zargar had not been aware of the existence of other Gypsies. Only nowadays, with the means of modern telecommunications, including the Internet, have representatives of the Zargar 'discovered' that there are other Roma in the world, and they have begun looking for their place within the international Romani community. La…
Segmentation vs. consolidation
Processes with different directions, velocity and frequency flow constantly among Gypsy groups. These processes can be reduced to two main contradictory and correlated tendencies: segmentation of the group into separate subgroup divisions, and consolidation of the separate subgroup divisions into one group. In both cases, the newly formed communities gradually accept the dimensions of a new, unique Gypsy group. The purpose of this article is to e…
The Gypsy Court in Eastern Europe
The Gypsy court is one of the central and most elaborated subjects in Romani studies. Its nature and origin have been widely discussed. The article presents, for the first time, rich comparative material on Gypsy courts gathered from Gypsy groups in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe. The data form the basis of a description of the main characteristics and types of Gypsy courts, dispelling, in the process, some scientific myths and errone…
ONG, mouvements et partis roms en Bulgarie
Romani NGOs, movements and political parties in Bulgaria: Competing forms of organization and definitions of group interests The Romani community has become involved in politics and in NGOs, which have grown quickly since 1989. Given international funding and "expertise", a "Gypsy industry" emerged during the 1990. Though supposedly providing answers to the problems of Roma in Bulgaria, it has had an ambiguous impact on defining common interests …
Russia Redux
A balance-sheet of Russia’s post-Soviet fortunes, placing the devastating collapse of the 1990s and recent revival under Putin in comparative context. Vladimir Popov warns of the dangers—overvalued currency, oil dependence, crumbling infrastructure—on the road ahead
Source selectivity
Artifacts made from volcanic glass have been found in archaeological contexts dating from the Late Palaeolithic (ca. 20,000 yr B.P.) through to the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 2700 yr B.P.) in the southern Primorye region of Far East Russia. A geoarchaeological survey of volcanic glass outcrops assessed the various potential sources to determine their potential for sustained exploitation. A characterization study of source samples and artifacts fr…
Resurgent Russian Economy
On 1 October 2007, two months before parliamentary elections of 2 December 2007 and less than half a year before presidential elections of 2 March 2008, President Vladimir Putin agreed to put his name on electoral ballot sheet of largest Russian party that had always supported him-United Russia-although he had never been a member. In December's parliamentary elections, United Russia received 64 percent of votes, whereas Just Russia-a party that w…
Innovations in Microblade Core Production at the Tigrovy-8 Late Palaeolithic Quarry in Eastern Russia
The importance of innovative behavior in highly resource-poor seasonal environments is highlighted by the flexible stone working technology at the Tigrovy-8 late Pleistocene basaltic glass quarry, recently discovered in the Primorye region of eastern Russia. Although risky, investing time and energy in developing new flaking techniques was particularly important in this setting, because multiple strategies could help prevent failure in acquiring …
Migrations West to East in the Times of the Ottoman Empire
This article presents the community of the Romanies/Gypsies called the Zargar, who live in contemporary Iran. For centuries the Zargar had not been aware of the existence of other Gypsies. Only nowadays, with the means of modern telecommunications, including the Internet, have representatives of the Zargar 'discovered' that there are other Roma in the world, and they have begun looking for their place within the international Romani community. La…
The Culture of New Mobility in Russia
The paper considers the development of the culture of new mobility in Russia from the perspective of the quantitative analysis of the changes occurring in the structure of traffic movements and flows and communication using mobile phones, the internet, and other mobile gadgets. The culture of mobility is defined as a set of the interactions which are carried out apropos and during mobility. It is argued that the culture of new mobility in Russia …
Gypsy’ groups in Eastern Europe
Two types of ethnonym – endonyms (used within a community itself) and exonyms (used by other Gypsy groups and the macro-society) – correlate in complex ways. We concentrate on cases characteristic of the Balkans and the Gypsy groups who migrated from there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among these groups, ethnonyms are formed on the basis of the economic activities characteristic for a given Gypsy group (so-called professionyms), for…
European Policies for Social Inclusion of Roma
The article analyzes contemporary political discourses with regard to social inclusion of Roma on the basis of comparison with achievements and failures in the previous historical period of the communist rule in Eastern Europe. It argues that since the vast majority of the European Roma had lived in the past and continue living nowadays in the countries of Eastern Europe, no successful policy for their inclusion is possible without taking into ac…
Mortality in Transition
In addition to reinforcing existing evidence linking smoking, hazardous drinking and unemployment to mortality, the PrivMort dataset will investigate the variation in transition experiences for individual respondents and their families across settlements characterized by differing contextual factors, including industrial characteristics, simultaneously providing information about how excess mortality is distributed across settlements with various…
Algorithm of Key Words Search Based on Graph Model of Linguistic Corpus
One of the problems of computer corpus linguistics is an automatic determination of keywords inthe text. The solution is a statistical method based on calculation of various frequency characteristics of the text. In this case, the most commonly used model is a “bag of words”, which does not take into account the order of words in the text. In this paper, we propose a graph model of the text that allows us to calculate the frequency characteristic…
Politics of Multilingualism in Roma Education in Early Soviet Union and Its Current Projections
This article presents the history of the politics of multilingualism (or lack thereof) in regard to Roma (formerly known as ‘Gypsies’). In the 1920s and 1930s in the newly established Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, against a backdrop of proclaimed principles of full equality of all peoples living in the new state, commenced a rapid creation of schools for Roma children with instruction in Romani mother-tongue along with special training of …
The promise and perils of using big data in the study of corporate networks
Network data on connections between corporate actors and entities - for instance through co-ownership ties or elite social networks - are increasingly available to researchers interested in probing the many important questions related to the study of modern capitalism. Given the analytical challenges associated with the nature of the subject matter, variable data quality and other problems associated with currently available data on this scale, w…
Natural Text
The article proposes two algorithms for substandard texts filtering. The first of these is based on the fact that the frequency of n-grams occurrence in a quality text obeys the Zipf law, and when the words of the text are rearranged, the law ceases to act. Comparison of the frequency characteristics of the source text with the characteristics of the text resulting from the permutation of words enables researchers to draw conclusions regarding th…
Successes and Failures of Industrial Policy in Transition Economies of Europe and Asia
This chapter discusses the achievements and failures of various models of industrial policy in post-communist countries. If industrial policy is needed, how are industries that have to be supported to be selected? What are the appropriate tools/instruments to support particular industries? Eastern European countries in general did not have any explicit industrial policy, either via tax concessions and/or subsidies, or via under/overpricing the ex…
Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism
The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted Roma communities’ living strategies and vis…
Letter to Stalin’
From the beginning, academic research on Gypsies in Western Europe has presented their nomadic way of life as their most important and essential feature, a key pillar of their community identity. Measures for their sedentarisation were perceived as a shackle in a chain of persecutions, and the policy of sedentarisation conducted in the 1950s–1970s in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe has continuously been interpreted as an example of the…
Beginning of Romani literature
This article traces the beginning of Romani literature. It focuses on the work of Alexander Germano in the context of the history of a unique Romani literacy project developed in the USSR before the Second World War. It shows the peculiarity of the Soviet Romani literature and in particular the personal activities and contributions of Germano, the man considered the progenitor of contemporary Romani literature (with works in all three main genres…
Roma Voices in History
This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as 'Gypsies' in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma them - selves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in origina…
Contemporary Aesthetics of NFTs
This paper explores the contemporary aesthetics of one of the latest forms of digital art known as non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs, and how and why they are affecting and shaping today’s society. Using Manovich’s theory of metamedium, Lanza’s theory of biocentrism, blockchain technology, and NFTs can be theorized as a form of medium which represents many other media while augmenting them with many new properties. The main theoretical problem with N…
Annual Festivals and Potlatch-like Forms of Redistribution in Early Political Formations of Upper Guinea
The article proposes a reconstruction of potlatch-like forms of redistribution in early political formations of Upper Guinea. Annual festivals (such as Aкanian Odwira and Dahomeyan Anun'gbome) are interpreted as peculiar inversions of gafol (poludye in Russian history) and potlatch-like institution. These multifunctional festivals and gafol were the major mechanisms of alienation and redistribution of the surplus product in the early political fo…
The Transformative Role of Digital Tools in Comic Book Preservation
Traditionally viewed as static repositories, archives are now seen as dynamic entities capable of continuous reconfiguration and reinterpretation. This study examines how digital practices in comic book archiving maintain historical and emotional integrity, while making these artefacts relevant to contemporary audiences. This paper explores the theories of Wolfgang Ernst, Michel Foucault, Lev Manovich, and others in order to explain digital archi…
Novel missense variants in brain morphogenic genes associated with depression and schizophrenia
However, the functional significance of the SNVs identified has still to be confirmed in cellular and animal models. Once it is fulfilled, these SNVs have the potential to complement the diagnostic toolbox for assessing susceptibility to mental disorders. The data obtained indirectly confirm the importance of adequate brain structure formation for its correct functioning and preservation of mental health
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