This collection is dedicated to the role of language as an instrument of expression in the sphere of law (in its various aspects) and politics, including political journalism, also at places touching history, religion, the problems of minorities and their integration in society. It is made up of 17 articles, written in German, English and Russian, dealing with the legal discourse, political language, problems in translating and interpreting, and linguistics and conflict.

The author studies the features of the logic of the absurd in Gogol's The Story about quarrel. The functions of chaos in the plot of the story are considered. The reasons for the transformation of the space of Mirgorod into chaos, which serves as a form of expression of the absurd, are revealed. The forms of attack on the city of chaos forces and the destruction of borders between chaos and man are shown. The ways to recreate in the story the atmosphere of the creation of the space of Mirgorod and the principles of ironic rethinking of creation myths are demonstrated. The important connection between the mythical past and the mythologized present in the history of Mirgorod is underlined. The spoiled gun, which caused of the quarrels of the heroes, is considered as a symbolic thing that is directly related to the time of creation. The similarity of the heroes of the story with simpletons and fools from an anecdotal tale is noted. Revealing the illogical nature of the plot events and actions of the heroes, the author interprets the absurd as the essence of the world depicted by Gogol.

The paper focusses on the influence of ideological (political) issues on linguistic studies, specifically on the long debated issue of substratum heritage of Romanian. Though often downplayed, the ideological (in most cases political) dimension of humanistic studies is obvious, and it explains some of the approaches to history and, in our case, to historical linguistics that one observes. The general situation is described through some case studies. In the second half of the 19th century, the field was dominated by the outstanding personality of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. After his death, there was no significant approach to the complex and difficult problems related to the substratum of Romanian, or to other problems in comparative analyses. No consistent and coherent approach to these issues emerged until the late 1960's, i.e. almost a century later! Between 1969, when the first relevant analysis was published, and the 1980's, when most such studies were published, little of value appeared, despite the volume of material published. Their results were more amateurish than reliable. Though the study of the substratum heritage it is often associated with extreme nationalism or other forms of political extremism ('extreme right' or 'extreme left' or whatever), including those recent variants labelled 'thracomania' or 'dacomania' and other amateurish approaches to the topic, the problem of Romanian's substratum heritage is nonetheless a complex, difficult and fascinating one. It will continue to present a challenge as long as there is no consensus among linguists. Substratum influence has more often been underestimated than exaggerated; the number of substratum elements seems to be considerably higher than the currently accepted 200 hundred words, a total that seems to have been uncritically copy-pasted from one author to another. This paper tries to give a new impetus to research in the field. The author has discussed other aspects of the field elsewhere.

Velmi potebn text vydali klasit filologov a medievist z Kyjeva v rmci svho vzkumu v Brn p esk asociace slavist.Jde o klov tma djin vchodnch Slovan, kter spov ve zmn kulturn a tm dlem i politick orientace

Оломоуцкие дни русистов 20195-6 сентября 2019 года в Оломоуце (Чешская Республика) состоялась XXV Международная научная конференция «Оломоуцкие дни русистов», организованная кафедрой славистики философского факультета университета им

Nikolai Nikolev, a poet and playwright, made in his extensive notes that accompany his Liro-didactic letter, many interesting philosophical and theological observations: on the nature of metaphysics, on the relation of metaphysics to other areas of knowledge, on the unknowability of God, and on the source and nature of human knowledge. His philosophical remarks are important considering a rather weak philosophical developments in Russia in the 18th century.