Olga Kondrikova

The translation into English of Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin's (1894–1959) 1926 paper entitled ‘Ideas of intuitionism and the struggle for a subject matter in contemporary mathematics’ is made available for the first time. Here, Khinchin presented the famous foundational debate between L.E.J. Brouwer and David Hilbert of the 1920s in terms of a s...

This article highlights some specificities of the Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as of the later document on human rights, by comparing them in some key points with the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church as made public in the Compendium. The guiding hypothesis is that four specifically Orthodox theolog...

This interdisciplinary study revises the rise and development of civil society in post-Soviet Russia from an ethical and intercultural perspective. The author conceives of civil society both as an idea and as a reality. This distinction clarifies the gap between the normative vision of liberal democratic society and the practice of democracy. The p...