2021. Issue 4 (14)

	Editorial Note	6
	CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS: DIPLOMACY, IDEOLOGY, CULTURE
	Asanova S. Political Rhetorics of Russian-Kashgar Relations in the Context of Diplomatic Correspondence in the 1870s	8
	Vasilyev D., Mazaev N. Court Ceremony of the Kazakh Khans in the Eyes of a European: The Court of Abulkhair in the Diary of John Castle	19
	Pochekaev R. Diplomatic Protocol at the Court of the Ruler of Hunza (According to the Notes of Bronislav L. Grombchevskiy)	28
	Fomin I. Orientalist Discourse in Early Soviet Fiction about Central Asia	37
	Ladygina O. Visual Culture Codes in the Mosaic Panels of Dushanbe	52
	Grigoryev G. The Image of Najmuddin Gotsinskii (1859–1925) in the Historical Narratives of Modern Dagestanis	60
	Zakharova E., Shtyrkov S. The Term Osq’opili (“a Former Ossetian”) in Eighteenth-Century Georgian Documents and in Early Twenty-First-Century Traditionalist Debates of North Ossetia-Alania	78
	THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA: TRADITIONS YESTERDAY AND TODAY
	Gazdanova A., Bogomaz S. Using Digital Sources in Studying Ossetian Wedding Rituals (the Case of Instagram)	92
	Krapivin I. The “Faceless Brand”: Muslim Women and Halal Internet Marketing	106
	Dmitriev V. Intermediation in Resolving Casual Conflicts in the Culture of Caucasian Highlanders	122
	Zelnitskaya R. On One of the Collective Rainmaking Rituals among the Abkhazians and Kabardians of the Late Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries	133
	Popova L., Shalmanova A. Traditional Component in the Wedding Gift System of the Kazakhs of the Aktobe Region, Republic of Kazakhstan	141
	Starostina O. Some Contemporary Wedding Rites of the Mastchoh Tajiks	153
	Stasevich I. New Means of Information Broadcasting in the Ritual Culture of Kazakhs	168
	PHOTO COLLECTIONS
	Prischepova V., Rezvan M. Phоto Album of Dmitriy Bagaev from the MAE RAS Collection	179
	Maykova N. Junior Captain S. A. Alekseev’s Photo Album as an Ethnohistorical Source on Japan in the Early Twentieth Century	200
	VARIA
	Abaydulova A. Peter Simon Pallas and the Academic Kunstkamera’s Cabinet of Natural History in the Last Third of Eighteenth Century: On the Occasion of the Scientist’s 280th Anniversary	222
	Belorussova S. Cyberdiaspora: An Analytical Review	235
	Perevalova E., Kisser T., Konkova J. Souvenir and Ethnicity (Yamal and Taymyr Experience)	249