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Abstract Background If children are encouraged early in childhood to engage in a physically active lifestyle and if they are used to practice physical activity (PA) as children, they are likely to be more active as they grow up (Telama et al., 2014). Nevertheless, in Belgium, only 2% of children 6 to 9 years of age are able to reach PA international recommendations (Wijtzes et al., 2016). Fortunately, holistic school-focused initiatives can raise children's level of physical activity (Heath et al., 2012). Accordingly, the aim of the study was to scrutinise the influence of an innovative pedagogical approach on self-reported PA and lifestyle habits among elementary school children. Methods 176 pupils (11-13) and 5 physical education (PE) teachers were recruited in the area of Liege. Those pupils took part in a 10 weeks intervention including one weekly session of PE. PE lessons are original since they combine High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), dramatization and health education. Assessments were performed before (T0), during (process analysis) and after the intervention (T1). Childrens' levels of PA were assessed with the PAQ-C, as their food habits were assessed with the Adolescent food habits Checklist. Children were also invited, before each session, to notify and share their good practices related to the health education activities proposed during the lesson. Results Results exposed significant improvements in self-reported PA (3,09 to 3,26 scores; p > 0,000). As we sort out results by gender, we noticed higher improvements among girls. In contrast, we observed a slight and non-significant decrease in children's food habits (13,88 to 13,55 scores; p = 0,24). On over 400 good practices collected, half were related to physical activity and hydration. By involving physical and psychosocial objectives, the study is expected to provide a deeper understanding of the impact of this teaching method on children. Conclusion As Oblomov pedagogy seems to have the potential to generate health basic knowledge as well as pleasure of being physically active, it could be extended to other various settings such as obesity prevention. This method will also be shared with PE teachers in Belgium, as part of the PE curriculum reform in Belgium.

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov's life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov's service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in his work, the diverse philosophical threads that shape his novels, and the often colliding contexts of writer and imperial bureaucrat in the 1858 travel text Frigate Pallada . Chapters engage with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, and mobility and travel.

Goncharov in theTwenty-First Century brings Ivan Goncharov's work into atwenty-first-century critical framework, engaging with approachesfrom post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre andthe novel, desire, laughter, technology, philosophy, and mobility andtravel.

In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, literature, and history. Delving into the distinctions of the Russian novel as well as the conflicts between the religious peasant world and the educated Russian elite, Between Religion and Rationality displays the cogent reflections of one of the most distinguished and versatile critics in the field.

Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on \"luminous\" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's past and fears for the nation's future; they opposed collectivized agriculture, and fought to preserve traditional art and architecture and to protect the environment. Assessing the place of Village Prose in the newly revised canon of twentieth-century Russian literature, Parth maintains that these writers consciously ignored and undermined Socialist Realism, and created the most aesthetically coherent and ideologically important body of published writings to appear in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's ascendancy. In the 1970s, Village Prose was seen as moderately nationalist and conservative in spirit. After 1985, however, statements by several of its practitioners caused the movement to be reread as a possible stimulus for chauvinistic, anti-Semitic groups like Pamyat. This important development is treated here with a thorough discussion of all the political implications of these rural narratives. Nevertheless, the center of Parth's work remains her exploration of the parameters that constitute a \"code of reading\" for works of Village Prose. The appendixes contain a translation and analysis of a particularly fine example of Russian Village Prose--Aleksei Leonov's \"Kondyr.\"

[...]there's probably a little Oblomov in all of us. When Oblomov at length accepts an invitation to a private club from the palpably sleazy Stolz, he falls asleep in the steam room, there to awaken to his vision of the ideal woman: the singer Olya (Stanford, thoroughly transformed), who does a bit of escorting on the side.

On a mild spring morning full of the promise of new life, a man in his early thirties refuses to get out of bed. It is the same story as every day. He is not physically ill, although he is plagued by a range of minor ailments, such as sties, shortness of breath, and a persistent itch on the back of his head, to which he dedicates much attention. He is wrapped in a threadbare Oriental dressing gown. His soft, chocolate-colored eyes glide wearily over the dusty objects in his derelict bedchamber; his skin is pale, and his features appear

Uzbekistan abides by the old Soviet rule whereby official thermometers never register temperatures above 40 degrees centigrade, journalist Sergey Oblomov observed in an article published in the Kazakh newspaper `Novoye Pokoleniye' on 25th August. The reason is that a bonus had to be paid for working when the summer temperatures went over 40 degrees, so for reasons of economy the Uzbek government, too, never admits what the real temperature is. The same \"oriental wiles\" can be seen in the Uzbek media, which abound in \"undisguised\" lies, Oblomov said. Some plans backfire, however, as was the case with the Uzbek government's determination to make a profit on selling gas to Kyrgyzstan in the winter, only to find some of its best cotton- growing areas flooded because the Kyrgyz let large volumes of water through their hydroelectric power stations during the winter to generate their own power rather than buy Uzbek gas. The following are excerpts from report by the Kazakh newspaper 'Novoye Pokoleniye':