The subject of the present study was to investigate the psychological health of professional athletes engaged in extreme sports. The research objective was to determine the effect of extreme sports on the psychological health of professional athletes. The study involved 168 professional athletes who deal with auto racing, judo, karate, rock climbing, melee fighting and boxing. Among them 2 groups were formed: the study group (n = 80), which included professionals, and the control group (n = 87), consisting of athletes who have II or III sports categories. Diagnosis of the mental health and changes in the psyche of the athletes was performed 2 – 3 days before the competition. Quantitative data were processed by methods of mathematical statistics. The study group, in contrast to the control group, showed an increase in the degree of manifestation of personal qualities that are treated as negative. These qualities include: anxiety, frustration, depression, stiffness. It was discovered that the intensity and duration of physical and mental stress cause the emergence of increased somatic symptoms in professional athletes (feeling of pain in the joints, stomach, heart and other organs). Extreme conditions of sports activity lead to mental exhaustion, increase sensitivity to the crisis, cause growth of occupational stress and reduce the quality of life. The author diagnosed exacerbation of somatic symptoms, an increase in the subjective level of morbidity, increase in the degree of manifestation of social disfunction and deterioration of the social and psychological health of professional athletes. The primary factors negatively affecting the psyche of athletes can be postulated as professionalisation and commercialization of sport, which entail the growth of extreme loads, excessive physical and mental stress and a significant deterioration in social and psychological health of professional athletes.

The results of experimental study of common notion on stability (2015) were compared with those of analogous study (2002). The goal of the diachronic study carried out for 13 years apart was to find out common and specific features in the perception of stability by respondents, possessing identical sets of social characteristics. Integrated comparative-correlative study is done with the data of two experiments’ results: associative experiment and experiment with semantic differential method. The study manifested the nucleus of stability associative field representing consciousness constants and peripheral area, variable in terms of structure and quantitative filling. The analysis of the experiment results with semantic differential method made it possible to find out resemblance and differences in perception of stability and chaos by respondents. Undoubtedly, it is important for future study of Russian stabilization consciousness. The method of semantic differential as a psycholinguistic method and as a tool of this phenomenon of perception study revealed emotional evaluative constituent of stability common idea . The authors confirm the supposition made earlier about relativity of common notion on stability; gap between reality (societal and global stability – instability) and representation; on mythologization and ideologization of stability awareness.

The paper analyzes the current state of the emotional development of children of preschool age within the framework of national studies. Emotional growth is considered to be a significant regulator of the most important life functions and a factor in the formation of a complex system of emotional attitude of a preschool child. On the basis of theoretical generalizations of various research positions three interrelated areas of emotional development during the preschool years were identified: emotional expressiveness, emotional regulation of behavior and communication, the development of social emotions. The appearance of growths of the emotional sphere of a preschool child is shown: the ability to differentiate and identify signs expressing their values in the context of certain emotional states; development of empathy; the capacity for emotional anticipation. The results of theoretical generalizations are presented in the authors’ model of emotional development of children of preschool age. In conclusion, the connection of key growths of emotional sphere, the nature of the socially important relations in the space of a kindergarten with a sense of emotional (psychological) comfort of the child is displayed.

The material of this study is the unfinished work “In an unknown area” written by the authors aged 11–12 years old and defined by them as a “fantastic detective”. A typology of the children’s creative written works is made. The features of language, style, genre and semantics have been analyzed. The typical formal semantic features of proactive creative writing works of children and young adolescents are revealed. The results can be used in further studies of ontolinguistics issues.

A section of a school textbook on literary reading “Jokingly and seriously” was compared with the written memories of 3rd-grade students of “Lyceum № 29” (Omsk) about the situations in which they laughed. The objects of comparison were such aspects of humorous discourse as the object of the ridicule, the tone of the comic, values and concepts; the presence/absence of humor in the linguistic component. General research approach is the discourse analysis. A positive correlation between age features of the humor, the humorous intentions of the textbook and interview data were revealed, which allows to ascertain the productivity of learning strategies. Spontaneous laughter communication is dominated by good-natured laughter over the animals, the concepts of causeless laughter, wit, intelligence, being-grown-up, etc., which corresponds to “student humor”. On the other hand, more efforts are needed to develop children's linguistic humor (language skill games) and the attention to situations in which laughter can produce conflict communication.

The paper sums up the experimental linguistic research of Russian words and texts carried out by the group of Western Siberia linguists under the supervision of the author of this paper. The experiments were based on different materials, they used different forms and ways of experimenting. The paper presents the attempt of realizing and reflecting their set as some entity united by the main principles of making experiments and peculiarities of their realization in hindsight. The paper presents two directions: methodical and methodological. The first direction, presented in Paper 1, consists in the collection and systematization of the positive experience of particular experimenting. As a result of its realization the following principles of experimenting are pointed out and described: word inclusion into the context; seriality; paradigmatic and syntagmatic organization; approximation of the experimental situation to the real speech situations. According to the author, such generalizations can be useful for other researchers to conduct similar experiments.

The paper presents the systems of in-law relationship terms in the Teleut, Kirghiz and Chinese languages. Every system has common propositional structures and different propositions, that indicate ethnic features of the language picture of the world. Social significance and propositional derivational connectivity within the frame of synonyms, polysemy, family of cognate words provide conservation terms of in-law relationships in long-term memory of the nation having no writing.

The paper analyzes the most productive and systemic model, which serves as the basis for lexicon and phraseology denoting manifestations of «the sixth sense» (premonitions and intuitional feelings), – the somatic model. With reference to the Russian literary language of the 19th – 21st centuries and some particular facts of jargons, popular language and subdialects, the author studies 4 groups of somatisms, which are the most representative in terms of expression of meanings, which are in the sphere of interest of the author: names of organs of the back of the body (спина, затылок, лопатки, задница, загривок etc.); nominations of the stomach and the inward parts of the body (нутро, живот, брюхо, печенки etc.); names of proper organs of perception (нос, ухо); the words тело, кожа (шкура). The analyzed model is realized in a variety of ways, the most significant of which are verbal-nominal combinations like чуять печенкой, почувствовать задницей, ощущать телом. The paper describes contextual meanings specific to the words studied: ‘premonition of trouble, death’, ‘fine organic feeling (of duty, obligation; profit etc.)’, ‘illogical perception of something which is usually perceived logically’, ‘perceptive synaesthetic feelings’, ‘the feeling of control (sense of chase, the feeling of somebody else's power’) and others. The author analyzes the reasons for appearance of the meanings, which are specific to each group of the vocabulary studied or which connect somatisms belonging to different groups.

The paper discusses socially isolated dialects of the Russian language with a high positive rating of prestige by the native speakers. Pomorian dialect is partially codified. The Kuban Cossacks have Russian-Ukrainian origin, only the Ukrainian balachka (балачка) was codified. The Don prestige dialect did not receive codification, but because of its social isolation it is not influenced by neighbouring dialects and the literary language.

The paper shows the possibilities of psycholinguistic description of language ability and speech competence of native speakers, based on the analysis of schoolchildren’s essays. The author takes into account the changes that have taken place with native speakers associated with the early inclusion of children in the communication on a global scale in the Internet, changes in their leisure time, in Russian written communication in general. The paper demonstrates the structural, communicative, semantic, cognitive analysis of texts on the example of the 7th-grade students' essays on one topic. The author explains the resulting picture on the basis of the theory of speech activity, draws conclusions about the development of the cognitive mechanisms that provide for the formation of meanings, their transfer to the language units, selected depending on the communication objectives and compliance with the language convention (norm)

Semantic structure, semantic evolution and specificity of speech usage of the lexical units “por’adochnoct’” (honesty) and “por’adochnyi chelovek” (honest man) are investigated on the material of the Russian National Corpus. It is established that: the moral category of honesty is ambiguous from the axiological point of view; the speech usage of the lexical units “honesty” and “honest man” suffers semantic shift and redistribution of semantic variants and appearance of speech tinge; those exponents can function in certain contexts as ideological words – as they change their axiological sign into the opposite one in the course of language user changing; the honesty psychological status remains sufficiently indefinite; separate “honesty factors” (integrity, veracity, fidelity, sincerity, fairness etc.) are verbalized in the honesty exponents speech usage; attributive extension of the names “honesty” and “honest man” give evidence of this moral quality gradual character; honesty possesses a hierarchy of certain obligatory and optional features

The paper presents some results of the research that is aimed at revealing the mechanisms of discursive construction of international and interethnic relations in different types of discourse. The object of study in this fragment is the legal discourse, which is viewed within the paradigm of social constructionism. The author consolidates studies of law as discursive practice and outlines an appropriate methodological perspective, which presupposes the interpretation of legal discourse in social and axiological context, participation of society in legal-discursive practices, and the essential role of legal discourse in power relations. To perform the analysis of the ‘Strategy of State national policy of the Russian Federation’, the author applies the categories of social actor, implicature, specifying and vagueness, which are typically exploited in Critical Discourse Analysis. The results demonstrate that the document in question categorises the participants in interethnic relations and constructs a few pairs of interacting parties. The state is represented as a key actor in interethnic relations. The document also operates the discursively opposite mechanisms of specifying and vagueness to problematise certain aspects of the relations. Axiologically laden abstract categories and implicature also construct interethnic relations.

The paper provides a brief overview of the evolution of one of the main lines of inquiry into how linguistics perceives its subject. Its oscillations vary from abstract language modelling to attempts to comprehend its reality, supported by a transition from purely linguistic approaches to interdisciplinary ones. A broad conception of language, characteristic in the contemporary language studies, is demonstrated by development of an anthropocentric paradigm which is a foundation for integrative ideology. The latter strives to holistic representation of language and proliferates via multiplication of intra-linguistic integrative models as well as via interdisciplinary descriptions of language. Both have to combat limitations of scientific knowledge through their merger on the basis of integrative approaches. Among these, a high potential for language reality comprehension is demonstrated by K. Wilber, his AQAL model of conscience is universal and applicable to subjects from different fields of study, including that of language.

Peer review of statements and texts for insult still remains a challenging field of linguotextology. The paper discusses the signs of invective communicative acts, and describes those factors, the analysis helps the expert to describe the content and form of speech influence. Rejecting the formal-stylistic approach to the concept of norms in the field of speech interaction and to the characterization of “indecent form”, which is the key to the proceedings of the insult, the author of this paper offers a linguistic and communicative approach, based on the analysis of the components of the speech act.

Given the potential for conflict of legal and jurislinguistic hermeneutics, the author examines in this perspective the little-studied object of electorial disputes. The author shows that it is allowed in the interpretation of the universal mechanism of discretion, which is a special legal institute, and in the field of electoral conflict it is manifested as a variant of legal hermeneutics. According to the author, discretion demonstrates the subjectivity of the officialbusiness style/judicial discourse – the property is still poorly taken into consideration in linguistics.

The efficiency of linguistic education based on the code model of language is questioned. The view of written language as a representation of speech ignores the important difference between the experientially different cognitive domains of speech and writing, which affect human cognitive development. As a consequence, the growth of functional illiteracy in societies with established literate cultures becomes an alarming tendency.

The paper is devoted to the problem of direction of lexical derivation. The system methodology was used to describe the “Vinokur criterion”; it turned out that the criterion can not be used to identify the derivation direction. Also the existence of morphemes apocope technique in Russian derivation is refuted and the term interfix is replaced by epenthesis. It is suggested to use the quantity of morphemes instead of the “Vinokur criterion”: the derived stem is different from the stem of the same root in one additional terminal affix. As a result the morphemic analysis is defined as the first stage and the obligatory condition of the derivative analysis. If the “Vinokur criterion” is interpreted correctly, it can be used in lexicography to describe the semantics of derived words. It may also be the indicator of derived word de-etymologization. The problem of the direction of lexical derivation is also connected with the problem of words existence-inexistence in language and speech, with the problem of synchrony and diachrony of word-formation system and also with the necessity for differentiation of the systems of onims and appellatives and for consideration of each derivative as an element of the whole language system.

The paper reflects the progress and results of such applied linguistic research, as the conclusion of the expert-philologist (forensic linguistic) expertise, the object of which is due to the content of tasks for the specialist (expert). According to the transcript of a conversation, the features of verbal behavior of participants of the conversation that are relevant for the criminal investigation are studied. The study used lingual pragmatic analysis, techniques of text discursive analysis. The result of the semantic-pragmatic analysis of speech situations, speech acts as the units of researched conversation led to unambiguous conclusions about the nature of relations between the participants of the conversation, the communicative role of each of them, the absence of women’s guilt in the state of fear experienced by man, etc. In general, conversation analysis has shown that the achievement of linguistic pragmatics with its theory of speech acts can be successfully used in forensic linguistic examination. The results of this research can be used in the formulation of recommendations on the methodological support of forensic linguistic examination.

The subject of the research presented in the given paper is the esthetic notion as a special kind of a person’s attitude to the world and themselves. The objective of the paper is to find out the specificity of the implementation of the esthetic function in the language of poetry. The methodological bases of the research are the works by psychologists (L. S. Vygotsky, A. N. Leontiev), linguists (R. O. Yakobson, H. O. Vinokur, L. P. Yakubinsky), philologists (M.M. Bakhtin). The paper shows that the linguistic units in a poetic text subject to esthetic laws are caused by composition, intertextual relations, the author's vision, etc. At the same time, they get a completely new meaning different from the everyday one. As a result, we prove that dissimilarity of the natural language and the language used in works of art “makes” the recipient’s consciousness perceive the text as an esthetic object.

The paper demonstrates the importance of the "Dictionary of ordinary interpretations of Russian words. Lexicon of Nature", created under the leadership of N. D. Golev for the objective of diagnostics of the Russian lexical system. It emphasizes the importance of everyday interaction with the value of common literary meanings, on the one hand, and the impact of the former on the evolution of artistic imagery and semantics. The proposed monitoring is illustrated by comparing the entry "Ant" in the dictionary under the editorship of Prof. Golev with the dictionary entries in other lexicographical sources and semantics embodied in the fable of I. A. Krylov’s "The Ant and the Grasshopper."

Delocutives that serve for designation of speech act are distinguished in the paper as special kind of words. They deal with speakers’ metalinguistic activity and have different nature. Word-formative structure of these derivatives is considered and their semantic characteristics is given. Special attention is paied to “postphrasal” delocutives. It is concluded that delocutives are an open group of words that is ever-growing in the modern Russian speech. The development of new methods of another’s speech transmission and formation of its new models is connected with the growth of this word group. Delocutives are described as lexical items that give an interpreting of speakers’ verbal behavior, in this regard evaluative semantic component is observed in their meaning.

The paper discusses a type of texts neglected by the Russian linguistics but actively studied in computer and cognitive sciences – image descriptions collected by linguistic experiments. The relevance of the linguistic study of image descriptions for theoretic and applied purposes is argued. The aim of the study was to propose a classification of linguistic anthropocentric markers (including indicators of the subject’s spatial and mental points of view as well as the image object’s anthropomorphism) in animal image descriptions (both domestic and wild, depicted in their natural environment). As a result, a classification is proposed including 20 classes of such markers differentiated by frequency. We discuss the influence of subjective (individual characteristics of respondents) and objective (denotative situation in the photo) factors on anthropocentric markers and the possibility to use the identified parameters for establishing norms of image descriptions and deviations.

The paper presents further interpretation of the first results related to implementation of the linguodidactic project regarding teaching Russian as a Foreign Language based on the students’ educational and speech activity, which is carried out in the course of on-line correspondence with native speakers. The first part of the paper state the initial principles of organization and implementation of the project defined by N. D. Golev: the theoretical and methodological basis, areas of linguo-methodical activity, technology of on-line correspondence. The second part is devoted to description of this project implementation experience in respect of students’ self-teaching, which is at first stage focused on the study and acquisition of the new different level of the language and communicative-speech units taken first of all from Internet sources as well as from Russian correspondents’ letters and entered into actual contexts of a produced letter. The second stage deals with the review of the created text in the form of error correction carried out either on one’s own or together with a teacher. Upon completion of work the students present the revised text of the letter which is subject to evaluation.

The paper consists of two parts. The first part presents the overview of scientific pluralism as a phenomenon that pertains any type of science, which has held a certain way of formation and development over the years. The «pros» and «cons» of pluralism are considered. «Pros» include the possibility of expanding the research area by introducing the new language material, and through the usage of non-traditional approaches to the research object; «cons» include the low level of reasoning observed in some cases when forming new concepts. Reductionism opposes pluralism. It appears with the absolutization of a single or authors’ approaches to the research object. The second part covers the analysis of the following foreign and Russian phonological concepts: descriptive American phonology, two varieties of generative phonology –standard generative phonology and natural generative phonology, the phonological concept of Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Moscow and Leningrad phonological schools, the concept of «late» Ruben Avanesov, phonological concept of Sebastian Shaumyan. Theoretical contribution of each concept along with the possibility of its pragmatic applicability is estimated. Concepts are compared firstly, according to the reflection of sound acoustic-articulatory characteristics in the phoneme (phoneme-sound correlation principle); secondly, according to the phonemic structure in paradigmatics and syntagmatics. The absence of complete match of these parameters in concepts indicates the manifestation of pluralism in the area of phonological research.

The paper is devoted to the problem of two types of ordinary consciousness – metalinguistic and poetic. Selected by R. Jakobson, metalinguistic and poetic functions of the language are considered with a focus on speaking and listening that allows you to select “speaker metatexts” (“narrow” = “definitive” and “wide” = “evaluative” presented by reflexives) and “listener metatext”. Special attention is paid to such little-studied speech fact as "meta-apologies", for which there are no conventional rules. The paper also raises the problem of studying the metatext (particulary metaevaluations) in academic speech.

The paper discusses different forms and means of lexical meaning representation in quotidian and impromptu lexicography, as well as common and different trends in word meaning interpretation within different subdivisions of folk lexicography. By quotidian lexicography we understand the results of metalinguistic activity stimulated by associative priming experiments with pre-established lexicographic parameters. Studying folk lexicography that is thriving in the Wikilexia project allows for demonstrating all aspects of lexical meaning in its daily functioning. Impromptu lexicography, ubiquitous in contemporary journalism, sheds light on the means of interpreting new words and represents different communicative strategies employed by writers and readers, especially when dealing with interpreting words related to politics. In fiction, impromptu lexicography often shows the difference between thesauri of interlocutors and ways of overcoming communication breakdowns. Dictionary form as employed in contemporary literature also incorporates elements of quotidian and impromptu lexicography.

The problem of correlation of two notions “word” and “word form” is the central problem in Russian Grammar (Morphology) and is connected with some priority areas of the modern linguistics in the framework of the general anthropocentric approach to the language description. Derivational processes are connected with the notion of motivation and viewed in the paper. This motivation defines the eduction of different derivational types, which are united by a cognitive-communicative approach. The linguistic significance of the word form is determined as a conceptual structure, “servicing” conceptual content of the word-lexeme. The fundamental functions of the word forms and their significance for description of the language as a multilevel structure are identified. The represented extended understanding of word form allows to solve some problems of methodological (the problem of relativity between content and form in the language), theoretical (the problem of identification of the word and different types of the word form) and practical nature 
(inclusion the grammar material into the lexicographic practice).

The paper discusses the role of linguistic examination in civil law and common law legal systems. It argues that while it is forensic linguistic expertise that often plays an important role in civil law systems, the lay people’s opinion is crucial in common law systems. It suggests that the best way to obtain adequate results for civil law systems (including the Russian legal system) is to combine the two approaches, that is, to make use of an expert linguistic analysis of the linguistic competence of lay speakers of the language in question. Various examples illustrate the point (among them the problems arising in civil suits of honor protection and business reputation defense as well as the famous “tomato case”, in which the United States Supreme Court addressed whether a tomato was classified as a fruit or a vegetable). In addition, the paper discusses vague wording and consequent difficulty of implementation of the “Federal Law on the National Language of the Russian Federation.”

The paper presents the idea of the processes in the modern science of language, which are caused by a number of socio-cultural changes in the society. Designated as the differentiation of the science of language, these processes reveal new aspects of the functioning of the language, pose new theoretical problems and applied tasks and thus contribute to the formation of the new ones – sphere linguistics. Precisely such linguistics – political, juridical linguistics and media linguistics – are analyzed in the paper. The main attention is paid to the concept of “the sphere of speech (communion, communication)” in the works of such linguists as V. V. Vinogradov, M. M. Bakhtin, Yu. V. Rozhdestvensky within the framework of stylistics, theory of speech genres, general philology. The reasons of the actualization of analyzed communication areas at the turn of the centuries are observed. Generally the processes and stages of the three types of linguistics forming, the specific and the general in their present condition and place in the modern science of language, their development prospects are presented. The key moments of the national media linguistics formation are named.

The paper is focused on the research and description of several active processes in Russian orthography and punctuation of the 21st century. The following tendencies are most specific: difference between the codified recommendations of rules and the written (orthographic and punctuative) practice; wish of a modern language personality to make the linguistic activity creative, use the expressive means of graphics, orthography and punctuation and draw attention of those who read and write; intentional violation of the orthographic and punctuative norms caused either by a low level of the written communication, neglect of the existing rules, or motive to the linguistic self-identification. The tendencies in the dynamics of Russian orthography and punctuation are viewed as an active part of the common processes in the Russian language and speech. The research makes it possible to investigate and review the existing orthographic and punctuative norms in order to meet the “challenges of time” and build a reasonable and functional dialogue between a modern language personality and the normative “laws” of the Russian language of the 21st century.

The paper presents the material demonstrating changes of the administrative-territorial borders of the educational area in Western Siberia before the establishment of the independent West Siberian Educational District. The author identifies and analyzes the stages of development of educational institutions’ management system in Western Siberia in relation to the administrative and territorial transformations in the region. The reasons for original impossibility to create an education district in Western Siberia are stated. The specificity of managing educational institutions in the period of subordination to Kazan Educational District, civil governor and West Siberian Governor-General is defined. The features of managing educational institutions in Western Siberia are presented against the background of the administrative-territorial reforms in the Asian part of the Russian Empire.

The paper presents the analysis of the researches dedicated to the problem of “Ideological campaigns in Western Siberia in 1945 – 1953” in the contemporary Russian historiography. The authors analyze a collection of works on this problem published in the early 1990s – 2015. The main directions in the researches of this topic were identified, which allowed classifying them into problematic thematic groups and identifying the promising research directions. The main group of the research works reflects the essence of the ideological campaigns targeted at influencing the Soviet intelligentsia. Researchers started reflecting over the ideological campaigns that focused on the formation of the image of J. V. Stalin in the mass consciousness. Further on, researchers addressed a number of aspects of the ideological campaigns that focused on repressions. The authors state that there is no complex academic publication dedicated to this problem and conclude that the problem of ideological campaigns in Western Siberia in the period of “late Stalinism” has not been studied thoroughly. The events of the ideological campaigns in Kemerovo Region were the first to be reconstructed. Creating generalizing reviews of the works covering the events of the ideological campaigns in different regions of Western Siberia in 1945 – 1953 is a promising research direction.

The paper presents the analysis of the financial and economic activity of the Kemerovo Deanery of the Russian Orthodox Church Diocese of Novosibirsk and Barnaul under a controversial government policy when the Russian Orthodox Church continued to be subject to restrictions and harassment even after receiving a legal status in the USSR. On the basis of archival documents, especially accounting and deanery reports, the authors examine the main sources of income and expenditures of the Orthodox community of Kemerovo Region. Upon the application of a systematic and comprehensive approach in the study of the factors that had a significant impact on the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, the authors conclude that there was sufficient stability in the financial situation of the Orthodox parishes in Kemerovo Region in 1945 – 1965. For two decades, in terms of anti-religious propaganda, the Orthodox parishes were self-funded, continued to have significant tangible property, carried out religious centers deductions and contributions to public funds.

The paper focuses on the problems of cultural and language adaptation of Russian expatriates abroad. It reflects a certain stage of an extensive research project carried out by the “Social-Cognitive Functioning of the Russian Language” school lead by N. D. Golev. The paper verifies the author’s observations about the cultural and linguistic adaptation of Russian expatriates in foreign countries in different historical periods. It is based on the evidence gathered by the author in the countries of the Russian Diaspora, as well as on archive materials, including the family and library archives in Russia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The “Diary” of the Soviet diplomat I. M. Maisky, who worked in London for more than ten years first as a messenger, then as the Soviet ambassador to the UK, is one of the valuable sources for the interwar period and the Second World War. The “Diary” contains records of Maisky’s conversations with the leading British politicians and public figures and his own thoughts on a wide range of issues, including the problems of the British Empire. The author of the paper analyzes the views of the Tories on the prospects for the British Empire and the Commonwealth of the postwar period and reveals the plans for the reconstruction of the Empire and its transformation while maintaining the dominant position of Britain in the format of a new relationship with the dominions and colonies. The paper shows that within the British political establishment there was no consensus on the future of the empire and, as the materials of the “Diary of diplomat” evidence, the problem of the evolution of the Empire had a close relationship with other areas of foreign and domestic policy.