Vol 4, No 3 (2020)

The article clarifies the concept of the commune-level political system and analyzes characteristics of the commune-level political system. The article also analyzes the achievements and limitations in building the commune-level political system in Vietnam and proposes solutions to improve the quality of this system in the future.

If the alarming climate change and sea-level rise scenario occurs without coping solutions, it will greatly affect the socio-economic development and the environment of the the Mekong River Delta region. Recognizing this, the Government has soon developed both policies and action plans to adapt to climate change for the region. However, the policies and programs to cope with climate change are still inadequate and limited. In order to complete the climate change adaptation policies in the Mekong Delta in the current context, the Government and localities in the region need to implement more comprehensive and practical solutions for it.

The article explores legal and social status of widows throughout the history of Vietnam before the 1945 August Revolution. The author assesses the history of legislative regulation of their situation, the behavioral role and the image that were assigned to them in official discourse and in public consciousness, as well as those advantages and the restrictions that accompanied the widowed Vietnamese in their daily lives. Thus the study aims to create a holistic concept of such a socially important and privileged category of women as widows in traditional Vietnam.Studying the legal status of widows and the attitude to them in society allows to clarify the prevailingthesis about the totally disempowered position of women in traditional societies of countries of the Confucian cultural realm. The Vietnam example demonstrates that the theoretical paradigm of “three obedience” ( Viet. tam tòng), according to which, in particular, after the death of her husband, a woman must obey her eldest son, in reality had a different content.The source base of the study includes state historical chronicles and legal acts, as well as fiction and journalistic articles. This allows us to see both the theoretical model of the state vision of the place and role of the widow in society, and at least partially present the corresponding social practice in different segments of the population, as well as the evolution of public attitudes towards widowed women and the prevailing interpretation of the behavior towards their proper behavior in the population.

The article discusses the existing tendency in the Vietnamese language to use abbreviations in military-technical and military-political terminology and vocabulary. Based on the materials of the military terminological dictionaries of the Vietnamese language, the Vietnamese military encyclopedia and other authentic sources, the author highlights and describes methods of abbreviations in the Vietnamese language and the areas of their use. An overview of abbreviation methods is given, such as acronyms, abbreviations formed from the initial consonant components of two-syllable words, half-abbreviations, compression and borrowing abbreviations. The areas of use of various types of military abbreviations in writing and oral speech are considered.

This publication aims to review a collection of articles by Russian and Vietnamese scholars who participated in a Round table held at the IFES RAS in January 2020 dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USSR and the DRV (30/01/1950-30/01/2020). Most of the authors of the collection's articles gave an objective assessment of the state of Russian-Vietnamese relations. The title provides a deep analysis of the reasons for the discrepancy between the declared goals and the real content of relations, as well as the unsatisfactory state in certain areas of bilateral interaction. To remedy the situation, many authors made practical suggestions. The title reflects the clash of views between Russian and Vietnamese experts on the situation in the South China sea and Moscow's policy on this issue.