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The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of new political and cultural situation. The society of Internationalism cracked, and old ethnic tensions have gained new forms. All this found its expression in many and varied ethnophaulisms. In this article, the authors try to trace the various slurs constructed with the assistance of the nutritional and vestimentary metaphors. They also make the assumption that the abundance of food metaphors for marking the Other/Alien shows that the food problem is percei...

Frontier interethnic relations take different forms due to many factors defined by a peculiar frontier stage or a phase. There are three frontier stages that differ from each other. They are early frontier, active frontier and postfrontier. One of the markers that can help to mark out a concrete stage of it is a role of interethnic gender relations. They can be presented in various forms, mainly through such terms as acceptance, negation and as a norm. On the early frontier the interethnic marriage is acceptable a...

Cross-cultural relations in the frontier area are distinguished by specific characteristics and complexity, due to the fact that frontier itself is a heterotopic space. There is no conventional typology of this type of relations that could be applicable to any Russian frontier (the Low Volga Region, Siberian, Caucasian, etc.). The article proposes original variant of cross-cultural communication typology of the early frontier of the North Caucasus region. We have identified three types of cross-cultural contacts: ...