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This historical article examines post-WWII Yugoslavia and the state's campaigns to modernise and unify the extensive Yugoslav peasantry, and draws comparisons with other countries from the Communist Bloc. It argues that even though Yugoslavia ostensibly set out to create a new 'Yugoslav way' that was dissimilar to Soviet socialism, its tactics and underlying motivations were very similar to those of the Soviet modernisation projects. The article analyses the evolving concept of the vračara (elder women folk healers) as a vehicle for the state's modernising mission. Just as Soviet babki represented a threat to the new 'social order' in Russia, vračare were the targets of the Yugoslav state's anti-folk-medicine propaganda. It also argues that reproductive health provided a moment in the lifecycle when the state attempted to bind women to its services. The first part of the article deals with the bureaucratic push to disempower village wise women using propaganda campaigns and the introduction of medical facilities in remote communities. Even though the medicalization process ultimately failed to fully establish science-based medical services in all areas of the Yugoslav Republic, the negative image of the old crone healer endured well beyond the first post-war decade. The second half of the article examines the gendered stereotype of the old crone and how she became a stand-in for everything backward and undesirable relative to modern medicine. • Historical analysis of evolving concept of the vračara (elder female folk healer) in the context of post-WWII socialist Yugoslava. • Yugoslav state attempted to unify disparate peasantry through publicly available health services, with reproductive health care prioritised, in an attempt to bind women to its services. • Unifying and modernisation project shunned the wisdom of female community elders in favour of patriarchal biomedical health care structures and (mostly) male specialists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses research about the transition of the defense industry to lifecycle contracts relating to high technology military products in Russia. Topics mentioned include the difficulties facing the industry during the transition, the experiences of Western countries during the implementation of the maintenance service support concept for manufactured products, and a description of computer-aided acquisition and logistics support (CALS) technologies.

The article deals with a study which described the discovery of a new furcocercaria, similar to those of Paracoenogonimus, in gastropods Amuropaludina and Cipangopaludina collected from the reservoirs of the Primorsky Region in the southern Far East of Russia. It references related research on the cyathocotylid subfamilty Prohemistomatinae. The infestation of the second intermediate hosts, two species fo freshwater fishes, Pseudorasbora parva and Perccottus glenii, are described. Also noted are the morphological differences of the new species, Paracoenogonimus (P.) ussuriensis with P. szidata and Mesostephanus appendiculatus.