Acknowledgements We thank Jiri NEUSTUPA, Igor KOSTIKOV, Tatiana MIKHAILYUK, and Tatyana DARIENKO for valuable discussions, two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on the original version of the manuscript, and Lenka FLASKOVA for excellent technical help. This work was supported by the Grant No. P506/10/0705 from the Czech Science Foundation, the Project No. CZ.1.05/ 2.1.00/03.0M. 100 (Operational Program Research and Development for Innovations), and the internal grant 11.01. of the Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmullah.
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