Mental mapping of the border between Western and Eastern Europe: transforming conceptions
The article presents the results of using mental mapping in studying the concept of the border between Western and Eastern Europe. Since the collapse of the USSR the border under study has been transforming due to the aspirations of certain post-Soviet countries as well as the expanding scope of the Euro-Atlantic integration. The study is based on the ...
Coastal and western border centers in the system of large cities of modern Russia: socio-economic and innovation development.
... reflects the results of a study of large Russian cities (with a population of more than 100 thousand people, as well as smaller cities with the status of regional capitals), emphasizing two strategically important groups: coastal centers and cities of the Western borderlands of Russia. Having applied economic-statistical analysis for 6 indicators (average salaries and per capita measures of the number of organizations and enterprises, retail trade turnover and public catering, commissioning of houses ...
Between nation and gender: History of beards in Western Europe and Russia, 1830—1880
This article focuses on the increasing popularity of beards in Western Europe and Russia in the 1830s—1880s. The main hypotheses explaining this phenomenon in Western Europe are analysed and the Western and Russian practices compared. It is concluded that, from the mid-19th century, the beard was a symbol of national ...
Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
... концептуализации, оценке и мониторингу // Вопросы инновационной экономики. 2020. № 1. С. 291—306.
9. Mikhaylova A.A., Gorochnaya V.V. Diffusion of innovations in coastal agglomerations of Western Russia: Kaliningrad and Rostov regions' experience // The 13th International Days of Statistics and Economics. Conference Proceedings. September 5—7, 2019. Prague, Czech Republic. Edited by: Tomáš Löster, Tomáš Pavelka. Libuše Macáková,...
Typology of small towns in the western borderland regions of Russia
... urban agglomerations in the development of any region, it should be noted that small towns perform their equally important function as reference points in the regional framework of the settlement system. In strategic regions, like the ones of the Western borderland, small towns, inter alia, become significant for ensuring national interests along the state border of Russia. The article presents the author's version of the typology of small towns in the Western borderlands of Russia, based on the ...
Western border regions of Russia: delimitation, structure, typology
This article is devoted to the western border regions of Russia, which play an important role in terms of history, geopolitics, geoeconomy, culture, and mindset. Relying on the interpretations of ‘border’, ‘frontier’, and ‘borderlands’, which are traditional for Russian ...
Political and digital technologies for forming macro-identity in the post-Soviet space (on the example of the Baltic states)
..., Lithuania, Estonia). Macro-identification is defined in a narrow sense as a political technology of civilizational reorientation, involving a break with historical and cultural ties to Greater Russia and the formation of new connections with the Western world. The article proposes a theoretical integration of the concepts of macro-political identity (O. Yu. Malinova), hybrid identity, and the civilizational paradigm approach. The methodological framework of the study is based on a constructionist ...
The lichens and lichenicolous fungi of the north-western part of the Krasnoznamensky District of the Kaliningrad Region
... examine the lichen biota of the northwestern part of the Krasnoznamensk municipal district (part of the Sheshupe ancient alluvial plain). This is the first such study for the Krasnoznamensk district. Field research was conducted in the vicinity of the western part of the Neman forest and the Velikoe bog in 2022 and 2023. Laboratory processing of the collected materials with species identification was carried out using standard methods. The collected field materials significantly enriched the lichen ...
