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This article focuses on the issues of post-WWII economic restoration effort in the Soviet Lithuania. German occupation ... ... Lithuania was an agrarian state aspiring to embark on an industrial-agrarian path of development. After the war, this aspiration did not only persist, but was intensified... ... infrastructural objects. The case of Klaipeda is used to demonstrate the opportunities of the region and Centre in organising workforce in the Lithuanian SSR. The study uses the...

... of constructing a new NPP at the site of the closed Ignalina NPP. The author concludes that the joint construction of a new NPP is quite questionable. When it comes to politics, each of the three Baltic States is ready to build its own NPP. Thus, the development of nuclear power in the Baltic Sea region requires joint coordinated actions independent of any bloc-inspired interests of the states involved. Moreover, this success may prove sustainable if the actions are based on innovative decisions and modern technologies. 1. Japonskaja atomnaja ...

... The Global Competitiveness Report 2001—2002. Executive Summary: Competitiveness and Stages of Economic Development, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 3. Boronenko, V. 2009, Identification of actual clusters and the ir roles measurement in the development of regional competitiveness: the case of Latvia, Reģionālais ziņojums. Pētījumu materiāli [Regional Report. Research materials], no. 5, Daugavpils. 4. Rachko, E. 2010, Opit ocenki konkurentosposobnosti regionalnoj ekonomiki Latviji [Experience in evaluation ...

... efforts on the basis of their common economic interests and prevention of conflicts resulting from their incompatibility. The recommendations on the application of instruments for harmonizing economic interests can be used in drawing up programmes for the development of small innovative business at the federal, regional, and municipal levels. 1. Molchanova, O. P. (ed.). 2010, Mehanizmy gosudarstvennoj podderzhki innovacionnogo predprinimatel'stva: Analiz mezhdunarodnogo opyta [Mechanisms of state support of innovative business: Analysis of international experience],...

... labour. In this article, we use the framework provided by this discipline to describe the changes in the economy of the Russian North-West in the first decade of the 21st century. We combine publicly available data to propose new methods of evaluation of regional economic efficiency. We also identify and describe new trends of North-West development that have not yet been reflected upon by the researchers in the field. We conclude that, having overcome the crisis of the 1990s, the economy of the Russian North-West displays an overall positive trend of coming back to the territorial structures of the beginning of the 20th century. 1. Gde ...

This article analyses the cross-border co-operation between the Kaliningrad Region and the neighbouring Polish and Lithuanian regions. It provides, firstly, a short overview of the cross-border co-operation formation and development. The author outlines the present-day co-operation structures. Secondly, the article reviews the asymmetries that hinder the cross-border co-operation. Finally, it offers some examples of the cross-border cultural and social projects proving ...

Using the example of the Kaliningrad Rail-car Manufacturing Plant, the article analyzes personnel policies ... ... shortage of qualified personnel, and the challenges of reconstructing a new Soviet region. The methodology, based on a com­prehensive analysis of the enterprise’s archival... ... instability and lack of qualifications became key factors lim­iting the sustainable development of the enterprise in the postwar decade. Post-war recovery, personnel...

The article is devoted to the problem of the development of the Vladivostok commercial port in the early 1920s. The first quarter of the XX century was a time of severe trials ... ... War; foreign intervention. All this time, the Vladivostok Harbor was in fact the only source of external contacts of the remote region. Being the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean, Vladivostok has historically been a kind of center of attraction,...

This paper addresses general issues in the study of Russian folk verse. A critical exami­nation of the major theories related to this ... ... characteristics of folk verse, which exist in an oral-musical form, necessitate the development of specialized methods for its analysis. While traditional studies of versification... ... oblasti [Spiritual Verses. Kants: Collection of Spiritual Verses of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region]. Moscow (in Russ.). Efimenkova, B. B., 2001. Ritm v proizvedeniyakh russkogo...

The article analyzes the development of the USSR maritime transport management sys­tem in the early 1930s using the case of the Vladivostok Commercial Port. This ... ... the introduction of cost-accounting mechanisms, and the specialization of port divisions. Particular attention is paid to the regional specifics of the Russian Far East, where the Vladivostok port, while maintaining the universality of its func­tions,...

In this article, I use the concept of discursive practices to consider the speech practices of the Russian diaspora of ... ... [Humaniora: Lingua Russica. Works on Russian and Slavic philology. Linguistics. XIV. The development and variability of language in the modern world]. Tartu, pp. 142-159 (in... ... [Russian Studies and Modernity]. Riga, pp. 540-545 (in Russ.). Szadneva, V.P., 2015. Regional variants of Russian speech in the aspect of linguistic reflection (on the material...

The article describes three dictionaries compiled by three outstanding mariners who explored the Pomor North: the “Dictionary of Muscovites” compiled by the French navigator Jean Sauvage in 1586, the “Small ... ... The methodology of this research is based on a diachronic approach to studying the development of specialized maritime glossaries in the 16th and 20th centuries. The research is conducted within the frameworks of integrative translation and linguistic regional studies as a continuation of the project “History of Translation on the Pomor...

The article focuses on the basic information and need-related components of the development of motivation for adaptive sports in the disabled. The article presents the results of research conducted among hearing impaired sportspeople from the three Russian regions in the framework of the tournament dedicated to the opening of the festival of the “Penguin” sports club for the disabled ...

The article states that psychological knowledge is important for ... ... exercising state prosecution in a jury trial. The main purpose of the research is to establish and analyze existing tactical and ... ... proceedings in criminal cases with the participation of jurors and to develop proposals for their solution. The set of general scientific ... ... consider the confessional and national characteristics of the region where the case is being considered. It also looks into the ...

The resort tax is supposed to become a development instrument for the tourist infrastructure. The main idea of the article is to prove that this assumption doesn’t agree either with the experiences of foreign countries or the Russian ... ... accommodation objects. Thus there is a high opportunity of receiving negative effect from the resort tax introduction experiment in four regions of our country. 1. О природных лечебных ресурсах, лечебно-оздоровительных ...

This article analyses various aspects of public policy in the field of urban design in the 1950s/1960s. The achievements and difficulties in solving the housing problem in Kaliningrad are identified. The process of modernization of regional construction industry is analysed. The article identifies the general and specific features of construction and development of residential areas under Khrushchev and examines the influence of new social and economic policy and the restructuring ...

The relatively rapid – however slower than forecasted — development o retail chains is characteristic of Russia in general, nevertheless it exhibits significant territorial differences. An attempt to identify the factors behind ... ... possible to detect only one factor, whose value is close to essential: the geographical remoteness from Moscow. However, many regions of central Russia have a low share of retail chains. One cannot exclude that a significant role in the development of ...

This article examines the results of municipal reform, analyses the budgetary policy of the Kaliningrad region, and identifies the problems of formation of local budget revenues. The author described the methods to improve budgetary policy, which could level the differences in economic and social development of municipalities and solve the problem of stability and independence of local budgets. 1. Об областном ...

The article presents basic reasons of world economic crisis and their negative influence on economic development of Russia including Kaliningrad region. One could find substantiation of forming new financialeconomic model as long-term development program for Russia. 1. Макиавелли Н. Князь. Минск, 2000.

This paper examines the activity of small enterprises in the Kaliningrad region using the example of furniture industry. The author identifies the factors affecting their development in a special economic zone 1.  Малое предпринимательство в Калининградской области: стат. сб. / Тер­риториальный орган Федеральной службы государственной ...

... the Russian-Belarusian border within the specified period. The main criteria for the transformation were selected indicators of the tourist flow in general by country, as well as separately by border regions. The author proposes a typology of border regions in terms of their potential for adaptation to crisis conditions and prospects for increasing this potential through the development of natural and nature-oriented tourism.

In Russia, the polarization of the centers of human-geographic research is increasing. The role of Moscow as a leading ... ... growing. One of the centers of the secondary level, where the research is actively developing, is Kaliningrad. Its scientists collaborate with the other research centers... ... above all, IKBFU is considered. IKBFU concentrates many economic geographers of the region (4 professors and 13 PhDs in the field of “Economic, social, political and...

... regional experts and specialists. The article provides the analysis of the mutual intensity of the Russian-Polish border crossing in the period from 2002 to 2016. The author analyzes the contribution made by the cross-border movement mechanism to the development of relations between the border regions of the neighboring countries. The article concludes that in spite of shortcomings and negative effects for both countries, the mechanism of the mechanism of local border traffic in 2015, launched in 2012, became an important development tool for ...

The factors and features of localization of large business interests in 14 European coastal regions of Russia are analyzed. It is shown that the interest of large business in the coastal zones is commonly associated with ... ... characteristics; clustering, thus, receives additional impulses, while the clusters demonstrate networking, dispersed forms in their development. 1. Agenda 21 of ocean geography // Geography, oceans and coasts towards sustainable development / Vallega A. [et ...

This article follows the dynamics of the hydrothermal climate indicators in the Kaliningrad region over a 30-year period. The authors examine the variability of plants indicating phonological events in the regions. Changes ... ... the Prussian botanical society, 1893). Finally, conclusions are made regarding the impact of climate change on the seasonal development of plants. 1. Баринова Г. М. Калининградская область. Климат. Калининград,...

This article analyses earlier works, which provide the basis for addressing the problem of the optimisation of regional nature management in the conditions of the Kaliningrad region. The author reviews the current state of landscapes and their development and emphasises the significance of landscape and geographical factors for efficient and environmentally friendly development....

The article is devoted to the study of euroregional development hystory. It also explores the analysis of foreign countries experience in crossborder cooperation. Importance of Euroregions is identified. Euroregion «Baltic» and the Balic euroregional network. 1.   EESC Opinions . UR L :   http ...

... article considers key conditions for implementation of urbanrural partnership in Russian regions as a means of a new approach to regional development problems solving. 1.  Либоракина М.   И. Проблемы и перспективы местного ... ... Лимонова, Н.   Ю. Одинг. Калининград : Изд - во РГУ им . И . Канта , 2008. 3.  Shubin S. The changing nature of rurality and rural studies in Russia // Jour­nal of Rural Studies. 2006. №22. P . 422—440.

... activities of economic entities in the North-West of Russia in terms of relative innovation activity indicators. Special attention is paid to the role of cross-border and trans-border cooperation in the Baltic macroregion as a mechanism of managing the innovative development of regional economy. 1. Instrument Evropejskogo sosedstva i partnerstva. Prigranichnoe sotrudnichestvo. Strategija na 2007—2013 gg. [online] Available at: <http://ec.europa. eu/world/enp/ pdf/enp_cross-border_cooperation_strategy_paper_ru(Accessed ...

This paper provides an analysis of income differentiation among the residents of Latvian regions in order to assess the government’s economic policies aimed at the development of a socially inclusive market economy in the country. The paper describes the dynamics of changes in the income of population of Latvian regions over nine years (2000—2008). The authors put forward a hypothesis that the changes in the state ...

The article describes changes in the cross-border cooperation support in the framework of the EU Regional Policy. The author emphasises the role of the European Neighbourhood Policy in the development of cross-border cooperation with non-EU countries. The article outlines the main obstacles for the development of euroregions at the EU-Russia border and arrives at the conclusion that their future depends on the success of the Russia-EU integration ...