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This article examines policies of Moscow and Brussels in the Baltics since the launch of the European Union’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in June 2009. An increase in the efficiency of Russia’s policy in the region requires not only the development of bilateral relations with the region’s countries but also a dialogue with the European Union, the key player in the Baltic. The author identifies Russian economic, military, political, and humanitarian interests in the region, and describes ...

... unique geographical position makes the country an effective transport corridor (bridge) in both the west-east and north-south directions. The article presents the results of an opinion poll conducted at Latvian transit enterprises regarding their future development and offers an overview of the main seaports and the Rīga international airport. The author examines the issue of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization and its impact on the Latvian transit, the prolongation of EU sanctions ...

..., 2013, no. 9, Moscow, p. 26 available at: vid1.rian. ru/ig/ratings/electroenergy9.pdf (accessed 31 March 2013). 25. Prytkov, А. Т., Igumnov, P. V. 2012, Perspektivy razvitija jeksporta jelektrojenergii iz Rossijskoj Federacii [Prospects for the development of electricity export from the Russian Federation], Vlast' i upravlenie na Vostoke Rossii [Power and control in Eastern Russia], no. 3, p. 38—47, available at: www. dvags.ru/downLoad/rio/j2012—3/6.doc (accessed 31 March 2013). 26. Rossija ...

In the context of regional gas infrastructure development this paper considers the issue of energy security of the countries of East Baltic, which depend heavily on a single energy supplier — Russia. In recent years, the countries of the region have announced several LNG terminal construction projects....

The current development of economic diplomacy in the world is determined by a combination of globalization and regionalization. In addition, it has an economic dimension. At the same time, the Baltic Sea region demonstrates large-scale politicisation of economic ...

This article sets out to develop the concept and the principal scheme of the formation of a risk management system for innovative economic development projects in the field of aquaculture. The research carried out by the authors helps identify the main problems and characteristics ...

... the role of the USA and Germany in the restoration of Baltic independence. Historicism and objectivity principles serve as the methodological framework for the research. The regional approach was applied in order to integrate the features of regional development into the overall picture of world politics. The scientific and practical significance of the article lies in a scientific evaluation of the Soviet-Baltic relations in 1989—1991. This study can help understand the mechanisms of formulation ...

... some terms used in transport geography. For the first time the transport system gets territorially localized, which allows for a broad range of new studies of transnational transportation in the Baltic Sea area. We also identify the main principles of development and operation of international territorial transport systems and present them taking the Baltic Sea region as an example. Our findings, we hope, will have a great practical application for researchers of transport geography, especially those ...

... cities it served not only as a means of survival in the difficult situation of the 1990s, but also as an experimental ground for new forms of crossborder cooperation. The authors arrive at the conclusion that this model proves to be promising for further development of integration processes in the Baltic region. This practice can be applied by Russian municipal, regional and federal authorities in promotion of cross-border cooperation not only in the Baltic region, but also in other regions of the country....

... among the EU members, which are of special importance for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Transborder corporate integration in the region is characterized by significant imbalances. In many aspects, it can be viewed as Sweden’s economic expansion or development of domestic markets for northern European companies. Although many German, Polish and Russian companies are involved in corporate integration in the Baltic region, other vectors of their foreign economic relations are still more important ...

... circumstance, EU leaders and energy structures took a number of organizational measures aimed, on the one hand, at an increase in energy independence of new members of the EU and, on the other hand, at taking into account the recent trends in the energy market development. The research shows that most of the initiatives do not take into account the perspective and interests of Russia, which has a strong presence in the energy market. The analysis conducted will help the assessment of prospects of further development ...

... years. The introduction and integrated use of GLONASS pose a number of organizational and economic problems for regional administrations. One of such problems is the evaluation of economic benefit from GLONASS implementation in the region. Economics has developed a large number of methodological approaches to the calculation of such effects in different fields of satellite information application: Earth's remote probing, crop yield forecasts, forestry, water industry and agricultural monitoring, etc....

... deplete the platform for multilateral cooperation in Europe. To a lesser extent, the crisis has affected the states that are actively involved in cross-border cooperation projects. The formation of European regions is closely related to the industrial development of their regions. The Post-Soviet space requires a redistribution of the overcentralized power. The abundance of Euroregions along the perimeter of certain states may be an indicator of economy's resilience to potential shocks. The provisions ...

... and describe its mechanisms. 1. Zverev, Yu. М., Batorshina, I. А., Megem, М. Ye. 2011, Nauchnotehnologicheskoe razvitie Litvy i perspektivy sotrudnichestva v innovacionnoj sfere mezhdu Litvoj i Rossijskoj Federaciej [The research and technology development in Lithuania and the prospects of research and technology cooperation between Lithuania and the Russian Federation], Baltijskij region [Baltic Region], no. 2 (8), p. 55—63. doi:10.5922/2074-9848-2011-2-6 2. Leitsin, V. N., Dmitriyeva, М....

... identity: the information age: economy, society and culture, Vol. 2, 2nd ed, Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 11. Diamond, J. 2005, Guns, germs, and steel. The Fates of Human Societies, N. Y. 12. The role of Maritime clusters to enhance the strength and development in European maritime sectors, European Commission, available at: http://ec. europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/clusters_en. html (accessed 01 March 2011). 13. European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, 2010, Background and analysis, May 2010....

This article sets out to assess the potential of cross-border region development on the basis of theoretical and methodological materials. The study examines the Kaliningrad region and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The article is focused on the modelling of interindustry balance and export/import functions of border territories....

... 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 territories of Vistula and Curonian lagoons, centrally located in the cross-border region, have numerous remarkable nature sites as well as monuments of history and culture. The article analyses the internal and external factors affecting the development of the Russian segment of the transborder "Southeastern Baltic" tourism and recreation region. 1. Cybin, Ju. A. 2004. Shema ohrany prirody Kaliningradskoj oblasti. M-vo prirod.resursov RF, Federal'naja sluzhba po nadzoru v sfere ...

This article tackles the problems of the biodiversity parameter evolution from the geo-historical perspective. The authors come to a conclusion about the prevalence of global terrestrial and cosmic factors in the development of biosphere processes. On the basis of the biogeochemical approach to the biosphere evolution, the authors could identify the principal stages of its development from the ancient times to the modern epoch and refute the postulate of Leibniz ...

... EUROPA: the official website of the European Union. [online] Available at: <http://ec.europa.eu/external _relations /north_dim/ docs/mou_culture_0510_en.pdf> (Accessed 22 July 2010). 13. Browning, C. 2003. Journal of International Relations and Development, N6 (1). 14. Browning, C., Joenniemi, P. 2007. Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood policy. DIIS Working Paper no 2007/9. 15. Browning, C., Joenniemi P. 2003. Security Dialogue, № 34(4). 16. Country strategy paper 2007—2013. Russian ...

This article is dedicated to the Baltic University programme — a unique educational project aiming at the sustainable development of the Baltic Sea region. International interuniversity cooperation facilitates intercultural communication between students and researchers, and creates new prospects for joint research, which opens up an opportunity for solving common environmental ...

... 40—56. 20.  Musiał, K. 2002. Education, research and the Baltic Sea Region Building. In: Musiał, K. Approaching Knowledge Society in the Baltic Sea Region. Gdansk,Berlin, pp. 42—60. 21.  Rostoks, T. 2002. The Impact of Economic Factors on Development of the Knowledge Society. In: Musiał, K. Approaching Knowledge Society in the Baltic Sea Region. Gdansk,Berlin, pp. 24—41. 22.  Rydén, L. 2002. The Baltic Sea Region and the relevance of regional ap­proaches. In: Maciejewski, W. The ...

... Commission to the Council. EU and Kaliningrad. Brus­sel 17.1.2001 COM (2001) 26 final. P. 12. Zverev Yuri 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-2 13-23 Kaliningrad region, economic crisis, Special economic zone (SEZ), 2006 law on SEZ, strategy for regional development, model of economic development

This article offers the results of research conducted in the Kaliningrad region in the framework of the "Development of Russian Energy Sector: Social and Environmental Consequences and Prospects" network project by the Centre for Advanced Studies and Education. The authors assess the structure of regional energy sector and its influence on the economy ...

The balanced power sector development in the Kaliningrad region requires an accurate estimation of the parameters of the main generation complex, the formation of a backup generation complex, and the efficient management of power sector. 1. Гнатюк В. И. Техника,...

This article analyses the current state of the power system of the Kaliningrad region and gives recommendations regarding the increase in energy efficiency. The author considers the prospects of its development taking into account the possible accession of the Baltic States to the UCTE. 1.        Аюев Б. В едином ритме с Европой // Мировая энергетика. 2007. № 6. С. 66—69. 2.        ...

The author considers peculiarities of the emergence and evolution of exclavity of the Kaliningrad region. The article analyses the influence of exclavity on the connections of the region with the Russian mainland, its economic development, exclave administration, and Kaliningrad identity and examines the ways the existing disadvantages can be overcome. Methods of overcoming these disadvantages are suggested in the article. 1.   Об утверждении Программы ...

The article offers a pragmatic approach to certain aspects of cross-border regionalisation. The marketing component of Euroregion development and the implementation of cross-border cooperation projects are considered as key directions of the joint activity of cross-border partner-regions. The authors analyse the opportunity to apply the territory brand model to research on the mechanisms ...

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 ...

This article focuses on the basic aspects of organizational support for the function-object approach to regional development in the system of strategic management. The author proposes a mechanism combining the principles of regulation and self-regulation on the basis of application of function-object modeling of regional growth and motivation to achieve regional ...

The use of peptides is associated with certain challenges. Due to proteolytic instability and a short plasma half-life, peptides require the development and application of specialized delivery systems, which often limits their use to parenteral administration routes. Low bioavailability following oral administration further complicates the clinical use of peptides, especially in chronic diseases ...

... Europe in general, and in Prussia in particular, marked a period of the formation of a legislative framework for urban planning at both the state and local levels, as a precursor to modern spatial planning. From the initial selective regulation of urban development (fire-prevention measures, etc.), by the beginning of the 20th century a system of regulatory frameworks for managing urban development had been established. At the same time, there is no clear understanding of which processes and regulations ...

Nikolai Alekseev’s article was written whilst in exile and belongs to the Eurasian period of his philosophical work. It draws on ideas developed in articles from 1926 and 1927, written for the journal “Put’ [The Way]: A Journal of Russian Religious Thought”. Based on the research of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian historians, Alekseev demonstrates how the Russian ...

... chosen, as the lens for my analysis, the interpretation of Michel Foucault, who presents Kant’s project as a phased transition from philosophical critique to political pragmatics. Following the path charted by Foucault, I analyse a number of ideas developed by Kant within the framework of his critical philosophy, which laid the theoretical foundations for subsequent implementations of his enlightenment project in daily political practices. The first part of my study examines the concept of epistemic ...

... to the Kantian categories. I submit that Heidegger is interested not so much in the content of the Kantian critique of the ontological argument as in Kant’s interpretation of the concepts of ‘being’ and ‘existence’, which are central to the development of a fundamental ontology. Heidegger reduces the opaqueness of these concepts to the problem of the definition of the concept of ‘perception’; and, challenging Kant’s identification of existence with ‘perception’, argues that existence ...

... Main: Suhrkamp, pp. 188-207. Hegel, G. W. F., 2000. How the Ordinary Human Understanding Takes Philosophy (as Displayed in the Works of Mr. Krug). Translation and Notes by H. S. Harris. In: G. di Giovanni. ed., 2000. Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism. Indianapolis: Hackett, pp. 292-310. Heis, J., 2018. The Logicians of Kant’s School. In: S. Lapointe, ed. 2018. Logic from Kant to Russell: Laying the Foundations for Analytic Philosophy. New York & London: Routledge,...

... syntagmatic behaviour, is the word ‘or­gan’. This article analyses the literal and figurative uses, as well as the metaphorical trans­formations, of the lexeme ‘organ’ in Russian literature over approximately one and a half cen­turies of its development. The main material for linguapoetic analysis consists of literary con­texts containing the lexeme ‘organ’, recorded in the National Corpus of the Russian Language and dating from the 18th century to the 20th century. The study aims to ...

... especially the manuscript tradition and the historical circum­stances of a text’s creation. The article demonstrates the significance of lexical analysis of early Slavic texts from dif­ferent chronological periods and geographical areas for the development of a new field of re­search concerned with the phenomenon of medieval ‘collective church memory’. “Ladder”, John Climacus, historical lexicology, historical lexicography, Old Russian language, Early Slavic translations,...

... mysteries of divine wisdom contained in Holy Scripture. In their efforts to understand and explain scriptural narration, they identified fundamental in­terpretative patterns, formulated general principles and methods of exegesis, and, in many cases, developed comprehensive theories and coherent hermeneutical frameworks. Within the broader practice and cultural heritage of human oral and written linguistic activity, the prob­lem of expressing the truth of being through either literal or allegorical ...

The development of objective methods for assessing emotional perception is important for cross-cultural research and linguistic technologies. The obtained data find practical applica­tion in clinical psychology and in the study of multilingual consciousness....

... Based on questionnaire data and focused group interviews obtained through teachers’ self-assessment and expert evaluation, typical professional difficulties of educators were identified, in which the following deficits are manifested: insufficiently developed skills in early communication, insufficient understanding of the needs of non-verbal children, limited variability and situational inade­quacy of the behavioral repertoire implemented by educators, incomplete support of various types of activity ...