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... import capacity of its partners. Russian energy policy is viewed as one of the most important activities of the state and its business structures. As such it aims to achieve both general economic goals (generation of profit, market domination) and more specific geoeconomic tasks. At the same time, the policy follows the traditional rules of consumer/producer market game. Russian energy resources are delivered to an energy deficient region, wh ere the demand and need for them is stable. The study is ...

... of the St. Petersburg coastal region is of crucial importance for ensuring a steady growth of regional economy, the propagation of industrialization impulses, and modernization in the heart of Russian Northwestern macroregion. At the same time, the specific features of the region’s geoeconomic position magnify the ‘inherited’ ad acquired effects of focal industrialization and space polarization, which creates additional prerequisites for the inversion of the Russian economic space — ‘Russia ...

... universiteta [Bulletin of St. Petersburg University], Vol. 7, no. 3, p. 80—90. 6. Korneevets, V. S. Transnacional'nye i transgranichnye regiony kak specificheskie formy territorial'noj organizacii obshhestva [Transnational and cross-border regions as specific forms of territorial organization of society], 2010, doctoral dissertation, Kaliningrad, 364 p. 7. Kuznetsova, T. Yu., Fedorov, G. M. 2011, Territorial'naja differenciacija demograficheskogo razvitija Baltijskogo makroregiona [The territorial ...

... foundations], Leningrad, 112 p. 16. Fedorov, G. M. 1985, Geodemograficheskaja tipologija [Geodemographic typology], Leningrad, 152 с. 17. Fedorov, G. M. 2013, Obshhie i specificheskie faktory razvitija jekonomiki rossijskogo jeksklava [General and specific factors of economic development of the Russian exclave], Vestnik ARGO, no. 2, p. 195—205, available at: www.vestnikagro.sfedu.ru (accessed 09.12.2013). 18. Definition of Rural Settlements, 2010, available at: www.ehow.com (accessed 23.11....

... № 866 (as amended on 21.09.2013)], 2013, The Russian government, available at: http://fcp. economy. gov.ru (accessed 01.12.2013). 15. Fedorov, G. M. 2013, Obshhie i specificheskie faktory razvitija jekonomiki rossijskogo jeksklava [General and specific factors of economic development of the Russian exclave] // Social'no-jekonomicheskaja geografija. Vestnik Associacii rossijskih geografov — obshhestvovedov [Social-economic geography. Bulletin of the Russian Association of social-geographers],...

... policy that are evaluated from the perspective of the development of Russian-Estonian relations and factors affecting the probability of each scenario. It is shown that any change in the role of Estonia in Russian foreign policy depends not only on the specific actions of the Estonian elite, for example their readiness to change their position on the participation of Russian-speaking population in the democratic decision-making process or the evaluation of controversial events of the past, but also ...

... elements of equality between them. Energy efficiency cooperation also transforms the patterns of the EU-Russia legal harmonization, creates new conditions for the convergence of regulations and the development of the middle class in Russia. Due to its specific features, cooperation in the Baltic Sea region becomes a locomotive of the Russia-EU energy efficiency cooperation, and, as a result, is capable of changing the quality of relations between the partners. 1. Energy Efficiency in Russia: Untapped ...

... Discussion Papers, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), no. 1078. 9. Ketels, C. 2012, The impact of clusters and networks of firms on EU competitiveness, Final Report: Firm networks (May 2012), Studies in the Area of Competitiveness, WIFO, Specific Contract No 605748. 10. Laaksonen, E. Mäkinen, H. 2013, The Competitiveness of the Maritime Clusters in the Baltic Sea Region: Key Challenges from the Finnish Perspective, Journal of East-West Business, Vol. 19, no. 1—2, p. 91—104. 11....

To study the key instruments of international cooperation between Russia and the European Union aimed at stimulating innovative development of tourism co-financed by the EU and Russia. The author describes specific projects implemented in the framework of the Lithuania-Poland-Russia cross-border cooperation programme for 2009—2013 in the field of tourism. Special attention is paid to analysing tourism innovations that have emerged as a result of the projects ...

... development with the involvement of Kaliningrad municipalities. The key objective set by the authors of the article is to justify the need for studying the emerging network cooperation with the help of both traditional methods of geography and modern GIS; a specific case is made of the cross-border Vistula lagoon region — the one that brings together Russian and Polish municipalities. The authors provide with the background for the search of possible development strategies in the region, and note that ...

... categories and divisions (international enclave, overseas exclaves, internal enclaves of different levels) are extended and introduced. The author offers a new classification of contemporary and historical enclaves and exclaves. The article identifies the specific features of the Kaliningrad region in comparison to other enclave territories. The difference between the exclavity of the Kaliningrad region in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods is emphasised. The author shows the evolution of the use of concepts ...

... urban development it is possible to identify the interaction between the managerial process and mechanism; bring together the spatial and activity-related concepts of territorial development; and explain the phenomenon in question from both general and specific perspectives. Territorial development is becoming the principal object of strategic management of a region or city, its key tool being the utilization of its own good practices. The main objective of territorial development is increasing the ...