The Kaliningrad dilemma: a 'development corridor' or a 'double periphery'? The geopolitical factor of the development of the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea
The Kaliningrad region, being an exclave, needs an updated regional development strategy based on the national strategy of modernisation and innovation-based development and, at the same time, taking into account the geopolitical aspect. It is necessary to proceed with the implementation of large-scale projects that stimulate the development of both the regional economy and form cross-industry clusters including large, medium, and small enterprises. The region should ...
Russian energy diplomacy and international energy security (geopolitics and economics)
This article considers national energy security as a component of foreign policy and diplomacy and analyses the current state of Russian energy policy, the role of Russia in global energy geopolitics and the factors affecting it. The author examines energy diplomacy as an instrument of foreign policy at both global and regional levels taking into account the changes in the corporate policy of energy companies.
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Municipal development in modern Russia: a geopolitical aspect
... for the country, initiate the "municipalization" of approaches both in socio-geographical, regional studies, and in the field of state regulation of spatial development. In the municipal theme itself, at the same time, issues related to geopolitics come to the fore. The article presents general theoretical ideas about the geopolitical aspects of municipal development (with the isolation of their content block directly related to "internal geopolitics"), their inventory and ...
Dichotomies of Eurasianism: A Socio-Geographical Analysis
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Transformation of directions of international educational migration in the Kaliningrad region
... results are having a more noticeable impact on socio-political and socio-economic processes. This article examines international educational migration as a source of potential labor resources for the country’s economy and as an indicator for assessing geopolitical and geoeconomic processes. Current trends in international educational migration show that North American and European countries are the main recipients of foreign students, while the donor countries are predominantly from Asia, Africa, and ...
Russia and the Central Asian countries in the process of forming a new world order: cooperation and conflicts
... politics is the Ukrainian crisis, which is gradually shifting from a stage of escalation to one of stabilization. This is a megatrend of modern global politics, against the backdrop of which all regions of the world, interregional relationships, and the geopolitical influence on specific regional actors are undergoing transformation. One such region is Central Asia. In this article, the region is viewed primarily as a community of five former Soviet republics that have become independent states. However,...
Moscow and its region: structural and functional transformations
... generated by the changes in mode of production in Russia as a result of ‘perestroika’ as well as of the results of a combination of global changes triggered by the Fourth industrial revolution (hereafter the STR-4) and by the change in Russia’s geopolitical role in the modern world. The author identifies the main trends as Moscow’s dependence on global geopolitical transformations, growing spatial and other forms of mobility resulted in a decline of its population’s reflection. At the ...
Typoligocal diversity of the strongholds of Russian coastal borderlands: (theoretical and conceptual aspect)
... as its complex formation and clusterization in the framework of the conceptual development of the "strongholds of coastal borderlands", understood as a special socio-geographical (economic-geographical and, at the same time, geo-economic, geopolitical) compact formation in the structure of the coastal zone. The essential features of the "strongholds" are identified, including its "focus", "amphibian", contact, cross-border nature, compatibility of structural ...
Baltic Studies in 2017
Amid a worsening geopolitical situation and Big Eurasia plunging into geoeconomic uncertainty, Russian regions are working towards new interregional collaborations and looking for partners in other markets. Russia’s outposts in the Baltic — St. Petersburg and the ...
The Factors, Formats, and Avenues of Cooperation between St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad Region in Today’s Eurasian Geo-Economic Context
Amid a worsening geopolitical situation and Big Eurasia plunging into geoeconomic uncertainty, Russian regions are working towards new interregional collaborations and looking for partners in other markets. Russia’s outposts in the Baltic — St. Petersburg and the ...
The foreign policy of Poland and the Kaliningrad region in 1989—2012
... unusual for political science and is based on analysing original (documents) and secondary (scholarly publications, press articles) sources. The authors also use the system and decision analysis methods. The analysis covers the period after 1989, when the geopolitical changes brought about by the collapse of the Yalta-Potsdam order resulted in Poland redefine the priorities of its foreign policy. One of the most important challenges for the Polish diplomacy after 1989 was the development of economic and ...
Assessment of the efficiency of Russian response to the implementation of US missile defence deployment concept in Europe
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Geopolitical transformation of the Kaliningrad oblast of the Russian Federation
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Cybersecurity and information sovereignty: the role of technology in protecting Russia’s interests
... institutional framework of cybersecurity in the Russian Federation is examined, including doctrinal documents and laws aimed at protecting critical information infrastructure and strengthening “digital borders.” Particular attention is paid to the geopolitical dimension of the issue—Russia’s cooperation with other states in the field of international information security and conflicts of interest in global cyberspace. The article substantiates the conclusion that strengthening cyber defense ...
Political and digital technologies for forming macro-identity in the post-Soviet space (on the example of the Baltic states)
... material necessary to test the hypothesis that macro-identity is shaped through the promotion of media symbols and meaning-laden narratives. The study identifies key new factors influencing the formation of macro-identity, including orientation toward new geopolitical trends, the popularization of independent social networks, and the perception of the Western world as progressive. Based on the results of the study, macro-identification is conceptualized as a political instrument for transitioning states ...
International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC): Potential, challenges, and prospects amid global shifts
... inferior to traditional routes and realizes only a small portion of its potential. The development of the corridor is constrained by infrastructure limitations (differences in railway gauge, seasonality of navigation, and low capacity of certain sections); geopolitical risks and sanctions that restrict financing and the use of technologies; administrative and bureaucratic barriers that increase transit time and transportation costs; and environmental risks (pollution of the Caspian Sea ecosystem). The study ...
Generational differences of the residents of the Kaliningrad region in the perception of regional history and historical and cultural heritage
At the present stage, in conditions of geopolitical tension, technologies are actively used that have a manipulative effect on the historical memory of the population. The impact is especially strong on young people. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to study the perception of the regional ...
Development of network business structures in the spatially distributed cluster St. Petersburg-Leningrad region-Kaliningrad region as a tool of interregional interaction
In the current conditions of increasing geopolitical tension and volatility in the global economy, the development of interregional interaction is increasingly seen as a source of economic growth for Russian regions. However, the study of such interaction should not only include an analysis ...
On economic well-being and current measures to support small businesses in agriculture in the Kaliningrad region
... Kaliningrad region continue to be an important structural element. At the same time, for the rural area of the region, they perform a more complex role, ensuring, among other things, an increase in the quality of life of the rural population. The current geopolitical and geo-economic conditions in which the Kaliningrad region operates have required strengthening and differentiation of measures and forms of state support for such enterprises. The region has a large-scale program to support farmers, including ...
Socio-geographic approach to substantiating economic security boundaries of a border region
Dramatic geopolitical and geo-economic changes occurring since 2022 have created a new development context for Russian border regions redrawing their economic security boundaries. The latter are also changing, which is understood as the required level of security ...
“And the Young Turks will not resurrect their fatherland”: Russian right-wingers and the Young Turk Revolution
... opinion of the Russian right on the Young Turk Revolution was formed are identified: the ideological positions of conservatives rejecting revolutionary social changes; Turkey’s place in the system of international relations and the forecasting of geopolitical changes in light of the Young Turks’ rise to power; and the perception of revolutionary events in Turkey as a negative example of potential further developments in Russia’s domestic political situation. The range of issues related to ...
Social and economic development of the Kaliningrad region in new conditions: local specifics
In recent years, social and economic development has been taking place in Russian regions amidst efforts to counter the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the West. This article aims to analyse the general and specific features in the development of the Kaliningrad semi-exclave between 2017 and 2022 while considering the territory’s spatial heterogeneity. ...
The scientific heritage of economic geographer Gennady Mikhailovich Fedorov
... economic geographers, authoring over 550 scientific works, including 70 monographs and textbooks, and developing the scientific concept of the geodemographic situation. He led research projects in the fields of social geography, regional economics, and geopolitics. These included grants from the Russian scientific foundations RFBR and RSF, the Russian Geographical Society, and international projects.
In this article, we, his students and followers, have taken on the difficult task of summarizing ...
Export of Russian education to BRICS countries: trends and prospects in current circumstances
... measures to promote Russian education in the international market. Despite the recent surge in interest in Russian education amongst international students, there is a risk that this trend could change dramatically due to the global crisis and the current geopolitical situation. This contribution considers BRICS countries — Brazil, India, China and South Africa — as key markets for Russian education exports.
This study aims to analyse the capacity of BRICS countries to import Russian educational ...
Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
... three volumes. Vol. 1. Articles on semiotics and topology of culture]. Tallinn, pp. 191—199 (in Russ.).
Marin, A., 2012. Bordering Time in the Cityscape. Toponymic Changes as Temporal Boundary-Making: Street Renaming in Leningrad/St. Petersburg.
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Verbalization of communicative strategies in foreign policy discourse: a case study of the Russian President’s addresses to the international audience
... strategies is conducted through the lens of their linguistic realization in the context of temporal dynamics. It has been determined that the genre structure and linguistic implementation of the President's foreign policy addresses adapt to shifts in the geopolitical context, ensuring the flexibility of foreign policy discourse. The cooperative strategy employed focuses on strengthening Russia's positive image by emphasizing historical ties, shared values, and prospects for partnership, whereas the ...
The question of the legitimacy of the Soviet occupation of Germany (1945—1949)
The tense geopolitical situation, the development of negationist tendencies, and the emergence over the past decade of numerous disputes regarding reparation claims by certain countries make it relevant to study, from a scholarly perspective, the legitimacy ...