Innovations in the Baltic Sea Region and Network Cooperation between Russia and the EU
... cooperation and integration are rapidly developing in the Baltic Sea region. Russia lags behind the Nordic countries and Germany as far as innovative development is concerned; yet our national pace here is comparable to that of Poland and the three Baltic States. At the same time, the features of innovative cooperation vary a great deal depending on the group of countries involved in cooperation processes. Independent of its type, however, international cooperation is beneficial for all parties concerned ...
The instruments of Russia — EU research and technological co-operation in the sphere of innovations
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Russia and the European Union: an elusive quest for common values?
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Similarities and differences in curricula of a bachelor’s degree in oceanology at the universities in St Petersburg, Klaipeda, and Kaliningrad
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Clusters in the institutional perspective: on the theory and methodology of local socioeconomic development
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The position of international community on the restoration of independence of the Baltic States
... of the Soviet-Baltic relations in 1989—1991. This study can help understand the mechanisms of formulation of foreign policy by the USA, Germany, and the USSR, as well as the practice of political interaction between these countries and the Baltic States. The materials and conclusions of this article can be used for further research on the foreign policies of the USA, Germany, the USSR, and the Baltic republics. In the process of the Baltics gaining their independence, western countries showed ...
On the possibility to adopt the historical practice of applying technologies for land fertility increase in Eastern Prussia at agricultural enterprises of the Kaliningrad region
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The concept of guerrilla warfare in Lithuania in the 1920—1930s
This article analyses the military and tactical training of the members of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union for guerrilla warfare in the interwar period. Small nations, such as Lithuania and other Baltic states, being unable to build up military strength in order to ensure national security, were forced to seek for unconventional methods of warfare, including guerrilla strategies. The study places emphasis on the development of the guerrilla war concept ...
The externalisation of migration control in the European Union: first steps towards the external dimension of the space of freedom, security and justice
... scene and categorize the actions it took to manage the influx of migrants and asylum seekers from the 1980s until the time when supranational administrative bodies were granted mandates in the spheres of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) of the EU Member States. We conclude that it was as early as the 1990-s that the EU launched the policy which later allowed to transfer part of its security concerns to third countries.
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Assessment of the efficiency of Russian response to the implementation of US missile defence deployment concept in Europe
... structure-system method and the method of actualization. The authors outline both positive and negative consequences of such actions for the Russian Federation, the USA, eastern European countries and the neighbouring countries, including the Baltic Sea states. The practical significance of this study consists in the proposed and justified responses of the Russian Federation that may serve as a basis for the scenarios of development of international situation and help to forecast the level of tension ...
Cultural and landscape zoning in the North- West Russia
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The European idea in Central Europe and Scandinavia as a part of the security and peaceful co-existence policy in the framework of the postwar planning
... countries were expected to constitute such formations, which contradicted and were opposed to by the theoretical framework of Western European integration. On the other hand, regional integration implied that a federation or union of the neighbouring states could be considered a step towards a more universal organisation, which would not mean the isolation of Scandinavia and Central Europe from the rest of the world. The theoretical and practical significance of this work lies in the comparative approach ...
The features of choosing an institutional development trajectory in Eastern Europe in the 16th—17th centuries: Moscovy and the Polish — Lithuanian Commonwealth
... Lithuania) in the 16th—17th centuries. The author emphasizes the factors, which affected the choice of institutional development trajectory, and considers the influence exerted by these institutes on the political and military development of these states. This article shows how the contingent property rights in Moscovy turned out to be competitive in the conditions of a considerable contribution of decentralization factors to defence capacity and, opposite to the situation in the Polish — Lithuanian ...
Russia's accession to the WTO as an important factor of the country's integration into the world economy
... ekonomicheskoj teorii [Journal of Economic Theory], no. 2(19), p. 142—153.
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situation in Russia: a statistical compendium], 2000—2010, Мoscow.
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Does corruption influence the sustainability of economic growth?
... institutional structure continue to deliver the results of technical cooperation to the ultimate end-users? Individuals and organizations can join in sharing resources for creating a sustainable future. Anticorruption strategies are related to the reform of state institutions. One advantage of the fundamental economic reform approach is that by linking anticorruption strategies to the reform of economic policies and institutions, the struggle against corruption can be seen as one of the issues in economic ...
Modern Lithuanian foreign policy: the adjustment of traditional policy
The authors consider the core areas of Lithuanian foreign policy. Special attention is paid to the adjustment of the major foreign policy vector, which concentrated earlier on the cooperation with the United States of America and strategic partnership with the Republic of Poland. The article analyses the attempts of Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė to formulate the so-called «new foreign policy» based on the multivector approach to the intergovernmental ...
The formation of the political elite in Lithuania at the turn of the 1980s—1990s: the role of “moral politicians”
... framework of which the key role was played by «moral politicians», most of whom subsequently retired from politics. Focusing on the situation in Lithuania, this research sets out to show the continuous dependence of today's policies of the Baltic States on the key choices made by the authorities at the turn of 1980s—1990s. Today, Russian political science lacks concrete regional studies into the issues of changes of elites in the context of research on the processes of postcommunist transformations....
Historical memory in the age of globalization: the case of Russian- Estonian relations
This article contributes to the discussion within the "Towards the Common Past" international academic network bringing together scholars from Russia, the Baltic States and the Nordic countries. It assesses the relationship between globalization and historical memory, thus contributing to the discussion on globalization and the roles and applications of history. On the basis of an analysis of academic discourses ...
The visa aspects of the academic mobility between the Russian Federation and the European Union: the experience of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
... grazhdanstva: sovmestnyj prikaz Ministerstva inostrannyh del RF, Ministerstva vnutrennih del RF i Federal'noj sluzhby bezopasnosti RF ot 27 dekabrja 2003 g. № 19723A/1048/922 (s pril.) [On approval of the list of "Goals trips" used by authorized state bodies of the Russian Federation to the invitations and visas to foreign citizens and persons without citizenship: a joint order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service of the Russian ...
The facilitation of freedom of movement between Russia and the European Union: prospects and legal issues
... glavam gosudarstvchlenov
Evrosojuza [The press service of the President of the Russian Federation of 27.08.2002, the Address of President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of the Commission of the European Communities and the heads of the EU member states], Izdanie
Ministerstva inostrannyh del Rossijskoj Federacii [Publication of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation], available at: http://www. academy-go.ru/Site/RussiaEC/News/Putin. shtml (accessed 11 April 2005).
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On the potential and opportunities for cooperation between the Baltics in the field of innovations
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8. Fedorov, G. М. 2011, Severo-Zapad Rossii: potencial i napravlenija rossijsko-litovskogo sotrudnichestva v sfere nauki i innovacij [The Northwest of Russia: the ...
The Žalgiris movement and the formation of an alternative foreign policy philosophy (on the basis of the Žalgiris appendix to the Respublika newspaper)
After Lithuanian accession to the European Union and NATO, a cross-party political consensus has existed regarding the state’s foreign policy objectives. Against this background, the Žalgiris national resistance movement, which was established by eminent politicians, journalists, and public figures in 2009, posed a certain intellectual challenge. This article concentrates ...
Legal guarantees for international investment according to the legislation of the Russian Federation
... zakonodatel'stva RF [Code of Laws of the Russian Federation], 2006, no 3, Art. 280.
11. Voznesenskaja, N. N. 2001, K voprosu o pravovom regulirovanii inostrannyh investicij v Rossii [On legal regulation of foreign investment in Russia], Gosudarstvo i pravo [State and law], no 6, pp. 81—88.
12. Yushkarev, I. Yu. 2006, Pravovoe regulirovanie inostrannyh investicij v mezhdunarodnom chastnom prave: sovremennye tendencii [Legal Regulation of Foreign Investment in Private International Law: Current Trends],...
Russia as an irritant factor for the political elitess of the Baltics in the context of election campaigns of 2010—2011: an expert opinion
... social and political spaces of the former Baltic republics, which were articulated in the course of international expert discussions and round tables at the IKBFU.
Smirnov Vadim, Sutyrin Vyacheslav
10.5922/2079-8555-2011-2-15
125-130
elite, Baltic States, factor, expert channel, election campaign
The North-West of Russia: the potential and areas of Russian-Lithuanian research and innovation cooperation
This article considers the present state and prospects of Russian-Lithuanian cooperation in the field of research and innovation. The author analyses the tendencies of innovation activities of economic entities in the North-West of Russia in terms of relative innovation activity indicators....
The research and technology development in Lithuania and the prospects of research and technology cooperation between Lithuania and the Russian Federation
This article focuses on the present state and prospects of research and technology development in Lithuania. The authors focus on the main competitive innovation spheres (information technologies, biotechnologies, special purpose laser technologies) and analyse the principal lines of innovation ...
A comparative assessment of the innovation potential of the Baltic Sea region countries
... the Baltic region countries on the basis of three groups of indicators — indicators of economic and research potential, indicators of dynamics of economic and research potential development, and indicators of economic and innovation potential of the states of the region. The author emphasises the need for Russia to cooperate with other countries of the region in the field of innovations as well as the possible role for the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in this process.
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The financial crisis in the Baltics: social and political lessons
This paper analyzes the features of the global financial crisis in the Baltic states, shows the differences between the countries in the process of its development, and examines changes in the mass consciousness of the political establishment in the countries considered.
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The income differentiation among the residents of Latvia in 2000—2008
... 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 social and economic policy tend to influence the level and dynamics of income of Latvia’s population.
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Opportunities for studying cultural landscapes in the Kaliningrad region
This article focuses on opportunities for studying cultural landscapes in the Kaliningrad region and offers methodology for it. The author outlines types of the information required: genetic types of natural landscapes, spatial settlement and land use features, and the network components of the landscapes environment.
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The groundwater monitoring in the Novgorod region in the system of regional nature management
This article examines the current state of the groundwater system monitoring in the Novgorod region. The groundwater monitoring observations serve as the basis for prediction assessment of water resources. The efficiency of water resource management largely depends on the comprehensiveness ...
The response of different plant life forms to natural environment changes
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Migration trends in the Baltic region states: the spatiotemporal aspect
This article analyses the migration streams in the Baltic Sea region in 1950—2009. The geography of migration movement is considered at the level of state and at the mesolevel. The author assesses the influence of migration on the socioeconomic situation in the region.
1. Kuznetsova, T. Ju. 2009. Geodemograficheskaja obstanovka v stranah Baltijskogo makroregiona: problemy i perspektivy.
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The demographic problems of the Pskov region and the main approaches to solving them at the level of the regional state authorities
This article analyses the demographic problems of the Pskov region. The authors propose a system of government regulation of demographic processes in view of the functions of the regional executive authorities.
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The demographic problems of the Baltic cities: general trends
... COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL Policy development, pp. 16—18.
Kosov Yuri, Mikheeva Natalia
10.5922/2079-8555-2010-4-1
5-14
demographic problem, population decline, aging nation, migration level, urban areas, urban growth, Nordic countries, Baltic Sea states, Poland
"All bigger things are clearer from a distance": some results of cooperation between philologists from the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia and the University of Warmia and Mazury
The author analyses cooperation of slavists from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. This cooperation began in 1980 when an agreement of cooperation between the two universities was signed. The paper focuses on the main areas of cooperation and assesses its results. The author gives credit to the leading scholars who made an invaluable contribution to the development of this cooperation.
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School education in Lithuania and the Lithuanian SSR (1920s—1950s)
... SSR. On the basis of archival documents and statistical data that were unavailable in the Soviet period, the author analyses historiographical materials and studies the peculiarities of the education system, as well as evaluates the attitude of the state, the national authorities and the republic's population towards this issue.
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Post-Soviet space in contemporary curricula and cooperation projects
... and the development of international cooperation.
Guschin Alexander, Levchenkov Andrei
10.5922/2079-8555-2010-3-6
46-48
countries of the Baltic Sea region, interdisciplinary approach, education, post-Soviet space, the Commonwealth of Independent States, "Russian World", cooperation, forum
Saint-Petersburg in the Baltic Sea region
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Lithuania on the way to energy independence: an experience or a lesson?
... Вильнюс, 1950
Kretinin Gennady
10.5922/2079-8555-2010-1-6
41-49
economy, energy, thermal power plants, hydropower plants, nuclear power plants, intensification, isolated energy system, diversification, exploitation, independence, republic, Baltic Sea States, construction
The influence of the border position of the Pskov region on the socio-cultural values of the population
... article presents the results of a sociological research on national and supranational (civilizational) identity of the Pskov region population conducted in 1999—2010. The Pskov region is the only European region of Russia that shares borders with three states, two of which are members of the EU. The author defines the areas of the neighbouring countries' sociocultural influence on the lives of the border territory population. The article also describes the existing stereotypes about Russia and the neighbouring ...
Two perspectives on the 'Kaliningrad issue'
... negotiations on the Kaliningrad region and the enlargement of the European Union in the early 2000s. The interview provides an important assessment of the negotiations and their results and explains for the first time the role of individual European states and politicians in the 'Kaliningrad issue'. These facts allow the reader to understand and compare two different — Russian and Lithuanian — points of view
Smirnov Vadim
10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-6
50-61
Kaliningrad region, visa regime,...
Strategic perspectives for the territorial development of the Baltic Sea Region
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The Kaliningrad dilemma: a 'development corridor' or a 'double periphery'? The geopolitical factor of the development of the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea
... stimulate the development of both the regional economy and form cross-industry clusters including large, medium, and small enterprises. The region should become an increasingly important "development corridor" between Russian regions and the EU states situated on the Baltic Sea
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Global energy and environmental security in the current global economic crisis
... Further reduction of this impact on the global environment can be achieved two ways. The short-term one implies the increase in energy efficiency. In the next 15—20 years, the increase in efficiency should become a priority of the energy policy of all states. The long-term one is based on the gradual expansion of renewable energy. This method is aimed to avoid further economic and energy crises. At the same time, it has an important environmental aspect. Experts claim that the new area of global energy ...