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... in the era of globali­zation. The author employs a wide range of methods — economic-statistical, economic-cartographic and graphoanalytical analysis — and critically reviews a wide body of literature on the problem. It is shown that the exclave position of the Kaliningrad region makes it difficult to justify a long-term strategy of its socio-economic development. Most of the previously developed strategies were based on export and / or import-substitution, proceeding from the advan­tageous geographical position in the coastal zone and the region’s proximity ...

... Perspecti­ves // Baltic region. 2015. № 2 (24). P. 4—12. Perkmann М. Cross-border regions in Europe. Significance and Drivers of Regional Cross-border Cooperation // European Urban and Regional Studies. 2003. № 10(2). P. 71—153. Fedorov G. Border position as a factor of strategic and territorial planning in Russian regions in the Baltic // Baltic region. 2014. № 3 (21). P. 58—67. Fedorow G., Korniejewiec W., Zverev Ju. Obwod Kaliningradzki // Problemy wspolpracy transgraniczney z obwodem Kaliningradzkim. Gdynia ; Peplin. 2007. P. 142—211.

... The assessment of the EU-Russia cooperation prospects by the Pskov region population is presented in comparison to the results of a similar research conducted in the Kaliningrad region. 1. Кувенева Т.   Н., Манаков А.   Г. Формирование пространственных ... ... Клемешева. Калининград: Изд-во КГУ, 2004. Manakov Andrei 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-10 99-107 border position, population identity, stereotypes, kinship and friendship, cross-border contacts, cooperation prospects, barrier type ...

... general, the region’s social dynamics show a less dramatic decline than the economic dynamics, primarily due to the distribution of social payments to the population. While intended to support the population in the most economically affected areas, these measures did not yield a positive impact on the income convergence among the region’s municipalities. 1. Анохин А. А., Федоров Г. М. О формировании регионов — ...

The article considers the news content of the information environment in the Kaliningrad region, the new Soviet region, in 1947, when the main media of the first post-war years were formed here. The authors describe ... ... The research draws the following conclusions: the tone of radio and newspaper reports, which was ideological and prevailingly positive, created a picture of the active post-war development of the Kaliningrad region. This measure should have helped to make the settlers arriving ...

The exclusive position of the Kaliningrad region is a fundamental geopo­litical factor in its socio-economic and socio-cultural development. Given the region’s foreign positioning, exclavity is both a challenge and a resource. Guided by the principles of factor analysis, through the method of principal ...

The article focuses on the urgent issues of the labour resourses repeoduction in the Kaliningrad region as a result of interregional and international labor migration for the last years. Reducing the number of own labor resources in ... ... regional socioeconomic system determines the urgency of migration monitoring and analysis. The aim of the study is to analyze the position of the Kaliningrad region in the labor migration within the transforming geopolitical space. The article describes the ...

This article focuses on the genesis of and correlation between the related concepts of enclave and ... ... different levels) are extended and introduced. The author offers a new classification of contemporary and historical enclaves and ... ... The article identifies the specific features of the Kaliningrad region in comparison to other enclave territories. The difference ... ... exclave for describing the fe atures of the Kaliningrad region’s positions from the perspective of the mother and surrounding states....

In this paper we focus on the structure and territorial borders of the Baltic Sea region, and examine the key structural elements of the transnational territorial transport ... ... 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... ... pozicionirovanija [The Baltic Region and Russia on the Baltic Sea: the specificity of positioning], Tartu Ülikool, available at: http://www. ut. ee/ABVKeskus/sisu/ publikatsioonid/2004/pdf/VF-B...

... settlements of the region has been determined by agglomeration and transport-geographical factors. The analysis of changes in the population of 1,068 settlements in the region (excluding cities and urban-type settlements) and their transport and geographical position resulte in con­clusions on the state of the settlement system both in the region as a whole and in the context of individual municipalities. The main conclusion is that the relatively small size of the region and high transport connectivity (along with a high level of economic development) generally smooth out negative so­cio-demographic ...

The article discusses the semi-medium-sized cities (with a population from 20 to 50 thousand people) and their functions in five regions of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation; the socio-economic areas formed by the semi-medium-sized cities ... ... municipalities of the EU countries in the framework of cross-border and cooperation and benefits of this cooperation for the region, the position of the Kaliningrad region in the Baltic Sea Region is defined. 1. Давидович В. Г. Величина городских ...

The paper examines the role of research institutions in the system of innovation security of the region and highlights vital interests and security threats to the regional innovation system in the field of research. The author describes important factors having a positive and a negative impact on the competitiveness of the research component of the innovation system of the region. The evaluation of the development of science in the Kaliningrad region in the Soviet (1958—1985) and contemporary (2000—2014) periods ...

Multi-activity special economic zones occupy a certain place among the Russian SEZs and have fundamentally differ from other types of economic zones. The peculiarities of their position in the strategically important regions of Russia determines the special mode of operation, separate federal laws, as well as interest for researchers. This article discusses the multi-activity SEZ of the Russian Federation located in the Kaliningrad region, Magadan region, the Republic ...

The separation of the Baltics from the Soviet Uni on was a difficult process accompanied by both political and economic conflicts. The third ... ... objectivity principles serve as the methodological framework for the research. The regional approach was applied in order to integrate the features of regional development... ... process of the Baltics gaining their independence, western countries showed an ambivalent position and hesitancy regarding support for the struggle for liberation. As a result...

... Baltic. With a reference to the Framework for a Strategy for Russia’s Spatial Development until 2030, I stress the need for a closer collaboration between Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad in the new geoeconomic and geopolitical conditions. I explore the opportunities for and barriers to the joint geoeconomic positioning of St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad region in the Baltic. This study has proved instrumental in inventorying all the factors, forms, and areas of cooperation between ...

... identify new industries that might become drivers of innovative economy in Europe. The authors also offer a country-specific list of basic markets, which can be developed by small and medium enterprises in a short-term perspective. In the structure of the Baltic Sea region a special position is held by the Nordic countries — Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland — major regional innovators, as well as a group of South-eastern regions that serve as innovation consumers. Best hopes rest with information and communications technologies ...

... the US and NATO to impose a naval blockade on Russia in the Baltic Sea. This study is made relevant by the growing confrontation between the collective West and Russia, and the provocative anti-Russian rhetoric adopted by official representa­tives of NATO states. Finland’s accession to NATO, Sweden’s ‘de facto’ participation in the Alliance and Russia’s geostrategic position in the Baltic region have created a situation where the sea may turn into a literal trap for the latter country. There is a threat of a maritime and trade blockade of Russia amid US and EU sanctions policy against Russian oil and calls by some Western leaders for limiting Russia’s access ...

The combination of two major economic and geographical factors — the presence of the border and access ... ... sea — largely determine the features of socio-economic development of the coastal regions of the Western borderlands of Russia and, as a consequence, the migration processes here. The purpose of the article is to identify... ... with neighboring countries: first of all, Finland, Estonia and Norway. The coastal position becomes an attractive factor for all the studied regions, except for the northern...

The article analyses the concept of 'special' socio-economic regions, i. e. those characterised by a special position in their relation to the political, economic and legal spaces of the home country and (or) neighbouring countries and, in some cases, by a special geographic position. The author offers two typologies of 'special' regions. 1.      Зверев ...

... approaches to overcoming labor resource shortages. In the Kaliningrad region, one such initiative has been the implementation of a career-guidance tourism project for school students. Career-guidance tourism is among the most popular forms of educational tourism, and its positive impact on territorial and economic development is becoming increasingly evident. Career guidance projects are attracting growing interest not only from local governments but also from businesses operating in the regions. The goal of this study is to track the dynamics of the transformation of the Kaliningrad region’s career-guidance project ...

The challenges of regional strategic development planning for contempo­rary Russia are of major socio-economic ... ... to the Kaliningrad region since when it was established, the problem of choos­ing a devel­opment strategy has always been and remained an urgent issue. Especially sharply, it arose with a change in the geopolitical position of the re­gion after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Baltic economic...

The article is devoted to studying the territorial patterns of the formation of an innovative space and ensuring innovation security at a municipal level. The geogra­phy of the study covers the municipalities of the Rostov region. The analysis of some indicators of innovative activity characterizing the level of provision of residents and small and ... ... characteristic of zones where urbanization and agglomeration are combined, while in rural areas, the poten­tial of the coastal position remains underutilized. 1. Коломак Е.А. Неравномерное пространственное развитие ...