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The article explores the images of the German cities, Lubeck and Hamburg, presented in Nikolay Gretsch’s travelogue “The real trip to Germany in 1835”. The author determines the link between the images of the two cities and the tradition of describing Germany as an idyllic place. This tradition was widespread in Russian literature at the end of the 18th century — first half of the 19th century. In Gretsch’s text, Lubeck and Hamburg are depicted as idyllic but to different degrees. The locus of Lubeck...

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 ...

The article analyzes the development of EU — Russia energy relations through the lens of the evolution of three parameters: the political agenda (the Energy Dialogue), the institutional structure, and the legal modalities. The identification of these three aspects for assessing the evolution of ...

The paper analyses a family of Russian constructions featuring paired demonstrative pronouns of remote and proximal reference, which exhibit rigid structural constraints: a fixed component order (t‑pronoun preceding s‑pronoun), obligatory rhyming of the second pronoun with the first, and a limited set of combinations involving coordinating conjunctions and prepositional‑case forms of pronouns. The meaning of these constructions cannot be reduced to the simple sum of their parts, allowing them to...

This article shows why the non-existent political dialogue between Russia and Estonia will hardly develop in the next five years and why Estonia can lose its significance for the Russian foreign policy rhetoric and Russian mass media. This conclusion is drawn from a medium-term forecast about the changing role of Estonia ...

... States — Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia — which have a similar geographical location and history. The dynamic development of the region as a whole is strongly influenced by the stability of energy supply in each state. The article analyses the role Russia plays in the energy policy of the region from both geopolitical and geostrategic viewpoints. The author identifies the main characteristics of the Russian energy policy in these countries, and provides with a forecast for energy policy development ...

... Koncepcija modernizacii Soglashenija o partnerstve i sotrudnichestve mezhdu Rossiej i ES i zakljuchenija Soglashenija o prodvinutom partnerstve, uchrezhdajuwem associaciju [The concept of modernization of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Russia and the EU and the Agreement on Advanced Partnership to establish associations], 2005, Moscow. 3. Minjekonomrazvitija Rossii [Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation], available at: http://www.economy.gov.ru/minec/press/news/doc20101123_04 ...

....]. Moscow: University Press. (In Rus.) Diakonov, M. A., 1889. Vlast’ moskovskikh gosudarei. Ocherki iz istorii politicheskikh idei drevnei Rusi do kontsa XVI veka [The Authority of the Moscow Rulers: Essays on the History of Political Ideas in Old Russia up to the End of the 16th Century]. St. Petersburg: I. N. Skorokhodov. (In Rus.) Fennell, J. L. I., ed. 1963. Correspondence between Prince of A.M. Kurbsky and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, 1564—1579. Translation and Notes by J. L. I. Fennell. Cambridge: ...

... utilises a systematic approach for a comprehensive examination of the Baltic Sea region as a geopolitical space and an analysis of geopolitical events (event-analysis) aimed to assess the capabilities of 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 ...