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Recent decades have witnessed an increase in the number of works dedicated to the analysis of effects of historical events on the choice of institutions and further economic and social development of regions. This article employs the new institutional economic theory approach to consider the choices regarding title to land and serfdom in Moscovy and the Polish — Lithuanian Commonwealth (earlier the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) in the 16th—17th centuries. The author emphasizes the factors, which affected...

This article analyses the issues of EU energy policy in the 1990s-the beginning of the 2000s in order to identify the features of energy supply and energy safety of the Baltic region countries. The research and practical significance of the work lies in the stepwise description of actions taken by EU leaders and EU member states in order to formulate a common European energy policy. The 2004 EU enlargement posed the problem of taking into account the features of energy supply of Eastern European...

EU-Russia cooperation has experienced problems in many areas. Nevertheless, cooperation in the field of migration proves to be successful. Through analyzing the EU-Russia migration agenda from the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (1997) to the Roadmap for the Common Space on Freedom, Security and Justice (2005), the article assesses the main results of its implementation, such as the Readmission and Visa Facilitation agreements. Moreover, it stresses the role of Russia as an agenda-setter of...

This article analyses the principal complex of economic and political motivations of the states of Central and Eastern Europe and the EU members related to the EU enlargement towards the East. Special attention is paid to the discussion on the reasonableness of the EU enlargement and the positions of certain EU members. 1. Borchardt K.-D. 1994, Azbuka prava Evropejskogo soobwestva [ABCs of European Community], Мoscow. 2. Butorina, О....

This article offers an overview of the leading Polish research centres focusing on the political, social, and economic aspects of the Kaliningrad region. 1. Achremczyk, S. 2005. Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie, № 3. 2. Baryła, T. 2000. Polska w Europie, N 34. 3. Baryła, T., Hojszyk, W., Wojnowsk,i E. 2004. Obwód Kaliningradzki Federacji Rosyjskiej. Wybór dokumentów 1994—2004. Olsztyn. 4. Bingen, D. 1993. Przegląd Zachodni, N 3. 5. Buckhard, O. 1995. Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie, N 4. 6. Budnikowski...

The territories of Vistula and Curonian lagoons, centrally located in the cross-border region, have numerous remarkable nature sites as well as monuments of history and culture. The article analyses the internal and external factors affecting the development of the Russian segment of the transborder "Southeastern Baltic" tourism and recreation region. 1. Cybin, Ju. A. 2004. Shema ohrany prirody Kaliningradskoj oblasti. M-vo prirod.resursov RF, Federal'naja sluzhba po nadzoru v sfere...

It is the first time pockmark-like structures have been detected in the south-eastern part of the Gulf of Finland with the help of a side-scan sonar and a profile recorder. The analysis of the distribution of microcomponents in the bottom sediment indicates that the pockmark area is located in the geochemical barrier border zone where the reducing medium of the incoming mineralized solution meets the highly oxidizing sea water medium. The hydrodynamic and geochemical processes in the pockmark zone...

This article presents the results of an integrated research encompassing both the study of migration processes in the South-East Baltic (volume, structure, directions) and the analysis of factors affecting migration mobility of the population as well as the assessment of migration influence on the socioeconomic development of three border territories. 1. V buduwem zhiteljam Litvy pridetsja rabotat' dol'she i tjazhelee // Sajt «Litovskaja respublika». [online] Available at: <http://www.lithuania...

The main goal of this article is to analyse the political risk of Russia with a special emphasis on Kaliningrad. In this study, political risks are assessed using the normative model of macro political risk assessment developed by Alon and Martin in 1998. In this model, political risks are divided into government-, society- and economy-related variables. 1.      Argus Ease foreign investment restrictions — Trutnev, Argus FSU Energy , July 31, 2009. 2.      BBC Views of China and Russia Decline...

The article compares the scope of two diplomatic terms, crucial for the contemporary practice of international cooperation. Drawing examples from historical and contemporary documents, the author shows the difference between the settled notion of good-neighbourly relations and the recently introduced one — the European Neighbourhood Policy. The ENP ab initio absorbs the old term, which characterises the symmetric relation of international agents in the framework of the Westphalian system and foregrounds...

The article describes a framework conception of regional competitiveness. The notion of regional competitiveness as well as approaches to the classification of competitiveness factors are considered in detail. The author elaborates a set of indicators of regional competitiveness. The article also dis-cusses three groups of factors which can influence the competitiveness of any region. 1.      Алчян А. А., Демсетц Г. Производство, стоимость информации и эконо­мическая организация // Вехи экономической...

... Russification of the Northwestern region after the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1863—1864 was also explored. The cross-border relations between the Old Believers of the Northwestern region and their coreligionists from the Woinowo community in East Prussia are of regional historical interest. Old Believers, Northwestern krai, Edinoverie, Russification, confessional policy, religious discrimination 50-61 10.5922/sikbfu-2023-4-5

The avalanche-like nature of information flows has led today to the destructuring of all communication links in the world. Political communications under these conditions look more and more like channels with expanding "black boxes" and improperly used "white noise". The purpose of this analysis is to identify the specifics of political communication under conditions of international bifurcations. The methodology of the analysis is based on the symbiosis of modern theories: mathematical...

The author studies the activity of Russian military engineers operating under the command of D. I. Debosket in the army of S. F. Apraksin on the territory of Prussia during the Seven Years' War. It is shown that as the province was occupied by Russian troops, the engineering tasks were changing: there was a transition from equipping the track infrastructure to restoring defensive facilities. Restoration work was complicated by a variety of circumstances, including the lack of military engineers in...

The article examines the ways in which the original East Prussian and new Soviet oikonyms were concorded during the post-war renaming of some settlements in the Kaliningrad region. A comparative phonetic and semantic analysis of the respective names revealed that the same thematic correlation (with a predominance ...

... territory in the Kaliningrad Oblast are demonstrated using GIS tools. Areas of the highest population concentration within the region, coinciding with the agglomeration's influence territory, have been identified. A decrease in population density to the east of Kaliningrad is also shown. For the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad region, the area and density of inhabited territories have been calculated. Dasymetric analysis has re­vealed areas of compact placement of rural settlements, aligning with ...

The article focuses on the dynamics of the Kaliningrad region population in 1947—2023 and the dynamics components in 1990—2022 in comparison with the national average (based on the official statistics). The authors reveal some territorial features of the demographic pro­cesses, such as the development of settlement polarization and suburbanization, as well as the fundamental geodemographic differences between the near suburban zone of Kaliningrad and less urbanized eastern municipalities. It is proposed...

... which was attended by engineers, bankers, architects, administrators and others famous in Königsberg and beyond. The evolution of the status of the gymnasium is traced, starting from the parochial school of Löbenicht to the leading real gymnasium in East Prussia, which was attended not only by the inhabitants of the region, but also by other countries, including Russia. Changes in the educational programme of the school, the organisation of the educational process, and the quality of the teaching ...

The army has traditionally played a prominent role in Sudan’s socioeconomic and political life. The events of April 2023 once again confirmed the country’s failure to establish stable political institutions since gaining independence. This study aims to examine the historical prerequisites and conditions that led Sudan into civil war and a humanitarian crisis, ultimately resulting in the degradation and collapse of the state. The article concludes that the armed forces are no longer the only successfully...

... 2021—2030. It is concluded that the migration policy of these states does not align with the interests of either the EU, whose focus is on mitigating the consequences of the migration crisis, primarily as regards refugees from Africa and the Middle East, or Russia, whose principal concern is the Baltics’ Russophone population. 1. Агафошин М. М., Горохов С. А., Дмитриев Р. В. Беженцы из Сирии и Ирака в Швеции: особенности расселения ...

The ‘eastern branch’ of Russian émigré literature has received less scholarly attention than the works of authors who headed for the West in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, making the position of the former within 20th-century Russian poetry a relevant research question. Valery Pereleshin is one of the prominent figures in the Chinese segment of Russian émigré literature. This article examines the metaphorical image of the bee, which has a crucial role in the poetics of Pereleshin’s book of...

Based on underwater video footage and diver observations, along with previously obtained lithological data, four types of benthic landscapes have been identified on the section of the underwater coastal slope near Cape Taran. The high mosaic distribution of lithofacies and the varying degrees of macrophyte coverage of the seabed have been confirmed. The boulder-block pavement within the euphotic layer of the sea was maximally covered by macrophytes, with Polysiphonia nigrescens as the dominant species...

The article addresses the integration of ethnocultural aspects of the Arctic issues concerning the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Russian Far East (ISNP) into the socio-economic development strategies (SEDS) of the regions and municipalities within the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF). The study is based on the authors' methodology for content analysis of strategies, which enables ...

... Kant’s Philosophy in Belarus and Lithuania in the First Third of the 19th Century. In: V. N. Briushinkin, ed. 2005. Kant mezhdu Zapadom i Vostokom. K 200-letiyu so dnya smerti i 280-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya Immanuila Kanta [Kant between West and East. On the 200th Anniversary of the Death and 280th Anniversary of the Birth of Immanuel Kant]. Kaliningrad: Russian State University Press, pp. 87-98. (In Rus.) Zallinger, J. A., 1799. Disquisitiones philosophiae Kantianae. Lib. 1. Augustae Vindelicorum: ...

... Rus.) Rickert, H., 1924. Die Methode der Philosophie und das Unmittelbare: Eine Problemstellung. Logos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, 12, pp. 235-280. Swoboda, P. J., 1995. Windelband’s Influence on S. L. Frank. Studies in East European Thought, 47(3-4), pp. 259-290. Tsygankov, A. S. and Obolevich, T., 2019. Nemezkij period filosofskoj biografii S. L. Franka (novye materialy) [The German Period of S. L. Franca (New Materials)]. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAN. (In Rus....

I discuss the relation of linguistics and semiotics on the basis of the Old Russian discourse particle TI1 ‘indeed’, ‘verily’, ‘truly’ discovered by Andrej A. Zaliznjak in 1993. Linguistics and semiotics are different research programmes: the first one deals with specific features of language structures, while the second one discusses general characteristics of all sign systems, from a perspective of interpreting most or all of them as secondary respective to natural language. Formal models of language...

The article is devoted to the controversy around the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Christ in the tomb" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to analyze the current trends in the interpretation of Holbein's painting and Dostoevsky's novel, in their relationship with Christian dogmatics, canonical requirements for depicting the image of Christ, the biblical context, and to establish existing and...

... generality of the different levels of the novel and the novel space is based on the technique of inversion. There is a movement of value poles within the system of oppositions, at the level of narrative, plot and space (the aggressor — the victim, the East — the West, the centre — the periphery, one’s own — someone else’s). The generally accepted structure of the zones of the centre and the periphery is changing: the periphery is associated with order and norm, and the centre — with the ...

... Aesthetics of Neo-Kantianism in Germany and in Russia (Comparative Analysis). In: V. N. Bryushinkin, ed. 2005. Kant mezhdu Zapadom i Vostokom. K 200-letiyu so dnya smerti i 280-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya Immanuila Kanta [Kant between the West and the East. On the 200th Death Anniversary and the 280th Birth Anniversary of Immanuel Kant]: Proceedings of the International Seminars and International Conferences. In 2 Parts. Kaliningrad: Publishing House of the Immanuel Kant Russian State University. Part ...

... russkikh zagovorov: Imena sobstvennye v russkom magicheskom fol'klore [Onomasticon in Russian incantations: Proper names in Russian magical folklore]. Moscow (in Russ.). Yudin, A. V., 2007. Onomastikon vostochnoslavyanskikh zagadok [Onomasti­con in East Slavic Riddles]. Moscow (in Russ.). toponymy, polynominativity, polyonym, linguoculturology 89-112 10.5922/2225-5346-2024-1-5

This article discusses the results of a survey underlying a reconstruction of ideas about tact and tactlessness in Russian communicative culture. The author considers the concept of tact to be a communicative strategy within the cate­gory of politeness that is closely related to native speakers' notion about the boundaries of private space. Thus, tact is defined as a communicative strategy driven by the speaker's desire to avoid infringing on the private space of their interlocutor. Moreover,...

... symbolist and formalist poetics, as well as between symbolist translation and the so-called philological trans­lation of the 1920s and 1930s. Bailey, J., 1969. Blok and Heine: An Episode from the History of Russian dol’niki. The Slavic and East European Journal , 13 (1), pp. 1—22. Bely, A., 1910. Simvolizm: kniga statei [Symbolism: a book of articles]. Moscow (in Russ.). Blok, A. A., 1911. Nochnye chasy: chetvertyi sbornik stikhov [Night hours: The fourth collection of poems]. Moscow ...

The article presents a historical and scientific analysis of the oral presentations and other works that criticized Boris Eikhenbaum’s “Melodics of Verse” and Viktor Zhirmunsky’s “Rhyme, Its History and Theory” from the perspective of Moscow formalism. The overview relies on unknown materials, which can thus be introduced into scholarly discourse. It refers to the presentations made by the philologist and philosopher Maksim Kœnigsberg and the literary scholar Mikhail Shtokmar, a student of Boris...

Seasonal and spatial variations in the content of biogenic elements (mineral forms of ni­trogen and phosphorus) are presented for the estuarine system of the Pregolya River (Kali­ningrad Sea Canal, Kaliningrad Bay) and the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea in 2024. Their seasonal dynamics were characterized by maxima during the high-water period. Minima were observed in spring and summer during water “blooming” against the background of intense water warming. Spatial distribution was characterized by...

....21146/2072-0726-2025-18-3-40-56 (In Rus.) Menzer, P., 1911. Kants Lehre von der Entwicklung in Natur und Geschichte. Berlin: Georg Reimer. Mikeshina, L. A., 2018. Gustav Shpet as a Methodologist of Historical Knowledge. Humanities research in the Russian Far East, 3, pp. 128-137. https://dx.doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2018-3/128-137 (In Rus.) Shpet, G. G., 2014. Istoriya kak problema logiki. Kriticheskie i metodologicheskie issledovaniya [History as a Problem of Logic. Critical and Methodological Studies]....

The article explores the biography of Professor Paul Henry Gerber (1863-1919), a bright representative of the intellectual elite of Königsberg at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. A native of the capital of the German province East Prussia, he was an outstanding otorhino­lar­yngologist, a lecturer at the University of Königsberg, as well as an original poet and pub­li­cist. The study, based on biographical and narrative methods, reveals the main stages of Ger­ber’s ...

... Tübingen, s. 445—454. Sharipova, R. Kh., 2010. The problem of “I” in the history of socio-philosophical thought. Gumanitarnye issledovaniya v Vostochnoi Sibiri i na Dal'nem Vostoke [Humani­tarian research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East], 3, pp. 68—75 (in Russ.). Shoemaker, S., 1963. Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity . Ithaca, 276 p. Skovorodnikov, A. P., ed., 2005. Entsiklopedicheskii slovar'-spravochnik. Vyrazitel'nye sredstva russkogo yazyka i rechevye oshibki i nedochety ...

... Emotive ecology and emotive politeness in English and Rus­sian blind peer-review. Journal of Psycholinguistics, 1 (39), pp. 38—57, https:// doi. org/10.30982/2077-5911-2019-39-1-38-57 (in Russ.). Leech, G. and Larina, T., 2014. Politeness: West and East. Russian Journal of Lin­guis­tics , 4, pp. 9—34. Leech, G., 2014. The Pragmatics of Politeness . Oxford. Leontovich, O. A., 2015. Positive Communication: A Theoretical Perspective. Rus­sian Journal of Linguistics , 1, pp. 164—177 (in Russ....

... W. Bublitz and N. R. Norrick, eds. Foundations of pragmatics. Berlin; New York, pp. 77—106, https:// doi.org/10.1515/9783110214260.77. Mey, J. L., ed., 1979. Pragmalinguistics: Theory and practice. The Hague. Prucha, J․, 1983. Pragmalinguistics. East European approaches of pragmalinguistics. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, հttps://doi.org/10.1075/pb.iv.5. Stepanov, Yu. S., 1981. In search of pragmatics (the problem of the subject). Izvestiya Akademii nauk SSSR. Seriya literatury i yazyka [Proceedings ...

Causation is one of the fundamental conditions of existence. The cause-and-effect rela­tionships between elements of reality, which possess universal significance, are reflected dif­ferently across linguocultures and manifest at various levels of language. A comparative ana­lysis of the grammatical features of causative expression in structurally diverse languages — Kabardian, or East-Circassian, Russian, and English — has revealed differences in com­mu­ni­cative behavior shaped by the cultural backgrounds...

... essence of the city to the transition beyond the material, to the city as a noumenon, a thing-in-itself. Blacker, U., 2015. Writing from the Ruins of Europe: Representing Kaliningrad in Rus­sian Literature from Brodsky to Buida. The Slavonic and East European Review, 93 (4), pp. 601—625. Bolotov, A. T., 2022. Zhizn' i priklyucheniya Andreya Bolotova, opisannye samim im dlya svoikh potomkov. 1757—1762 [The life and adventures of Andrei Bolotov, descri­bed by him for his descendants. 1757—1762]....

The article suggests a way to overcome two well-known problems of embodied/grounded theory of cognition: the impossibility of strict differentiating modal and amodal symbols, and the difficulty in defining abstract concepts/simulators (abstract lexical meanings). The pro­posed functional approach is based on the dichotomy 'perceptual (external) vs. functional (internal)' that goes back to Ivan Sechenov. These cognitive units are shown to play funda­mentally different roles. The function — the embodied...

... Uchenykh [Eurasian Union of Scientists], 11 (20), pp. 6—9 (in Russ.). Alexseev-Apraksin, A. M. and Geng Biao, 2021. Cultural Codes of Chinese Ethos. Asiatica: trudy po filosofii i kul'turam vostoka [Asiatica: Works on Philosophy and Cultures of the East], 2 (15), pp. 52—65 (in Russ.). Avanesova, G. A. and Kuptsova, I. A., 2008. Culture codes: essence and purpose. Sotsial'no-gumanitarnye znaniya [Social and humanitarian knowledge], 1, pp. 30—43 (in Russ.). Baudrillard, J., 2000. Simvolicheskii ...

... [Hierotopy: Comparative Studies of Sacred Spaces]. Mos­cow, pp. 285—315 (in Russ.). Lebedev, L., archpriest, 1995. Moskva patriarshaya [Patriarchal Moscow]. Moscow (in Russ.). Lelekov, L. A., 1975. The Art of Ancient Russia in its Relations with the East. Drev­nerusskoe iskusstvo. Zarubezhnye svyazi [Old Russian Art. Foreign connections]. Mos­cow, pp. 55—80 (in Russ.). Lidov, A. M., 1997. About the symbolic design of the sculptural decoration of the Vladimir and Suzdal churches of the 12th — ...

This article is devoted to one of the important aspects of studying the Russian business language of the second half of the 19th century — the formation of the lexical meaning of the noun visilka (exile, expulsion), typical of the police procedure documentation of the time. The author discovered business texts of this type in the funds of the State Archive of the Tyumen region, the State Archive of the Omsk region, and the State Archive of the Irkutsk region. All texts date back to the late 19th...

This article attempts to approach the discovery of what Dostoevsky called Pushkin’s ‘great secret’. In his essay ‘Pushkin’, Dostoevsky wrote that the poet had ‘a capacity for uni­versal sympathy’. The ‘secret’ of Pushkin is analysed in this article in the context of the gen­eral cultural problem of fundamental ontological predicates, which determined the main cul­tural codes of the literary worlds reflected in the poet’s oeuvre. The methodological approach is based on Valentin Nepomnyashchiy’s concept...

The story «The Source of Injury» by Nikolay Kononov is as a psychoanalytic report that has a therapeutic effect for the narrator. The characteristics of the three main characters are con­sidered in terms of their alchemical symbolism. This point of view makes it possible to identify the psychological function of each character as a reflection of a certain aspect of their psyche. Ovechin, whose image is dominated by the solar symbolism, appears as a projection of Ego and of momentary consciousness...