Russia’s energy policy in the Baltic region: a geoeconomic approach
... explain Russian energy policy in the region as dependent solely on the import capacity of its partners. Russian energy policy is viewed as one of the most important activities of the state and its business structures. As such it aims to achieve both general economic goals (generation of profit, market domination) and more specific geoeconomic tasks. At the same time, the policy follows the traditional rules of consumer/producer market game. Russian energy resources are delivered to an energy deficient ...
Measuring social well-being in the rural areas of the Kaliningrad region
... them have made the transition from depression to sustainable development.
1. Federal'nyj zakon ot 06.10.2003 № 131-FZ «Ob obshhih principah organizacii mestnogo samoupravlenija v Ros-sijskoj Federacii» [Federal Law of 06.10.2003 № 131-FZ
«On General Principles of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation»].
2. Zakon Kaliningradskoj oblasti ot 01.07.2009 g. № 370 «O sostave territorij municipal'nyh obrazovanij Kaliningradskoj oblasti» [Law of 01.07.2009 № 370 «On the composition ...
EU — Russia energy cooperation: major development trends and the present state
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 EU — Russia energy relations is the novelty in the author’s approach. This study aims to identify the previous stages and assess the current state of EU — Russia energy dialogue, since they set out conditions...
The Vilnius issue in international relations: the historiography of the problem
This article considers certain historiographical aspects of the Vilnius issue as an international problem. The author analyses the origins of the Polish-Lithuanian conflict, the role of the struggle for Vilnius in the general context of the Polish-Lithuanian confrontation, and the origin and nature of Lithuanian nationalism. The article also examines historiographical perspectives on the seizure of Vilnius by the troops of the Polish general, L. Żeligowsky, and the ...
The demographic problems of the Baltic cities: general trends
This article discusses the trends of demographic development of the Baltic Sea region's cities. It analyses the factors affecting the urban population dynamics in the second half of the 20th — the beginning of the 21st centuries. The authors emphasise the dependence of the Baltic cities on the socioeconomic development level throughout the region as well as intraregional disparities. The article analyses the conclusions drawn in the "Urban audit.2007" report.
1. Kotov, A. Norvezhskij suverennyj...
Content analysis of environmental discourse texts (On the material of English-language media)
... addressing the definition and typology of discourse, as well as the difference between the terms “text” and “discourse.” The historical background and contemporary approaches to the study of ecological discourse were examined, and its place within general discourse theory was determined. A qualitative-quantitative content analysis of texts within the media ecological discourse was carried out, using articles from the authoritative online news outlet The Ecologist as empirical material. Six key ...
Constitutional crisis in the Republic of Estonia in 1932—1934
... democracy in the country. Against the backdrop of the upcoming presidential elections, Konstantin P?ts, temporarily acting as president under the new constitution, carried out a coup d'?tat. This article examines all three constitutional drafts submitted to general referendums. The process of drafting amendments in each case is analyzed, the nature of the proposed changes is determined, and the consequences of each referendum are assessed. According to the authors, the amendments submitted in the first ...
World order, imperialism and the “theory of the fourth world”. Part one
... relations.” The methodological framework combines elements of historical and political analysis, a comparative typological approach, and an interpretation of nation-building processes under conditions of imperial transformation. The article offers a general explanation of the current role and possible future of the foundation of contemporary “international relations”—the phenomenon of the nation-state. The author argues that the idea of the existence of “nations” (and “nation-states”) ...
Defects of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation caused by the digital transformation of criminal procedure
... the digitalization of criminal procedural relations, as well as to formulate ways and means of preventing the emergence of various types of defects in criminal procedure legislation, including at the stage of drafting relevant bills. In addition to general scientific research methods, such as the method of theoretical cognition and the method of analysis and synthesis, the study employed comparative legal and formal legal methods, as well as techniques of dialectical logic. Despite the fact that,...
The Irish, Catholic, collaborator and «Cromwellian pensioner»: lord Antrim in the service of the Puritan Republic and Protectorate
... addition, the article identifies the circle of patrons of the Catholic lord and analyzes the reasons why he ultimately failed to fully integrate into the established system of state power. The methodological framework of the study includes both general scientific methods of inquiry (historical-genetic, problem-chronological, historical-comparative, and methods of analysis and synthesis) and microhistorical analysis.
Randall McDonnell, Earl of Antrim, Henry Ireton, Charles Fleetwood,...
Abolition of Courts of Conscience in the Russian Empire: general provisions (1828—1866)
Based on a wide range of unpublished archival sources, the process of abolishing courts of conscience in the Russian Empire between 1828 and 1866 is analyzed. The mass abolition of courts of conscience dates to 1852, when, following all regulatory procedures, 18 courts of conscience were closed. At the same time, the positions of judges of conscience were not always abolished—in some cases, they were incorporated into local judicial chambers (as a rule, criminal chambers). Formally, the small number...
The legal regulation of agricultural cooperation during the period of the Provisional Government and Soviet Russia
... driven by the difficult financial situation of the population, especially peasants, and the acute shortage of food products. The policy of building a socialist state determined the further fate of agricultural cooperation, as well as cooperation in general, transforming it from a private-law institution into a public-law one and thereby depriving it of the fundamental principles on which it had been built for several decades.
cooperation, cooperative partnerships, agricultural cooperation, cooperative ...
Forensic aspects of the state prosecutor’s participation in jury election. Situational approach
... panel. The study aims to identify and analyze existing tactical issues of the state prosecutor’s involvement in this stage of judicial proceedings and develop proposals for their resolution. The research methodology is based on a combination of general scientific and specialized methods, as well as a situational approach. Tactical tasks facing the state prosecutor at this stage of legal proceedings are outlined. From the perspective of the situational approach, the process of establishing and ...
Digital transformation of Russian prosecution bodies: current status and development prospects
... supervisory activities of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation. The main aspects of the state policy on the digital transformation of the bodies and organizations of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office have been studied. The authors focus on general trends in the informatization of prosecutorial activities for the purpose of strengthening legality and maintaining law and order. The experience of the effective implementation of informational platforms in the Prosecutor’s Office of St. ...
Vladivostok commercial seaport in the first half of the 1920s: export competition and interdepartmental contradictions
The article is devoted to the problem of the development of the Vladivostok commercial port in the early 1920s. The first quarter of the XX century was a time of severe trials for the whole of Russia in general and the Far East in particular: World War I; Civil War; foreign intervention. All this time, the Vladivostok Harbor was in fact the only source of external contacts of the remote region. Being the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean, Vladivostok ...
Digitalization of higher education in the context of the COVID-19 and the post-pandemic period: methodological problems
The article discusses expanding the research base in the field of educational psychology through the analysis of methodological issues that arose during the process of systemic digitization of general and professional education in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic period. Digitization during these periods accelerated the transformation of socialization through educational means in a virtual learning environment. The ...
New integration practices of mathematics education into university digital educational environment for pre-service teacher training
... for bachelor students in pedagogical disciplines, creating organizational infrastructure to ensure digitization and informatization of mathematical education, and updating its substantive aspect with algorithms for solving problems using tools of general and special-purpose software. The international experience of teaching queueing theory is presented, including the introduction of VR technologies, web quests into the educational process, as well as the use of software products such as AnyLogic,...
Peculiarities of Gogol’s ironic narrative
The author identifies the features of ironic narration in general and the narrative of a literary work in particular. The main characteristics of irony as an independent textual category, encompassing hidden authorial evaluation, have been established. Based on the analysis of N. V. Gogol's works, it is ...
Study of the physical and geographical conditions of the territory of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass for the purpose of reclamation works
... geomorphological conditions and a varied climate. The main factors contributing to the climate include atmospheric circulation, relief, and vegetation. The combination of these factors shapes the climatic characteristics of the region. Overall, there is a general pattern in the distribution of temperature and humidity. In the mountains of the Kuznetsk Alatau and Mountain Shoria, it is humid, but there is a deficit of warmth. The most favorable conditions have developed at the foot of the windward slopes ...
Socio-geographic approach to substantiating economic security boundaries of a border region
... the border factor. Highlighting the specific functions of border regions that distinguish them from the internal territories of the country, the paper presents a hierarchy of economic security factors. In terms of their content, we consider groups of general and specific factors, while in terms of the character of their impact — constructive (potential-forming) or destructive (potential-destructive). The study shows that the economic security boundaries for a particular territory are determined ...
From Pan-Islamism to Pan-Turkism: Changing the paradigm of the political and legal development of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th — early 20th century
... the path of transformation of the dominant political and legal paradigms, ideologies and discourses in late Ottoman society from the beginning of the Tanzimat era until the end of the Ottoman Empire. The methodological basis of the study is made up of general scientific methods of cognition in combination with specific scientific methods developed by legal and historical science (formal legal, comparative legal, historical, systemic method, method of analysis and synthesis, method of legal interpretation)....
Interaction between party bodies and police in the Kaliningrad region of the USSR in the post-war period
... in the Kaliningrad region during the post-war period. The study covers the time from the establishment of militia authorities in the region in 1946 to the completion of the deportation of the German population in 1948. The research primarily employs general scientific methods, such as analysis, synthesis, and induction. The relevance of the article is due to the need to study the specific features of the formation of the domestic law enforcement system. The novelty of the research lies in the fact ...
A reasonable period of trial in a criminal case
... stage of the development of criminal procedure in Russia. Several international mechanisms for protecting individual rights in the sphere of criminal proceedings, including those for contesting reasonable timeframes, have been lost. The study employed general and specific scientific methods, such as dialectical, axiological, and synergetic approaches, as well as the theory of social action and modeling. Moreover, the application of methods of analysis and synthesis of information, comparative legal ...
Opportunities for Using Data on the Perpetrator in Human Trafficking Investigations
... examine the element of the criminalistic characteristics of human trafficking, specifically the data on the individual who committed the crime. Methodological Basis: To achieve this goal, the author employed the dialectical method, as well as a range of general scientific and special methods of scientific cognition (analysis, comparison, analogy, systemic method, etc.). Results: Based on the analysis of empirical material (statistics from the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ...
Military rule in Sudan: historical preconditions and the current situation
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...
Transdisciplinarity as a mechanism of educational innovations: synthesizing pedagogical experience
... traditional or existing didactic tools, application of the latest scientific achievements to obtain new quality educational outcomes in pedagogical practice, application of the theory of optimality, the trial and error method, as well as the implementation of general scientific approaches in educational practice. The experience presented in the article can contribute to the development of student pedagogical startups and improve the quality of innovations in education.
transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary ...
Unlocking the potential of the educational process at university colleges for cultivating a culture of life safety
... educational process at a University college. It analyses the concepts of ‘potential’, ‘society’, and ‘potential of the educational process’. A model of educational potential is proposed and the requirements of the federal state standard for general and professional competencies within the disciplines Fundamentals of Life Safety and Life Safety in students of technology is examined. The study uncovers and examines forms of educational and extracurricular activities, delineates the principles ...
Supporting frames of the leading industrial complexes of the manufacturing industry of the Far North of Russia
... zavody.rf, and fabricators.ru. As a result, the sectoral structure of the manufacturing industry in the Far North was identified, forming the basis for a proposed classification of industrial hubs divided into four categories. The study also highlights general trends in the development of the supporting frameworks of the manufacturing industry in the northern territories of Russia in recent years. The findings indicate that the manufacturing industry in the Far North has undergone minimal transformation ...
Dynamics of the Russian diaspora in the Baltic republics in 2018—2023
... dissolution of the Soviet Union. The research is based on official data from national statistical departments, including the results of population censuses (both national and all-Union since 1959). The methodological foundation of the study includes general scientific methods (generalization, analysis, comparison), as well as statistical and cartographic methods. The study finds that the rate of decline in the number and share of Russians significantly increased after 2021, particularly in Estonia ...
Mapping of noise pollution in urbanized areas as a tool for creating a comfortable human environment
... correlation between noise pollution in urbanized areas and negative social consequences for the population living in these areas. These consequences include not only an increase in diseases, such as cardiovascular and nervous system disorders, but also a general reduction in active life years. A unique aspect of the study is the approach to the problem from the perspective of creating spaces with positive soundscapes in urban environments and reflecting these on noise pollution maps. The necessity of ...
Mass, Community, Communion
Georges Gurvitch’s research paper summarises the Paris period of his scientific activity and introduces the results obtained during this period to the anglophone reader. Gurvich analyses the degrees of cohesion of various social groups and shows the relationship between group cohesion and the sociality (or sociability) of the individuals who make up these groups. The first Russian translation of this article, as well as its English-language original, are provided with the publisher’s notes, revealing...
The Relationship Between the Individual and the Collective in the Social Philosophy of Georges Gurvitch
The relationship between the individual and society is the leitmotif of Georges Gurvitch’s work. Beginning from the early Russian-language books on the philosophy of law and ending with the works on sociology published in France and the USA at the final stage of his career, Gurvitch studied the individual person and collective units as interacting sides of the collective social subject. He sought to overcome the struggle between individualism and collectivism which found its ideological expression...
Immanuel Kant in the Conversations and Reflections of Nikolay Strakhov
The place occupied by Kant’s philosophical ideas in the reflections of the Russian philosopher, Nikolay Strakhov, needs further study. The material for a historical-philosophical reconstruction of Strakhov’s reception of Kant’s philosophy is the Russian thinker’s home library catalogue, his correspondence and his own philosophical works. Among Strakhov’s interlocutors were not only philosophers and natural scientists, but also writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Afanasy Fet, who...
Kant and Analysis
In the current dialogue between two authors with different views on analysis, philosophy, and the use of labels, the leading question is: How should one understand the expression ‘analytic philosophy’? Lewin argues that as there are no generally agreed tenets and methods of what is being called ‘analytic philosophy’, the name is to be replaced by a more specific one or abandoned. Williamson defends the use of this phrase, claiming that it is quite serviceable, as it relates to a ...
Introduction to ‘Kant and Metaphilosophy’
... inquiry into philosophy, its aims, purpose, subjects, structure, practice and methods. Kant has not contributed to metaphilosophy qua contemporary discipline, but his direct analyses of what philosophy is and how it is to be done can be identified with general subjects and problems constituting the research field of metaphilosophy. Several aspects of Kant’s conception of philosophy and its metaphilosophical value are the subject of current debates, such as the taxonomy of philosophy, relation between ...
Dare to Know, or the Gospel According to Kant
.... Colclasure. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, pp. 17-23.
Kant, I., 1999. On the Common Saying: That May Be Correct in Theory, but It Is of No Use in Practice. In: I. Kant, 1999. Practical Philosophy. Translated and edited by M. J. Gregor, General Introduction by A. W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 277-309.
Melanchthon, P., 1843. De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis. In: C. G. Bretschneider, ed. 1843. Philippi Melanthonis Opera quae supersunt omnia. Volume 11. Halis Saxonum: ...