Migration and the Transformation of Multiethnic Population Structure in the Kaliningrad Region of the Post-Soviet Era
This paper analyses the migration processes and their influence on the transformation of multiethnic population structure in the Kaliningrad region. The author uses official statistics (current statistics and census data), as well as interviews with the representatives of ethnic cultural associations as information sources. Special attention is paid to the migration features associated with different ethnic groups. The author identifies major reasons behind the incoming and outgoing movement of population...
The political elite recruitment in the Baltic: the role of the ethnic factor
... Latvia and Lithuania, London.
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Smirnov Vadim
10.5922/2079-8555-2013-4-10
105-115
elites, ethnic groups, power, recruitment, Baltics
The structure of political elite networks in the Republic of Poland in 1993—2013
To identify the structure of network ties within Polish political elites; to study the features of network ties formation and the impact that both primary and labour socialisation periods and diaspora characteristics have on this process; to describe the structural features of the resultant network structures over different periods of time and analyse the structural dynamics of political elites for the purpose of forecasting major trends in the structural transformation of Polish political elites...
Interorganisational networking as the principal form of technological, innovative and research cooperation between Russia and the European Union in the Baltic region
This article concerns the role that international cooperation in research, technology, and innovation plays in ensuring innovative development and producing an innovative model of the Russian economy. One of the key objectives of the country’s integration into international research, technological, and innovative space is the development of Russia-EU cooperation in the Baltic region. It is established that, with the development of integration connections and regionalization processes, interorganizational...
Cross-border cooperation in tourism between the Warmian-Masurian voivodeship and the Kaliningrad region
The border location of the Warmian-Masurian voivodeship and the Kaliningrad region is a prerequisite for active cooperation at different institutional levels. The development of cross-border cooperation between the Kaliningrad region and the Warmian-Masurian voivodeship was launched in 1992, when the first agreements on international cooperation were signed. As of today, a high emphasis is placed on cross-border cooperation between the Warmian-Masurian voivodeship and the Kaliningrad region, which...
A Situational Approach to Strategic Management and Monitoring of Regional and Urban Development
Through a situational approach to strategic management of regional and urban development it is possible to identify the interaction between the managerial process and mechanism; bring together the spatial and activity-related concepts of territorial development; and explain the phenomenon in question from both general and specific perspectives. Territorial development is becoming the principal object of strategic management of a region or city, its key tool being the utilization of its own good practices...
Development of International Clusters in the Baltic Sea Region
This article offers a comprehensive definition of international, cross-border, and transnational clusters. The author presents a classification of international clusters of the Baltic Sea states, and identifies cross-border and transnational clusters. The paper considers the features of international clusters in the Baltic Sea region, as well as certain cases of implementation of national and international cluster policy. A comparative analysis of the Baltic Sea region provides a basis for identifying...
Innovative factors and conditions of sustainable development of rural territories
This article considers the main features of sustainable development of rural territories, identifies the factors of innovative entrepreneurship, and assesses their influence on the condition of rural economy. Special attention is paid to the analysis of concepts, programmes, and projects in the field of rural territory development. The authors summarise conceptual and strategic approaches and actions of the Baltic region states in the field of sustainable development of rural territories. The article...
Strategic opportunities for economic development of the Baltic Sea coastal zones and sea industrial and port complexes
Nowadays, one of the principal dimensions in attraction of the world economy structures is coastal territories as spaces where marine potential of a state is most pronounced. In this respect, it is vital to set the priorities of development of coastal zones taking into account the changes in the strategic situation in order to maintain the components of marine potential of the Russian Federation at the level of its national interests. The article aims to develop an indicator system of assessment...
Russian Exclave on the Baltic Sea: Evolution of Exclavity and Ways to Overcome It
... peculiarities of the emergence and evolution of exclavity of the Kaliningrad region. The article analyses the influence of exclavity on the connections of the region with the Russian mainland, its economic development, exclave administration, and Kaliningrad identity and examines the ways the existing disadvantages can be overcome. Methods of overcoming these disadvantages are suggested in the article.
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The relationship between resistance of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) accessions to low temperatures and diseases in Siberia
The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between the cold tolerance of Vigna samples and their susceptibility to pathogenic micromycetes. Ten Vigna unguiculata samples were used. Pollen viability in vitro was assessed in a 20 % PEG 6000 solution at 25 °C for 3 hours (control) and at 6 °C for 24 hours (cold tolerance assessment). Seed germination under low temperatures was evaluated by germinating seeds on filter paper at 10, 12, and 25 °C (control), as well as in soil at a constant...
Use of mathematical methods in the analysis and forecasting of nitrogen-phosphorus cycle indicators in the Pregolya river basin
The analysis of multidimensional raw data on the state of aquatic ecosystems often requires the use of modern analytical tools capable of identifying hidden patterns. The purpose of this study is to analyze long-term water quality monitoring data for the Pregolya River (Kaliningrad) in order to identify the main factors determining variability in the hydrochemical regime and to assess their temporal dynamics. To analyze data on indicators of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, methods of multivariate...
Transport accessibility of key settlements in the context of the federal highway network development
The relevance of the study stems from the need to reduce interregional disparities, as stipulated in strategic planning documents. The article examines the provision of federal highways for key settlement centers in the Northwestern Federal District in the context of forming a sustainable socio-economic system. The methodological framework relies on the comparative geographical method and methods of geoinformation analysis, including the construction of buffer zones. The analysis reveals significant...
Assessment of teachers’ readiness to introduce interactive learning methods at the Russian Guard military university
The study investigates the feedback of faculty members regarding the necessity of using interactive teaching methods, as well as their readiness to transform the most preferred methods employed at the Russian Guard military university. The survey involved 126 faculty members from the Saratov Military Zhukov Red Banner Institute of the National Guard Forces. A sample of specialists (faculty members) teaching various disciplines was formed to obtain a comprehensive view of opinions and analyze teachers’...
Teacher as a transmitter of tradition, values and meanings: Features of the training strategy
The relevance of this study is underscored by the current deficiencies in the content of teacher education regarding anthropological and axiological issues. The aim of the article is to justify the necessity of adopting a strategy for preparing teachers as transmitters of traditions, values, and meanings. The research methodology is based on axiological, anthropological, and cultural approaches. The analysis of the current educational context and associated risks — including information accessibility...
Metatheatricality in “La Grotte” by Jean Anouilh
... Author’s attempts to keep his play afloat without losing face before the audience. These threads intertwine, connecting different levels of fiction. The study emphasizes the metatheatrical conflict, linked to self-reflection and the search for authorial identity. Another indication of metadrama is intertextuality: Anouilh references other metaplay works, explicitly and elegantly situating himself and his text within the metatheatrical tradition. The article demonstrates Anouilh’s virtuosity in using ...
The symptoms of the impending catastrophe in the final repertoire of the New Koenigsberg Drama Theatre
The article analyzes the final plays from the surviving repertoire of the Neues Schauspielhaus (New Dramatic Theater) in Königsberg, staged in April 1944, four months before the destruction of the city’s historic center due to Anglo-American bombing. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the theater’s dramaturgical repertoire selection during the Nazi era in a frontline city, in the context of its historical fate. The plays of Hermann Sudermann — “Teya,” “Fritzchen,” and “The Last...
Theme of the music in N. P. Gronsky’s poetry
The article examines musical motifs in the poetry of N. P. Gronsky, a representative of the first wave of the Russian diaspora, drawing on mythopoetic and hermeneutic approaches. It identifies the connection of his works with the concept of Pythagoreanism and the idea, characteristic of world art, of dividing the cosmos into Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis, a concept particularly prevalent in Silver Age lyric poetry. In Gronsky’s lyrics, music is primarily associated with...
On the question of possible prototypes of Chapurin’s Patape in P. I. Melnikov-Pechersky’s dilogy “In the Woods” and “On the Mountains”
... supporting or refuting each hypothesis. It is established that, despite a significant similarity between Chapurin and P. E. Bugrov (trade in salt and bread, contracts for paving streets, loyalty to the official church while maintaining Old Believer identity), several traits (age, guardianship of a fugitive-priest chapel) correspond more closely to the biography of Bugrov’s son, A. P. Bugrov. The influence of autobiographical elements is also noted: Chapurin’s irony toward the Old Believer clergy ...
Verbal charm as a special class of performative speech acts in Russian linguoculture
The phenomenon of verbal charms in Russian linguoculture is examined through the lens of speech act theory, one of the key directions of contemporary pragmalinguistics. The relevance of the study is determined by the need for an in-depth investigation of culturally conditioned speech genres functioning within sacred discourse, as well as their role in shaping the linguistic worldview. The aim of the research is to identify the pragmatic characteristics of verbal charms as a distinct class of performative...
Content analysis of environmental discourse texts (On the material of English-language media)
This article provides a brief overview of key aspects of discourse studies, 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...
On defining cultural modality and its manifestation in L. N. Tolstoy’s short story “Polikushka”
... cultural modality employs both verbal and nonverbal means of expression, whose consideration on a single analytical plane is made possible by a semiotic approach.
language, culture, communication, cultural modality, norm, cultural memory, cultural identity
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Linearity and compositionality in the semantics of binomial stable constructions
The article examines binomial stable syntactic constructions (BSSCs) as a distinct class of phraseologized expressions in Russian. The analysis focuses on the interaction between two key parameters of their semantic organisation: linearity and compositionality. Linearity is understood not merely as a formal property of syntactic word order, but also as a cognitive mechanism that shapes the perception and interpretation of meaning. Compositionality is defined as the extent to which the overall meaning...
Mechanisms of adaptation of Christian anthroponyms in Votic and Ingrian: a comparative study
In modern Finnic onomastics, the study of the pathways and mechanisms through which foreign borrowings are adapted in closely related languages has gained particular significance. Drawing on material from the Votic and Ingrian anthroponymic systems, this article examines the phonetic and morphological transformation of personal names of Christian origin. The study aims to identify the typological features of adaptation mechanisms and to distinguish between universal and language-specific characteristics...
Cancel culture: cognitive mechanisms of meaning transmission in media discourse
... bidirectional cognitive process. On the one hand, it ensures the reproducibility and legitimisation of emergent moral norms; on the other, it contributes to the entrenchment of collective cognitive patterns that delineate new boundaries of social identity, moral evaluation, and ideological differentiation within the digital public sphere. The findings contribute to a broader understanding of how multimodal media discourse functions as a site of axiological framing, collective conceptual alignment,...
“Old hell transformed into a new purgatory”: the disturbing historical experience in the novel “The Haunted Hotel” by Wilkie Collins
The aim of the article is to identify the representative possibilities of the Gothic text using the example of Wilkie Collinsʼs story “The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice” (1878). The authors rely on hermeneutic methodology, directing their attention to the historical subtext of the story, expressed in its figurative structure, as well as in the many allusions and reminiscences contained in it, which have a clearly expressed historical content. The need for such a methodology is dictated...
The category of “Security” in Jules Verne’s novel “The Children of Captain Grant”
The aim of the study was to identify the semantic features of the representation of the category of security in the French text of Jules Verne’s novel “Les Enfants du capitaine Grant” (“The Children of Captain Grant”). The results show that in Verne’s novel the category of security is verbalized by a set of lexical units, including adresse, apaisement, asile, assurance, calme, confiance, garantie, talisman, tranquillit?, paix, pr?cision, protection, justesse, fid?lit?, franchise, s?ret?, s?curit?...
Motifs of “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus in the spiritual letters of St. Ambrose of Optina to the laity
The article undertakes a motif-based analysis of the semantic connections between “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus (St. John of Sinai) and the spiritual letters addressed to the laity by St. Ambrose of Optina. St. Ambrose took part in the preparation for the publication of the translation of “The Ladder” into Russian and Church Slavonic, carried out at Optina Pustyn in 1862. Quotations from “The Ladder”, as well as references to the name of St. John Climacus, occur in twenty letters from the corpus...
EU de facto membership: an attempt to adapt to current challenges
... policy, conditionality of integration, the significance of the energy component in economic interaction, independent initiatives by third countries to incorporate the acquis communautaire into domestic legislation, the importance of a shared cultural identity, as well as quantitative indicators—namely, the orientation of more than 50 % of a country’s foreign trade toward the European market and the implementation of over 50 % of EU legal acts into national law. A comparative analysis is provided ...
Emperor Nicholas II during the First World War through the eyes of Russian monarchical circles
The views of representatives of monarchist circles within Russian society toward the last Russian emperor during the years of the First World War are examined. The study concludes that two models of monarchists’ attitudes toward Nicholas II during the specified period can be identified. The apologetic model was based on monarchists’ perception of the emperor’s personal virtues, including his loyalty to duty. Among the prominent apologists of the monarch was A. I. Dubrovin, the founder of the All-Russian...
Fostering of traditional family values: laws, facts, suggestions
Based on a review of the contemporary state family policy of the Russian Federation regarding the formation of family values, the article presents specific proposals for its improvement, using Saint Petersburg as a case study. The novelty of the study lies in a comprehensive approach that combines the analysis of the legal framework, statistical data, and sociological surveys to evaluate the value-based component of family policy within the specific context of Saint Petersburg. The methodology...
World order, imperialism and the “theory of the fourth world”. Part one
The article constitutes the first part of a broader study devoted to the analysis of Fourth World theory and the evolution of the contemporary world order. This first part presents the results of a brief analysis of the differences and specific features in the scholarly use of the terms “world order,” “international order,” and “international relations.” The methodological framework combines elements of historical and political analysis, a comparative typological approach, and an interpretation...
Development of personnel at the Kaliningrad Rail-Car Manufacturing Plant in 1946—1951: quantitative and qualitative dynamics
Using the example of the Kaliningrad Rail-car Manufacturing Plant, the article analyzes personnel policies and the composition of the workforce at industrial enterprises in the USSR during the early postwar period. The objective of the study is to identify key problems and the dynamics of workforce formation amid postwar devastation, a shortage of qualified personnel, and the challenges of reconstructing a new Soviet region. The methodology, based on a comprehensive analysis of the enterprise’s...
"This man is a very respectable military man": on the establishment of a personal national retirement benefit to V.M. Lermontov
The circumstances of granting V. M. Lermontov a personal national retirement benefit are identified; in particular, attention is paid to the specific features of assigning pensions of this type to relatives of Russian literary classics, his biography is уточнена, and the degree of kinship with the poet is established. The authors of the study are guided by the principles of historicism and scholarly objectivity. The historical and biographical method, based on the analysis of documents of a personal...
Illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the context of digitalization: a systemic challenge to Russia's national security
The article analyzes threats to Russia’s national security arising from the development of illicit drug trafficking through the use of digital technologies. The objectives of the study include a comprehensive analysis of contemporary threats to the national security of the Russian Federation caused by the transformation of illicit drug trafficking under the influence of digitalization processes, as well as an assessment of the effectiveness of existing means and methods of countering this type...
Tactical and forensic support for investigations into crimes related to illegal drug trafficking committed using the Internet. Part one
The objectives of the study, published in two parts, are to analyze the organizational and tactical features of conducting certain investigative actions and, on this basis, to develop practical recommendations within the framework of tactical and forensic support for the investigation of crimes related to illicit drug trafficking using the Internet. The first part of the article examines interaction between the investigator and inquiry bodies and proposes criteria for the admissibility of assigning...
Defects of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation caused by the digital transformation of criminal procedure
The current state of the digitalization of criminal procedure is examined, and an attempt is made to assess the prospects for its further development in the context of the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Specific proposals for reforming criminal procedure legislation are analyzed, and the risk of the emergence of defects caused by the digitalization of criminal procedure is forecast. The author comes to the conclusion that, already at the stage of preparing a draft law, it...
Morphological anomalies of carabelles in industrial zones of the city of Tula
The aim of this study was to investigate morphological anomalies in representatives of the Carabidae family in industrial areas of Tula city and to assess environmental quality in these territories. Such sites are subject to intense anthropogenic impact, which can disrupt normal organism development and manifest as various morphological deviations — teratologies. A total of 1,675 ground beetle specimens were collected from the sanitary-protection zones of two metallurgical enterprises, as well as...
Landscape structure of the coastal zone of the north-western part of Sevastopol
For the first time, data on the landscape structure of the coastal zone in the northwestern part of Sevastopol are presented. Landscape studies were conducted during the summer seasons from 2017 to 2024. A landscape map was created for both the terrestrial area and the marine waters. The study identifies the characteristics of the landscape structure in the investigated region. Most of the coastline is occupied by high structural watershed plains. The natural coastal landscapes have been transformed...
Basic principles of formation of recreational nature management in the Pskov region
The increasing recreational needs of modern society have led to the formation and development of recreational nature management. In improving recreational nature management, it is necessary to establish a land-use system that meets not only current but also future needs of society, the state, business, and the population — the natural end users of natural and recreational resources. A new methodological approach is proposed for assessing the nature-recreational potential of a specific territory....
Spatial organisation of student campuses: Domestic and foreign experience
The article examines the features of the spatial organization of student campuses using examples from domestic and international experience. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing role of university campuses as drivers of regional socio-economic development and the formation of the “creative class.” The aim of the work is to identify models of the spatial organization of university campuses, to conduct their comparative analysis, and to assess the prospects for implementing foreign...
The influence of the tram network of Königsberg and Kaliningrad on the spatial development of the urban area
The article examines the degree of scholarly development of the problem concerning the influence of the tram network of the city of Königsberg on the spatial development of the urban territory prior to 1945. Based on an analysis of urban studies and transport-related academic publications, including research on other European cities (London, Warsaw, and Bucharest), the key patterns of the integration of tram infrastructure into the system of urban development are identified. The role of tram lines...