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This article analyses different aspects of the development of electronic form of culture. Particular emphasis is placed on the philosophical and sociological study of the phenomenon, which has been pronounced since the second half of the 20th century. The author considers the conditions and factors of the interdisciplinary approach to studying electronic culture. 1. Маклюэн М. Понимание медиа: внешние расширения человека М., 2007. 2. Электронная культура. URL: http:// wiki. iis. ru/wiki/Электронная_культура...

This paper considers the problem of European identity in the conditions of the current European crisis. European identity developed over a long time on the moral and political grounds. The author arrives at a conclusion about the need to reconsider the concept of European identity in the EU crisis conditions. European identity cannot develop in an institutional crisis. The concept of European identity requires structural reconstruction, new foundations, since the old ones are, to a great degree,...

This article analyses the current problems of stimulating innovation activity of small businesses in the Russian Federation. The problems of development of financial institutions for innovation support, financial and production-technological subsystems of the innovation infrastructure, and staff recruitment are examined in the case of the Kaliningrad region. Special attention is paid to the problems of business incubator creation and functioning. 1. Наумов И. В. Формирование организационно-экономических...

This paper considers the medieval approach to resolving insolubles developed by T. Bradwardine. The article aims to reconstruct T. Bradwardine’s classification of insolubles and compare certain types identified by Bradwardine with the modern ideas of epistemic paradoxes. 1. Bradwardine T. Insolubilia. P., 2010. 2. Fitch's Paradox of Knowability // The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. 2009. URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fitch-paradox (дата обращения: 13.12.2012). 3. Read St. The...

Social advertising, which is growing fast nowadays, gives rise to a number of issues relating to its efficiency and impact on the audience. The author focuses on the current problems faced by social advertising in the Kaliningrad region and demonstrates a lack of variety in topics, as well as a limited range of the techniques applied. The paper tackles the problem of identifying the quality level of advertisements addressing various social needs. 1. Николайшвили Г. Г. Социальная реклама: теория...

Рассматривается существующий порядок правового регулирования договоров, связанных с выпуском/использованием банковских карт, в том числе ответственность банков по таким договорам. Изучена позиция законодателя в связи с вынесением на обсуждение в Государственную думу РФ Проекта федерального закона «О внесении изменений в части первую, вторую, третью и четвертую Гражданского кодекса Российской Федерации, а также в отдельные законодательные акты Российской Федерации». This article considers the existing...

Рассматриваются понятие, основные приемы, методы и методики криминалистического изучения личности свидетеля, исследуются воз-можности прикладного использования данной теории в следственной и судебной практике. Авторы обосновывают необходимость разработки криминалистического учения о личности свидетеля. This article considers the concept and the basic techniques and methods of forensic study of witness identity and focuses on the possibilities of its practical application in investigative and judicial...

This article is an attempt to identify the role of peasant affairs institutions in the governmental system of post-reform Russia. The subject of the research is the public policy towards peasant affairs agencies during the second half of the 19th century. Special attention is paid to the change of the legal status and authority of these institutions and their relations with local authorities and population. 1. Катаев М. М. Местные крестьянские учреждения 1861, 1874, 1889 гг. СПб.,1911—1912...

The author focuses on the historical events of the late war period and the first post-war years, which resulted in the loss of the pedigree livestock and sorted seeds created by East Prussian stock-breeders and plant-breeders. The article describes the variety of breeding conditions of the first years in the Kaliningrad region. 1. Агроуказания по плодоводству для колхозов и совхозов Калининградской области. Калининград, 1951. 2. Беднова Е. Т. Сорные травы Калининградской области и меры борьбы с...

Рассматриваются отдельные, не полностью урегулированные аспекты наследования по закону, требующие разъяснения Верховным судом РФ для устранения противоречий в их применении судебными органами. This article focuses on individual, not completely settled aspects of intestate succession requiring the Supreme Court consideration for elimination of incoherence in its enforcement by courts. 1. Архив Ленинградского районного суда г. Калининграда за 2010 год. Дело № 2-1193/10 от 4 марта 2010 года. 2....

Рассматривается ситуационный подход как один из центральных инструментов в методологии формирования интегративных (комплексных) криминалистических технологий классификации, а также выявления и преодоления следственных ошибок. This article considers the situational approach as one of the key tools in the methodology of identification, classification and prevention of investigative failures. 1. Большая книга афоризмов. 7-е изд., испр. М., 2004. 2. Министерство внутренних дел Российской Федерации...

This article, based on archival materials, is devoted to the educational activity of the senior research fellow of the Museum of the City, Ye. A. Polyakova. Her works are dedicated not only to gardening and park facilities of past eras, but also to new trends in public landscape facilities of the 1920s—1930s. 1. Балабко Т. В. Е. А. Полякова — историк «зеленого строительства» Ленинграда // Всероссийская студенческая историко-регионоведческая конференция. Санкт-Петербург, 6—7 апреля...

This article analyses the major ideological campaigns of 1946—1953 on the basis of earlier unknown materials from the archival funds of Kaliningrad kolkhozes. The author considers the influence of campaigns on the mass consciousness of peasants and their social behaviour from the perspective of «everyday history». Special attention is paid to the ideas of rural residents about themselves and the word, and their reaction to major social and political events. The author comes to a conclusion that,...

Рассматриваются особенности процессуального положения прокурора в гражданском процессе. Вносятся некоторые предложения по совершенствованию законодательства, касающегося правового статуса прокурора. Анализируются различные точки зрения ученых по спорным вопросам. This article considers the feature of procedural position of a prosecutor in civil procedure. The author makes suggestion regarding the improvement of legislation relating to the legal status of prosecutor. Different scholarly perspectives...

Исследуется процессуально-правовая природа источников доказательств в уголовном судопроизводстве. Анализируются основные точки зрения, высказанные в современной отечественной литературе. Высказывается авторское видение этой проблемы. Предлагается внести изменение в нормативное определение понятия источников доказательств. This article focuses on the procedural and legal nature of sources of evidence in the criminal procedure. The authors analyse principal perspectives presented in modern Russian...

This article is devoted to the activities of the Russian patriotic anti-Soviet organization All-Russian Social-Christian Union for the Liberation of the People, which operated in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. The author examines the ideological basis, program, composition, and structure of the Union and describes the role of the organization in Russian national-patriotic opposition in the USSR. 1. ВСХСОН : программа. Суд. В тюрьмах и лагерях. Париж, 1975. 2. ВСХСОН : материалы суда и программа...

This article analyses different aspects of bilateral ties between the Kaliningrad region and the Polish Olsztyn and Elblag voivodeships in the mid-70s-early 19 80s. The author pays special attention to the problems of ideological interaction and emphasizes the crucial role of the economic development issues. 1. Государственный архив новейшей истории Калининградской области (ГАНИКО). Ф. 1. Оп. 69. № 69. 2. Дмитриев Т. Очарование «мягкой силы» // Политический журнал. 2005, № 10 (61). 3...

Исследуются организационно-правовые проблемы, связанные с практикой Европейского Суда* по правам человека в отношении так называемых «калининградских дел», произведен краткий обзор успешных постановлений Суда, вынесенных в период 2005—2012 гг. Обозначены подходы к совершенствованию мониторинга и контроля за реализацией мер как общего, так и индивидуального характера. The author studies administrative and legal issues of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights relating to the so called...

Анализируются формы реализации свободы личности, механизм ее воплощения через юридическую ответственность. Исследуются тенденции, связанные с распространением сети Интернет во все сферы общественной жизни, что приносит помимо положительных явлений негативные последствия, связанные с отчуждением личности от свободы и ответственности. This article analyses the forms of realization of personal freedom and the mechanism of its embodiment through legal responsibility. The author pays attention to the...

English-Russian state-to-state relations in the second half of the 19th/ beginning of the 20th century are distinguished by complex character and dramatic shifts from cooperation to confrontation and vice versa. Different circumstances and factors, including the level of trade and economic contacts, affected the condition of English-Russian relations. The author analyses the principal stages of the evolution of trade and economic contacts between Great Britain and Russia from the Crimean war to the...

This article considers the possibility of the use of Polish concentration camp prose as a primary source. Its features are analysed on the basis of its genre and subject characteristics. The works of a prominent representative of this literary trend help demonstrate the potential of concentration camp short stories as primary sources. 1. Боровский Т. Прощание с Марией. URL: http://www.belousenko.com/books/ foreign/borowski_maria.htm 2. Блок М. Апология истории. М., 1973. 3. Гумилёв Л. Н. Может ли...

Рассматриваются основные вопросы совершенствования законодательства о предпринимательстве в Калининградской области, применения правового режима Особой экономической зоны, пути его развития, предлагаются некоторые варианты решения проблем нормативного регулирования и правоприменительной практики по исследуемой теме. This article considers the central issues of improving legislation on еntrepreneurship in the Kaliningrad region, the application of the legal regime of Free economic zone, and its...

Анализируются меры воздействия, применяемые к несовершеннолетним правонарушителям по законодательству России и законодательству Германии, выявляются общие и отличительные черты. This article analyses the enforcement actions against underage delinquents according to the legislation of Russian and Germany. The author identifies common and distinctive features. 1. Энциклопедия уголовного права / под ред. В. Б. Малинина. СПб., 2008. Т. 11. 2. Jugendgerichtsgesetz (JGG). URL: http://bundesrecht.juris...

This article considers the vicissitudes of the Lithuanian — RSFSR negotiations in Moscow in the spring-summer of 1920. The author analyses the circumstances of the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty between Lithuania and Soviet Russia on July 12, 1920 and focuses on the international response to it. The author pays special attention to the question of the character of Lithuania’s neutrality in the Soviet-Polish war in August-September 1920. 1. Документы внешней политики СССР. М., 1958. Т. 2. 2....

Исследованы наиболее опасные и долговременные детерминанты со-временной преступности. Сделан вывод, что институт предупреждения преступности в нынешних условиях развития общества не эффективен. This article focuses on the most dangerous and long-lasting determinants of modern crime. The author arrives at a conclusion that the institution of crime prevention is inefficient in the current condition of society development. 1. Конституция Российской Федерации. Государственный гимн Российской Федерации...

Рассмотрена природа возникновения мировых кризисов биржевых финансово-кредитных систем, которые возникают как сложившиеся экономические закономерности. Только поняв природу зарождения данных систем, можно моделировать и прогнозировать денежно-кредитные процессы в динамике и оценить возможность преодоления кризисов. Исторически сложилось так, что основное влияние на мировую биржевую деятельность оказывает динамика кредитно-валютной системы США. Поэтому поэтапное исследование природы ее развития и...

This article analyzes the origins of the contemporary conflict generating Polish-Lithuanian relations. The authors consider the features of the Polonization of Lithuania and ensuing Russification in the second half of the 19th century, the problems of Polish-Russian relations during the interbellum (1918—1939) and the period of the post-war development of the two states. The authors come to a conclusion that the modern conflict between Poland and Lithuania has a historical and national basis and...

Сделана попытка раскрыть содержание реальной (логической, дей-ствительной) уголовно-правовой нормы, показана взаимосвязь между нормой уголовного права и нормативным предписанием и роль последнего в формировании субинститутов Особенной части уголовного законодательства. This article attempts to describe the contents of real (logical, actual) rules of criminal law and shows the connection between a rule of criminal law and regulations, and the role of the latter in the formation of subinstitutions...

This article focuses on the public policy in the field of charity in Russia in the 19th — ealry 20th century and lists state awards for charity handed out to charity departments under the auspicious of the emperor’s family — the Department of Institutions of Empress Maria and the Emperor's Philanthropic Association. The author examines state orders and medals, ranks and uniforms used as social and class motives for charity. 1. Свод законов Российской империи. СПб., 1892. Т. 1, ч.1. 2. Шепелев Л...

This article focuses on the formation and implementation of the programmе of development of US fleet during World War II for providing military and economic support to the anti-Hitler coalition — Great Britain and the USSR. The author considers the most typical projects of marine transport vessels built at US shipyards, the main routes of travel from the USA and Great Britain to the USSR in the framework of the end-lease programme. 1. Блэйр К. Подводная война Гитлера. Охотники. 1939—1942 :...

Раскрываются проблемные вопросы использования термина «правовой статус». Обращается внимание на то, что этот термин употребляется в различных словосочетаниях, для обозначения разноплановых правовых явлений, в совокупности с другими юридическими конструкциями, что ведет к рассогласованности категориального аппарата. Даются рекомендации по преодолению проблем применения термина «правовой статус» в юридической науке, законодательстве и правоприменительной практике. This article focuses on the problems...

Анализируются точки зрения на проблему медицинского критерия ограниченной вменяемости, выявляется соотношение психических рас-стройств, не исключающих вменяемости, психических аномалий и пограничных расстройств. This article analyses different perspectives on medical criterion of diminished responsibility, and identifies the ratio of mental disorders not excluding sanity, mental anomalies, and border disorders. 1. Понятовская Т. Г. Концептуальные основы и содержание института вменяемости в уголовном...

This article considers the common and the unique in the views and beliefs of A. I. Herzen (1812—1870) and Christian — both Russian and Western — conservatives. The author emphasizes that the attraction and repulsion between the freedom-loving supporter of revolutionary changes, Herzen, and sincere advocates of spiritual freedom — free conservatives — were only natural. 1. Володин А. И. Герцен и Запад // Литературное наследство: Герцен и Запад. М., 1985. 2. Герцен А. И. Былое и думы. Минск, 1971...

This article considers the literary career of the famous East Prussian poet Simon Dach in connection with the history of Koenigsberg University. With the support of the ruling house of the Electorate of Branderburg and Prussia, Dach managed to obtain the position of a professor of poetry at the university, with which both his work and life are closely connected. One of Dach’s university works is the poetic composition “Prussiarchus” dedicated to the centenary of Albertina (1644). This work is a poetical-allegorical...

This article offers an analysis of the basic issues of introduction of special legal treatment of investment activity in the Kaliningrad region, describes the main features of investment treatment, and identifies several problems relating to the improvement of legislation and legal practices in this sphere. 1. Об Особой экономической зоне в Калининградской области и о внесении изменений в некоторые законодательные акты Российской Федерации : федеральный закон от 10 января 2006 г. № 16-ФЗ // Собрание...

This article analyses the axiological features of the phenomenon of rationality of acting in the framework of social-philosophical and cultural discourse. The author identifies the functions of philosophical education in the conditions of system crisis of modern civilization. Philosophical education is considered as a means to increase rationality of thinking and acting. 1. Бохеньский Ю. М. Духовная ситуация времени // Вопросы философии. 1993. № 5. С. 94—98. 2. Диев В. С. Управление. Философия...

This article analyses the theoretical framework of studying suicide as a social phenomenon. The author examines the social grounds for suicide in the concepts of E. Durkheim, R. Merton, A. Schopenhauer, and E. Fromm and described the methodological principles of studying suicide as a social practice in the sociological discourse of deviant behavior. 1. Кант И. Метафизика нравов в двух частях // И. Кант. Соч. : в 6 т. М.,1965. Т. 4, ч. 2. С. 107—438. 2. Кант И. Основы метафизики нравственности...

This article considers common and distinctive features of legal status of various institutions (autonomous, budget, government and private ones). Special attention is paid to the legal procedure of financial provision of their activities and property regime. The author identifies the advantages and disadvantages of the new legislative approach to the status of institutions. 1. О некоммерческих организациях : федеральный закон от 12.01.1996 № 7-ФЗ (ред. от 18.07.2011) // СЗ РФ. 1996. № 3. Ст. 145...

This article focuses on the problems of preserving ethnocultural identity in the conditions of globalisation and blurring of cultural distinctions, first of all, the possible loss of ethnocultural identity of Russian-speaking population in the post-Soviet space of the Republic of Lithuania. A specialised survey is used as material for the analysis of the role of education as one of the most important social institutions ensuring the formation, preservation, and reproduction of cultural identity...

This article focuses on the features of political news communication. The author pays attention to various journalist techniques used in news delivery and identifies the most effective means to disseminate news. 1. Антипов К. В. Паблик рилейшнз : учеб. пособ. М., 2002. 2. Газетные жанры : учеб. пособ. / под ред. М. С. Черепахова. 2-е изд. М., 1976. 3. Дейк Т. А. ван. Язык. Познание. Коммуникация : сб. работ. М., 1989. 4. Федотова Л. Н. Анализ содержания — социологический метод изучения...

This article considers the topical issue of introduction of criminal liability of legal entities for tax crimes in Russia. The authors analyse criminal liability of legal entities for tax evasion according to the US legislation. 1. Успенский А. В. Уголовная ответственность за уклонение от уплаты налогов по новому УК // Финансовые и бухгалтерские консультации. 1997. № 3. 2. Волженкин Б. В. Экономические преступления. СПб., 1999. 3. Наумов А. В. Российское уголовное право. Общая часть : курс лекций...

This article reconstructs the situation of total ignorance that the Soviet settlers faced when reclaiming the alien cultural space of former East Prussia. The author analyzes the settlers' cognitive activity of cultural assimilation of new territories, which became an everyday routine and vital necessity. 1. А ну-ка, подумай! // Калининградский комсомолец (далее КК). 1948.12 дек. 2. Адамович О. Почин комсомольцев // КК. 1951. 26 апр. 3. Андрущенко Ю. Прегель-река // КК. 1948. 26 дек. 4. Валова...

This article focuses on the features of the re-evacuation of World War I refugees in 1920, i.e. the spontaneous movement of the hungry mass of refugees to the Western border, the South and South-East, as well as Siberia, in early spring, which was supported by local authorities aspiring to reduce the pressure on their own regions but opposed — to no effect — by the central authorities. The planned evacuation solely to the Baltic Republics at the end of summer of 1920 was accompanied by violations...

The law of the Kaliningrad region On the Procedure of Recognising a Citizen as a Person with Low Income for the Purpose of Providing Municipal Accommodation in the Framework of a Social Rent Contract serves as a basis for the consideration of issues of introducing a mechanism of assessing the level of a citizen’s income and the value of their property for the purpose of recognising them as persons with low income and providing them with municipal accommodation in the framework of a social rent contract...

This article examines the medieval logical theory of insolubles by Thomas Bradwardine as a way to solve the liar paradox in the period of Logica Modernorum. 1. Tomas Bradwardine. Insolubilia / Introd., Transl. and Notes by S. Read. P. ;Leuven ; Walpole, 2010. 2. Read S., Spade P. V. Insolubles // The Stanford Enciclopedia of Philosophy(Winter 2009 Edition) / ed. E. N. Zalta. URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2009/entries/insolubles (дата обращения: 10.04.2012). 3. Read S. Miller, Bradwardine...

This article focuses on the execution of one of the leaders of the Prussian revolt, Herkus Monte, according to the “double death” rite dedicated to two gods — Patollo and Potrimps. This rite is typical for the Baltic perception of the other world and is a special case of the common for Indo-European peoples idea of death. 1. Генрих Латвийский. Хроника Ливонии. Л., 1938. 2. Ипатьевская летопись // Полное собрание русских летописей. М., 1962. Т. 2. 3. Петр из Дусбурга. Хроника земли Прусской. М...

This article offers an overview of the basic characteristics of the Baltic Sea and stresses the need for closer cooperation between states in the Baltic Sea environment protection. The author identifies the universal and regional levels of cooperation between states in marine environment protection. Special attention is paid to the activity of the European Union in the field of the Baltic Sea environment protection. 1. Resolution A.982(24) of the Assembly of International Maritime Organization...

This article focuses on the interpretation of Kant’s political philosophy given by V. Gerhardt within his “existential liberalism” and by J. Habermas in the applied part of his communicative theory. The author addresses similarity and complementarity in the identification of political agent and its properties. 1. Кант И. К вечному миру // Соч. : в 6 т. М., 1966. Т. 6. С. 257—347. 2. Кант И. Предполагаемое начало человеческой истории // Избр. : в 3 т.Калининград, 1998. Т. 2 : К вечному миру...

This article considers the architecture of the second third of the 19th century in Eastern Prussia, belonging to the period of German Romanticism. The author focuses on the reasons behind the development of this trend and the role of the King of Eastern Prussia, Frederick William IV, and the architect, F.-A. Stüler, in the history and architecture of that period. 1. Каталог объектов культурного наследия Калининградской области. Калининград, 2005. Т. I — IV. 2. Очерки истории Восточной Пруссии...

The article deals with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania as a result of inter-elite struggles in post-Soviet period of different power groups. 1. Estonian Human Development Report. Baltic Way(s) of Human Development: Twenty Years On. 2010/2011. Eesti Koostöö Kogu. Tallinn. 2011. 2. Geddes B. Initiation of New Democratic Institutions in Eastern Europe and Latin America // A. Lijphart & C.H. Waisman (eds.). Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America...