The dynamics of the world market of gold in the context of the present pulse geopolitical processes. Part 1. Introduction to the problem
The article is devoted to the analysis of the behaviour of bidders in the global gold market affected by short-term and medium-term geopolitical disturbances. The direction, volume, speed and time range of investments in gold are determined depending on the nature of geopolitical threats. Based on non-economic factors, the author reveals the main patterns of making trivial and non-trivial decisions on investing ...
Social code of the Kaliningrad Region in the system of legal regulation of social relations
... both measures of social support of the population and the mechanisms of reducing social inequality. It is proposed to adopt a legislative codified act regulating social relations in the Russian Federation and to determine the basic principles and directions of regional social policy.
1. Усс А. В., Толоконский В. А., Иванков В. И., Лисица В. Н. Социальный кодекс Российской Федерации: Проблемы кодификации ...
Modern indicators of urban development: challenges and opportunities for creating integral approaches to city management
... 2015. URL: https://
www.mercer.com/newsroom/2019-quality-of-living-survey.html
(дата обращения: 10.08.2019).
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22. Taylor P. Measuring the world city network: New results and developments ...
Thematic parallels in the hagiographies of Adalbert of Prague and old Russian narratives
... martyrdom of Adalbert of Prague, who was extremely popular in Central Europe X—XII centuries, and hagiographies and old Russian chronicles related geographically to the events that took place in the basin of the Upper Oka. The author identified several direct and indirect parallels of the plot. Among them, there is a description of the activities of the Adalbert-Gaudentius brothers and the legendary Radim and Vyatko brothers. The story describing the tragic death of hieromonk Kuksha is similar to the ...
The development of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in changing geopolitical and geo-economic conditions (based on the GRP analysis)
... gross regional product (GRP). The data of official statistics (primarily, the Databases of the Federal Service for State Statistics (Rosstat) EMISS), processed by known statistical methods, were used. The conclusions about the necessity and perspective directions of further restructuring of the sectoral structure of the regional economy are presented.
1. Валовая добавленная стоимость в основных ценах в соответствии с методологией ...
Count M. A. Miloradovich in life, creativity and the fate of F. N. Glinka
The purpose of the article is to consider the relationship between F. N. Glinka and M. A. Miloradovich, and the impact on Glinka’s fate and life. As a person, Fyodor Glinka was directly influenced by the events related to the anti-Napoleonic campaign of 1805—1806, the Patriotic war of 1812, and the foreign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813—1815. An officer of the Apsheron infantry regiment, he began as an ensign ...
From the History of the Kokand branch of the Volga-Kama Commercial Bank
In this article, I address the functions and the framework for the operations of the Kokand branch of the Volga-Kama Commercial Bank. Soviet historiography considered banks as a tool of ‘colonialism’ – both Western and Russian. Using archival data, I prove that the financial institutions of the Russian Empire took into account local circumstances and encouraged exportoriented production. I examine interbank correspondence, annual reports by the director of the branch, and branch audit reports. This...
On the 20th anniversary of the Department of criminal procedure, criminology and legal Informatics of the I. Kant Baltic Federal University
... activity features of the research departments at the University (the study was conducted using the materials of the Criminal Procedure, Criminalistics and Law Informational Science Department of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University): providing direct educational and educational impact on students (bachelors, masters, postgraduates); managing research and extending methodological support; interacting with other departments of leading universities of Russia and the region, as well as ...
Correlation-regression analysis of bitcoin characteristics
... the influence of the price-per-unit value of the cryptocurrency on the indicator of the market capitalization of the bitcoin cryptocurrency through correlation-regression analysis. As a result of the research, the author becomes the first to prove the direct dependence of the mentioned indicators, namely, a strong relationship between the price per unit of the cryptocurrency and the indicator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency market capitalization.
1. Биткоин: категория счастья ...
Financial Support for the Red Army Personnel During the Great Patriotic War
In this article, I analyse the improvement of the system for financial support for military personnel during the Great Patriotic War. Financial support included a monetary allowance, material bonuses for involvement in combat, and welfare benefits for families and veterans. The financial support system was vertically integrated from the centre (the Financial Directorate of the Red Army) to an individual soldier through the financial bodies of military units. The financial situation in the country...
Energy security in the scientific and institutional discourse in Russia and Poland: problems and solutions
This article examines fundamental and applied approaches to energy security. The authors explore differences and similarities in the views of scientists and politicians on the issue and analyse energy security policies pursued in Poland and Russia (the Kaliningrad region). On this basis, the authors propose rational principles for solving the problem of energy security in the region.
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The role of the European Central Bank in ensuring the financial stability of the EU
... and the centralized supervision of the banking sector of the Member States of the eurozone with supervisory powers transferred to the European Central Bank in accordance with Article 127 (6) of the Treaty on the functioning of the EU. Secondly, the direct recapitalization of banks from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), established under the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) based on the Treaty, signed a few months earlier — February 2, 2012. The fulfilment of these obligations ...
On asymmetry in game-theoretic semantics
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Some methodological problems of military and historical anthropology
... The author focuses on the use of anthropology as a method of historical research since the early 19th century until today. The problem of correlation between the subjective and objective in the objective of historical research is analysed, a promising direction of development of this research field is suggested.
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Kant and the contemporary theory of international relations
... interpretation of Kant's place in one of the major paradigms of the theory of international relations: realism, idealism, liberalism, and institutionalism. Author shows that Kant’s inclusion in a particular paradigm of international relations cannot be directly done. Otherwise, inevitably it comes to distortion and incorrect interpretation of the texts and ideas of Kant.
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Ensuring the proportional development of the strategic areas of coastal specialisation
... decisionmaking in the conditions of the system uncertainty of integrated coastal interaction. To this end, it is suggested that a balanced scorecard system identifying the possibility of aligning such decisions and maintaining the synergy effect in the chosen directions of prospective ratio development is applied.
1. Теория систем и системный анализ в управлении организациями : справочник; учеб. пособие / под ред. В. Н. Волковой,...
Changes to the legal entity system in Russia in the conditions of reforms in civil legislation: the problems and prospects
This article considers the introduced and planned changes to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation relating to the construction of a system of legal entities. It is concluded that there is a deviation from earlier doctrinal statements about the directions of system development. The changes do not take into account the existing interconnections and may have a negative impact on law enforcement practices.
1. О внесении изменений в главы 1, 2, 3 и 4 части первой ...
Investment attractiveness of Russian enterprises from the perpsective of transnational corporations
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The theoretical aspects of history of social and cultural adaptation of Russian emigrants in England in the 1870s—1890s
This article considers the basic directions and research tasks of the study of Russian emigration to England in the 1870s-1890s, defines such important concept as “Russian diaspora”, and examines the methodology of the study of social and cultural adaptation of Russian emigrants....
Anthropological ideas of Immanuel Kant and the problem of interreligious conflicts in the modern society
... including passions and affections, should play a secondary, subordinate role in religion. Religious conflicts should be resolved through an appeal to universal moral values and the decrease in the pressure of religion ideology components that are not directly related to morality.
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«Political banditism» at the north-western border of the Soviet state in the 1920s
This article deals with the profound changes in the political, social and economic spheres in the USSR that resulted from the growth of oppositional attitudes and banditism in the country. These circumstances led to the necessity to increase the efficiency of the State Political Directorate.
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The principle of mutual recognition of court orders within legal cooperation on criminal cases in the European Union
... Decision 2008/978/JHA of 18 December 2008 on the European evidence warrant for the purpose of obtaining objects, documents and data for use in proceedings in criminal matters
// Official Journal. L 350. 30.12.2008. P. 72—92.
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Modern features of the development of a comfortable urban space in small towns of the Kaliningrad region
... join in this competition, which has already changed the quality of the urban environment. Many small towns of the Kaliningrad region are on the list of federal leaders among the places with the most comfortable urban environment. This circumstance directly improves the possibilities of such cities in attracting investors, maintaining high-quality labor resources and the possibility of expanding their own regional socio-economic specialization.
Geological conditions for submarine groundwater discharge in the South-Eastern Baltic
..., Mikhnevich G. The role of fluids in the chemical composition of the upper holocene sediment layer in the russian sector of the South-East Baltic // Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2020. Vol. 20. ES6006. doi:10.2205/2020ES000719.
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Narcotization of the population as a social problem (the case of the subjects of the North-Western Federal District)
Narcotizing of the population does not only cause harm to the physical and mental health of drug addicts, but also adversely affects the vital activity of the regions, which creates a direct threat to the gene pool of the nation, ensuring the rule of law, the national security of the country. Territorial differences in narcotizing are determined by many factors, such as the economic and geographical location, the level of transport ...
The birth of premature children and the causes of disability of the child population in the kaliningrad region
... accompanied by a pediatric neuropsychologist. Neurological and mental diseases prevail in the structure of children’s disability, the share of which is 49.8 %. Most often, premature children are recognized as disabled at the age of 0—3, which is directly related to health deviations in the perinatal period.
Developing a center for social geographical research at IKBFU
... geographers of the region (4 professors and 13 PhDs in the field of “Economic, social, political and recreational geography”). The article assesses the publication activity of university scientists using some scientometric indicators and presents the main directions of research conducted in 2018—2021. A list of the main projects carried out by Kaliningrad residents and a list of publications grouped by areas of research is compiled.
Chlorophyll «a» concentration in the South-Eastern Baltic Sea in summer 2018 (on satellite data)
... annual value for August (2.8° С). Thus chlorophyll "a" concentration for the period under study was revealed at the average multiyear level, and the sea surface temperature was higher than the average for 2003—2016 by 2.4° С. The direct influence of the weather anomaly of 2018, which caused the water warming above the long-term average level, on the monthly average concentrations of chlorophyll “a” was not revealed, that indicates a sustainable state and strength of the ...
Transformation of the settlement system in the Kaliningrad region
In the Kaliningrad region, as well as in other regions of Russia, the center-peripheral model of economic development directly affects the transformation of the regional settlement system. Over the past 10 years, the dynamics of the population in rural settlements of the region has been determined by agglomeration and transport-geographical factors. The analysis ...
Suspended particulate matter within the Kaliningrad coastal zone: distribution, transport, composition
... and control of core environmental indicators such as suspended particulate matter concentration. The research focused on the suspended matter transport from the main source area, which included both human-made and natural suspended matter inputs. Directions of particles transport for surface and bottom layer were discovered to be different. The transformation of the suspended matter transport from the Kaliningrad lagoon to the Curonean spit was studied with electron microscopy. The biogenic fraction ...
Economic security of the Russian-Ukrainian border regions of the Russian Federation in modern conditions
The article is devoted to the urgent problem of economic security of the Russian border regions, directly adjacent to Ukraine: Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov and Krasnodar regions. The study is going to assess the level of economic security in these regions, as well as its dynamics after 2014, taking into account cyclical features and long-term ...
The pattern of electromagnetic fields of industrial frequency in the central area of Kaliningrag city
... Экологический мониторинг электромагнитных полей. М., 2004.
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Construction works impact on the vegetation in the сoastal zone of the Pregolya river in Kaliningrad
... The lower current of the river Pregolya within the Kaliningrad city borders is studied for the period from 2013—2019. The associations are named in the traditions of the dominant system. It is established that the total number of species in the direct impact zone and downstream has remained the same. However, the structure of plant communities and their species composition has changed. Some species have fell out of communities or reduced their projective coverage; some communities in the city ...
Variability of climatic characteristics оver the South-East Baltic coastal waters in the early XXI century
The study is focused on features of hydrometeorological conditions in the southeastern Baltic Sea and their trends assessment for 2005—2019 (climatic half period). The authors used the data from field observations of atmospheric pressure, wind direction and speed, and air temperature from the automatic hydrometeorological station located offshore, as well as the satellite data from the infrared and microwave (radar images) ranges to determine sea ice and sea surface temperature, respectively....
Reactions of dibenzothiazine amination of quinone derivatives on a «copper film»
... most promising substances. When aminating benzoquinone and its derivatives with dibenzothiazine, we can expect an increase in the potential biological activity and inhibitory properties of new compounds. The presence of copper affects the intensity and direction of the reaction when reactants interact. Practice-wise, the work can expand the spectrum of quinone and dibenzothiazine derivatives containing biologically active fragments.
1. Машковский М. Д. Лекарственные средства ...
Assessment of hepatic volume ex vivo by the formulas of the ultrasound volumetry
The article focuses on determination of the liver volume which is an urgent task for clinical medicine. It is directly connected to the need for an objective quantitative assessment of organ size. The complexity of calculating the volume is due to an irregular geometric shape of the organ, which can not be approximated to an ellipse or any other geometric figure....
Properties of toluidine blue stained mast cells in the experiment with the intake of soluble silicon
The article gives morphometric characteristics of thymic mast cells of rats supplied with drinking water for 10 months in a concentration of 10 mg/l in correlation to silicon. It has been shown that the amount of mast cells does not change in interlobular cortical thymus septa with this type of exposure, however, the percentage of mast cells with complete degranulation increases, as well as the proportion of mast cells with a high degree of metachromasia. In this case, the average size of mast cells...
Kaliningrad region: coastal position as a geographical factor of economic development
The Kaliningrad region is a border and a coastal area in one. Such a combination of geographic features affects the development of this exclave region of Russia. The maritime status has a direct and indirect positive impact on the sectoral structure and the pace of economic growth. The role of the borderline situation is ambivalent: if the relations with neighboring countries and the EU as a whole are favorable, then cross-border links ...
Shore ground monitoring methodology
... activities on local sites with reference to a network of reference benchmarks. The greatest amount of information is given by the data of the transverse shore leveling. The combination of a number of different profiles allows one to obtain speed and direction quantitative characteristics of the coastal processes at a particular morphodynamic site over a specific time interval. It is important to have a reasonable choice of a marker, i. e. an element of the relief, the change in position of which ...
Hemozoin accumulation associated with Opisthorchis felineus infection and the analysis of its role in changing the bile ducts microbiota
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Flupirtine in the complex therapy of diabetic polyneuropathy pain
... Mueller-Schwefe G. Flupirtine in Acute and Chronic Pain Associated with Muscle Tenseness. Results of a Postmarketing Surveillance Study // Fortschr. Med. 2003. Vol. 121. P. 3—10.
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Fetal behavior and the prediction of neuropsychiatric development
... revealed a surprising variety of fetus movements. It has been proven that the fetal activity begins at the end of the embryo period, week 7—9 of gestation. The analysis of the movemental patterns of the fetus has led to the hypothesis that these patterns directly reflect the development and maturation of the central nervous system. The 2D-4D ultrasound makes it possible to identify measurable parameters for assessing the neurological and behavioural development ofthe fetus. Multicentre studies were performed ...
The impact of environmental factors on housing prices in Kaliningrad
... results of the geospatial analysis performed by the authors is used for creating an interpolation surface, which describes the housing price distribution in the analyzed districts. Based on a generalized analysis of the results, the authors establish a direct link between value –based housing prices and favorable environmental factors such as the density of green areas.
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The boundaries of the territorial community
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Features presentation of environmental risks in the media (for example, deposits of potassium salts in the village Nivenskoe)
... Nivenskoe as an example. Relevance of the research is caused by the fact that modern control systems of technogenic and ecological safety are based on risk assessment methods. Since media play a most significant role in the formation of public opinion and direct perception of risks in public space, communication of risks can be an instrument of latent manipulation with public opinion. The Internet and printed local media have served as an object of research. Results of the research confirm a hypothesis ...
Peculiarities of zooplankton succession depending on the landscape and the genesis of the lake basin (on ex-ample of some lakes of the Pskov Oblast)
... materials, this article characterises the zooplankton of three large lakes of similar age and origin found at different trophic stages and in different landscapes of the Pskov region. It is shown that the structural features of the organization and direction of succession of zooplankton communities are directly dependent on the landscape and genesis of the lake basin and, in their turn, can be used as an indicator of the successional stage of the aquatic ecosystem.
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The types of atmospheric water circulation over the Atlantic and the formation of the extreme North Sea water inflows into the Baltic Sea
This article emphasises that one of the conditions for the formation of extreme inflow events from the North into the Baltic Sea is the long-time impact of same-type atmospheric processes on the water surface. There is a need to consider the intensity and the duration of one-direction atmospheric processes. The authors focus on the features and types of large-scale atmospheric circulation over
the North-East Atlantic, which determined the regional atmospheric processes over the Baltic Sea during...
The effect of exogenous hormonal compounds on the process of regeneration in flatworms
... hormone prednisolone (dehydrogenated analogue of hydrocortisone) —on the process of regeneration of freshwater planarian Dugesia lugubris Schmidt, 1861. The hormonal specimens differing on chemical nature and physiological activity have differently directed effect on the processes of regeneration. The rate of proliferation generally depends on the quality of recovering body part. This study confirms that planarians are suitable test objects for a study into the effects of chemicals of different ...
The role of transborder cooperation in the increase of innovative potential of the Baltic region
The article aims at analyzing the role of cross-border cooperation in the development of innovation potential of the Baltic Sea Region. The author analyzes the projects in the framework of the Neighborhood Programs implemented in 2000—2006 and related to the development of innovation potential in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly in the South-East Baltic. The author makes the conclusion about the need to increase the share of innovative projects with the participation of the regions of North-West...
The evaluation of recreation activity on the Vistula spit
The article presents the results of the analysis of intensity, saturation and direction of recreational streams on the Vistula spit. The basic kinds of recreational occupations and their influence on the natural complexes of the Vistula spit are considered. The article also provides the analysis of natural complex conditions changing ...