Moscow and its region: structural and functional transformations
... ‘perestroika’ as well as of the results of a combination of global changes triggered by the Fourth industrial revolution (hereafter the STR-4) and by the change in Russia’s geopolitical role in the modern world. The author identifies the main trends as Moscow’s dependence on global geopolitical transformations, growing spatial and other forms of mobility resulted in a decline of its population’s reflection. At the same time, the Greater Moscow is being shaped through the integration ...
Measuring performance of cultural organizations on the data of the envelopment analysis
... tests their performance that relates to such aspects as organization’s reputation, artistic excellence, maximization of access to cultural assets, etc. Based on statistics of the Russian Ministry of Culture in 2012—2016, the author analyses overall trends in performance of federal theatres, as well as provides results concerning each research object. Efficiency indices of theatres allow the author to distinguish four groups of Russian federal theatres in terms of performance aspects under research....
The Legal Regulation of the EU Immigrant Integration Policy
... integration of immigrants. However, in the aftermath of the migrant crisis in Europe, this problem has been receiving increased attention. I systematize legal instruments for immigrant integration, analyse the conditions of the system formation, emphasize trends in the policy development, and examine the formation of relevant legislation at a national level in the case of Germany. Using the method of legal analysis, I suggest the following system of legal regulation of the EU immigrant integration policy: ...
Medium-term models of SMEs development in modern Russia
... tendencies for small and medium-sized businesses using linear equations. The medium-term econometric model of economic forecasting is based on the application of a set of dominating factors, which were previously selected. The authors present a medium-term trend of SMEs turnover in modern Russian conditions.
1. Абдуллаев Г. Ш. Математическое моделирование развития малого бизнеса в регионах России. Махачкала, 2004.
2. Дуброва ...
The impact of Russia’s counter-sanctions on Lithuania’s foreign economic activities
This article explores Russian-Lithuanian trade relations under the EU sanctions against Russia and Russian counter-sanctions. The authors identify changes in the structure of foreign economic activities and examine the main trends, features and problems of trade. The authors analyse transformations in bilateral trade — the role of Russian in Lithuanian foreign trade and the volume of Russian-Lithuanian exports and imports of goods and services.
1. Санкции в отношении ...
Changes in prices for basic consumer basket goods: The case of the Kaliningrad region
This article presents the results of a study into changes in prices for goods constituting the minimum consumer basket. The analysis uses the indicative method based on studying variations in the chain growth rate of prices, trends method, and time series variation. The calculations made it possible to describe changes in prices for staple food in the Kaliningrad region over the past ten years.
1. Борисова А. А., Ермолаев М. Б. Проявление закона ...
Trends in cross-border cooperation between Russian and Belarusian regions
This article deals with the possible areas of cross-border cooperation between Russian and Belarussian regions. The author identifies the main results of cooperation between the countries in trade, transport, science, and social relations. The article proposes four possible scenarios of cooperation, which can ensure a rational use of the regions’ potentials.
1. Альметова З. В., Подрядова Т. Е., Шеремет А. А. Взаимодействие России и Белоруссии в рамках Евразийского союза // Актуальные направления...
Key trends and features of the Canadian military-industrial complex during the Second World War
The article deals with the development of the Canadian military industry in 1939-1945. The effectiveness, organisation and scale of production of aircraft, ships, armored vehicles, artillery and small arms are analyzed. The author reveals the influence of geographic, economic, home and foreign policy factors on the type of weapons produced and the volume of their production. Using official Canadian documents and statistical publications, the author concludes that the military-industrial complex of...
Functionalist evaluation of the effectiveness of political institutions in Russia
... investigates the specifics of the interaction between political institutions and civil society. Analyzing relevant research literature, the author studies the effectiveness and legitimacy of political institutions in Russia. The author identifies the main trends in their activity of political institutions, which should be given special attention when establishing functional connections between civil society as such and political institutions.
1. Голосов Г. В. Сравнительная политология....
Criminalisation of economic offences
This article discusses the features of criminal policy in the economic sphere and analyses the recent changes to Chapter 22 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis, general trends in the relevant legislative activity are identified and recommendations to overcome the existing deficiencies made.
1. Иванчин А. И. Финансово-экономические перемены как фактор конструирования ...
The role of the principle of honesty in the principle system of Russian civil law
... honestly — despite having the potential of broad practical application — has not been sufficiently developed in either theory or jurisprudence. The formation of honesty-driven behaviour in the participants in civil legal relationships is part of the trend towards the development of law and society
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2. Гарсия Гарридо М. Х. Римское частное право: ...
Industrial Parks as an Instrument of Import Substitution Policy in the Region
The article analyses trends of industrial development in the Kaliningrad region in the context of import substitution policy, as well as main features of formation and development of industrial parks. The author structures potential risks of their functioning and described ...
Between profession and public engagement: Evolution of the public history movement in America
This article examines the origins and development of the public history movement in America. Special attention is paid to analysing ideas and approaches dominant at different stages of its development and identifying factors behind changes in major trends. It is shown that pubic history has undergone significant transformations abandoning the idea of professionalising non-academic history for that of collaborative structuring of the past by historians and the general public.
1. Махов А. С....
The role of constitutional courts in the mechanism of public authority responsibility in Russian regions
... author analyses possible participation of constitutional courts in providing a mechanism for legal responsibility of public authorities in regions of the Russian Federation. Attention is paid to the stages of regional legislation development and current trends. The author suggests avenues of legislation improvement.
1. Овсепян Ж. И. Становление конституционных и уставных судов в субъектах Российской Федерации (1990—2000 ...
Some trends and features of investment activity in the Kaliningrad region
In 2016, the Kaliningrad region economy is entering a new stage of development. It is important to establish whether the new investment mechanism proposed in the framework of amended SEZ legislation can ensure the development of regional economy. In recent years, investment performance has deteriorated in almost all areas, since the expected abolition of customs preferences brought about dramatic changes in the business environment. The investment mechanism proposed in the new SEZ law could not create...
The role of customer loyalty programmes in the modern market
This article examines the main trends in the development of customer loyalty programmes and describes companies’ approaches to creating and implementing them. The authors identify the challenges facing companies that modify customer loyalty programmes in accordance with the features ...
Population aging and the problems of the sandwich generation: Socioeconomic and psychological aspects
... better than cure for optimised active ageing // Quali-ty in Ageing and Older Adults. 2012. Vol. 13, No. 4. P. 291—300.
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26. Pierret C. Sandwich generation: women caring for parents and children // Monthly Labor Review. 2006. Vol. 129 (September)....
The mortality rate in the Kaliningrad region in the second half of the 1940s—1950s
... the dynamics and characteristics of mortality rate. The key mortality rate indicators and the factors behind its decrease in the first half/mid-1950s are identified; the age structure of mortality is reconstructed. It is concluded that the regional trends in mortality rate evolution correspond to the national ones.
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Kant and the contemporary theory of international relations
The main purpose of this article is to answer the question of the role of Kantian political philosophy for the theory of international relations. The answer is giving through the examination of the main trends in the 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 ...
Contemporary threats to the growth of rationality in the Russian society
This article considers the conflicting conditions of growth of rationality in the modern Russian society, identifies threats relating to the key trends in world community development, Russian science and education, and personality transformations.
1. Андреев А. Л. Общество и образование: социокультурный профиль России // Педагогика....
The ethno-political discourse of regional identity in former Yugoslavia: The Bosnian syndrome
... науки и современность. 1999. № 2.
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7. Тодоров Михайлов В. Балканы как пространство проблемной наднациональной идентичности. URL: http://gumgeo....
The basic trends in the development of bilateral trade between the Kaliningrad and Grodno regions
This article examines foreign trade activities between the cooperating regions of the Union State of Russia and Belarus determined by the bilateral convergence of national economies for solving common economic problems and developing regional economies. The author identifies the degree of present cooperation, explores possible future scenarios, and emphasizes the key aspects of interaction between the regions.
1. Бильчак В. С. Приграничная экономика : монография. Калининград, 2001.
2. Прогнозирование...
The role of statistical and economic and mathematical modelling in applied research
The research problem of increasing the effectiveness of marketing activities and the management of business units and institutional structures serves as a framework for describing current trends in applied research on the basis of statistical and economic-mathematical (SEM) modeling. The authors explore the possibilities of using modern information technologies in applied economics and management studies, the prospects of economic agreement ...
Modern trends in the Baltic countries in the discourse of identity: between sovereignty and European integration
The publication reflects the problem of new identity of the Baltics in the conditions of competition between European spaces. The Baltic States are presented as a political structure, where mutually competitive identities oriented towards different centres of modern Europe are developing. In the Baltics, the identity discourse acquires new markers. The agenda includes the crisis of confidence in the institutions of power and integration problems.
1. Miniotaite G. The Baltic States: in search of...
The restoration of the political independence of Lithuania in the late 1980s-early 1990s: a historiographical review
... restoration of Lithuanian independence in the 1980s-early 1990s and the establishment of Lithuania-Russian interstate relations in the early post-Soviet years. The topic of the article serves as a context for the analysis of the sources and general trends characteristic of Russian and foreign historians.
1. Бразаускас А. Пять лет президента. События, воспоминания, мысли. М., 2002.
2. Бусыгина И. Россия и страны Балтии: ...
Формы реализации свободы личности через юридическую ответственность в информационно-техногенном обществе
... 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 trends relating to the penetration of the Internet into all spheres of public life, which has not only positive, but also negative consequences connected with the alienation of personality from freedom and responsibility.
1. Боброва Н. А., Зражевская ...
Особенности реализации инвестиционных стратегий телекоммуникационных компаний Калининградской области
... стратегии развития предприятий телекоммуникационной отрасли.
This article emphasizes the importance of telecommunications sector for the innovative development of the region. The author examines the near-term trends in the telecommunications market of the Kaliningrad region. The article offers an analysis of principal investment areas, namely: the expansion of the 3rd generation cell network, expansion of broadband network using FTTB (Fiber To The Building),...
Ye. A. Polyakova — an expert on the history of landscape gardening (on the basis of archive data)
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 ...
Russia and the way out of the civilizational crisis: N. A. Berdyayev’s historiosophy and aesthetics
... feature of New Middle Ages in European culture is proved to be the polarization of consciousness, which is most vividly manifested, according to Berdyaev, in the structure of Russian soul (the apocalyptic and nihilistic type), as well as the divergent trends of contemporary art (synthetism and analytism).
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2. Бердяев Н. А. Русская и польская душа ...
Concentration camp prose as primary source
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
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The monuments of late Romanticism in the architecture of East Prussia
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 ...
Development of motivation principles for entrepreneurship
The authors reveal major development trends of entrepreneurship theory giving details of motivation principles for entrepreneurial activity.
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Formation of transport complex in the Kaliningrad region
... economy of the Kaliningrad region providing 1/10th of employment and Gross Regional
Product. The article presents special features of types of transport and tasks for its further development as a united system. The author considers twp main development trends: infrastructural and institutional.
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Development of economy in conditions of liberal reforms
The author discusses negative influence of globalization processes on world economy, presents global geopolitical and geo-economic trends in the context of system of challenges for Russia.
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Logistics management and its application for interregional trade
The article reveals major tasks and logistics trends as one of instruments for effective management.
The pro-monarch attitudes of the Russian thought in the country and abroad in the 20th century
This article considers the trends of Russian conservative thought in the Soviet Russia and abroad. The subject of research is the orthodox monarchism of leading Russian thinkers and poets in the USSR and abroad in the 1920s-1950s.
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The trajectories of university education modernisation with the use of contemporary forms of international university cooperation
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The functional approach to managing regional foreign economic activity
... approach when characterizing the multi-level system of functioning and
managing of foreign economic activity (FEA). The author describes the adjustment of traditional management functions (planning, organization, motivation and control) to current trends of FEA development through the example of the Kaliningrad region.
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The legal regime of Special economic zone in the Kaliningrad region: the routes to improvement
This article analyses the problems of implementation of the Special economic zone regime in the Kaliningrad region, outlines its major development trends, suggests prolongation of the transitional period for business entities using the free customs zone procedure, and emphasises certain problems of legislation improvement and application of law in the field under consideration.
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Criminal policy: the concept, problems, and prospects
This article analyzes the definition and content of criminal policy. Special attention is paid to the criminological aspect. The authors scrutinize the
trends of development of criminal policy in theory and practice and formulate a number of key elements of the criminal policy concept.
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Influence of ecological changes on hospitality industry technologies
... saving management. Waste disposal programs should be implemented in a comprehensive manner though environmental initiatives of hotel enterprises can be challenged by the absence of processing enterprises in the regions. It is concluded that green trends of accommodation facilities in the Russian and Kaliningrad hospitality sectors are not dynamic enough, which requires further enhancement of the regulatory and legal framework in the hospitality industry, including the introduction of eco-technologies....
Typology of the dynamics of nature management systems in the North-West of Russia and the Baltic countries
... the regional level are the main object of management at large. The scripts for developing management programs include analysis and assessment of the regional environmental management system and the history of its setup, identification of the main trends, development of the most rational scenarios for its development and correction based on monitoring.
The article considers the main provisions of the concept plan of regional nature management systems, characterizes polychronic elements, and ...
Features of modern accommodation production of agricultural products in the Russian non-black earth region
... Nonblack Soil Zone. Research methodology relies on a combination of statistical analysis methods with heuristic methods (taking into account zonal and azonal factors) based on the use of fundamental works on agricultural zoning. The study has established trends towards a decrease in the role of the Nonblack Soil Zone in the all-Russian production of crop products and towards its growth for livestock products. An excessive concentration of production in pig and poultry farming has been revealed. On the ...
Cognitive features of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients with alcohol dependence
... questionnaire of adherence to therapy, 6-minutes walking tests. It also established the stage of alcohol disease. The inhalation therapy was clarified during the interview, the episodic and systemic omissions fixed. Results and discussion. We observed the trend to subjective COPD symptoms underestimation in patients with the II, III stages of alcohol disease. Alcohol disease did not affect subjective symptoms in patients with stages III, IV of COPD. The compliance level and subjective symptoms severity ...
Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
... of agglomeration and coastal factors on the diffusion of innovations at the inter-municipal level is given: from the agglomeration center to the periphery and from coastal and conditionally coastal municipalities inland. The center-peripheral trends in the distribution of innovation activity in the Rostov region are considered. The conclusion is made that the center-peripheral divide, which has developed in the region, has a decisive role in the formation of the innovation space, while coastalization ...
Specifics of the economic development of the southeast of the Kaliningrad region
The development of territories at the micro level is a topical research issue due to emerging trends in the development of small towns and districts. So, on the territory of the Kaliningrad region, several micro-districts are distinguished (according to socio-economic zoning), including the territory of the south-east, i. e., Gusev, Nesterov, ...
Typology of world financial centers at the beginning of the 21st century
... economists and geographers, the world financial centers are differentiated by the functions they perform within the GFC network. Global financial centers have been subdivided into some types, and a number of conclusions have been formulated about the trends in the transformation of the GFC network and the factors determining this process. The author has identified promising points of growth and new macroregions of the world financial system.
The birth of premature children and the causes of disability of the child population in the kaliningrad region
... neuropsychologist in the Kaliningrad region. The disabled children in the Kaliningrad were registered from 2016 to 2020 through statistical reports of the birth rate of premature babies. Against the background of a decrease in the overall birth rate, there is no trend towards a decrease in the birth of premature babies, the disability of the child population has stable indicators. As a result, the most urgent problem is the development of modern neuropsychological methods for early prevention and / or rehabilitation ...
On the implementation of social innovation in rural area Kaliningrad oblas
... в изменяющейся сельской среде России // Экономические и социальные перемены: факты, тенденции, прогноз. 2008. Т. 2, № 2. С. 74—84.
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Typoligocal diversity of the strongholds of Russian coastal borderlands: (theoretical and conceptual aspect)
In the late XX — early XXI centuries, the growth of marine activity is one of the most obvious and significant global trends. The multidimensional "turn" to the Sea is fully inherent in modern Russia. The article attempts to comprehend and conceptualize the effects of the spatial concentration of the national "marine" economy, as well as its complex ...