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... space polarization, which creates additional prerequisites for the inversion of the Russian economic space — ‘Russia of the physical space’ and ‘the economic space of Russia’. The study uses traditional methodology of economic geography (the territorial, cluster, and spatial approaches) and the geoeconomic approach developed by the authors. The article also addresses recent findings in regional economy and spatial studies. It is aimed at the development of the geoeconomic paradigm in the ...

... prac po poŝanu Zasluženogo profesora L`wìwskogo nacìol`nogo unìwersitetu ìmenì Ìwana Franka Olega Ŝablìâ / ed. O. Ŝablìj. L`wìw,2007. P. 255—264. 40. Molodikova I. N., Nozdrina N. N. Migratory flows to Russia and their effect on the territorial distribution of the population // Procesy i formy ruchliwości przestrzennej ludności w okresie przemian ustrojowych / ed. D. Szymańska. Toruń, 2000. P. 71—76. 41. Moon G. Health Trends in Eastern Europe: a Comparative Analysis //Health,...

... countries against the global average, and for the Baltic Sea states against the European average. The grouping of countries and the analysis of changes over the given period confirmed a number of demographic development trends and the persistence of wide territorial disparities in major indicators. The authors identify opposite trends in ranking based on the standardised birth (country consolidation at the level of averaged values) and mortality (polarisation) rates. The features of demographic process ...

This article considers key conditions and factors of the development of Aland Islands, describes main international legal regulations determining current status of the islands, identifies the trends in volume and structure of economic activities, ana lyzes processes of population change by regions and communes, as well as migration flows. The article also characterizes legal framework for socioeconomic development of the Finnish region. It is argued that the key factor behind modern welfare of the...

This article evaluates the social wellbeing of rural municipalities of the Kaliningrad region. The degree of social wellbeing is assessed on the basis of an analysis of statistical data and expert evaluations. Rural districts were identified in the Kaliningrad region on the basis of the following criteria: the share of population residing in the rural areas (threshold value of 50 %); the share of non-residential areas (threshold value of 75 %), the share of agricultural lands (threshold value of...

... and processed. The work follows the network analysis paradigm and identifies the dynamics of the key network parameters: distance, density, transitivity, and compactness. The author analyses the dynamics of representation in the structure of political territorial diaspora elites, business community members, and ‘moral politicians’. The article identifies two periods of formation of political party networks in Poland: the first period (1993—2007) saw a transition from rather weakly integrated ...

With its exclave status, the Kaliningrad region has been drawing attention of many researchers in different fields. Yet the prospects for cooperation between the region and neighbouring communities in Poland and Lithuania, which once constituted an integrated social, economic and political space, remain unclear. Media analysts and scholars alike tend to view the Kaliningrad region as “double periphery”, since it is excluded from major modernisation processes both in the European integration zone...

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...

... w cyklu życia i międzypokoleniowym przekazie. 8. The children left behind: A league table on inequality in child well-being in the world’s rich countries, 2010, Report Card 9, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence. 9. Wacquant, L. 2007, Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality, Thesis Eleven, no. 91, p. 66—71. 10. Warzywoda-Kruszyńska,W., Grotowska-Leder, J. 1996, Wielkomiejska bieda w okresie transformacji. Zasiłkobiorcy pomocy społecznej, Łódź, Instytut ...

... regions of NUTS-1, -2, -3 levels in 1995 -2009/2010 help demonstrate the efficiency of these efforts. 1. Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003, on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), available at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nomenclatures/index. cfm? (accessed 25 February 2013). 2. Zverev, D. V., Kolomak, Ye. А. 2010, Subfederal'naja fiskal'naja politika v Rossii: mezhregional'nye ...

This article deals with the issues pertinent to the EU — Russia visa dialogue — one of the major areas of cooperation between the two partners. The article aims to identify the main problems of this dialogue, as well as prospects for the introduction of a visa-free regime between the EU and Russia. The authors provide a historical overview of cooperation in this area and consider problems and prospects of visa liberalization from the economic, legal, and political perspectives. The analysis draws...

... absent. Spatial planning shares a number of features with marine planning, especially when it comes to the tools, principles, and methods. The differences mainly concern characteristics of the planning object; principles of delineating the borders of territories and water areas; and the authorities responsible for regulation. The use of marine space, its parts, and sea (water) is covered by a number of laws of the Russian Federation. However, a mechanism for marine planning has yet to be integrated ...

... Vladivostok, Dal'nauka, 276 p. 20. Germanskij dom nauki i innovacij [German House of Science and Innovation], available at: http://www.dwih.ru/index.php/ru/netzwerke-und-cluster-de.html (accessed 9 December 2012). 21. Drigo, M. F. 2007, Formirovanie territorial'no-promyshlennyh kompleksov v uslovijah jekonomicheskoj stabilizacii regiona [The formation of industrial complexes in terms of economic stability in the region], Menedzhment v Rossii i za rubezhom [Management in Russia and abroad], no. 3,...

The article focuses on the basic tools of Russia-EU international cooperation, cofunded by the EU and Russia, such as crossborder, trans-border, and trans-national cooperation programmes, which can contribute to innovative, scientific and technological development. The author gives an overview of large-scale Russia-EU international cooperation projects in the field of innovations and comments on the cooperation programme running until the end of 2013. Special attention is paid to a special financial...

This article focuses on development of Russian-Lithuanian economic ties. The research and practical significance of this study lies in the identification of the sources of modern Russian-Lithuanian economic cooperation and the prospects of future mutually beneficial economic relations. The first attempt at establishing economic relations was made in 1919. However, young Lithuanian Republic gravitated towards the West, severing ties with the Russian market. However, the initiatives of Lithuanian authorities...

... European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), 2009, available at: http://www.proinno-europe. eu/page/european-innovation-scoreboard-2009 (accessed 26 August 2012). 12. Ignatjevs, S. 2011, Teritorijas mārketings kā reģiona stratēģiskās attīstības faktors [Territorial marketing as a strategic factor for the development of the region], Rēzekne, Izd. „Druka”. 13. Saati, T. 1993, Prinjatie rescheniy. Metod analiza ierarhiy [Decision-making. The analytic hierarchy process.], Moscow, „Radio i svjaz”....

This article focuses on the cooperation between universities of the North-western federal district (NWFD) of the Russian Federation, Sweden, and Finland, its intensity and territorial differentiation. The analysis was conducted on the basis of public domain information on the international activity of universities available on their official websites. The authors identify the principle areas and leading centres of such ...

....ru/novosti-2/zakon-o-promyshlennoj-politike-rasshiryaet-obyazannosti-i-uvelichivaet-zonu-otvetstvennosti-regionalnoj-vlasti-2528972311/ (accessed 20 April 2012). 6. Pasport social'no-jekonomicheskogo polozhenija gorodov Rossii za 2010 god [Passport of the socio-economic status of cities of Russia for 2010], 2011, Kaliningrad, Territorial'nyj organ Federal'noj sluzhby gosudarstvennoj statistiki po Kaliningradskoj oblasti, 181 p. 7. Plenarnoe zasedanie «Vyzovy novogo desjatiletija: postroenie regional'noj innovacionnoj jekosistemy» [Plenary Session «Challenges of the new ...

This article considers the origin, development, change in the status, and extinction of enclave and exclave formations in the territory of the modern Kaliningrad region. The author offers information on their socio-economic and political features. The article identifies enclave (exclave) problems peculiar to them, including the land access (passenger and cargo transit) of the metropolis to the isolated territory, as well as the issues relating to the origins of state border, border control, visa...

... international consequences of the violation of the Suwałki Agreement. The author pays special attention to the positions of western powers, the decision of the Conference of Ambassadors on March 15, 1923, and the mediation of the League of Nations in the territorial dispute between Lithuania and Poland. The article considers the existing historiographical concepts and evaluations of the role of the Soviet diplomacy in the Vilnius issue. The author identifies new trends in the contemporary historiography ...

In this paper, we look at the interregional cooperation in adjacent areas. Specifically, we focus our attention on the cluster of regions formed by the city of St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region and the Republic of Karelia. All three areas face a number of challenges when it comes to international trade: challenges that are shared and that require strategic coordinated solutions from regional decisionmakers. One of such solutions, for example, could require pooling of competitive advantages of...

... I. L. 1993, Ponyatie granitsy v sovremennoy geopolitike [The concept of boundaries in modern geopolitics]. In: Geopolitika: teoriya y praktika [Geopolitics: Theory and Practice], Moscow. 8. Allcock, J. B., Arnold, C. and Day, A. J. 1992, Border and Territorial Disputes, London, 1992. Kosov Yuri, Vovenda Alexei 10.5922/2079-8555-2012-1-1 5-10 political culture, state frontier, trans-border cooperation, regional integration processes

... development on the basis of theoretical and methodological materials. The study examines the Kaliningrad region and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The article is focused on the modelling of interindustry balance and export/import functions of border territories. 1. Izard, U. 1966. Metody regional'nogo analiza: vvedenie v nauku o regionah.Moscow. 2. Borisevich, V. I., Kandaurova, G. A. (Ed.). 2001. Prognozirovanie i planirovanie jekonomiki: ucheb. posobie. Minsk. 3. Statisticheskoe upravlenie v ...

The territories of Vistula and Curonian lagoons, centrally located in the cross-border region, have numerous remarkable nature sites as well as monuments of history and culture. The article analyses the internal and external factors affecting the development ...

This article examines the current state of the groundwater system monitoring in the Novgorod region. The groundwater monitoring observations serve as the basis for prediction assessment of water resources. The efficiency of water resource management largely depends on the comprehensiveness and reliability of information on the groundwater condition.The existing groundwater monitoring system has proven to be incapable of fully implementing its functions. It requires a fundamental reorganization and...

... on the level fluctuation in the Vistula Lagoon. In view of the planned construction of a deepwater seaport in its waters, the author emphasizes the negative impact on its hydrological regime: rise in the levels which could lead to the flooding of the territories adjoining the mouth of the Pregolya river, increase in salinity, extinction of hydrobionts, and destruction of the ecological systems. 1. Volcinger, V. E. Pjaskovskij, R. V. 1977. Teorija melkoj vody. Leningrad. 2. Velander, P. 1964. Chislennoe ...

This article is dedicated to the stages of development of international research cooperation in the framework of research and education projects focusing on the study of marine and polar territories of the Russian Federation and the Federative Republic of Germany. The largest and most stable projects are the establishment of the Russian-German laboratory of polar and marine research named after the Russian polar explorer of German origin,...