The Baltic Agenda in the Strategies of Russia’s Baltic Regions and Municipalities
Quantitative content analysis was employed to examine 63 strategies for the socioeconomic development of regions and municipalities within Russian Baltic territories. The aim was to assess the extent to which the ‘Baltic agenda’ – themes specific to this area – manifest themselves in the documents. Strategies developed between 2010 and 2023 and in force as of ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... Finnish travellers, marked preferences and a network of contacts with Finnish residents and organisations. The COVID-19 restrictions affected the routines of the residents of the Karelian borderlands more severely than those of people living in the inner municipalities or the regional capital. The findings of the study provide a comprehensive picture of the significance of cross-border tourist mobility (border tourism) and point to spatial differences in the perception of the study phenomenon by the residents ...
Municipal Tax Autonomy under Conditions of Budget Federalism: Reform Experience in Italy and Russia
The article deals with the questions of the current legislative budget process of local autonomies in the Russian Federation and Italy. The current
budget process of an Italian autonomy is characterized by the growing role of municipal taxes and overall decline in public transfers. In the Russian Federation, municipal budgets depend crucially on the mechanism of federal and municipal tax redistribution at this stage of municipal reform. The author comes to the conclusion that ...
Spatial characteristics of ethnic group localisation in St. Petersburg
... expert interviews [23], [24], [25], with authors seldom relying on statistical data, particularly that collected at the local level. A rare exception is Vendina’s contribution, which tracks the concentration of selected ethnic groups across Moscow municipalities, based on vital records and a survey of 3,500 respondents. It monitors the ‘embeddedness’ of ethnic diasporas in the Moscow landscape at the beginning of the 2000s [26]. Relevant research on the ethnic geography of Russia at regional ...
