Factors in local governments’ digitalisation in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia: social media review
... municipalities of Russia’s Northwestern Federal District, drawing on data from the Vkontakte social network. The empirical part of the research utilised data gathered from 2011 to 2022 on the socioeconomic performance and municipal heads of 1,083 settlements and 199 districts. Significant factors influencing municipalities’ presence on social media were determined using binary logistic regression, with two clustering results compared to identify the underperforming municipalities. It was concluded ...
Settlement system of the Kaliningrad region: dasymetric analysis
The article examines the settlement system of the Kaliningrad region using the dasymetric method, first proposed in the early 20th century by the Russian geographer V. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky as a more precise alternative to population density cartograms. Several dasymetric ...