The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... another tendency that did not arise on the Russian initiative. This article aims to address the question of whether Russia should establish direct relations with the V4 and the BA/BCM as tools to overcome the mentioned difficulties. On the one hand, these associations date back to before the countries acceded to the Union. On the other, they are products of regionalisation in the EU. In answering this question, we achieve three objectives. Firstly, we look for an appropriate theoretical and methodological ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... no sex-specific differences in migration distances. Migrants who obtained permanent registration at their new place of residence tended to cover greater distances compared to those registered only temporarily. The shortest relocation distances were associated with the age of 16, which could be attributed to prospective students moving to the nearest town where a vocational school is located.
State of research
Ernst Ravenstein claimed that most migrants move short distances, and migratory ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... spread of the pandemic across regions and municipalities.
Other indicators are less accurate as deaths from COVID-19 are not always recorded as such, and the symptoms of the infection often resemble those of other viral illnesses and may be statistically associated with them (e. g. acute respiratory infections). Regional hospitalisation rates do not always correlate with
COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.
Amongst quantitative methods, regression analysis was employed most frequently to analyse the factors ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... Risk is a possibility with an identified probability of causing damage when a threat is realized. For example, one of the modern global challenges is the growth of international contradictions leading to trade, military, and other conflicts. This is associated with threats of expanding specific external restrictions, leading to numerous impacts of sanctions risks in exposed areas, for example, food shortages in poor countries due to transport barriers. Since there are quite a lot of threats and risks ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... policy documents. The analysis highlighted and confirmed the ‘super Atlanticism’ tendencies in Denmark’s contemporary strategic culture, revealing its close ties with the Danish perception of the US as the safeguard for the liberal world order and associated multilateral institutions. Denmark’s value-driven militarised foreign political activism in the post-Cold War era is thus not only pragmatic but also ideological as it seeks to promote liberal values, democracy and human rights under American ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... analyse the structure of places of remembrance — monuments, memorials, commemorative plaques and commemorative architecture — that appeared in what is now Kaliningrad region primarily in the pre-war and post-Soviet periods and have a symbolic meaning associated with the history and national cultures of Germany, Poland and Lithuania. Describing this symbolic meaning is another aim of this study.
Historiographic and theoretical state of research
Monuments of the pre-war past preserved in the Kaliningrad ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
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The second level of inequality — the use of the Internet to order goods and services by the population — is associated with the level of education and the average age. If the share of citizens with higher education is 1 % higher, then the share of those ordering online is 0.2 % higher. Less educated and older residents are less likely to use such services due ...
Hemozoin accumulation associated with Opisthorchis felineus infection and the analysis of its role in changing the bile ducts microbiota
... methods of parasite diagnostics and treatment. It is known that hemozoin is produced by parasites causing schistosomiasis and malaria. Recent research has shown that hemozoin is produced by the hepatic trematode Opisthorchis felineus, but the effects associated with the presence of hemozoin in the bile ducts of the host have not been studied yet. The authors compare the concentration of hemozoin in various organs of animals and study the ability of the O. felineus hemozoin to modify the bile ducts ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... sustainable since their activities enhance the sustainability of transportation and supply chains as a whole [22]. The concept of a sustainable port is relatively new, and various interpretations may be found in the literature. For instance, the American Association of Port Authorities introduced the term “sustainable port” in 2007, which encompasses a set of strategies and actions by the port that meet the current needs of stakeholders, ensure the protection of natural resources, and consider social ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... (import of meat and milk powder) [14].
There is another range of studies related to the topic of this research. They all focus on cross-border practices and their specific kind, shopping trips to a neighbouring country. Cross-border consumer mobility is associated not only with price gradients but also with the openness of borders [16]. The literature also describes a distinct phenomenon of “shopping for entertainment”. This is trips to another country to buy food products to try something new and ...
IL-1β and IL-8 influence on cytoprotective mechanisms in liver tissue in morbid obesity patients with comorbidities
... Western blot. The concentration of cytokines (IL-1β, IL-8) was measured in plasma by multiplex analysis in flow fluorometry format. It was demonstrated that an increase in the concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-8 in blood plasma was associated with the development of NAFLD and type 2 diabetes in patients with morbid obesity. It was found that an increase in the expression of HSF1 in liver tissue was positively associated with the presence of steatosis and negatively associated with ...
Acute renal failure and acute kidney injury: The historical aspects of the syndromes
... the renal failure concept from antiquity to the present. The authors define the term ‘acute renal failure’ and ‘acute kidney injury’. The article presents a classification of these diseases. It is shown that the development of renal failure is associated with a significant increase in age-independent mortality. The main biomarker of a kidney injury, which may be elevated in patients with ischemic heart disease, is creatinine.
1. Rea M. E., Dunlap M. E. Renal hemodynamics in heart failure: ...
Power rating of flares power burning associated gas by processing satellite images MODIS
Described modified method for estimating flares power of burning associated gas by processing satellite images MODIS. The program complex estimates associated flared gas volume for a given torch unit and licensed areas within the selected calendar periods. The methodology and software system tested for the most powerful ...
Another Critical Idealism of Hermann Cohen
... as opposed to the idealism of the subject. According to Cohen, thinking is shaped in the course of making judgments. Judgment determines the ratio between two different concepts; therefore, Cohen defines judgment as an act of ‘separation’ and ‘association’. This means that the judgment is an act of generation through the variable directions of separation and association. Thus, the Marburg philosopher defines discursive thinking as a correlation between separation and association. Therefore,...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... the region’s population’s expectations from social interests (collaborations with like-minded individuals) to undertakings aimed at increasing material well-being. Therefore, expectations of participating in cooperative activities are primarily associated with the opportunity to start one’s own business and increase personal income.
Cooperation
As an economic activity, cooperation offers several advantages. These include increased efficiency of product sales processes, easier access ...
Vivos Voco. Post-war Correspondence between Sergey Hessen and Ivan Lapshin: Year 1946
... Metaphysics. Volya Rossii [Russia’s Will], 1-2, pp. 59-84. (In Rus.)
Lapshin, I. I., 1941. The Controversy over Freedom of Will in Contemporary Philosophy. Zapiski Russkogo nauchno-issledovatel’skogo ob’edineniya v Prage [Notes of the Russian Research Association in Prague], 11(81). (In Rus.)
Lapshin, I. I., 1944. On the Originality of Russian Art. Russkoe nauchno-issledovatelskoe ob’edinenie v Prage. Doklady i lektsii [Russian Research Association in Prague. Presentations and Lectures], 2. Prague: ...
Immanuel Kant in the cultural memory of Kaliningrad residents (post-Soviet period)
The key commemorative practices associated with the name of I. Kant in the Kaliningrad region during the post-Soviet period have been examined in the article. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, due to the growing interest in the pre-war history of the region, there was an expansion of ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... object is the regions of the Russian Northwestern Federal District, commonly referred to as Northwest Russia. This choice is determined by their significant role in the innovative development of the country, territorial proximity to the EU countries and associated higher geopolitical pressure. The St. Petersburg-Pribaltic region, characterized by advanced industry and innovation leadership, has traditionally been the front runner in ‘accepting’ and ‘transmitting' external innovations [6]. Current ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... Swedish Institute interacts with its program alumni. The Institute actively positions its grantees and alumni as ‘ambassadors’ representing Sweden and the universities where they pursued their education or internships.<4> This is undeniably associated with the cultivation of a favourable image for the country when an alum returns to their homeland after completing their education.
Contemporary state of the research
The examination of education as a soft power instrument has been a subject ...
“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
... center, and the periphery can be represented as a) the Russian province, b) a place of memory, c) the space of otherness. This article is devoted to the description of Moscow as a component of this poetic system, the establishment of a circle of motives associated with Moscow, and their role in the Galich plot building. According to the conclusions, the capital in the artistic world of the poet, as a rule, has a negative connotation. In the poetic subsystem of Moscow, the motives of departure and arrival ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... elements of the European experience of urbanisation. It is worth noting that the process of agglomeration took place in European coastal regions in a very similar manner [15].
A natural result of the development of society, coastal urban agglomerations are associated with certain economic consequences. An economist sees the city as a tool to increase the competitiveness of the economy, a mechanism ensuring an inflow of resources for the development of the whole settlement system. Moreover, it is traditionally ...
Semyon Frank and Yakov Golosovker: On Kantian Motives in the Works of Dostoyevsky
... “divined”. It is a realm of search for “universal meaning” and “cultivation” of historical reality. Such a “conversation” around the work of Dostoyevsky took place in the 1920s among philosophers (including members of the Free Philosophical Association or Volfila in its abbreviated form). The theme takes on added significance at the hands of Ya. E. Golosovker and S. L. Frank whose intellectual affinity manifests itself today in the way they interpret Kantian motives in the work of Dostoyevsky....
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... comprehend, evaluate, and organize daily activities in time and space [11, p. 1—2]. It is essential to shift the research focus from analysing actors to a deeper understanding of their interests and choice preferences. The legitimization of actions is associated with justifying one’s own choices and behaviour in the eyes of other individuals and the public [13, p. 126]. Irhin argues that the neo-institutional approach enables a comprehensive examination of political and other institutions from a ...
Disturbance of the vaginal microbiome and the risk of HIV infection in women: analysis of scientific studies
... determinant of susceptibility to HIV infection is the composition of the vaginal microbiome, which can influence the local immune cell population and inflammation status. While a low diversity microbial composition dominated by Lactobacillus crispatus is associated with a reduced risk of HIV infection, a high microbial diversity environment associated with bacterial vaginosis increases the risk of HIV infection. Given the important role of the vaginal microbiome in determining HIV susceptibility, changing ...
Strongly associated threefold distributions of projective space
... only or equipping distributions taken separately. Research was carried out by G. F. Laptev method. Determinations of the H -distributionand existence theorems are given in the frame of zero order. Requiring that Λ-, L-, E-distribution were mutually associated we introduce a special class of threefold distributions, which we call strongly associated distributions or SH -distribution. Definition of SH -distribution is given in the frame of the 1st order and the existence theorem is proved.
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The concept of “network” in the system of basic concepts of regional economic geography
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Cross-border cooperation between nongovernmental organisations in the Pomeranian and Warmian-Masurian voivodeships
... Component Development Strategy for the Baltic Sea Euroregion], 2006, Stowarzyszenie Gmin RP, Euroregion Bałtyk.
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University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... — space per student
k23 — average Unified State Exam score for state-funded students
k24 — average Unified State Exam score for tuition-paying students
It is worth noting that the selection of indicators for the socio-cultural function, which is associated with the cultivation of high moral qualities and values in students, posed a particularly challenging task. In a broad sense, the purpose of higher education is to create conditions for the development of experts understanding new phenomena ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... statistical reports of migration departments the concepts ‘immigrants and their descendants’ and ‘non-Western countries to analyze changes in this field [26, p. 13]. Denmark introduced ethnic criteria to define a ghetto, after which it became associated with immigrants and their descendants from Muslim countries.<19> A decade of active anti-immigrant socio-political discourse contributed to the perception of ghetto residents as depersonalized ‘others’ to Danish culture. The main ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their cores. A changed environment may slow down the development of some industries (and even cause them to decline) and give a boost to others, with these two processes constituting economic restructuring. In the ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... Moreover, it delves into the resulting changes in the role of geographical location within the digital realm, shedding light on emerging patterns in the territorial organization of the information society.
The increasing number of digital world studies is associated with the development of geoinformatics (geographical informatics, geomatics, geocomputer science, computer geography, or comgeography [4]). This research domain exists at the crossroads of geography and computer science and has gained widespread ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
The article analyses the challenges associated with the development of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region. The author analyses trends in the development of agriculture, population dynamics, and settlement patterns, while also exploring their interconnectedness and external impacts. The ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... using AI and other big data methods to test phenomena and mechanisms that have already been studied by traditional methods in previous entrepreneurship studies. The analysis conducted by Coad and Srhoy is oriented towards forecasting the parameters associated with high-growth companies. Employing the Big Data methodology, they identify authentic predictive variables from a considerably extensive pool of potential candidate predictors. In the article authored by Obschonka et al., the primary focus ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... said they were “very likely” or “probably” to get vaccinated against the new coronavirus next year).
However, the published statistics during the fourth wave can be regarded as a strategy of intimidation: “Todesfall Zusammenhang” — death associated with, “Mensch sterben” — man to die.
The publisher cites the viewpoints of prominent politicians like Angela Merkel and Markus Söder. This tendency can be attributed to the radical changes in public life, which have been tightly regulated ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... to indicate a generally unfavourable socio-economic situation in the region. However, the reasons for this disadvantage vary. There are two subgroups within this group of voivodeships. The first is depressed voivodeships whose population decline is associated with a reduction or even cessation of old industries and slow development of new ones or their absence. The second subgroup is backward voivodeships traditionally developing more slowly than Poland in general.
Depressive voivodeships include ...
Phraseological units as a means of information compression in the American election discourse
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https://historymusings.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/full-text-campaign-buzz-august-30-2012-transcript-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech-at-the-2012-republican-national-convention/
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Dismantling monuments as the core of the post-2014 ‘decommunisation’ in Ukraine and Poland
... range of sources (Polish and Ukrainian legal acts, Russian and international media), this study looks at the ‘monument fall’ in Ukraine and Poland as part of the post-2014 memory wars. The purpose of this article is to identify the main patterns associated with the demolition of Soviet and Russian monuments in the two countries. The ‘decommunisation’ of public space is an element of Ukraine’s and Poland’s politics of memory, enshrined in legal acts. Its driving force is the Institutes ...
On connection between codependency and the ideas about abusive relationships in young women
... women’s understanding of abusive, romantic and marital relationships and clarifies the specific judgments about violent behavior in partnerships among women with high codependency. The study relies on 110 responses from women aged from 19 to 30. The free associations methods, the scale of codependency of B. K. Weinhold and J. B. Weinhold, the questionnaire of interpersonal relations of W. Schutz, the author’s semi-structured interview in the context of problematic situations are the methodology background ...
Development of municipal districts in Saint Petersburg over the last decade: an economic and spatial analysis
... vol. 62, № 1, p. 89—103. doi:
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Cultural discrepancy within Russian-speaking community in Israel
... representatives of the ‘Putin Exodus’ who arrived in the country in 2014—2018. The divergence in preferences and attitudes was revealed thanks to the discourse, semantic and comparative analysis. The research was conducted on the material of the free association test and blogs of the Russian Israelis. The association test revealed cultural stereotypes of the Russian Israelis who did not write blogs. The ‘1990s wave’ immigrants revealed their deep connection to the Soviet Jewishness and Israeli ...
On the functional definition of concepts and linguistic meanings: the embodied/grounded approach
... quickly hypothesize which category this object belongs to. Based on the function of the concept and the division of this function into parts (private functions), it becomes possible to construct, instead of one generic concept (and one lexical meaning associated with it), an ontogenetic concept (ontoconcept) as three age-related variants of the concept (and, accordingly, three variants of the meaning of the word), arising in ontogeny — in preschoolers, early school and late school. As an example,...
Organized crime in the Soviet Russia: the paradox of institutionalization. Part One.
... particular, control bodies, and so-called new bourgeoisie. Such relations were supported with certain remuneration which became the factor for specific Soviet corruption to emerge. It is noted that even a fairly tough political and legal regime, which is associated with the Stalinism, did not overcome organized forms of criminal activity, though that period didn’t encourage any interaction between criminals and representatives of the authorities. A new stage in the organized crime is associated with ...
Psychoemotional state of medical students involved in providing medical care under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Functions of somatisms in the poetry of B. Pasternak
The article analyzes the somatic vocabulary in the poetry of B. Pasternak. It is concluded that the poet actively uses the words of this semantic class that is associated with some peculiarities of his world perception. The quantitative analysis of somatic elements shows that more than 100 somatisms are used in the poet's lyrics. Of these, the words associated with visual perception (eyes, pupil, etc.) are most ...