Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
This article offers a new approach to evaluating the significance of cross-border tourism for residents of the border region of Karelia amid COVID-19 restrictions. The work draws on data of a municipal-level survey of the region’s population (575 people), conducted by the author in collaboration with Dr Ekaterina Shlapeko in 2021. Analysis of the survey results has confirmed the customariness ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tourism suffered more than many other sectors amid Covid-19 travel restrictions. This article looks at the impact of the pandemic on the territorial redistribution of tourist flows in the Baltic region. The study draws on regional annual and monthly data on international and domestic tourist arrivals ...
Application of spatial analysis of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 (the case of the Pskov region)
Apart from biomedical and organizational issues, the emergence of the new coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, set large-scale tasks for creating and improving mathematical and information technologies that operate spatial data in statistical analysis and forecasting. The regional level is seen as a suitable choice for spatial analysis ...
The Impact of COVID-19 on immigration: the transformation of Norwegian migration policy on asylum seekers
... mobility and its scientific modelling, relied on the idea of unbounded growth at the sub-national, national and supra-national level. The article focuses on immigration to Norway, showing how institutional constraints were used to deal with the spread of COVID-19 and how they affected immigration to the country.
Due to complexity reasons, we focus exclusively on the situation of asylum seekers, giving additional attention to unaccompanied minors. These groups’ migration status is assumed to make ...
Response of the Lithuanian municipalities to the First Wave of COVID-19
This article analyses the response of Lithuanian local authorities to the first wave of COVID-19 with a special focus on the economic support measures they took. The main goal of this in-depth study is to compare the economic response measures included in the action plans of Riga and Tallinn, two large Lithuanian municipal administrations,...
Changes in the recreational and tourist load on the eco-system in the conditions of COVID-19
The tourism industry of the Kaliningrad region is one of the most dynamically developing components of the regional economy. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the region's tourist volume was formed mainly due to external tourist flows. With the onset of the pandemic, there was a fear of an increase in the crisis situation in the industry, caused by a sharp decrease in the number of tourists ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
Over the past 25 years, Russia has faced several economic and geopolitical challenges, including the 2008 global financial crisis, sanctions imposed in 2014, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To remain resilient in the face of these challenges, Russia needs to adopt a flexible development strategy and transition to a new path of development. This transition requires the development of new knowledge-intensive industries, ...
The specificities of healthcare corruption offences during the Covid-19 pandemic
... barrier to equal access of patients to medical care and related services, reducing the effectiveness of medical institutions, leading to waste and embezzlement of budgetary funds. The subject of this research is the study of factors of negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on corruption crimes committed in the field of health care. Examples given in the article allow us to identify circumstances that require special attention during the investigation of criminal cases of the relevant direction, because ...
Digitalization of higher education in the context of the COVID-19 and the post-pandemic period: methodological problems
The article discusses expanding the research base in the field of educational psychology through the analysis of methodological issues that arose during the process of systemic digitization of general and professional education in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic period. Digitization during these periods accelerated the transformation of socialization through educational means in a virtual learning environment. The fundamental problem of digital transformation in education ...
Statistical analysis of tourism flows between Ukraine and the Baltic Sea Region countries in 2012—2019
... flow prevailed over inbound. The number of inbound tourists to Ukraine sharply declined after 2013 because of the socio-political situation in the country. The analysis reveals significant changes in inbound and outbound tourism flow structures. The COVID-19 pandemic is shown to be a critical factor influencing the current state and prospects of the tourism industry.
Satyr L. M., Zadorozhna R. P., Stadnik L.I
inbound tourism, outbound tourism, international tourism, Travel and Tourism Competitiveness ...
Geography of inbound tourism and transboundary tourism-and-recreation region-building in Sweden
... tourist flows help identify the country’s cross-border tourism-and-recreation regions and delineate their borders. This research employs statistical and cartographic methods. The incoming tourist flow to Sweden grew steadily until 2020. However, the Covid-19 crisis has led to a drastic reduction in the number of incoming tourists. Based on the 2019 statistics, the findings confirm the existence of a developed transboundary tourism-and-recreation mesoregion that brings together Germany, Denmark, and ...
Transformation of the tourist and recreation sphere of the Russian-Belarusian border region within the pandemic consequences
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a serious challenge for the whole world. All sectors of the economy suffered damage to a certain degree, taking all possible measures to prevent the aggravation of the epidemiological situation. The tourism and recreation ...
Distant learning in the Institute of Medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic
The article examines the problematic issues of teaching medical students during the COVID 19 pandemic. In total, 73 students of the 6th year of the medical institute took part in an online training. Instead of three levels of teaching, typical for the “Pain management” course, two were left, i. e., “Theoretical knowledge” and simulation online training “The Interview”. In the end of the course the students were to take an anonymous questionnaire to meet their achievement needs. The research...
Psychological health of senile men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic
The article discusses the issue of maintaining psychological health in men and women of senile age in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of 100 respondents aged 74 to 98, living in a family and in a nursing home. Negative characteristics of psychological health in men and women of senile age were revealed: low level of life satisfaction, low mental ...
Development of e-justice during the COVID-19 pandemic
... article provides an overview of information technologies used by courts in criminal proceedings at the present time. The authors analyze the current technical innovations used in the criminal process which acquired increased relevance during the fight on COVID-19. Special attention is paid to court videoconferencing. The authors analyze positive and negative aspects of online court sessions, which allow determining the further vector of information technology development in modern criminal proceedings....
Development of the automatic system based on the three-factor communication model for the extraction and classification of the comments in social media
The paper aims at examining the main communication strategies used by those involved into risk communication on the governmental regulations on the management of the adverse aftermaths of the crises (on the case of COVID-19 pandemics). In order to extract and classify the set of comments, a three-factor model was developed to classify the texts and comments through S. Hall’s 'encoding/decoding' model, N. Luhmann’s functional subsystems theory, and communicational ...
In search of a theoretical framework for factors influencing work and life balance
Work-life balance (WLB) has gained noticeable attention amid the pandemic. Yet before the outbreak of COVID-19, the increasing pace of life encouraged investigations into individual and organisational aspects of WLB. Physically and mentally healthy people help society develop and grow, whilst health issues caused by work-life imbalance lead to dissatisfaction ...