Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... country’s economy.
The article aims to determine the level and describe the features of development disparities amongst Latvia’s towns. Its key objectives are to analyse and interpret measures and rankings comprising the territorial development index for Latvian towns, parent regions taken into consideration; to identify factors in the reduction of development disparities amongst regional towns and the restoration of polycentric development trends.
The territorial development index (TDI) for regions, ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... of Latvia during the same year indicated that student-run businesses in Latvia were instrumental in creating more than 50 job positions and contributed around 100 thousand euros to the country’s economy.
One of the articles by a team of well-known Latvian economists contains data on the effectiveness of student entrepreneurship in Latvia [21]. It presents an analysis of the theme and factors contributing to the transformation of traditional universities into entrepreneurial universities in Latvia....
Regional trends in electoral support for Latvian parties: the neighbourhood effect
The article analyses the neighbourhood effect in the voting behaviour of the Latvians at the four recent parliamentary elections, the ethnic and national leaning of parties considered. The study expands a set of electoral geography tools by adding modern techniques of spatial analysis as well as by increasing the knowledge on ...
Latvian policy on the Russian-language education
... authorities. At the time of declaration of independence and withdrawal from the USSR, a bilingual education system which was formed in Latvia, made it possible to get education at all levels (from kindergarten to technical school and university) in both Latvian and Russian languages. The rise to power in the 1990s. nationalist politicians and the perception of the Soviet period as a period of "occupation", made it impossible to keep the Russian-speaking school unchanged. The transformations ...
Latvia in the System of European Territorial Security: a View from the Inside and Outside
This article focuses on Latvian contribution to European security, which, for the purposes of this study, is understood as a territorial system of regional security. Such system is a combination of interconnected institutions with Latvian participation operating in the field ...
The image of a doll in Latvian and Russian traditional folklore texts: the aspect of ritual practices
This article offers a comparative analysis of the image of a doll in the Russian and Latvian folklore traditions and examines the dialogue between the national cultures. The author emphasise the presence of the image in Russian and Latvian folklore texts and compares its functional features. The major difference in representing the image ...
A Critique of Latvian Integration
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Current problems in Russian-Latvian relations
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The intellectual interconnections between Königsberg and the Baltics in the 19th century
... compiling German-Latvian and Latvian-German dictionaries, both authors target their works at German settlers; however, Lindner’s work is targeted solely at a German-speaking recipient, whereas that of Lange requires that the reader be acquainted with the Latvian language and Latvian peasant lifestyle.
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Russian and Latvian proverbs and sayings on sin
This article examines the semantic scope of the notions of «грех / grēks» as fundamental ones in Russian and Latvian worldviews. Russian and Latvian proverbs and sayings help identify the basic, universal ideas about sin, as well as particular, national ones. The author comes to a conclusion that the Russian mentality — unlike the Latvian one — reflects ...
Estimating the Development of the Latvian - Estonian - Russian Transboundary Tourism and Recreation Region
In 2004, the Pskov — Livonia Euroregion was established across the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Russia (the Pskov region). Tourism became a cooperation priority in the Euroregion. This necessitated research on the local tourism and recreation areas. This study aims to estimate the development prospects of transboundary microregions which have been identified by the authors within the Latvian-Estonian-Russian tourism and recreation mesoregion. The authors employ ten additional criteria proposed...
The political elite recruitment in the Baltic: the role of the ethnic factor
... of major Eurointegration procedures, the ethnic factor — which became especially important in the Baltics after independence — relegated to the periphery of political life. After a period of ‘independence-induced euphoria’ faded, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian power groups had to tackle the problem of civil society formation and the development of a political regime based on democratic procedures. In these countries the processes of elite recruitment were largely affected by the factor ...
The role of transit in the economy of Latvia
... role of transit in the economy of Latvia, whose unique geographical position makes the country an effective transport corridor (bridge) in both the west-east and north-south directions. The article presents the results of an opinion poll conducted at Latvian transit enterprises regarding their future development and offers an overview of the main seaports and the Rīga international airport. The author examines the issue of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization and its impact on the ...
The Development of International Tourism in Lithuania: a Comparative Analysis of Regional Aspects
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Antons Austriņš as a translator of Dmitry Merezhkovsky
The transaltions of D. Merezhkovsky’s works into the Latvian langauge by A. Austriņš help analyse the receptions of Russian symbolism in the Latvian culture of the 19th-20th centuries. The author suggests that A. Austriņš’s decision to translate D. Merezhkovsky texts was affected by the historical ...
Enlightenment, Place and Identity: Imagining Russia in the Latvian Literature of the 18th—19th Centuries
... Baltijas apgaismības virzienu kontrasti un nozīme latviešu 18. gadsimta literatūras attīstībā // Latviešu literatūras procesi un personības. Rīga, 2008.
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Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... ‘Iron Wolf brigade. Additionally, the ‘Aukštaitija’ brigade was reorganized In May 2023, these three brigades came under the control of division headquarters. To provide context for comparison, the Estonian armed forces grew by 10 %, while the Latvian armed forces experienced a growth of up to 65 % (Table 2). The Estonian armed forces saw the addition of a new cropped brigade (in addition to the existing personnel brigade) and the establishment of a division headquarters. However, no new brigades ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... authors employing a comprehensive approach to explore the tourism systems of each of the three states. A significant contribution to the study of the Estonian tourism system has been made by Jeff Jarvis [23], Heli Müristaja [24], Heli Tooman [25]; Latvian tourism, by Ilgvars Abols, Andris Klepers, Maija Rozite [26]; Lithuanian, by Eduardas Spiriajevas [27], Algirdas Stanaitis, Saulius Stanaitis [28].
The centre-periphery model, showing how central and peripheral areas interact as they develop,...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... rhetoric in the three states. They prompt Baltic political elites towards embracing what might be called ‘identity escapism’, manifested in the ambition to classify the countries as part of more ‘prosperous’ regions. For instance, the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian leaders tend to position their states as Nordic countries [13], see also [14]. And they have achieved notable success in terms of international legitimation: in January 2017, the updated website of the UN Statistics Division categorised ...
The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features
... analyse structural and functional changes in the composition of the Baltic political elites after these countries gained independence in the 1990s. The main objective of this research is to reveal the general and the specific in the transformations of Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian elites. Changes in the structure of power groups are considered on a sub-regional scale in view of the current Russian-Baltic political interaction. The common and distinctive features in the transformations of Latvian,...
The Russian-speaking diaspora in the Baltic states: a socio-cultural aspect
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Factors of European Integration and Geopolitical Positioning in Formation of the Baltic states Foreign Policies in 1991―2014
The article analyzes the role of a group of factors related to the determination of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian position in relation to each other, as well as to the international processes of European politics of the historical period of 1991–2014 in the formation of their foreign policy. The author establishes that the factor of European ...
Work-life balance during the Covid-19 outbreak: the case of Latvia
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The system of financing political parties in Latvia
This article considers the mechanism of financing of political parties in the Republic of Latvia. The author analyses the participation of financial and economic groups in the country’s political life. Key business actors affecting the formation of Latvian political system are identified. It is concluded that, since regaining independence in 1991, business has been a principal source of financing for Latvian political parties. The scope of financing of political parties in the republic depends on ...
The elimination of Latvian khutors in Bashkiria in the Soviet era: the reasons, conditions and consequences
This article focuses on the eradication of Latvian khutors in Bashkiria as a result of the state plan for total collectivization. The author arrives at a conclusion that it resulted in the elimination of conditions for ethnicity development.
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The assessment and factors of increase in innovative competitiveness of Latvian regions
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Economic Consciousness and the System of Values of Latvian University Graduates
The article analyses the attitude of a Latvian university’s graduates to wealth and means of its acquisition, as well as their assessment of their own economic status and preferred moves in case of unemployment. The author estimates the university graduates’ personal capabilities; their ...
Russians in Latvia: Peculiarities of Socio-cultural Adaptation and Identity
..., two trends have been recognized - first, the “ingrowing” of ethnic Russians into the life of independent Latvia, and second, forming their new identity. The article presents a number of factors hampering the integration of ethnic Russians into Latvian society. Variations and options of socio-cultural identity and integration (or assimilation) of the Russian population of Latvia are shown.
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... Estonia expelled 14 more staff members from the Russian embassy, 7 of whom had diplomatic status.
On May 10, 2022, the Lithuanian Seimas unanimously declared Russia a “state supporting and engaging in terrorism”. Subsequently, on August 11, 2022, the Latvian Seimas also formally acknowledged Russia as a “state supporting terrorism”. The escalation continued on October 3, 2022, when Lithuania declared a Russian envoy persona non grata, leading to their expulsion from the country.
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The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... policies, and political culture of these countries with those of Sweden and the EU. This emphasis can be observed in scholarship allocation statistics, particularly during the early years of the Visby programme’s existence, where Polish, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian recipients outnumbered their Russian counterparts [28, s. 41].
However, after 2004, the number of Polish and Baltic scholarship recipients began to decline, as these countries became EU members and other EU mobility programmes ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... regional cooperation and communication as well as confirming three current long-term priorities as strategic goals for the foreseeable future.<17>
Moscow actively partook in the discussion on the CBSS Reform Roadmap which was approved during the Latvian chairmanship in 2018—2019.<18> Russia also supported the Danish presidency in its efforts to adopt revised Terms of Reference of the CBSS and of the CBSS Secretariat. Moscow was also helpful in preparing a number of other important documents: ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... the effect of institutional, political and other factors on the border regime.
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International positioning of the region: the image of the Kaliningrad region in the media space of the Baltic states
... positioning concept, it looks at the ties between the Kaliningrad region and the neighbouring Baltic States and how the former is perceived by the latter. Publication monitoring and media content analysis were carried out to explore the image created in the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian media in recent years. Avenues for positioning are proposed in line with the principles of place branding, and the interests common to the region and the Baltic States are considered through the lens of international cooperation ...
Ports of Eastern Baltic and Russian transit policy: competition and cooperation
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Impact of remigration on the worksphere under Covid-19: the case of Lithuania
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Russian soft power in the Baltic States through the lens of research: traditions, competition, confrontation
... significant part of the Baltic States’ ruling class, it is becoming the target of counteraction. At the same time, Russian high and mass culture and, partly, educational services are in demand from both Baltic Russian speakers and ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians. Our analysis shows that the views of Baltic researchers that Russian soft power is politics-driven and foreign to the region are exaggerated and biased. In its turn, Russian soft power in the Baltics retains the potential to aid ...
Equivocality in Delineating the Borders of a Cluster: The Baltic’s Case
... form of networking warrants distinguishing between internal, external, thematic, and absorptive types of boundaries. The feasibility of this approach is tested in the Baltics’ national and regional clusters, with special attention being paid to the Latvian IT-cluster. Committed to economic clustering and glocal cluster interactions beyond national borders, the Baltics are an ideal case study for testing our model. Latvia’s mature IT-cluster is an important national growth point. Regional and industry-specific ...
The Effect of Migration on Latvia’s Sex and Age Composition
... identify temporal and age/space features of migration. A comparison of the official data with net migration rates calculated for different age groups ensures a more accurate estimate of the actual volume and direction of migration flows for certain Latvian cities. The method for calculating net migration for the selected age groups, described in the article, may narrow the gaps in the current migration statistics and reveal the territorial inhomogeneity of demographic processes.
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Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Hermann Sudermann and others: The images of time in the dialogue of texts
The author focuses on the response to the short stories of the Latvian writer Rudolf Blaumanis within the intertextual space of literature. Blaumanis’s short stories are considered as pre-texts for the works of H. Sudermann, Ch. Aitmatov, and V. Astafyev. The author analyses the logic and forms of interaction between ...
Political elite networks in Latvia and their transformation in 1993-2014
The authors consider the structure of the Latvian political elite in 1993—2014 and analyse the major network parameters. The roles of key network actors and their changes over the study period are examined
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Knowledge Management and the Increase of SME Competitiveness: a Case Study
... key objectives of emerging EU economies. In this regard, the authors define the role of knowledge in enhancing business competitiveness in a regional economy. The effect of knowledge management processes on the economic activity of businesses in the Latvian region of Latgale is considered. To assess the role of knowledge and knowledge management processes, the authors apply integrated metrics calculated with the help of correlation analysis based on a 2013 survey of managers and staff of SMEs in ...