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• On Russian/Nordic Investment Competition in the Baltic States

  ... and Nordic investment capital; and even less attention is paid to studying the competition between the two. Yet this subject can be of particular relevance to the areas that are geographically, historically and culturally close to both Russia and the Nordic countries. Thus, the aim of this article is to understand how the competition between Russian and Nordic capital investment is played out in the Baltic States. The study discusses the principles of Russian and Nordic investment in the Baltic, and suggests ...

• Economic Development of the Baltic and Nordic Countries: Characteristics of Еconomic Models

  Economic development models are crucial for understanding historical pro­gress of countries and in forecasting their future economic prospects. The Nordic countries are connected with the Baltics through culture, history, politics, and econ­omy. These states have a common interest of ensuring stability, security, and welfare in the Baltic region. This article strives to answer the question as to why the ...

• Country Competitiveness: an Empirical Study

  ... H. 2013, Foreign Direct Investment in a Small Open Economy, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 20, no. 15, p. 1423—1425. 21. Kristjánsdóttir, H. 2016, Foreign Direct Investment in the Hospitality Industry in Iceland and Norway in comparison to the Nordics and a range of other OECD countries, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Vol. 16, no. 4, p. 395—403. 22. Kristjánsdóttir, H. 2016, Can the Butler's tourist area cycle of evolution be applied to find the maximum tourism level? A comparison of Norway and Iceland ...

• The US ballistic missile defence policy in the Baltic and Nordic regions

  ... offensive capabilities of the US armed forces and its allies and in doing so, it stops performing a purely defensive mission declared by Washington. It is stressed that the deployment of mobile sea- and land-based BMD elements in the Baltic Sea region and Nordic countries will inevitably destabilize the strategic situation and may lead to a new round of arms race in the region. The efficacy of BMD in Europe is evaluated from the perspective of military technology. The system’s potential threats to Russia’s ...

• The role of transborder cooperation in the increase of innovative potential of the Baltic region

  ... innovation potential in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly in the South-East Baltic. The author makes the conclusion about the need to increase the share of innovative projects with the participation of the regions of North-West of Russia; actors fr om the Nordic countries, wh ere regional cooperation is an important engine for innovation development, should be actively involved in these projects. 1. Инновационная деятельность и трансграничное сотрудничество ...

• The demographic problems of the Baltic cities: general trends

  ... perceptions of quality of life in 75 European. 2010. EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL Policy development, pp. 16—18. Kosov Yuri, Mikheeva Natalia demographic problem, population decline, aging nation, migration level, urban areas, urban growth, Nordic countries, Baltic Sea states, Poland 5-14 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-4-1

• The prospects of entrepreneurship in the formation of new hi-tech markets in the Baltic Sea region

  ... innovative economy in Europe. The authors also offer a country-specific list of basic markets, which can be developed by small and medium enterprises in a short-term perspective. In the structure of the Baltic Sea region a special position is held by the Nordic countries — Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland — major regional innovators, as well as a group of South-eastern regions that serve as innovation consumers. Best hopes rest with information and communications technologies and biotechnologies, which ...

• North-West Russia in the context of European integration

  ... increased after the Cold War. It was then when the independent Baltic States became a platform for emergence and recognition of the Baltic Sea region. The author focuses on the social and cultural integrity of the region and considers the traditional Nordic countries and the Baltic Sea states as interrelated components of a single region, different from other European regions in terms of economic interests, as well as its natural and sociocultural landscape. 1. Witte, S. Yu. 1960, Vospominanija [Memoirs],...

• Latvia in the System of European Territorial Security: a View from the Inside and Outside

  ... European Security and Defense Policy: The Latvian Perspective. In: Archer, C. (ed.), New Security Issues in Northern Europe: The Nordic and Baltic States and the ESDP, New York, Routledge, p. 115—138. 10. Latvijas Republikas Saeima. Par Ziemeļatlantijas ... ....2014). 14. Rossijskie jeksperty: strany Baltii priblizjat jekonomiku Rossii k evropejskoj [The Russian experts: the Baltic countries will bring the Russian economy to the European], 2003, DELFI.LV, 16 May, available at: http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/rossijskie-eksperty-strany-baltii-priblizyat-ekonomiku-rossii-k-evropejskoj....

• Construction of transport and energy networks in the Baltic region as an impetus for regional development

  ... economic development. Having studied the largest transport and energy projects in the Baltic region, we were able to show that the new infrastructure networks supported the investment expansion of Swedish and Finnish companies into the post-communist countries of the Baltic Region. Which, in its turn, allowed the Nordic investors to expand their domestic markets. The analysis also shows that the experience of private businesses proves a recent theoretical concept — the pyramid of regional development factors. As a result, the actual regional policy of the EU ...

• The innovative process in the Baltic Sea region

  ... Secondly, the current condition of innovation environments in the BSR is described and the innovation performances of Baltic countries are compared. Finally, the research aims to conclude, as well as to analyse, the future innovation development of the ... ... 2010, available at: http://gripspublic.mediactive.fr/knowledge_base/view/898/demand-led-innovation (accessed 10 July 2012). 11. Nordic Innovation 2011, What is innovation? available at: http://www.nordicinnovation.org/innovation/defining-innovation/ (accessed ...

• Russia’s energy geostrategy in the Baltic Sea region

  ... s nim. Kosmopolitichesky povorot [Living in and Coping with World Risk Society: The Cosmopolitan Turn], Polis. Politicheskiye nauki [Polis. Political Science], no 5, p. 47—48. 2. Bailes, J. K., Herolf, Gunila and Sundelius, Bengt (ed.), 2006, The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defense SIPRI. Oxford University Press, p. 357. 3. Occorsio, E. 2012, Slantsevyy gas: Amerika vnov’ nachinaet kholodnuyu voynu s Rossiey [Shale gas: America again starts a war with Russia], available at: meta ...

• Innovations in the Baltic Sea Region and Network Cooperation between Russia and the EU

  Transnational (involving countries) and cross-border (involving adjacent regions of different countries) cooperation and integration are rapidly developing in the Baltic Sea region. Russia lags behind the Nordic countries and Germany as far as innovative development is concerned; yet our national pace here is comparable to that of Poland and the three Baltic States. At the same time, the features of innovative cooperation vary a great deal depending on the group ...

• Land Use Change and Economics of Land Degradation in the Baltic Region

  ... degradation and sustainable land management to the Baltic region. The findings show that the problem of land degradation in the countries of the region is quite substantial, manifesting itself through reductions in the provision of land ecosystem services.... ... Valters, K. 2014, A Bioeconomy for the Baltic Sea Region: mapping fo stakeholders, practices and opportunities, Innogate and Nordic Council of Ministers, available at: http://bsrbioeconomy.net/resources.html (accessed 10.04.2016). 4. Daily, G. C., Kareiva,...

• Historical memory in the age of globalization: the case of Russian- Estonian relations

  This article contributes to the discussion within the "Towards the Common Past" international academic network bringing together scholars from Russia, the Baltic States and the Nordic countries. It assesses the relationship between globalization and historical memory, thus contributing to the discussion on globalization and the roles and applications of history. On the basis of an analysis of academic discourses on globalization and ...

• Russia’s North-West Borders: Tourism Resource Potential

  ... tourism and recreation development in the border regions of Russia’s North-West. The author summarises international practices of using the potential of state borders as a resource and analyses the creation of tourist attractions and destinations in the Nordic countries. The article explores the degree the state border potential is developed as a tourism resource in Russia’s North-West. The author analyses opportunities and gives recommendations for a better use of this potential by the tourist industry to ...

• Foreign nationals on the Boards of Directors of Russia’s Ten Largest Non-Financial Companies Investing Overseas

  ... foreign directors on corporate governance and firm performance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 53, no. 3, p. 527—554. 24. Oxelheim, L., Gregoric, A., Randoy, T., Thomsen, S. 2013, On the internationalization of corporate boards: The case of Nordic firms, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 44, no. 3, p. 173—194. 25. Liuhto, K. 2017, Foreign board members in Russia’s largest corporations: A special emphasis on the country’s 10 biggest firms investing abroad, St. Petersburg ...

• The moving boundaries of news translation

  ... Linguistic Identities through Translation, Approaches to Translation Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Stetting, K., 1989. Transediting: A New Term for Coping with the Grey Area between Editing and Translating. In: Graham et al., eds. Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Conference for English Studies. Caie, Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen. pp. 371—382. Tesseur, W., 2013. Amnesty International's Language Strategy Put into Practice: A Case Study of the Translation of Press Releases. In: G. González Núñez,...