The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... database.
The largest body of COVID-19 response legislation was introduced in the Murmansk region, whose unique spatial features produced a specific COVID-19 situation. The region’s closed towns were mentioned in 155 municipal and regional regulations adopting regional and federal measures to the peculiarities of the local economy, lifestyle of the communities residing in the region, and the Arctic climate, geography and transport arrangements. Municipalities of the Leningrad region were most prolific ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... visible in the 1990s—early 2000s: the growing marine economy and increasing coastalisation (the gravitation of the economy, infrastructure and people towards the sea).
The 2025 Strategy for the Spatial Development of the Russian Federation<2>, adopted in 2019, disclosed the major trends and problems of the then Russia, albeit with a certain degree of generalisation and political bias often present in such documents [11], and emphasised the country’s spatial goals, objectives and priorities....
The contentious issues of adoption in civil procedure
This article analyses the problem of maintaining the secrecy of adoption at the trial stage. The author makes certain proposals regarding the improvement of adoption legislation and analyses different scholarly perspectives on the legal nature of secrecy of adoption and its practicality.
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Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... variance with the objectives of criminal policy.
Introduction
In June 2023, the Estonian authorities announced that the development of a mechanism for the seizure of Russian assets had been completed. On 12 October 2023, the Estonian government adopted a bill amending the Act on International Sanctions<1>, which was subsequently submitted to Parliament for approval. According to the information made public, the new bill lays down national rules allowing the utilisation of assets belonging ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... course centred on geoinformation systems and their practical utility as a research tool for analysing extensive geospatial datasets. This includes the incorporation of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques [5], [6].
The widespread adoption of the internet and information and communication technologies (ICT) on a global scale has played a pivotal role in the development of open databases containing geocoded spatio-temporal data, which are now readily accessible for geographic analysis....
European and Eurasian integration: similarities and differences
... integration processes regarding the analysis of demographic and socio-economic development indicators of the EU and EAEU countries, as well as the integration mechanisms and instruments. The research comes to the conclusion on the possibility of adopting the European Union integration experience for the further integration processes in the Eurasian integration process. The primary tool for research is the comparative analysis. It is noted that the economic integration of countries in the ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... stressing the ambiguity of the scientific usage and cognitive role of the notions of ‘geopolitical regionalisation’ and ‘geopolitical region’ in geopolitics and human geography. Human geographers from St Petersburg, Russia, have recently proposed to adopt the activity-geospatial geo-spatial approach to solve this problem [4], [5]. They have identified ten of the most widely used types of ties that contribute to region-building, i. e. natural, economic, cultural, political, and other properties ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... by November 2022, the West viewed the “victory of Ukraine... as quite possible, provided that the West promptly supplies an adequate amount of military equipment and training” [19, p. 91]. It is precisely in this direction that the strategy was adopted.
As the special military operation prolonged, the recognition surfaced that the enduring confrontation between Russia and the West would exert a lasting and widespread negative impact on the majority of European companies and economies. In this ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... but five or six years earlier, as evidenced by contributions from Russian [46], [47] and international [48] researchers. In these conditions, the Russian—European barrier is becoming increasingly tangible both on land and at sea. The macro-region is adopting a bi-structural design that both offers coastal areas new opportunities, such as saturating the local food market with Russian goods [49], and presents them with risks [50].
As rightly noted in [51], the proclaimed Zeitenwende in the Baltic region ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... transport), but also in “areas of social and political concern such as ethnic conflicts, public health, education, cultural diversity, human security, human rights, and humanitarian relief or development aid” [6, p. 6]. Therefore, all three layers adopted by Lecours tend to accumulate and intertwine with one another.
Paradiplomacy trends mostly replicate the general tendencies of international relations. In particular, paradiplomacy reflects the globalization and regionalization processes that ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... national security strategy, including its societal component. It took several years to develop a special national security doctrine based on a complex approach to security, including its societal dimensions.
The first Russian national security concept, adopted in 1997, asserted that Russia faced no immediate danger of large-scale aggression, and that, because the country was beset with a myriad of debilitating domestic problems, the greatest threat to Russia’s security was now an internal one.<2>
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The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... two parties combined in their programmes elements of both ideologies, they were still considered right-wing. The analysis of their programme goals shows that the political views of PiS are 70 % right-wing and socioeconomic ones 100 % left-wing. PO has adopted a leftist perspective on political issues and right-wing on the economy [21, s. 168]. Polish politics became unbalanced as a result: although about 25 % of voters support leftist ideas [22, p. 64], the left-wing forces gain from 7.5 to 13 % of ...
Strategic perspectives for the territorial development of the Baltic Sea Region
... Gdansk Declaration. Sixth Conference of Ministers responsible for spatial planning and development in the Baltic Sea Region, Gdansk 19 September 2005.
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Long Term Perspective for the Territorial Development of the Baltic Sea Region. Adopted at the 7
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Conference of the BSR Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning and Development on 16. October 2009 in Vilnius.
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Economic development of the BSR — inflexible patterns despite rapid change
// Spatial Planning ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... detect bottlenecks in the performance of regional universities’ functions, to conduct cross-functional and interregional comparisons and to develop recommendations for improving universities’ performance for regional development.
The results of adopting the method to study the NWFD regions show that they differ markedly in their universities’ performance. The correlation analysis indicates a statistically significant relation between the performance of individual functions and the major socio-economic ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... there has been a notable increase in the number of migrants, leading to stricter integration policies in the Scandinavian countries. Yet, governmental approaches to address the segregation of immigrant areas vary between Denmark and Sweden. Denmark has adopted a stringent immigration policy promoting cultural assimilation of immigrants from non-Western countries, whilst Sweden follows a liberal approach advocating cultural and ethnic diversity within society. The evolution of immigration and integration ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... there was a notable lack of strategic focus from Germany towards Lithuania in the early 21st century, contributing to a decline in bilateral relations in 2014 and 2015. Amid the confrontation between the ‘Western democracies’ and Russia, Germany adopted a strategy of gradually but steadily increasing pressure on the opponent. The perception of this approach by Lithuanian elites has shifted from negative in the mid-2010s to increasingly positive as Germany has become more involved in deterrence ...
Immanuel Kant in the Conversations and Reflections of Nikolay Strakhov
... last two writers went a long way to shape and develop Strakhov’s perception of Kant as a thinker. Indeed, without a virtual dialogue with Kant no modern philosophical system can be built. Strakhov’s reflections on the Kantian style of thinking, adoption of Kantian criticism as the model of epistemic analysis in many ways determined the features of his own philosophical work and became a catalyst of renewed interest in Russia in the Kantian philosophy in the last third of the nineteenth century....
The legal regulation of agricultural cooperation during the period of the Provisional Government and Soviet Russia
... and outlined a clear algorithm for the organization of cooperative activities. The period of “war communism” was characterized by extremely harsh measures regarding the state control of cooperatives. During the New Economic Policy, the legislator adopted imperial cooperative legislation, granting democratic rights and freedoms to cooperatives. This was driven by the difficult financial situation of the population, especially peasants, and the acute shortage of food products. The policy of building ...
Transposition — retelling — translation: the destiny of Areopagitica in Slavia Orthodoxa
... literatury: Drevnyaya Rus'. XVIII vek. T. 1. Proza [History of Russian Translation Fiction: Ancient Rus'. 18th Century. Vol. 1. Prose]. St. Petersburg, pp. 16—73 (in Russ.).
Kharlamov, V., 2016. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Eastern Church: The Adoption of the “Corpus Areopagiticum” and the Integration of Neoplatonism into Christian Theology. Bogoslovskie rassuzhdeniya [Theological Reflections], 16, pp. 120—137 (in Russ.).
Liddle, H. G. and Scott, R., 1940. A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford....
‘People in Black’: Semantization of the concepts ‘sectant’ and ‘baptist’ in the anti-religious campaign of 1958—1964
In the post-revolutionary era, the population's adoption of a new political vocabulary demanded the Soviet authorities to play the role of the interpretant. They engaged in the process of assigning meanings to new concepts through mass media and fiction. Simultaneously, established concepts had to ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... analyzing the economic development of municipalities can provide the information basis for both the federal (the need for this was mentioned in [1]) and regional spatial policy. As the paper [42] shows, current socio-economic development strategies adopted in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation consider spatial problems mainly from the point of view of ensuring the development of the regions rather than their municipalities.
The conducted analysis confirms that the state economic ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... 1998—2008, % of the 1998 level
Prepared based on data from index of production (percentage, value of the indicator for the year), EMISS, URL:
https://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/43047
(accessed 02.08.2023).
In 2006, a new law regulating the SEZ scheme was adopted to stimulate production through tax incentives rather than customs benefits. Although its effect was disrupted by the 2008 global economic crisis, sustainable production growth began as early as 2010, resulting in the establishment of new businesses ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... Kaliningrad region and neighbouring countries since 2014 and especially February 2022 has influenced the region’s economy. The significance and effectiveness of the agro-industrial complex have risen, with an increased focus on domestic tourism, and the adoption of advanced public administration practices in collaboration with businesses. This includes implementing mechanisms such as Free Economic Zones and industrial parks, along with a shift towards proactive measures to adapt to the changing environment....
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... 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, expansion into promising markets, strengthening trade and economic partnerships, and achieving ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... problems do not in themselves guarantee the elimination of risks and threats of a longer-term nature.
Risks and threats to the long-term development of cargo transportation through the ports of the Russian Baltic
. The political background of the sanctions adopted against Russia makes further developments difficult to predict. According to many foreign and Russian analysts, the economic potential of Western sanctions is close to exhaustion.<24> However, as recent events have shown, in attempts to ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... (GRP) and the number of the employed. As applied to individual economic activities, it was calculated as the ratio of gross value added (GVA) to the number of employed individuals. As the official activity classification procedure was changed (first the adoption of OKVED, then OKVED2), calculations using formula (1) had to be done separately for the periods during which each methodology was used.
Investment efficiency was estimated using fund elasticity, which is the percentage increase in production ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... researchers, and university teachers as target groups for its scholarship and grant programmes. Despite the fact that the SI among the other scholarship agencies suspended Russian participation in their programmes in 2022, an exploration of practices adopted in foreign nations can provide valuable insights for updating the nation’s branding strategy and exploring new approaches in Russia.
To assess the relationship between soft power, nation branding, and education, it is essential to scrutinize ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... century, the topic remains highly relevant. Researchers continue to develop new definitions that align with the evolving reality and explore the novel tools employed by propagandists.
This study examines propaganda as a persuasive technology in the media, adopting Ellul’s perspective [12], where it is viewed as a certain type of message used to spread or introduce a certain culture, philosophy, point of view, or even a certain slogan. Regarding propaganda strategies employed during the pandemic, this ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... been mentioned in the literature that the modest position of the Nordic states in the international hierarchy prompts them to compete for a status that can be described as ‘good power’. Improving a country’s status within this paradigm requires adopting a value-driven approach and creating an image of a dependable partner in relations with leading powers or in the framework of multilateral diplomacy and international organisations [3].
When considering some general issues of small states’ ...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... Bratislava Declaration is imbued with a spirit of self-admiration, to the extent that the V4 members call themselves the new successful political brand and the best example for other countries.<10>
In the recent Krakow Declaration of February 17, 2021, adopted on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Group, the participating countries call themselves “a reliable partner on a European and global scale and a symbol of successful transformation …”<11> They reiterate the main ...
Response of the Lithuanian municipalities to the First Wave of COVID-19
... municipal administrations, as well as to analyse the narrative developed in the two cities. The methodology of this research is based on the review of literature, the analysis of action plans, and a case study. The Vilnius and Klaipėda city municipalities adopted action plans to support residents and businesses. Although there are many measures the plans have in common, they differ in the context and scope of application. Municipalities are willing to grant exemptions from various fees and taxes. They ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... one period to another), Zp. In the context of dynamic DEA, particular attention should be paid to carry-over variables Zp (Fig. 1) since, without them, the model would be a simple aggregate of T statical models.
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The principal scheme of dynamic DEA (adopted from [22, p. 107])
The scheme considers one variable of each type for one object of observation. Extending this scheme to all the objects requires collating panel data, which will be described in the next section, carry-over variable should be ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... resource management and enables timely corrective actions.
The study of both domestic and foreign literature, including the examples provided in these sources [3], [6], has led to the recognition of the significant scientific and practical interest in adopting a systemic approach to analyze port activities using multiple criteria. This interest stems from the recognition of the maritime coastline’s substantial resource and communication potential within the complex geopolitical environment of the ...
Evolution of civil promotion in rank in the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries
... century. The article attempts at answering the question why the government failed to abolish civil ranks throughout the entire 19th century. In addition, the article explores possible alternative ways of reforming the system of civil ranks that could be adopted by the government of the Russian Empire.
Makei A.D.
Russian Empire, civil bureaucracy, officials, bureaucracy, historiography
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Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
The paper adopts a sociopragmatic approach to the study of emotion processes and investigates discursive traits of the reader’s interest. The field of written popularization was examined to establish how it conceptualizes the reader’s interest through discourse ...
The peaks and troughs of Russian-Estonian relations
... and the bitter confrontation between Russia and the West, to name a few. At the core of Russia’s foreign policy is indubitably the conflict with the West, centred around Ukraine. The member states of the EU and NATO that share a border with Russia adopted the most hard-line position, and Russia’s relations with its western neighbours have always been strained. A important role is played in these tensions by the ideological component, namely the different and often conflicting interpretations ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... that pose risks to Russia’s geopolitical stability. Given the critical importance of national security and the need to protect the country against a range of potential threats, including those with geopolitical implications, it is imperative that we adopt a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to monitoring and safeguarding the security of the nation.
The concept of geopolitical space refers to a set of ideas that describe the power dynamics of international politics. At its core, it involves ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... are several such objects, the points are summed).
— It is worth noting that tourism statistics impose a limitation on the choice of the study period and groups of indicators: new methods for statistical data collection and indicator calculation were adopted before the countries acceded to the EU and in their first years as member states. But for the study to be fully comprehensive, some other indicators left out of the list should be explored as well, namely, rail and road density (useful in describing ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... judicial. Specifically, the study focuses on the reputation of regional executive authorities, which contributes to the analysis of the ‘reputation of Russia’s authorities’ in general.
Theoretical basis of the study
The main scientific approach adopted in this research is institutional or rather neo-institutional. This approach is regarded as the methodological paradigm of modern social science, serving as a universal integrator of various disciplines of social knowledge [8]. It involves the ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... building is always a process. Regions are not constructed overnight: it is a step-by-step sequence with its own internal dynamics and a broad set of geopolitical and economic factors’ [28, р. 318]. This approach was vastly different from the concept adopted by the traditional school, whose advocates believed that regions should be identified based on formal properties.
Nevertheless, it would not be entirely accurate to say that proponents of the new school completely denied the role of material factors ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... socioeconomic inequality and may reinforce them. If we consider the country as a single community, then similar patterns can be seen between regions [17], [18]. Innovative regions in Russia usually include global cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, early adopters are the Moscow region and the largest agglomerations. Lagging behind are underdeveloped regions of the North Caucasus, South Siberia, and rural areas. At the same time, the diffusion rate of a new technology depends on the innovation-geographical ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... the 2010s, when various research funds supported projects aimed at a comprehensive solution to the socio-economic development problems of Latvia’s cities. This was taking place against the background of the consequences of the 2008 crises and the adoption of the 2007 Leipzig Charter for sustainable European cities. In recent years, the geosociospatial approach has gained ground in the analysis of the economic differentiation of Latvia’s region, including the investigation of towns as a factor ...
COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: information campaign, media, society
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New principles of resource distribution in the EU and their impact on the countries of the Baltic region
The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021—2027 was adopted during the severe crisis caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the face of a rapidly deteriorating economic situation, EU countries took unprecedented steps radically changing the principles of resource allocation in the Union. These ...
Naturalising Kant
... Ethical A Priori, Openness and Diversity. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(6), pp. 949-965.
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Strawson, P. F., 1966. The Bounds of Sense. London: Methuen.
Sturm, T., 2017. What Did Kant Mean by, and Why Did He Adopt a Cosmopolitan Point of View in History? In: J. Schaffner and H. Wardle, eds. 2017. Cosmopolitics: The Collected Papers of the Open Anthropology Cooperative, Volume I. St. Andrews: Open Anthropology Cooperative Press, 2017, pp. 72-88.
Categorical ...
Kant in the Time of COVID
... had to make decisions about two major issues: which infected patients should be treated first (triage), and which people who are at risk of infection should be inoculated first (vaccine distribution). Following Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism, adopted guidelines have tended to value both whole lives (survival to discharge) and life-years (survival for years past discharge). This process of collective moral reasoning has revealed our common commitment to both Kantian and utilitarian principles....
Who is Rationalising? On an Overlooked Problem for Kant’s Moral Psychology and Method of Ethics
... rationality. These standards of minimally decent reasoning can help us diagnose rationalising. I develop these standards by looking at inadequate uses of rational capacities that should strike us as problematic regardless of the specific ethical theory we adopt. I emphasise that even an abuse of rational capacities can yield true results and that we can never tell from a single judgement that someone rationalises. Rather, we must look for patterns.
Ackeren, M. van and Sticker, M., 2015. Kant on Moral ...
Ethnography in Translation Studies: an object and a research methodology
... epistemological viewpoint. Indeed, while ethnography was undertaking an interpretive turn, TS chose to define itself as an empirical discipline based on systematic and objective observation; this positivistic bias in early TS could partly explain its late adoption of ethnography as a research methodology. This literary review finally reminds us of the many dichotomies out of which TS has grown and structured itself — text vs context; translation vs. interpretation; experiential vs. scientific knowledge,...
Translation Historiography
... on interdisciplinarity. Driven by a move away from a Euro-centric view of translation, researchers have become interested in producing connected and comparative histories of translation. The dialogue with the general field of history has led to the adoption of new methods and forms of analysis, such as microhistory, histoire croisée, archival research, oral history and digital translation history, and to the birth of new areas of research such as the role of translation in conflict and war.
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National urban policy in Russia and the European experience
... international (particularly German) documents and publications on NUP and the Russian regulatory framework. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the resilience of cities to crises and the development of urban green spaces. Germany’s current NUP, adopted in 2007, stands out for its complexity and congruence with regional policy. The principal NUP document in Russia is the Spatial Development Strategy. However, it overlooks some issues essential for the development of the city system: the federal ...