Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... individual, the state and the society. This very hierarchy of interests is enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Numerous studies investigate the essence of national security, while geopolitical security has not received proper research attention. There are practically no papers that purposefully consider geopolitical security as a separate phenomenon. The only exception is “Geopolitical Security of Modern Russia” by Morozov [4], however, oddly enough, there is no definition of the ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... relevant. Thus, Sweden is formulating its own anti-segregation programme, taking into account both the successes and shortcomings of Danish immigration and integration policies. Another important conclusion is that these nations have started to pay special attention to ethnic and religious criteria when identifying ‘parallel societies’.
Introduction
The Scandinavian ‘welfare states’<1> of Denmark and Sweden have the common problem of the segregation of immigrant areas. Despite this, ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... the deep concern of small states over the issues of status sovereignty, and formal and informal equality with other participants in international relations, chiefly larger and influential countries [1]. A vivid illustration of Nordic Europe’s close attention to status and place in the international hierarchy is the criticism of the G20 member list, which does not include any of the Nordic countries, from Norway’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre.<1> Previous research ...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... — the formation of a political union. The desire of the European Union to preserve and protect the achieved level of integration is quite understandable and logical. Integration associations that exist within the European Union are given much less attention compared with the EU, the most influential economic and political union of today.
The classical understanding of the term integration presupposes a process and a solution focused on obtaining a single whole from any parts. Integration in international ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
This article examines the current military-political strategy of France in the Baltic region. This area has not traditionally been among the main priorities of French diplomacy. However, under President Emmanuel Macron, France pays closer attention to the Baltic Sea due to the growing tension between Russia and the West. According to France’s key strategic documents, the government assesses the present-day situation mainly in a negative way, considering Russian actions as the main reason ...
Modeling of dynamics of distribution of attention in protses-sah a goal-setting
The role and mechanism of focusing attention in the process of formulating objectives by people are considered. A connection has been shown between the development of emotional experience, keenness of attention and the value containing the excitation zone stimulus. A mathematical model ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... part of the article explores several centuries of the evolution of the Baltic Sea region, divided into historical geopolitical stages. It is highlighted that the geopolitical essence of the Baltic region was changing radically over time. Particular attention is paid to the current state of the Baltic regional geopolitical entity, which is classified as a conflict-ridden or confrontational geopolitical region in the ‘Eurasian arc of instability’ interpreted as a geopolitical macroregion.
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International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... destroy memorial sites connected to the history of the Russian Empire, the USSR or the life and achievements of prominent figures in Russian and Soviet culture have been carried out or are being prepared. These circumstances naturally draw scholarly attention to the structure of the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region, whose neighbours — Poland and Lithuania — are at the helm of cultural memory reformatting.
Apart from monuments and other memorial objects linked to the Russian/ Soviet ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
This research presents a comprehensive analysis of the performance efficiency of Russia’s Baltic seaports, taking into account various economic indicators and addressing investment planning and management issues. Special attention is given to the sustainable development goals and objectives of the seaports, considering their significance in transport and logistics systems. The primary objective of this work is to develop a system approach for conducting multi-criteria ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... Practicians and experts in the field have emphasized the importance of reputation formation and social values as effective tools of power and influence, as indicated by sources such as [5], [6]. The ‘Era of Reputation’ defines the tasks of increased attention to its management in the system of state power. Moral and ethical principles and norms play a crucial role in ensuring social cohesion, preventing people from feeling alienated from those in power, and encouraging them to participate in social ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... confiscation of Russian assets by Western countries is one of the serious challenges to modern international law and the system of international relations. Since the greater part of the frozen assets is under the jurisdiction of EU countries, special attention should be paid to studying mechanisms for the use of Russian assets within the EU. The purpose of this article is to identify the key characteristics of the EU’s approaches to the use of frozen Russian assets, determine their compliance with ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... particularly due to the external environment, which notably changed after the Baltic States acceded to NATO and the EU in 2004. Necessary amendments were made to the regional strategy.<4> The changed circumstances prompted Russian experts to turn their attention to the economic security of the Russian Baltic exclave, whilst the state saddled itself with ensuring the region’s self-sufficiency as regards natural gas, electricity, and food products [12].
After the EU imposed sanctions against Russia ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... models. The study concludes that proficiency in working with AI-powered equipment and algorithms is of paramount importance in amplifying the entrepreneurial potential of students in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. This aspect is increasingly gaining attention from universities, which collaborate closely with the business sector, governmental bodies, and regional agencies to provide diverse forms of support to aspiring business students. The final part of the article addresses issues that require ...
The peaks and troughs of Russian-Estonian relations
... government-supported structures, scholars from the two countries have conducted intensive research into the history of Soviet—Estonian and Russian—Estonian relations. Being far from exhausted, this research agenda continues to attract scholarly attention.
Sergey Tambi is a young researcher holding a bachelor’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University, School of International Relations, and a master’s degree from MGIMO University. His work is a showcase of the achievements attained by ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... in the education sector and the number of universities and students. These trends pose a substantial challenge to regional development, especially in the context of the fourth industrial revolution and the rise of the knowledge economy. The lack of attention to the education sector may stem from the gross underestimation of its contribution to regional development. By implementing their ‘third mission’, universities exert influence on the economy, politics and socially responsible industries ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... the 2010s has not been extensively studied [14], [15]. This increase is often examined tangentially in the context of a general escalation of tensions in the Baltic region [16], [17], [18], [19]. In the literature, experts have not devoted sufficient attention to the evolution of Germany’s military presence in Lithuania and contacts within the B3 + 1 format, especially in the early 2020s, which were pivotal for the dialogue.
In this study, the author employs several methodological approaches. Firstly,...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... geopolitical factors in the development of coastal regions [15], [16]. At the same time, classical geopolitical approaches are coming to the fore in research. Characterised by a focus on the dualism and even contrariety between land and sea [17], close attention to the maritime strength of the state [18] and the recognition of the geostrategic significance of sea coasts [19], [20]. Geopolitics is an interdisciplinary research area that, despite being fuzzy in terms of scope, is directed clearly at ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... national security system was innovative and relevant. The NSS-2009 anticipated the possibility of regular review and update of the indicator system.
On December 31, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new NSS. The doctrine paid considerable attention to the internal aspects of Russia’s security. In particular, security threats such as terrorism, radical nationalism and religious fanaticism, separatism, organized crime and corruption were identified.
To mitigate the risks listed above, ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... This encouraged the development of a dense network of self-sufficient towns, whose unique landscapes and architecture make them attractive as places of residence and tourist destinations. Then, the socio-spatial approach came to the fore, drawing attention to the practices and activities of urban social groups: authorities, businesses, civil society organisations and local communities [1, p. 10—11]. Today, these two methodologies have merged within various development programmes for EU cities ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... FTPs for the Kuril Islands (1993), Krasnodar Krai (1996) the city of Sochi (1997), the Kaliningrad region (1997), the Astrakhan region (1997); the Special Economic Zone in the Kaliningrad region
A more intense and diversified maritime activity; closer attention paid to Russia’s jurisdiction over territorial waters (World Ocean FTP, 1998; 2010—2021 Russia’s Transport System Development FTP, Maritime Transport subprogramme, 2001; 2005—2020 Creating a Black Sea Fleet Stationing System in Russia ...
Around the “social pedagogy” of Paul Natorp: Vladimir Dinze in the debates on national upbringing. Part 2
... natsional’noi shkole [About national school], Petrograd, p. 5—21.
9. Dinze, V. F. 1913, O natsional’nom vospitanii. Opyt privlecheniya otechestvennogo vnimaniya k nasushchnomu voprosu [About national upbringing. An attempt to draw the domestic attention to the urgent problem], St. Petersburg.
10. Dinze, V. F. 1916b, O natsional’noi russkoi shkole [About national Russian school], in: Volzhanin [Dinze], V., Dinze, V. F., Smirnov, S. D., O natsional’noi shkole [About national school], Petrograd,...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... to specific economic sectors [15], [16], including religious tourism [17], [18].
There has been an active academic discussion regarding the transformation of European denominational space due to migration processes [19], [20], [21].
Such significant attention to the issue is caused by the civilization-building role of religion and the implementation of social responsibility by religious organizations, which has been repeatedly highlighted by researchers [22], [23], [24].
The denominational space ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... approximately 1.2 billion in the first half of 2022. Governmental support is provided within the framework of the programme “Development of Consumer Cooperation in the Kaliningrad Region until 2025 and with a Prospect Towards 2030”.<3>
The attention the regional authorities pay to cooperation development opens up bright new horizons for greater involvement of the populace in cooperative practices, whilst creating conditions for the stable operation of such associations. Remarkably, there ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... livestock. Notably, there is fundamental research on agriculture and rural areas in the Kaliningrad region [21], and studies on the spatial development of agriculture in the Leningrad region [5], [22].
Another sector of the economy that has gained increased attention is tourism. A study [23] delves into the development of tourism in municipalities.
The location of regions on the coast of the Baltic Sea brings about research assessing the role of their geographic position in the socio-economic development ...
From the editor
Russia’s Baltic regions have received considerable scholarly attention throughout the country’s contemporary history, with recent years being no exception. Yet, the year 2022 — probably for the first time since the demise of the USSR — saw dramatic changes in the geopolitical standing of Russian regions, ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... a range of ideas put forward in those works.
Globally, the development of the rural economy and rural settlement patterns is significantly influenced by core-periphery dynamics and territorial polarisation, a relationship first brought to scholarly attention by François Perroux [26].
The influential concept of polarised biosphere was formulated by the Soviet, and later Russian, geographer Boris Rodoman [29]. Met with criticism in the Soviet Union, it is widely used today. The polarisation of the ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... Joint Russian-European and Russian-Finnish documents;
— Cross-border cooperation projects’ websites and related statistics;
— Universities’ websites including programmes’ descriptions and curricula.
While working with the materials, special attention was paid to the reliability of the resources, therefore, only official websites and statistical resources were chosen for the analysis in order to exclude erroneous or inaccurate data. Moreover, in accordance with the methodology of Bobylev,...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... underexplored, including the specific mechanisms of interaction with scholarship recipients and alumni of SI scholarship programmes [30], [31, p. 79—80]. Despite sustained interest in this subject [32], the specific Swedish case has received limited attention outside of Sweden. Surveys conducted within the country often have affiliations with the Swedish Institute, as seen in the works of James Pammement. He has focused on the mainstreaming and promotion of the country’s image and its role in international ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... nonparametric method of dynamic data envelopment analysis (DDEA) has become increasingly popular for conducting comparative efficiency evaluations. In recent years,
dynamic data envelopment analysis (DDEA), a variant of this method, has gained significant attention. This article applies dynamic analysis to evaluate the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions. Traditional input variables such as the number of research staff and R&D expenditure are considered, while publication and patent metrics ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... processes that we have witnessed and are witnessing now in the former socialist countries are also taking place in the states that emerged on the former territory of the Soviet Union, including Russia.
The demographic processes in Poland require special attention. The country is the largest post-socialist state in Eastern Europe in terms of area and population, and it has a long common border with the post-Soviet countries of Russia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Moreover, there are clear similarities ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... differential of the spatial diffusion of the pandemic and investigating the processes taking place in the Baltic macro-region in the Russian context. This approach seems to be relevant and reasonable against the background of insufficient scholarly attention paid to the Covid-related properties of the spaces of regions facing the inevitable challenges of new viral infections [11]. It is vital to understand how the space of the Russian Baltic region responded to COVID-19 and put forward recommendations ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... effect of transboundary tourist mobility on the socioeconomic, sociocultural and spatial development of the borderlands has many facets, all of which have been addressed by Russian and international scholars. Yet, these aspects do not receive equal attention: most of the studies concentrate on the socioeconomic effect transboundary tourism has on a community or a territory, whilst much fewer look at the sociocultural and spatial effects [8], [25], [31], [32].
The development of transboundary shopping ...
The concept of “memory wars” in contemporary studies of collective memory
... of the phrase “memory wars” was already established and since then it has become common in contemporary studies of collective memory to reveal its conflicting nature. It is noted that in the studies of clashes of historical narratives an active attention is paid to the content of the processes under the study, against which the attempts to give a strict definition to the term “memory wars” are noticeably rarer. The use of the “memory wars” concept shows that it has not yet received proper ...
The marine component of human geography studies in Post-Soviet Russia: key trends and development priorities
... system starting to gravitate towards the world ocean. This article uses bibliographical and scientometric materials to explore the factors, features and priorities of the development of Russian post-Soviet human geography of the world ocean. Special attention is paid to the path dependence in the evolution of this branch of geography (associated with the established professional community, the fundamental research themes and the basic concepts) and the emergence of new growth poles within the scope ...
Spatial poetics of the story “Number 13” by M. R. James
... he novel, space does not only function as an arrangement of the hero’s inner state, but also as a plot-forming component. There is a contraction of space, proportional to the presence of the supernatural in the canvas of the narrative. A particular attention is paid to oneirosphere space functioning (J. Faryno) as a place of unreal events localization. James’ story showcases the multi-sensory imaging experience through the additional possibilities of dance, voice, correlation of light and shadow,...
National urban policy in Russia and the European experience
... initiatives abroad to formulate proposals for further development of the Russian NUP. To this end, the study examines 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 ...
Problems of legislative regulation of investigation activity on the Internet in countering extremism
In the current article, the author explores the legal basis for investigation activities on Internet, paying particular attention to the provisions set forth in the Federal Laws “On Communications,” “On Information, Information Technologies and the Information Security”, “On the Investigative Search activities” in the context of countering extremism. The ...
In pursuit of an innovation development trajectory of the Kaliningrad region
... inalienable resources of territories. Whereas regional innovation systems are becoming increasingly acknowledged in public administration as versatile, the stage of a system life cycle, which is an equally important factor, often escapes managerial attention. In this article, I analyse the innovation system of the Kaliningrad region at its inception. The Kaliningrad case is of considerable interest for a study into the patterns and characteristics of the governance of innovation systems — a management ...
Equivocality in Delineating the Borders of a Cluster: The Baltic’s Case
... administrative divisions. Thus, the identification of spatial networks is becoming the focus of regional governance. This article is part of a complex study on equivocality in identifying the boundaries of spatial networking. In this work, we pay particular attention to delineating the boundaries of territorial clusters. This form of spatial networking is both a contemporary tool for targeted regional development and a result of spontaneous functional integration of economic entities. Building on an extensive ...
Donelaitis and Kant: to the issue of the hermeneutic of survival in the era of the “mystery of iniquity”
This article analyses the so-called chornosoteriology as viewed by Kristijonas Donelaitis and Kant. Special attention is paid to the differences between the ontological foundations of these soteriologies stemming from differences in the hermeneutic circles. The influence of pietism on the development of the hermeneutic principles is analysed in the works of ...
The Works of Modern Russian Historians and the Historiography of Medieval Lithuania before and after the Red October
... modern Russian scholars A. Dvornichenko, M. Krom, A. Filyushkin, and S. Mikhalchenko on the pre-revolutionary and Soviet historiography of medieval Lithuania. Chronological problem analysis constitutes the methodological framework of the study. Special attention is paid to the priorities of the Russian scholars in the analysis of the pre-revolutionary and Soviet Lithuanian studies. It is shown that the disintegration of the Soviet Union marked a new period in research on the historiography of medieval ...
Current Issues in the Geodemographic Studies in Russia
The article takes stock of the “state of affairs” in contemporary research of geographical demography in the USSR and the RF. The issue, concludes the author, has not received sufficient attention, and the use of geodemographic studies in managing regional development remains limited. This article aims to demonstrate three things: the importance of geodemographic approach in comprehensive regional studies to the needs of regional strategic ...
Lithuania of the 11th—14th centuries in the works of Russian historians of the 1850—1870s
... scholars’ perception of Lithuania in 1850—870. Employing the comparative historical method and content analysis, the authors identify the key characteristics underlying the perception of Lithuania in research discourse in the 1850s—1870s. Particular attention is paid to an analysis of preconceptions that affected the presentation of Lithuania’s past by Russian historians who studied it in the context of history of western Russia rather than as an independent subject. Special attention is paid to ...
Modern Lithuanian foreign policy: the adjustment of traditional policy
The authors consider the core areas of Lithuanian foreign policy. Special attention is paid to the adjustment of the major foreign policy vector, which concentrated earlier on the cooperation with the United States of America and strategic partnership with the Republic of Poland. The article analyses the attempts of Lithuanian ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... form or another may be a subject to direct or indirect external restrictions,<2> which can be considered as exogenous shocks to economies.<3> Therefore, the governments of most countries and regional authorities have begun to pay greater attention to economic security [1], [2]. Accordingly, it is necessary to understand the scale, direction and consequences of possible threats, their monitoring and mitigation, and the sanctions risks analysis is becoming a more relevant scientific topiс....
The Imperishable Kant: Deleuze on the Consistency of the Faculties of Reason
The influence of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze was quite substantial. However, analyses of the correlation between the ideas of the two philosophers have not yet received proper research attention, especially in Russian-language literature. To reveal the essence and history of the development of Deleuze’s attitude to Kant, the former’s work, Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties (1963), in which the French philosopher ...
The Relationship Between the Individual and the Collective in the Social Philosophy of Georges Gurvitch
... how the individual and society mutually condition each other and determine the direction of social development. In the late 1920s and early 1930s in his teaching on social law, Gurvitch formulated the concept of sociability which enabled him to focus attention not on the confrontation, but on the interaction of the individual and society. In the concept of “normative fact” he defined the being of society and embodied the dialectical interaction between singularity and multitude. In the late 1930s ...
International political status of an observer state to the EAEU: problems and prospects of institutionalization
... author’s work is on the international-political usefulness of the observer state status and the problems of its actual implementation. A comparison is made between the positioning of Moldova, Cuba, and Uzbekistan as observer states within the EAEU. Special attention is given to ranking the factors hindering and promoting the effective implementation of this specific international-political status. The conclusion is substantiated that among the hindering factors are the weakness of the national economy and ...