Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... Denmark and Sweden while assessing their efficacy. The two countries, sharing historical, cultural, social and economic similarities, face a common challenge: the formation of ethnoreligious enclaves primarily inhabited by individuals with a Muslim background. Due to the recent European migrant crises, 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 ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
....10.2023).
Over the last 15 years, the Church of Denmark has lost more than 11 % of its adherents due to natural causes and voluntary withdrawal, which is a common trend in European countries.
Interesting results are obtained from examining the ethnic background of adherents. The formal membership in the Church of Denmark continues to be significant among the indigenous population of the country. However, its attractiveness to migrants from non-Western countries and their descendants was unexpected ...
A language game with background knowledge
The tactics of a language game aimed at activating background knowledge of the recipient are studied in the texts of jokes, crossword puzzles, and other literature and speech materials. Special attention is paid to language games focusing on the reader’s knowledge of history in the Old Slavic epic poem ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... despite being fuzzy in terms of scope, is directed clearly at spatial analysis. A solid definition of geopolitics interprets it as a science of rivalry of powers over territories [21]. When applied to Russia, geopolitics increasingly focuses on the background circumstances of national development, situations in selected regions and major aspects of spatial evolution.
This article seeks to examine the maritime features of post-Soviet Russia’s spatial development by placing it in the context of ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... Polarisation in Lithuania is even more pronounced than in the Russian region in question, with many family-owned farms having gone out of operation [18]. Polarisation becomes especially evident when considering changes in settlement patterns. Against the background of a 23 % population decline in the country (and a 25 % in rural areas) between 1990 and 2023, the decrease was particularly sharp in the periphery<1> despite the efforts the authorities made to retain youth in rural areas [31] or improve ...
Immigration policy and integration of migrants in the Kingdom of Denmark at the beginning of the XXI century
Denmark upholds high standards of human rights as long as the interests of its citizens are concerned but erects barriers for migrants of a different cultural background who might threaten the security of the national community. The Danish tradition of liberalism, humanism and the welfare state coexists with one of Europe’s most restrictive policies towards third-country immigrants. The article traces the ...
The background knowledge as a language indicator of the intentional manipulative proposition
The article deals with the problem of language manipulation by the recipient’s perception with the help of the background knowledge. The special
emphasis is given to the description of the manipulative technique. The research is based on the texts of Russian and American political discourse.
1. Владиславова Н. Базовые техники NLP и ...
Theoretic and methodological background of projecting pedagogical technologies into the framework of the linguist training curricula
The article deals with the theoretic and methodological background of projecting pedagogic technologies into the framework of the linguist training curricula. It reveals the main trends of the educational process, as well as approaches to understanding major intrinsic constituents and structure of educational ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... partner for Germany.
The aim of the article is to examine the dynamics, challenges, and interim outcomes of the German-Lithuanian strategic dialogue at the current stage. This entails addressing several key objectives, including exploring the historical background of the relationship, identifying Germany’s significant strategic interest in Lithuania in the current context, and analyzing the characteristics of their cooperation in the military sphere and political-diplomatic contacts, particularly within ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... development policy within the socio-spatial approach in 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 ...
Analysis of the application of mathematical modeling in geology
... review of scientific geological journals were analyzed, and recommendations for their elimination were given. The problems of determining relative errors in simplified mathematical models are discussed. The necessity of calculating the parameters of the background value and excluding its influence on the calculation of the “useful signal” is shown. A graphical method for determining the minimum abnormal content is also proposed for discussion and testing.
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An assessment of the role of green belts in creating comfortable microclimatic conditions in summer
Against the background of global warming and a decline in urban vegetation, they pose a danger of overheating in summer. In this article, we stress the significance of green spaces as a principal factor in reducing the overheating of urban surfaces. We analyse ...
Kant and his time — the essay Toward Perpetual Peace against the background of the French Revolution and ensuing wars
This article considers the events and ideas that served as a background to the creation of the essay Towards Perpetual Peace, as well as the earliest reviews of it. The author pays special attention to the objections voiced by Kant’s student Friedrich Gentz who turned from the advocate of his teacher’s ideas ...
Historical realia in teaching Russian as a foreign language
... markers of the national and historical identity of the country of the target language. Realia make it possible to reconstruct selected aspects of the national character and study the axiology of modern native speakers. The analysis of non-equivalent, background and connotative lexis in the course of language acquisition stimulates reflection on extralinguistic (historical) information and thus contributes to cultural competences.
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The history of the integration between Russia’s Kaliningrad region and Poland’s northeastern voivodeships: A programme approach
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Problems of modeling of the working processes of a stationary plasma engine
... et al. Characterizing Vacuum Facility Backpressure Effects on the Performance of a Hall Thruster // 27th International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC-01-045, Pasadena, CA, 2001.
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Forecasting Actions of Baltic elites: A Scenario Approach
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Metal accumulation in urban ecosystem plants
... Ca, Fe, Br, Rb) in the leaves of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants (a total of 22 species) in the urban environment of Kaliningrad. The study area includes major geochemical landscapes – residential, industrial, and recreational districts. The background concentration of metals in plants is studied. The study establishes the presence of significant anthropogenic sources of metal pollution of vegetation in Kaliningrad. The leaves of plants found in the urban environment show excessive background ...
The functional significance of modal evaluative component in the concept structure: The case of M. Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita
... connected to concepts, stresses the functional value of modal meanings for concept structure, and considers the structure of concept, its nuclear, and interpretation field. The concept of «duty» in the context of a literary text is used to prove the modal background of the concept.
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Conceptual picture of the world and the specificity of its formation
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A triune community: Fichte’s family law against the background of Kant’s practical philosophy (II)
... anthropology of sexes as a moral fact and a legal status. A divorce, once accomplished in the moral substance, transforms the personal union of family partners into a concubinage, which is seen considered in an essentially non-Kantian way. Against the background of these concepts, the article deals with questions of what the state has to protect and what it is entitled to punish in the domain of marriage.
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The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... revenue was about 48—50 % in 2018—2021, with a slight decrease (to 47 %) in 2022. The leaders in this indicator are the Tikhvin MR (its largest enterprise is the Tikhvin Carriage Works), where the share of processing industries, even against the background of a noticeable decline, remained above 80 % in 2022 (and before reached 85.5 %) and the Boksitogorsk MR (here the well-known single-industry town of Pikalyovo is located), where the figure was even higher (88—89 %) in 2020—2021 but decreased ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... dependence, which is especially strong in long-settled areas, can hinder accelerated modernization and adaptation [10].
Theoretical framework
The concept of development trajectories provides the framework for studying growth opportunities against the background of crisis phenomena. There are different pillars of a region’s transformation: from sectoral modernization and diversification to the emergence of new activities [11]. The article [12] proposes four directions of regional development through ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... successes in solving current 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 ...
The Transcendental Deduction of Categories as Philosophical Proof
... di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... 2019 to 2022, see Figure 7.
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Net migration of LinkedIn members between countries with AI skills, 2019—2022, % per 10,000 LinkedIn members
Source: elaborated by the authors based on the data of OECD.AI.<17>
The dynamics depicted by the blue background of the columns illustrate the fluctuations in the number of LinkedIn members with AI skills across different countries. Estonia and Lithuania show a positive trend with an increase of 0.76 % and 0.18 %, respectively. Conversely, Latvia experiences ...
Emission levels and identification of NOx and SO2 sources in the South-eastern Baltic on the results of observations at the background monitoring station Diabla Góra (Poland)
The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of emissions and identify the sources of NOx and SO2 pollution in a rural station in the south-eastern Baltic (Diabla Gora). This analysis was conducted using hourly NOx and SO2 concentration data and meteorological variables (wind speed and direction), which were analyzed over a period of four years (2018—2021). Time series plots, wind and pollutant roses, application of a conditional probability function, and inverse trajectories were considered...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... participation since 2006 and has earned international acclaim. The current global migration reality has led to a significant rise in the number of refugees and displaced persons in Europe who are at risk of being exploited by traffickers. Against this background, it is important that the task force continues its endeavours to prevent trafficking in human beings. Referring to the successful CBSS conference of 2017 on societal security and migration, the CBSS was encouraged by the foreign ministers to ...
The language of muteness: examining the work of Gazdanov and Salkazanova in Paris
... purchase a new watch. The primary focus of this study is to elucidate the strategy employed in constructing this ‘wordless’ discourse, as well as to explore the conditions that facilitate its occurrence, underlying mechanisms, and its historical background. The analysis encompasses linguistic, historical, cultural aspects, and aims to determine its linguistic classification and overall significance. The discourse itself is interpreted as a revival of the archaic ritual of silence practiced in ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... pressures of political and economic integration [35, p. 35—39]. Consequently, Polish strategic culture and some of its types remain committed to strongly positioning the state within the Euro-Atlantic project instead of letting it fade into the background of common spaces. This trend, visible in Polish conceptual documents since 2017, will be reinforced in the context of the current Ukraine events [36].
Overall, our preliminary work aimed at describing the semantic content of the expansionist ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... programme and was prolonged annually: first on a rotational basis (with the redeployment of French forces from Estonia to Lithuania and back), then with an unchanged basing point. Initially, the Lynx was planned to be completed in 2022 but against the background of the aggravation of the conflict in Ukraine, President Macron decided to keep the mission functioning for one more year at least. By that time, in addition to the manpower, it included 12 Leclerc tanks, 8 VBCI infantry fighting vehicles, ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... local identity and socio-political activity to the financial and economic capabilities of the territory, its place in the existing ‘centre-periphery’ relations, and the importance of cross-border contacts and foreign partnerships. Against this background, the geopolitical ‘specialness’ of individual territories and their groupings has become particularly pronounced. The spatial development of our country is becoming an important area of geopolitical confrontation. It also generates systemically ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
... stable in 2021.
In most the study areas, the structure of inbound tourist flow experienced an increase in the proportion of arrivals from the Baltic region states, which points to a decrease in the average distance travelled by tourists. Against the background of plummeting inbound tourism, this proportion grew not following an increase in the tourist flow but as a result of a more modest reduction.
The most considerable growth took place in some southern regions of Finland (Kanta-Häme, Kymenlaakso,...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... across specific regions, depending on their degree of urbanisation and tourism specialisation. The Riga region, consisting exclusively of the capital city (with 53 beds at tourist accommodation establishments per km2), stands out against the general background. North Estonia, second by a large margin has five beds per 1 km2. Lithuania’s Klaipėda County, where the country’s most popular resorts are located, ranks third. In the semi-peripheral regions of the first order, the accommodation density ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... question requires examining the internal 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 ...
Tactical and psychological problems of maintaining public prosecution in jury trial
... existing tactical and psychological issues of prosecutor’s participation in court proceedings in criminal cases with the participation of jurors and to develop proposals for their solution. The set of general scientific and special methods is the background of the methodology of research. The article identifies common strategies the defense can illegally influence jurors and emphasizes the importance for the state prosecutor to consider the confessional and national characteristics of the region ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... economic growth, which followed the 1998 crisis, opened up new opportunities for federal investment. Regional and maritime policies exhibited opposite trends at the time: maritime policy was gaining momentum, whilst the regional policy was relegated to the background: only major FTPs for the development of regions and the Kaliningrad SEZ remained in place. The reason was probably the then dominance of liberal approaches to regulation of the economy. It was assumed that a favourable macroeconomic situation ...
COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: information campaign, media, society
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On connection between codependency and the ideas about abusive relationships in young women
... free associations methods, the scale of codependency of B. K. Weinhold and J. B. Weinhold, the questionnaire of interpersonal relations of W. Schutz, the author’s semi-structured interview in the context of problematic situations are the methodology background of the work. Superficial representations about abusive relationships are revealed, the peripheral zone of which includes associations of “dependence and fusion”; infantile representations about romantic relationships; controversial representations ...
Psychological health of senile men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic
... corrective psychological measures in order to maintain the psychological health of the elderly. Psychological work must be targeted at depressive manifestations, situational anxiety, general neuropsychic tension, level of life satisfaction, general emotional background. The developed program will be in demand for reducing negative manifestations in the mental state of the elderly in the conditions of active modern social transformations, since mental reactions to dangerous situations are largely similar and ...
The birth of premature children and the causes of disability of the child population in the kaliningrad region
... need to accompany premature babies by a pediatric neuropsychologist in the Kaliningrad region. The disabled children in the Kaliningrad were registered from 2016 to 2020 through statistical reports of the birth rate of premature babies. Against the background of a decrease in the overall birth rate, there is no trend towards a decrease in the birth of premature babies, the disability of the child population has stable indicators. As a result, the most urgent problem is the development of modern ...
Review of the 13th International Kant Congress
... August 2019. Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 515-524.
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Jurkiewicz, A., 2021. Kant and the Mereology of the ...
Attempts to reform the financial system of the German Empire in the early XX century
... The German Empire faced this challenge, so its finances bad to be regularly strengthened in order to cover all the mass military needs. After O. v. Bismarck’s resignation, the positions of the chancellor were held by politicians who did not have any background in economics and finance: L. v. Caprivi, H. Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst. The problem was passed then to new Head of the German Government – Bernhard von Buelow, who was the Reichschancellor from 1900 till 1909. By this time a large-scale project,...
Decembrists in the novel “Journey of dilettantes” in the context of Bulat Okudzhava’s work and contemporaneity
... writer is considered in the context of the “Decembrism myth” of the Soviet intelligentsia, which achieved the peak of its popularity in the 1970s. The purpose of the study is to clarify the originality of the author’s concept of Decembrism at the background of two versions of the idealizing myth about the heroes of the past (official and oppositional). The hypothesis of the research is based on the ideas of Galina Belaya: it is challenging “indisputable” historical values in the work of Okudzhava ...
“The Forgotten stories” by Hans Christian Andersen in the context of his creative evolution
The article analyzes H. Ch. Andersen’s works, published in Russian in 2016 under the title “The Forgotten Stories of Hans Christian Andersen”. Their content and poetics are considered at the background of the writer’s creative evolution. The authors studies the reasons that determined the incompleteness of a number of works, and the circumstances that prompted the author to refuse to publish completed texts. “The Forgotten Stories” ...
Specific ways of creating a northern landscape in H. de Balzac’s “Seraphita”
... the works of French writers of the 19th century. A understudied novel by H. de Balzac “Seraphita” reveals the specific ways of creating the northern landscape. It is determined that Balzac’s landscape does not only create an additional emotional background, affect the perception of the characters of the characters, but also becomes a plot-forming factor. Natural space is depicted in the novel using various means of verbal expression, which are carefully analyzed. The author notes that a holistic ...
Swedish Islamism as a social and political aspect in the formation of an ethno-confessional parallel society
... Muslim Brotherhood (this organization is banned in the Russian Federation). Committed to maintaining the Muslim identity, these organisations seek gradual Islamisation of the Swedish population through ideological influence on immigrants with a Muslim background. These efforts thwart cultural assimilation attempts and hinder the implementation of Swedish integration policy. The lack of research into the peaceful Islamisation of Swedish society and the related problems of Islamophobia, anti-Muslim racism,...
Migration from Post-Soviet countries to Poland and the Baltic States: trends and features
... Soon these countries transformed from exporters of labour into importers. Unlike Western European countries, Poland and, to a lesser extent, the Baltic States are trying to attract migrants from neighbouring nations with similar cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In the long run, this strategy will facilitate migrant integration into the recipient society. The Polish and Lithuanian governments are devising measures to encourage ethnic Poles and Lithuanians to repatriate from post-Soviet republics....
Watershed or Cul-de-Sac? Disputes in the Theological Reception of Kant’s Philosophy
Kant’s turn to the subject has changed the epistemological conditions for theology. Four intellectual backgrounds of objections are examined: an Aristotelian and Thomistic teleological order of nature (1); Augustinianism based on original sin in which human agency is completely attributed to God’s grace (2); a Hegelian critique of the deontological ...
Der Schatten der Tugend. Kant über die unergründliche Tiefe des Herzens
... The Metaphysics of Morals, and it is even present in smaller writings such as “On a Miscarriage of all Philosophical Trials in Theodicy” or “On the Common Saying: That may be correct in theory, but is of no use in practice”. It is against this background that I revisit Kant’s remarks on the lack of self-knowledge regarding the motives of our proper actions. I suggest a reading of Kant’s views on this issue in the light of a tradition reaching back to Plato, in which man’s (moral) self-relation ...