Kant and the New Enlightenment: On the Balance between Duty and Utilitarian Ends
The relation between Kant’s philosophy and the “philosophy of balance” as it is described in the report Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet, delivered to the Club of Rome in 2018, requires some analysis. The authors of the report consider Kant to be a philosopher of ...
George Balanchine, a teacher (1904—1983)
George Balanchine is a Russian-US dancer and choreographer who was invited to the USA in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein's. Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet following the Russian ballet tradition. The author focuses his attention on several movements of classical dance as interpreted by Balanchine.
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3. Schorer...
The Balance Model of Regional Development Management in Certain Territorial Conditions: Development and Application
In this article the authors detail the methodology of regional development forecasting with the balance method. They provide with an overview and assessment of the existing models and systems, and their use for the purposes of public administration at the regional level. The article underlines the need to develop a balance approach models for specific ...
Work-life balance during the Covid-19 outbreak: the case of Latvia
This paper aims to shed light on work-life balance in Latvia during the state of emergency. The Covid-19 outbreak has led many governments to introduce lockdowns. While imposed restrictions may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may also result in substantial damage to population well-being....
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... protection practices and how they were promoted in the discourse of non-state media outlets during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is assumed that non-state media used various pandemic communication strategies to achieve common biopolitical goals, striking a balance between propaganda and outreach. A comparative analysis was conducted of German publications that focused on the pandemic and appeared during the four waves (January 2020 —March 2022). A total of 54,515 texts from the German media (Süddeutsche ...
Creative Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the Idea of the New Enlightenment
... AI creativity becomes pertinent and sparks debates within the scientific community regarding its creative potential. In response to these challenges, members of the Club of Rome in 2018 propose the concept of a new Enlightenment and the principle of balance as a response to the demands of technological development. These ideas underscore the need for a balanced approach to technical progress, taking into account global values and ethical principles. I explore the definitions of creativity and AI,...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... Finland and Kaliningrad, as well as blocking Russia’s exit from the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
If we group these challenges and threats by their relevance, it is evident that at the top of them are those pertaining to the changes in the military balance with NATO, unfavourable for Russia. This is especially noticeable due to the interference of the United States and its allies in the Ukrainian conflict which is fraught with a risk of a ‘hot’ war. This is aggravated by a significant extension ...
In search of a theoretical framework for factors influencing work and life balance
Work-life balance (WLB) has gained noticeable attention amid the pandemic. Yet before the outbreak of COVID-19, the increasing pace of life encouraged investigations into individual and organisational aspects of WLB. Physically and mentally healthy people help ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... (38,044,565 people<4>), which slightly differs from the current Eurostat data (Fig. 1).
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Changes in the population of EU countries in the Baltic macroregion, percentage of 2021 to 2011 population
Compiled from: Population change — Demographic balance and crude rates at the national level, 2022, Eurostat, URL:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_gind/default/table?lang=en
(accessed 14.02.2022).
The number of men (17.9 million in 2021, 18.4 million in 2011) and women (19.1 million ...
Developing and testing a balanced scorecard for a trading company
This article presents a case of developing a balanced performance scorecard for a Kaliningrad trading company. A general solution includes five stages: analysing economic performance, studying dependencies between performance indicators, building strategic map charts, identifying goals and planning ...
Trends in agrarian land use and the nutrient balance values ensuring an increase in land fertility
This article analyses major trends in agricultural land use in the Kaliningrad region (the proportions of fallow land, tilled crops, grassland). The author suggests a methodology for calculating soil nutrient balance tested on a farm.
1. Вовлечение в сельскохозяйственное производство не используемых по це¬ле¬во¬му назначению земель сельскохозяйственного ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... to attract and effectively use various resources, including human and intellectual ones. The implementation of the Third Mission makes universities a great driving force in their regions, which requires high-quality performance of all functions and a balance between them.
Methodology for assessing universities’ performance in a region
As previously mentioned, the proposed methodology is rooted in a functional approach and has several stages. The first one is the selection of indicators to assess ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... development with classical geopolitical ideologemes drawing a line between the land and the sea. It stresses the fundamental possibility for territories, including states, not only to acquire synthetic continental-maritime attributes but also to transform the balance of these attributes under the influence of geopolitical determinants. The article analyses geopolitically induced changes in the maritime activities pursued by Russia in the post-Soviet period. The primary focus is on the situational territorial ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... examination begins by studying the positioning principles employed by Sweden as a country offering educational services. Subsequently, an analysis of the SI scholarship policy strategy and practices is crucial. Moreover, it is essential to ascertain the balance between the educational trajectory pursued by the grantee and their engagement with Swedish soft power and nation branding.
The rationale for focusing on these specific aspects is grounded in the close interconnection between the Swedish Institute’s ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... armed forces more extensively, gaining greater legitimacy and effectiveness in the eyes of the political elite, differ in their views regarding the reasons and outcomes of this transformation in foreign policy. There is also some uncertainty about the balance between Atlanticism and Europeanism in Denmark’s alliance relations. The table below provides an overview of the findings of leading Danish experts on the transformation of foreign policy and strategic culture in the country.
Denmark’s foreign ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... well as within various sectors of international relations and security, including the political, military, socio-cultural, and economic realms. The structure of the geopolitical space is constantly evolving, reflecting changes in the international balance of power over time. At the level of political discourse, these ideas coalesce into a distinct geopolitical worldview that is transmitted to the mass consciousness (and the collective unconscious), where it becomes entrenched as attitudes, stereotypes,...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... as borders, neighbourhood, connectivity, regionalism, resource availability, transport and geographical position also fall into the sea factor category. In the broadest sense, the sea factor in spatial development can be also understood as ensuring a balance acceptable for society in socio-economic, geo-economic and geopolitical terms — a balance that is constantly calibrated within the land-sea dichotomy and accompanied by the advanced development of coastal areas, regions and municipalities....
Ports of Eastern Baltic and Russian transit policy: competition and cooperation
... Russ.).
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6. Demin, V., Karelina, M., Terentyev, A. 2018, Technique to achieve a dynamic balance between the values of capacities of transport-warehouse complexes and cargo flows in logistics systems, Logisticа [Logistics], no 2. p. 32—36 (in Russ.).
7. Zhang, W., Lam, J. S. L. 2013, Maritime cluster evolution based on symbiosis theory ...
Introducing Sectoral Models into Regional Management: An Assessment of Regulatory Impacts on the Economy
... Methodological approaches to meta-evaluation of the quality of the regulatory impact assessments, Proektirovanie, monitoring i otsenka [Engineering, monitoring and evaluation], no. 1, p. 23—51. (In Russ.)
4. Voloshenko, K. Yu., Kuznetsova, A. L. 2014, The Balance Model of Regional Development Management in Certain Territorial Conditions: Development and Application, Balt. Reg., Vol. 6, no. 3, p. 4−21. doi: 10.5922/2079-8555-2014-3-1.
5. Gareev, T. R., Voloshenko, K. Yu. 2015, Features of Balance Model ...
Geopolitical and Geo-economic Changes in the Baltic Sea Region at the Turn of the XX—XXI centuries
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Ensuring the proportional development of the strategic areas of coastal specialisation
This article presents proposals to ensure a balanced development of the strategic areas of regional specialization based on managerial decisionmaking in the conditions of the system uncertainty of integrated coastal interaction. To this end, it is suggested that a balanced scorecard system identifying ...
The layered approach to assessing marketing effectiveness
In the framework of the research problem of increasing the effectiveness of marketing activities, the authors describe a layered approach to assessing marketing effectiveness with the use of a balanced scorecard system, as well as the results of its practical application in the case of large industrial enterprises of the Kaliningrad region. The article presents the authors’ layered system of models of development of an information base for ...
Examples of the mathematical model of the management company
The article discusses Two mathematical models of housing and utilities services organization as an example of a managing company are considered. The first model is based on balance equations of the organization. It takes into account and systematizes income and expenses of a managing company. The second model is presented in the form of the optimal control problem. Wherein, the discounted profit of the company was selected ...
Creations of a hardware-software complex providing dynamic balance and movement robotic system AR-600
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microcontroller, robotic system, robot, Kalman’s filter, biped circulation, dynamic stabilization, balance, center of gravity, sensor of acceleration, AR-600.
110-116
Investigation of the receiver path of the leaky wave antenna by the method of equivalent circuits
... line has the slot-type radiator which is considered as a resistive-capacitive non-uniformity. The slot in the waveguide wall is considered as non-uniformity of resistivecapacitive type. The system of equations is composed and solved to investigate the balance of power in the receiver path and found the electrical parameters of the scheme.
1. Захаров В. Е., Котова Д. С. Применение метода эквивалентных схем для расчета линии вытекающей ...
Matrix Representation of the Kaliningrad Regional Accounts System: Experimental Development and Modelling Prospects
... mul'tiplikativnyh jeffektov: Habarovskij kraj [The study of regional macroeconomic proportions and multiplicative effects: Khabarovsk region], Prostranstvennaja jekonomika [Spatial Economics], no. 2, p. 44—66.
2. Voloshenko, K., Kuznetsova, A. 2014, The Balance Model of Regional Development Management in Certain Territorial Conditions: Development and Application,
Balt. Reg., no. 3, p. 4—21. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2014-3-1.
3. Voloshenko, K. Yu, Kuznetsova, A. L. 2014, Balansovaja model' upravlenija ...
Russian-Estonian Economic and Investment Cooperation During the Crisis: Dynamics and Possibilities
The article deals with the development in Russian-Estonian relations during the crises of 2007 and 2014, taking into consideration the balance between political and economic factors in the decision-making by Estonian government. A number of special aspects, trends and problems in trade and investment ties are detected. The aim of the study is to uncover key motivation behind the actions ...
Spatial planning in the European Union and the Russian Federation
... form the basis for this type of urban development in the countries of the European Union (EU) and in the Russian Federation. The following principles are considered and compared for both territories: 1) promotion of territorial cohesion through a more balanced social and economic development of regions and improved competitiveness; 2) encouragement of development generated by urban functions and improvement of the relationship between the town and countryside; 3) promotion of more balanced accessibility; ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... operation of cemeteries
1.122
1.156
172
146
Total
6.590
6.729
Source: compiled by the authors based on: Den lokale økonomi, By-, Land- og Kirkeministeriet, URL:
https://www.km.dk/folkekirken/oekonomi/lokaloekonomi
(accessed 01.10.2023).
The local budget balance of payments resulted in DKK 129 million in 2019, with income and expenditure totalling DKK 6,858 and 6,729 million, respectively. The primary source of income for the Church was church tax, accounting for 85.3 % of total revenue, with ritual and ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... immigrant communities, the strategy involved changing laws in the public housing sector,<12> where most immigrants and their descendants lived. The government’s housing initiative to prevent ghettoization was based on the principle of a more balanced composition of residents of disadvantaged areas.<13> However, these long-term measures were not effective in solving current problems. As a result, by 2010 the number of ghettos had increased to 29 areas.<14> Due to the current situation,...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... Lithuanian concerns regarding the construction of a nuclear power plant in Ostrovets, Belarus, which is located in close proximity to Lithuania.<19> However, during the Belarusian events from August to October 2020, Germany’s stance was more balanced compared to Lithuania’s [14], [19]. This factor, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, played a significant role in the decline of high-level contacts between the two countries at the turn of the decade. Contrary to diplomatic practice, Germany ...
Commentary on a poetic work as philological genre
... genre-specific nature of this type of artistic work. The main focus is on understanding the two-stage character of commentary. The first stage relies on precise textological information, while the second takes on an explanatory-interpretative character. A balance is determined between interpretation and commentary, the pursuit of objectifying meaning, and the subjectively personal experiential aspect, which is realized in the aesthetic experience, in the encounter between the author and the reader in the ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... situation. The region’s international trade decreased by a factor of 1.8 in 2015 and again by 1.5 in 2016. This decline was mostly accounted for by imports, which decreased by two times in 2015 and 1.4 times a year later. All this reduced the negative balance of trade.
As the nature of neighbourhood with EU countries changed and the borders started to act as barriers, the geographical and commodity structure of international trade altered as well. For example, agricultural produce accounted for 30—45 ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... a source of population growth and a factor contributing to population outflows [43].
The movement of goods and people generates significant volumes of digital information. For instance, the research reveals a robust positive correlation between the balance of web traffic and the trade in services [44]. Consequently, regions that are actively fulfilling their integration potential in traditional spheres can be anticipated to exhibit a similar trend in the flow of digital data.
In conducting this ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... regions). After the crisis of 2008—2009, employment started declining not only in northern regions but also in the quintet of other regions, and the Leningrad region joined in the decline starting in 2015 (Fig. 1). The region’s positive migration balance coupled with a reduction in employment is evidence that most of the migrants work in St. Petersburg while living in its surroundings. Employment growth in St. Petersburg halted in 2015, as opposed to Moscow, where it continues. Accordingly, the ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... that both approaches are relevant to decision-making in an uncertain environment. In the context of the theory of planned behaviour and reinforcement learning, diagnosing (examination) is an important aspect, since the subject of the action must find a balance between learning new strategies and experimenting with unfamiliar actions, as well as using already familiar actions that can lead to more reinforcement.
Entrepreneurship today relies heavily on the support of cutting-edge information technologies ...
On multiple semiotics integrally, aspectively and concretely
... discourse analysis in an interdisciplinary application.
Biznes. Obshchestvo. Vlast'
[Business. Society. Power], 22, pp. 67—82 (in Russ.).
Ilyin, M. V., Avdonin, V. S. and Fomin, I. V., 2018. Methodological challenge. Critical reflection. How to keep balance at the curves from visual precision to scientific validity and back.
Metod: moskovskii ezhegodnik trudov iz obshchestvovedcheskikh distsiplin
[METHOD: Moscow Yearbook of Works from Social Science Disciplines], 8, pp. 5—11 (in Russ.).
Kravchenko,...
Why Study Kant? Framing the Problem
In its 2018 publication, Come On! the Club of Rome advocates the need for a New Enlightenment. It associates Kant with an Old Enlightenment that favours (i) individualism, (ii) rationalism and in general (iii) a lack of balance between different elements such as reason and feelings. In this discussion note, I argue — based on Kant’s theoretical as well as practical philosophies — that the charges are not properly levelled at Kant. (i) In finding truth as well as ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... There is an objective need to design a model of efficiency assessment of management decisions on operational and strategic management levels, their correlation and influence on the goal function relevant in the following aspects of ICZM:
1) ecological balance;
2) economic indicators;
3) ethical aspects;
4) institutional aspects;
5) social aspects;
6) technological development.
Thus, the research question of the present study aims to design performance indicators that align with the complex functioning ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... calculations in this article, unlike the earlier ones, take into account intraregional migration, which, by definition, is associated with shorter distances but makes a considerable contribution to total national migration, being thus capable of affecting the balance;
— the calculation methodology has changed (in this study, Euclidean distances are computed for all towns and villages, without aggregation, whilst earlier contributions employed the so-called ‘areal’ method for calculating migration distance ...
Immanuel Kant and the “New Enlightenment”. International Conference Report
...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.05.003
Zuboff, S., 2018. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. London: Profile Books.
Kant, Enlightenment, “new Enlightenment”, Club of Rome, maturity, balance, progress
Startseva A., Sabanov A.O.
132-145
10.5922/0207-6918-2023-1-7
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... architecture, and the expansion of quantitative and qualitative diversity of crises, are only intensifying.<8> The Update points out that Russia continues to pursue its own strategic ambitions in different regions, to which Paris hoped to formulate a balanced response combining “firmness and dialogue”. A significant part of this response should be defence and industrial cooperation with EU partners, and not only with Germany due to its traditional importance for French diplomacy [9], [10], but ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
... within the Baltic region.
To reach this aim, the following objectives are attained:
— identifying the regional patterns of change in the flow of inbound and domestic tourism in 2021, compared to 2020;
— assessing the role of domestic tourist flow in balancing the pandemic-induced drop in inbound tourism;
— calculating an indicator of change in the contribution of tourists from the Baltic region to inbound tourism in selected areas.
Materials and methods
This study is based on open access data ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... the evolution of the centre-periphery structure of the Baltics’ tourism space, the gap between the core and the less developed regions remained substantial in 2019. Narrowing this gap is the key to further progress and the formation of stable and balanced tourism structures in the Baltics. Tourist periphery requires effective promotion in domestic and international travel markets, with the former having priority. The international campaign may focus on not only territories traditionally producing ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... regulations.
The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research within grant № 20-04-60490 Developing Territorially Differentiated Methods for Regulating Socioeconomic Interactions, Sectoral Structure and Local Labour Markets to ensure balanced regional development in a volatile epidemiological situation.
Alov, I. N., Pilyasov, A. N.
10.5922/2079-8555-2023-1-6
96-119
Baltic macro-region; horizontal, hierarchical spatial diffusion of coronavirus; space of flows and space of places; ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... development of local territories to the benefit of all residents of a country. The convergence of the socio-economic performance of local territories, a brisk business environment and developed infrastructure are an important prerequisite of a country’s balanced territorial and spatial development.
Recent decades have seen changing approaches to Latvia’s towns, most of them well in line with the town planning programmes devised by the UN and the EU.<1> At first, a geospatial approach was employed,...
Modern features of the development of a comfortable urban space in small towns of the Kaliningrad region
Given the issue of balanced socio-economic development of the entire territory of the Kaliningrad region, an important task is to improve the quality of life in small towns in the region, as they serve as supporting elements for the regional settlement frame. Attracting ...
Cytokine-induced regulation of maturation, differentiation, and apoptotic death of immune memory T-lymphocytes
To maintain the normal state of the immune system, the processes of cell proliferation must be strictly regulated and balanced by the processes of apoptotic death to prevent the development of autoimmune and neoplastic reactions. T-lymphocytes of immune memory are under strict control from the immune system.
The role of γc-cytokines (IL-2, IL-7, and IL-15) in the ...
IL-1β and IL-8 influence on cytoprotective mechanisms in liver tissue in morbid obesity patients with comorbidities
... of NRF2 and TFAM in the liver may indicate mitochondrial dysfunction of hepatocytes. Thus, the key factor contributing to the development of NAFLD and type 2 diabetes in morbid obesity is the disruption of the function of systems that maintain redox balance by suppressing the production of the factors NRF2, TFAM, AMPK, HSF1, HSP70 in liver tissue.
Vulf M.A., Kuznetsov G.L., Komar A.A., Safiullina L.A., Karpeeva E.N., Shunkina D.A., Bograya M.M., Gazatova N.D., Kirienkova E.V., Litvinova L.S.
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Cross-border digitalization of the western border of Russia: potential and prospects
... sustainable development is one of the priorities of Russia’s national security. The specificity of their economic-geographical position necessitates the development and implementation by the authorities of special governance approaches aimed at finding a balance between the openness and barrier function of the state border. One of the most common tools for the spatial development of border areas is the sustainable cross-border cooperation with the regions of neighboring countries using various froms of ...