Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... argue that the goal of societal security should be to build upon and strengthen the existing global human rights legal framework [10], [11], [12, p. 274—286], [13]. This sub-school focuses on ethnic, religious, cultural and sexual minority rights, believing that, in a healthy society, minorities should be protected and have a full freedom of expression. Neoliberals both nationally and globally heavily criticize the Russian government for its inability to effectively implement this concept. They ...
The issue of interfaith interaction between the Old Believers and Islam in the works of A.S. Pushkin and L.N. Tolstoy
The issue of reflecting the ethno-cultural interaction between the Old Believers and Muslims in regions with a traditional prevalence of Islamic culture in the 18th—19th centuries is considered in the works of A. S. Pushkin and L. N. Tolstoy. The conclusion is substantiated that both writers leaned towards the necessity ...
Old Believers in the Northwestern krai of the Russian empire in the 19th — early 20th century: guides of the Russian idea or religious outcasts
The article examines the issue of the place of the Old Believer community in the Northwestern region of the Russian Empire during the process of Russification in the 19th to early 20th centuries. To achieve the research goal, the following tasks were addressed: a historical overview of the formation of the ...
On the Old Believers in the literary heritage of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
The article examines M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s views on the phenomenon of the Old Believers. The research establishes the sources for the writer to study the everyday life and religious characteristics of the adherents of "old piety", and also highlights the background of the Western philosophy that influenced the writer’s ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... marine resources and communications;
— the proximity of economic and engineering infrastructure and population to the coast;
— the awareness of the authorities, businesses and society of their maritime interests, opportunities and priorities.
We believe that the cumulative influence on spatial dynamics of such basic geographical phenomena as borders, neighbourhood, connectivity, regionalism, resource availability, transport and geographical position also fall into the sea factor category. In ...
The Russian-speaking diaspora in the Baltic states: a socio-cultural aspect
... regione. Izbrannye trudy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii DVFU [Russia in the Asia-Pacific region. Selected works of the scientific-practical conference of FEFU], Vladivostok (in Russ.).
11. Zenkovsky, S. 2017, Russkoe staroobryadchestvo [Russian Old Believers], Minsk (in Russ.).
12. Filyushkin, A. I. 2005, The War for the Baltic States as a “Holy War” in the history of Russia and Europe, Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii «Baltiiskii region v istorii Rossii i Evropy» [Proceedings ...
On the history of graph theory. Origin
... “minimal“ trees and graphs with cycles;
— figures and regions of constellations in the starry sky are hypergraphs.
The authors proposed the year 1542 as the year of the probable appearance of the Konigsberg bridges problem. The authors believe that the first report on graph theory was made by Leonhard Euler in 1735 at a Conference of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and is devoted to the Konigsberg bridges problem. The authors believe that the first letter on graph theory by Karl ...
Pavel Tulsky, the "schismatic" among schismatics: towards the emergence of the "Tula Old Believers' Accord"
The article examines the personality of Pavel Smirnov/Tulsky who fled from the synodal church in 1831 to the Old Believers as a priest. Keeping in touch with the center of the Belokrinitsky accord — the Rogozhsky cemetery, Pavel gradually went into schism. On Pavel Smirnov's biography, the author seeks to identify and characterize the concept of the fugitive priesthood; ...
Transformationen der Kantischen Postulatenlehre im „Cambridge Pragmatism“ (Charles S. Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce)
... long overlooked. These approaches are best understood as innovative re-readings of Kant’s postulates of freedom, immortality, and God. Since Hilary Putnam pointed out — in his 1992 book Renewing Philosophy — that James’s essay, “The Will to Believe”, in spite of having received a great deal of hostile criticism, is in “its logic, in fact, precise and impeccable”, James’s thoughts are considered by many contemporary philosophers (by Charles Taylor, e.g., and by Hans Joas) as particularly ...
Count M. A. Miloradovich in life, creativity and the fate of F. N. Glinka
... M. A. Miloradovich. This allowed us to correct the biographical data of Glinka, which are based on the research of his social and literary activities. The author of the article adheres to the point of view of the historian A. G. Tartakovsky, who believes that «Letters of a Russian officer» are not simply memoirs. The author believes that «Letters» have a complex genre structure, where the documentary material is woven into the texture of artistic and journalistic essay, and the subjective ...
Pechora scrolls: St. Augustine’s miracle of the revelation of the Elder
The Ust-Tsilemsky region of the Komi Republic is known for its collection of medieval handwritten books and manuscripts. These collections found in the area of the Lower Pechora River contain a rich variety of Old Believers’ written documents of different genres. The authors explore one of these documents — St. Augustine’s Miracle of the Revelation of the Elder, which exists in two different Pechora documents. One of them is a hagiographic text created ...
On the content of the Fedoseyan Old Believers’ Menologia
....ucoz. ru/publ/245-1-0-908 (да¬та об¬ращения: 21.02.2015).
8. Svatcy // Biblioteka cyfrowa Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiemu : [сайт]. URL: http://dlibra.bg.uwm.edu.pl (дата обращения: 21.02.2015).
Kamalova A.
Old Believers, Voynovsky monastery, church calendar, hagioanthroponyms.
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A man as a “citizen of two worlds”: The development of Kantian themes by Rosenzweig
... called in Rosenzweig’s reception of Kant) make it possible to guarantee an autonomous dimension of a human being that relates to the essence and is understandable for oneself, in other words, resistant to any claims of idealistic philosophy.The author believes that Rosenzweig arrives at the conclusion that nothing can be known about a human just as nothing can be known about god.An analysis of general architectonics of The Star of Redemption emphasises the central position of the theme of revelation....
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... evolving to refer to a special type of social territorial processes and their results. At the same time, discipline-specific definitions and derivative terminology developed, often diverging significantly from previously established terms. Yet we believe that human geography has sufficient methodological and theoretical capacities to develop a single framework for analysing the process of regionalisation of society and its result — regions.
The Baltic region has garnered scholarly attention ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... discussion has been prompted by a paradigm shift towards the University 3.0 model, which includes ‘serving the regional community’ as an additional function alongside the conventional roles of universities [16], [17], [18].
Researchers increasingly believe that the university is becoming an active participant in regional socio-economic life. Therefore, the socio-cultural function of the university is of particular importance. In addition, given the developing concept of lifelong education, a noteworthy ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... deportation are not justified. According to Lisborg’s report, the deportation of a migrant costs approximately 4 thousand euros. However, experts admit that it is impossible to expel everyone who is refused permission to stay. Therefore, some of them believe that these funds could be more usefully invested in improving living conditions in the regions of mass arrival of migrants. But in reality, this approach cannot significantly improve the situation. EU countries spend significant resources on solving ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... of the Euro-Atlantic community, has consistently participated in deterring Russia but prefers a gradual approach to the process. This stance was first articulated by Chancellor Angela Merkel as early as March 2014.<5> The German establishment believes that this approach offers significant advantages, including control over the development of the confrontation, the ability to exert pressure on the opponent gradually and sensibly, and the flexibility to adapt to emerging circumstances. Additionally,...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... disrupted transboundary raw material links, the region’s exclave position objectively limits the opportunities of economic entities, including cooperative members, as regards food supply to the territory [13].
More than half of the respondents (60.1 %) believe that cooperatives could replace foreign companies that left the Russian market in the wake of the economic sanctions (Fig. 2).
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Distribution of responses to the question: ‘Do you agree that, under sanctions, consumer cooperatives can take the ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... generate interest income, which can be directed towards Ukrainian reconstruction. In the future, after a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and the lifting of restrictive measures, Russian assets will be returned to Russia. However, the EU believes that a peaceful resolution of the conflict should include an obligation for Russia to compensate for the damage caused. In other words, according to the EU, Russia’s access to frozen assets should be granted on the condition of compensating ...
The Problem of the Possibility of an Artificial Moral Agent in the Context of Kant’s Practical Philosophy
... whole range of problems raised by Kant within the framework of practical philosophy that have not exhausted their heuristic potential to this day. First, I show the significance of the correlation between moral law and freedom. Since a rational being believes that his/her will is independent of external influences, the will turns out to be governed by the moral law and is autonomous. Morality and freedom are correlated through independence from the external. Accordingly, if the actions of artificial ...
The January uprising in the worldview of the Warsaw positivists
... representatives of Warsaw positivism and concludes that the suppression of the uprising in 1863-1864 contributed significantly to the formation of the ideology of this philosophical movement. Positivists openly condemned the Polish liberation movement, believing that armed conflicts would lead to the disappearance of the Polish nation. Despite this, they held great respect for the participants of the January Uprising, simultaneously realizing the futility of armed methods in the struggle for the independence ...
Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
... the explication of the theme of moral instructions in the Old English tradition. The poem, along with other Old English sermons and Christian poems, represents the suggestion of moral rules regarding early Christian life, being a set of orders for believers. This article provides the author's translation of the contexts of the poem Instructions for Christians. The problem of studying the phenomenon of instructions and the representation of the indisputable position of faith in the ancient culture ...
‘People in Black’: Semantization of the concepts ‘sectant’ and ‘baptist’ in the anti-religious campaign of 1958—1964
... such as new lexical pairs ('sectarian-Baptist,' 'fanatics and bigots,' 'subversives and villains') and linguistic markers related to colour, sound, appearance, age, and location were employed. These tools helped develop a negative image of a Protestant believer and ultimately transformed the concepts of ‘sectant’ and ‘baptist’ into political labels.
Arinin, E. I., 2017. The Invasion of Religion in to Soviet Cinema: Between “the Magical” and “the Eternal”. Vestnik Leningradskogo ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... development of Russian maritime transport and port facilities can be assessed as quite positive. It appears that positive development factors generally outweigh existing problems, risks and threats.
Apparently, the Russian Ministry of Transport also believes that positive development factors prevail over negative ones. As a result, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation published the approved passport of the federal project “Development of railway approaches to the seaports of the ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... those members of the Alliance who are geographically remote from the Baltic region (in particular, Turkey).
Until the Nordic countries broke with their non-aligned stance in 2022, this argument provided some Russian experts and observers with reasons to believe that their departure from neutrality and joining NATO was unlikely in the foreseeable future. As a result, these analysts suggested that Russia should not view the Nordic region as an inevitable candidate drifting towards NATO [11], [12].
Justifying ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... United States, its isolation could be inevitable for a generation or more [23].
As Bordachev notes, “for Russia, none of the geographical directions of its external relations is a question of survival, a necessity, but always remains a choice.” He believes, and one might concur, that Russia evaluates any foreign policy partnership based on the benefits of this choice, not as a matter of vital necessity for developing relations with a specific partner [24]. This approach opens up opportunities for ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... country’s maritime, mainly economic, activities is a significant external challenge. Although this change seems to have prompted a substantial update to the Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation,<6> carried out in the summer of 2022, we firmly believe that it does not imply the necessity, let alone the inevitability, of any substantial continentalisation.
Naturally, problematic situations of varying scope are emerging, encompassing a decline in import- and sea transport-dependent motor vehicle ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... in terms of spatial accessibility and diffusion of ICT, the information society and the state (for the results see, for instance, thematic publications [19], [20]). Smirnov, focusing on international differences in the accessibility of the internet, believes they result from the cross-influence of economic and geographical factors, including urbanization, proximity to developed internet markets, infrastructure accessibility, local cultural specificity and population density [21]. Trofimova [22], ...
Kant als metaphilosophischer Skeptizist?
... Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter, S. 1530-1540.
Bernáth, L. and Tözsér, J., 2021. The Biased Nature of Philosophical Beliefs in the Light of Peer Disagreement. Metaphilosophy, 52(3-4), pp. 363-378.
Bourget, D. and Chalmers, D., 2013. What Do Philosophers Believe? Philosophical Studies, 170(3), pp. 465-500.
Brennan, J., 2010. Scepticism about Philosophy. Ratio (New Series), 23(1), pp. 1-16.
Cappelen, H., 2012. Philosophy Without Intuitions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Coliva, A. and Doulas, L., 2022....
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... and border security, mobility, and migration management.
The total budget of the Programme was 77.5 million euros. Half of this amount was contributed by the European Union and the other half was equally contributed by Russia and Finland.<10>
We believe that the CBC Programme formed a unique system of regional cooperation between Russia and the EU, and especially Finland. Some scholars highlight the following challenges during CBC programmes implementation: partners’ readiness to participate ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... the duty to ‘fight for freedom and peace’ instead of letting others do it for them
Denmark’s strategic culture is defined by the alternating division and consensus in Denmark’s domestic politics between proponents of ‘cosmopolitanism’, who believe in Scandinavian uniqueness, moralism, and non-military foreign policy tools, considering military force as useless, on the one hand, and advocates of ‘defencism’, who hold that even small countries have to develop military forces alongside ...
The Impact of COVID-19 on immigration: the transformation of Norwegian migration policy on asylum seekers
Until just a year ago, hardly anyone believed that the increasingly unrestrained growth in mobility could be so abruptly interrupted by a radical immobilisation of large population groups. Neither mobility studies nor other research fields had foreseen this kind of scenario in their mobility ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... has preserved the memory of Adalbert of Prague, a saint and missionary who died in Prussia in 997 at the hands of non-believers. In 1822, a wooden cross was erected in the village of Tenkitten (now Beregovoe in the Baltiysk municipality) where it is believed that St. Adalbert was killed, as a tribute to his courageous act of faith. In 1997, on the occasion of the thousandth anniversary of Adalbert’s martyrdom, a metal cross was erected at the same site, which remains the primary place of remembrance ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... military-political issues: the problems, risks and threats a state sees as imminent; the existing security beliefs and discussions; the terms and categories deemed adequate to describe the external environment [5, p. 7—9]. Strategic culture in a narrow sense was believed to have three components — political goals and justification of power actions, basic rules of conduct towards the opponent (annihilation, attrition, safeguarding of achievements) and operational preferences (the way resources are used to attain ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... region, is the increase in prices for items banned from import. At the same time, these changes were most significant for residents characterizing their financial situation as bad or very bad (42 % of respondents in this category); 61 % of respondents believe that good quality products at competitive prices disappeared after 2014; 34 % noticed goods produced in Russia under well-known foreign brands banned from import; 33.8 % expressed the opinion that the range of niche products (delicacies, dietary ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... the preferred migration destination.
Along with external and context-dependent factors, the distance of migration is affected by the vicissitudes of one’s life course events and the events involving one’s friends and relations. It is generally believed that education is a principal migration-encouraging factor. A recent study [8] has shown that although it is the case in the UK and Sweden, where people move over more than 90 or 80 km respectively to their place of study, Australians rarely ...
Semyon Frank and the German Neo-Kantianism: Aspects of Debate
... mathematical studies. Thirdly and lastly, Frank paid particular attention, especially in his formative period as a philosopher, to the leading trend in the early twentieth century, namely German Neo-Kantianism, which led some students of his work to believe that German Neo-Kantianism played the decisive role in Frank’s abandonment of Marxism in favour of religious ontology. Frank’s fundamental disagreement with German Neo-Kantianism was expressed in his work The Object of Knowledge in which he ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... 1990.<3> On the contrary, the 2017 Strategic Review published already under President Macron takes into account new divergences between Russia and the West and develops a slightly more detailed position on the issue. The authors of the document believe that the northern and eastern borders of Europe “are affected by Moscow’s intent to rebuild a sphere of influence” (including the Kaliningrad region as an outpost), and particularly in the Baltic, the Russian authorities observe an “aggressive ...
The peaks and troughs of Russian-Estonian relations
... documents and media reports studied by the authors do not contain any facts questioning the established perspectives and concepts. Nevertheless, Tambi scrutinises a number of narratives revealing the complexity and ambiguity of the processes considered.
He believes the peace treaty signed in Tartu (1920) by Soviet Russia and Estonia to have become void in 1940 when Estonia was incorporated into the Soviet Union. At the same time, he demonstrates that the conclusion of the treaty was of enormous significance ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... rivalries over territory” [9]. Russian researchers develop similar approaches [10], [11], [12], [13]. According to Kolosov and Mironenko [14], geopolitics is a subject area aimed at fixing and predicting the spatial boundaries of power fields. Turovsky believes it is “the geography of relations between the centres of political power in the world” [15, p. 30]. There is also an even more “geographic” approach, where the subject of geopolitics is “the impact the features of the territory have ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... studying the spatial spread of COVID-19 in the Baltic macro-region is a product of summarising the methodological groundwork laid by Russian and international scholars and adapting it to the limitations imposed by the object of the study. Many authors believe the excess death measure to be the most suitable for analysing the situation in the vast spaces of Russia [12], [13], [14]. In some other countries, demographers support its use as a tool to track the course of the pandemic and assess the damage ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... significant, distant, and extreme peripheries. The population in the regions of the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation were presented with a list of characteristics and were asked to select 5—7 of the most significant ones that they believed created the ‘reputation of Russian authorities’.
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The substantive core of the concept ‘reputation of Russia’s authorities’
After conducting the survey, it was found that the opinions of experts and the general public were in agreement ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... 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 and focused exclusively on issues such as the ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... opposite, parties are formed around leaders [34, s. 75]. Both PO and PiS have been called leaderist or even ‘authorial’, which means that their leaders are also their founders [6, s. 197]. PiS is the brainchild of Jarosław Kaczyński who is widely believed to have more political influence as the party leader than PiS presidents and prime ministers. PO is the patrimony of Tusk: all the attempts to promote new leaders after his moving to Brussels had consistently failed; in 2021, he retook the reins ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... with a focus on mid and low-tech; an agro-industrial town; a resort with folk craft traditions.
The analysis showed that Latvia is characterised by an extremely unbalanced socio-economic development. Thus, it is hard to agree with the authors who believe that local territories can survive and develop against the background of the current differentiation. In their opinion, the differentiation of Latvia’s inland regions according to the ‘successful growth’ indicator corresponds to the Gaussian ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... the current geopolitical and geoeconomic instability, a brisk economic development of Russia’s Baltic region requires the restructuring of the regional economies and international economic ties to adjust to the changes in the external environment. I believe that the most promising option is encouraging economic entities and local manufacturers to cooperate with firms from other Russian regions. It is advisable, particularly for the exclave of Kaliningrad, to forge collaborations within a spatially ...
Conceptualization of prayer in the diary discourse of L. N. Tolstoy
... to sin, helps in self-understanding. An essential aspect of the conceptualization of prayer for Tolstoy is the definition of the conditions for its performance. Tolstoy understands prayer exclusively as an intimate, non-church appeal to God. Tolstoy believes that prayer should be carried out with complete abstraction from everything mundane. Tolstoy warns against mechanical prayer. He completely denies the prayer asking for personal well-being. Tolstoy’s understanding of prayer is dissonant with ...
On the development of a western worldview in the context of the journal “Vestnik Evropy” in the correspondence between Alexey Veselovsky and Alexander Pypin
... relationships, better defined their input in popularizing the ideas of Westernism at the end of the 19th century, and also described their journalistic activities during the period of cooperation with a liberal journal “Herald of Europe”. The author believes that Pypin's ideas influenced development of Veselovsky as a scientist. This correspondence appears to be highly valuable both as an important record of Alexey Veselovsky's autobiography and the whole epoch of the end of the 19th — ...
Naturalising Kant
... J. L. Austin. Oxford: Blackwell, 1968.
Hobbes, T., 1998. Leviathan. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by J. C. A. Gaskin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
James, W., 1979. The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life. In: W. James, 1979. The Will to Believe, and other Essays in Popular Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 141-162.
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Who is Rationalising? On an Overlooked Problem for Kant’s Moral Psychology and Method of Ethics
... his conception of the functions of critical practical philosophy. The main problem I see with Kant’s conception is that there are no theory-independent criteria to determine whether an exercise of rational capacities constitutes rationalising. Kant believes that rationalising is wide-spread and he charges the popular philosophers and other ethical theorists with rationalising. Yet, his opponents could, in turn, charge him with rationalising and some theorists, namely Act-Consequentialists, seem ...