Construction works impact on the vegetation in the сoastal zone of the Pregolya river in Kaliningrad
... dominant system. It is established that the total number of species in the direct impact zone and downstream has remained the same. However, the structure of plant communities and their species composition has changed. Some species have fell out of communities or reduced their projective coverage; some communities in the city center have disappeared. Inherent to the β-mesosaprobic and eutrophic waters, Lemna minor, Cladophora glomerata have increased their abundance in communities, acting as dominants ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... core’ and ‘core — periphery’ interfaces. Finally, there is the ‘continuous/areal regions — dispersed/network region’ scales, which allows one to distinguish continuous economic zones and gravitation zones; transboundary network online communities and party structures. Overall, ongoing transboundary regionalisation creates new forms of regional spatial development, such as corridors, cores and growth triangles [13].
2. According to the material geo-spatial features, regions are classified ...
Composition and structure of plant communities in milled peatlands during the post-disturbance successions: a case study from the Rossyanka Carbon Supersite, Kaliningrad, Russia
... central part of the Vittgirrensky Peatland (designated the Rossyanka Carbon Supersite). All community types represent successional stages of vegetation development on areas transformed by peat milling. Data on the structure and species composition of communities are provided, along with typical phytosociological descriptions for each vegetation variant. Physiognomically, the plant communities on the milled fields consist of low-stature tree stands with varying canopy closure, mainly dominated by ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... security” concept coined by Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver of the Copenhagen School (international relations). According to this tradition, societal security is about the survival of a community as a cohesive unit. Societal insecurities arise when “communities of whatever kind define a development or potentiality as a threat to their survival as a community” [1].
The understanding of the societal security concept has later been expanded by Buzan’s and Wæver’s followers and now covers not ...
Cultural Islam in Northern Europe
... a reaction to the presence of Islam at the local and regional level and makes it possible to identify individual trends in the evaluation of such narratives in both scientific and popular analytical literature. The growing secularization of Islamic communities in Northern Europe and changes in the value-driven behavioural algorithms of believers lead both to the polarization of Islam and changes in attitudes to Islam from outside the religion. Studies into the factors affecting the dynamics of this ...
Role of biofouling in the coastal communities of the southern Baltic sea
The article investigates properties of micro- and macrofouling in periphyton communities of algae and bacteria in the Vislinskiaya lagoon and the open coastal space of the South Baltic as well as their taxonomic composition. The authors reveal fouling indifference of the nature of the substrates and Ulva dominance in polluted ...
Character-istics of communities chironomids lakes of the city of Kaliningrad
This article investigates the state of chironomid communities in Lake Penkovoe, Pond Isakovsky, Pond Shkolny, and the Karasevka pond system in Kaliningrad in spring 2011. The authors provide new data on the species composition, abundance, and biomass of chironomidae. The Shannon, Simpson, Balushkin, ...
Cultural types and the perception of current environmental risks by local communities of the Baltic Sea region
This work presents findings from research into the relationship between the structural organisation and cultural attitudes of local communities in the Baltic Sea region and the way they perceive environmental risks. The response of the Kaliningrad community to the development of a local potassium and magnesium salt mine is used as an illustration. The article deals with how local ...
Labour migrants from the Middle East Arab countries in Sweden: a paradigm shift
... from the Middle East Arab countries in Sweden. Diaspora leadership changes depending on the situation in the countries of origin and migration phenomena driven by political and military shocks. This change affects the migration process and the role of communities in the economic life of the country. The study draws on the work of top research centres and data from leading Swedish and international statistical agencies. The rise and subsequent decline in Syrian immigration, which included labour migrants,...
Certain issues of correlation between the international financial law and the EU law
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Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... unemployed immigrants, refugees and their descendants, these areas can develop into real ethnic enclaves or parallel societies without significant economic, social, and cultural contacts with society”.<11>
To address the segregation of 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 ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... withdrawal of Soviet troops, along with the weakening of the influence of the central Soviet authorities after the activities of the State Emergency Committee, created the conditions for Germany’s activation. This led to the declaration of the European Communities on August 27, 1991, expressing support for the independence of the Baltic republics and inviting their representatives to the next meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Communities.<2> Already August 28, 1991 Germany established ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... as ‘bordering’ in the English literature.
In most cases, delimitation occurs smoothly, striking an ‘equilibrium’ between the influences exerted on border functions by various stakeholders: national, regional, and local authorities, as well as communities, businesses, NGOs, and media outlets.
Conversely, changes in the geopolitical status of a territory, such as the accession of an adjacent country into an economic union, precipitate abrupt shifts in the nature of the geographical neighbourhood,...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... response.<42>
Examining prestige, reputation, significance, friendship, influence and other related phenomena within strategic culture, collectively categorised as ‘status’, could add to our understanding of ‘special relationships’, security communities, strategic partnerships and alliance strategies. This is especially true since, for example, the emergence of security communities must be underpinned by shared values and a sense of mutual involvement. Even within formalised alliances, the ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... Kaiser Wilhelm II to those parts in 1903—1908 and celebrating his deer hunting prowess. The stones can be seen near the villages of Sosnovka and Dmitrievka, as well as in the Rominte Heath.
4. Sites commemorating the history of East Prussian towns and communities; places of family remembrance.
In the post-Soviet period, the interest in the past of the region’s towns and villages has been steadily growing in Kaliningrad, evidenced by inordinate publications in the media, books and research periodicals....
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... the geopolitical space has four major forms: geographical (the main actor is the state), economic (the main actor is corporations producing goods and services), information and ideological (the main actor is the media, academic, artistic, literature communities, teaching and management staff in education), information and cybernetic (the main actor is software and network developers).
Structurally each form of the geopolitical space consists of three main elements: 1) actors, 2) resources, and 3) ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... whose unique spatial features produced a specific COVID-19 situation. The region’s closed towns were mentioned in 155 municipal and regional regulations adopting regional and federal measures to the peculiarities of the local economy, lifestyle of the communities residing in the region, and the Arctic climate, geography and transport arrangements. Municipalities of the Leningrad region were most prolific in terms of Covid response legislation, having issued more statutory instruments than their counterparts ...
Ethnic minority organisations in Russia and Poland: a comparison challenge
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Ethno-confessional immigrant ghettos as a national security problem in Denmark’s social and political discourse
... Parallel Societies in Denmark (2010), and One Denmark without Parallel Societies: No Ghettos in 2030 (2018). The escalation of the social conflict calls for the Danish authorities to take decisive action against the enclavisation of segregated immigrant communities. This study employs discourse analysis to evaluate the efficiency and identify the shortcomings of government action to integrate ethno-confessional minorities into society. Particular attention is paid to analysing public reaction to the ...
Paleofauna of Dominican amber: the current state of research and comparative analysis
... attempt of synchronization of paleofans with other Lagerstättes. The authors show the absence of endemism at the family level. The Mesozoic Lagerstättes are linked to the modern Neotropical fauna. The most obvious similarities among the fossil communities are found in the Baltic amber. Faunistic relations with recent communities are more pronounced than with any of the known Lagerstättes. It gives grounds for characterizing the Dominican fauna as the closest to the modern one.
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Territorial Framework for Local Community Organization
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New stages of the excessive budget deficit procedure for the EU member states and the assessment of their effectiveness
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Security in the Baltic region as a Projection of Global Confrontation between Russia and the USA
This article considers the problem of security in the Baltic region, namely, that of Poland and the Baltics. The authors rely on the works of Karl Deutsch, Emanuel Adler, on Michael Barnett’s theory of security communities and Barry Buzan’s regional security complex theory, address Steven Mann’s controlled chaos theory and the concept of Intermarium. Their starting assumption is that the situation in the Baltic depends largely on the politics of external ...
Informal education for multi-age communities: The legal framework and development prospects
... development for supporting cultural continuity and socioeconomic development. Through analysing the legal framework of the modern development of education in Russia, the author identifies the legislative resource for promoting informal education in multi-age communities, which makes it possible to support educational initiatives aimed at stimulating a dialogue between generations.
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The species structure of bottom-dwelling fish communities of the South East Baltic according to the trawl survey data
An analysis of the species structure of the demersal fish communities of the South East Baltic was carried out based on of annual international bottom trawl surveys. The species composition of bycatch was identified and its contribution to the biodiversity of the water area assessed. The catchy structure was ...
Pollination as an ecosystem service in agricultural nature management
This article discusses the role of pollination by honeybees as an ecosystem service in the structure of agricultural production. Forest, marsh, and mea-dow communities are considered as basic conditions for pollination in the eco-systems of the Kaliningrad region. A classification of the area for beekeeping is conducted according to the productive capacity of plant communities. The 1991—2004 interannual ...
A model for involving the expert community in implementing the educational policy: The case of a major educational programme
This article presents a general model of involving the research, educa-tional, and other expert communities in implementing the state educational policy. The authors consider the organization of public and expert discussion of sample primary and secondary education programmes. The model describes the nonlinear space of expert interaction, including ...
Some Biotic Reactions to Climate Change in the Forest Landscape of the Caspian-Baltic Watershed
... considers some biotic reactions to climatic transformation on the basis of the research conducted in 1980—2006 in the primary ecosystems of southern Taiga on the Central Russian Plain. The change of structure, diversity and productivity of small mammal communities are connected to climatic trends, extreme and catastrophic climatic phenomena.
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The Role of Political Elites in the Development of Politics of Memory in the Baltic States
... narratives of the past where nazi and Soviet legacies are equated are actively promoted on the pan-European level. Elites of the Baltic States play a salient role in this process and enhance ties with the elites of the Eastern Europe, expert and political communities of the Western Europe and USA. The dominant trends in the development of the historical politics in the Baltic countries are the administrative and legislative instruments for approval of the preferred narratives of the past, as well as an ...
Monotowns: A New Take on the Old Problem
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Russia-EU energy efficiency cooperation in the Baltic region: the untapped potential
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Geography and economy of the Kaliningrad region: limitations and prospects of development
With its exclave status, the Kaliningrad region has been drawing attention of many researchers in different fields. Yet the prospects for cooperation between the region and neighbouring communities in Poland and Lithuania, which once constituted an integrated social, economic and political space, remain unclear. Media analysts and scholars alike tend to view the Kaliningrad region as “double periphery”, since it is excluded from ...
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Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... focus areas included encouraging the transition of church structures to resource-saving technologies, as well as assistance provided to young people affected by COVID-19. In its support, the Fund takes into account the Church’s partnership with local communities, geographic reach, innovativeness, and high levels of volunteerism.
The Church of Denmark has several tax benefits. It is exempt from corporate and property taxes. Voluntary monetary donations made by adherents are also tax-deductible.
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A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... for achieving the sustainability of the Baltic region territories [9].
The role of cooperation in a territory’s development is informed by the very functioning of cooperative economic models, which seek to safeguard the interests and needs of local communities [10]. Cooperative organisations’ reputation capital and sustainability are generally ensured by offering services tailored to the local populace’s needs [11]. According to Russian scholars, cooperative practices facilitate achieving two ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... exist different opinions regarding the extent to which this expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance really threatens Russia’s military security, whether it is an immediate war threat or rather a political and psychological factor. In the political communities in Finland and Sweden, a prevailing desire is to downplay the danger that their accession to NATO poses for Russia, and to place all the blame for the respective geopolitical choices of Helsinki and Stockholm on Moscow itself. For instance,...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... the periphery to be included in the Kaliningrad region’s strategic
and spatial planning documents, based on the findings of the study
Regulation object
Suburban zone
Periphery
Settlement
Improving rural infrastructure, turning villages into cottage communities
Development of rural-urban partnerships
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Historical policy and memorial culture of modern Romanian society
The aim of the research is to analyze the contemporary politics of memory in Romania in the early 2020s. The author examines the role and place of intellectual communities as key spaces of memory genesis and the functioning of memorial culture and collective historical memory in the contemporary social and political thought of Romania. The novelty of the study lies in exploring the current stage in the development ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... momentum; (2) diversification of paradiplomatic actors; (3) equal and symmetrical partnership between Russia and the European states.
Introduction
During the past few decades, EU-Russian regional cooperation was a channel of interaction between communities on both sides and demonstrated its resilience even in times of crisis. The relations between Russia and Finland, in particular, were built on the common historical past and strong economic and political ties. In 2022, the European Commission ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... science in the news [27]. The results of our study also confirm this fact. The most quoted personalities in the non-state German media were the country’s officials: Angela Merkel, Markus Söder, Jens Spahn and Olaf Scholz, as well as other professional communities broadcasting the biopolitical agenda. The representation of the official view in publications exceeds the scope of the alternative opinion.
Beyond intimidation and reliance on official information sources, propaganda strategies can encompass ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... projects are being developed.
The next step of the proposed conceptual approach is focused on environmental concerns. As mentioned earlier, the objectives of sustainable development garner significant attention from local authorities and international communities. This is reflected in the activities of the seaport through information integration and the utilization of advanced technologies [33]. For example, the ‘Ecological justification of economic activities to maintain the design depths in the ...
Multimodal text as a means of political identification: an analysis of the Russian blogosphere
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Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... elucidate the concepts being used and create new ones to address empirical phenomena that were previously overlooked [20, p. 40]. According to Barbashin, neo-institutional analysis should reveal ‘hidden institutions’ and their positive potential for communities [21, p. 100]. Moreover, informal institutions play a significant role as “their presence in some societies and absence in others ultimately determine whether cooperation and coordination, as well as the growth of well-being, will be achieved....
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... culture, art, project activity, education, tourism and the information space. Transboundary territories are unique in that they experience the ‘neighbourhood effect’, which leads to the formation of a specific sociocultural space where the features of communities living on either side of the border intertwine [32]. Kolosov V. writes that ‘special social unity of people is emerging for whom border crossing has become, for various reasons, an indispensable part of their everyday lives [8, p. 88]. The ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... 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 to produce a geosociospatial approach spanning 12—13 aspects.<2>
The geosociospatial differentiation of Latvia’s towns ...
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