A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
The current economic crisis conditions call for a search for new mechanisms to maintain the population’s well-being. Within this setting, cooperation may be considered a priority form of entrepreneurial activity, enabling the consolidation of financial resources and reducing business ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions.
In exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that research not only considers the economic and geographical factors of a region, but also takes into account its physical and environmental conditions. Evidence from Vicent Rios and Lisa Gianmoena’s work on Italy suggests that temperature and humidity are crucial factors in the spread of the virus, alongside social ties and contacts [9]. Thus, a comprehensive approach would involve examining ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... two international transport corridors: Corridor № 2 (“East-West”) and Corridor № 9 (“North-South”), they are important for the country’s economic development [14], [15]. The main idea of the North–South MTK is to create favourable conditions for the delivery of goods from the Middle East to the Baltic states. Goods from the Persian Gulf, India, and Pakistan are transported to the ports of the Northwestern region of Russia and further to their destinations. MTK “East-West” ...
Study of the physical and geographical conditions of the territory of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass for the purpose of reclamation works
... deposits, and magmatic activity have determined the modern geological and geomorphological structure of the Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass, as well as the distribution of mineral resources. The aim of the study was to investigate the physico-geographical conditions of the Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass to carry out reclamation work. The main deposits of the region are located in the mountainous areas of the Kuznetsk Alatau, Salair, and Mountain Shoria. Combustible minerals belong to a discontinuous belt ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... countries in response to evolving border regulations, economic dynamics, and the cross-border difference in prices of goods and services [2].
Economic entities also tend to adapt to the new geopolitical situation and border regimes. Altered external conditions cause some industries to decline and others to burgeon, bringing about a restructuring of the economy. These transformations will cause further, thought-out rather than erratic, adaptation of border functions and regime to the new circumstances ...
Paleoecological conditions of the Gdansk basin in Holocene in the complex analysis of short sediment cores
The article is aimed at reconstructing the paleoecological conditions in the Gdansk Basin of the Baltic Sea in the Late Holocene. The hydrological and hydrochemical conditions of its isolated bottom layer are strongly influenced by water exchange with the North Sea, which in connected to the World Ocean. Information ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... and practical goals requires qualitative and quantitative analysis of urbanisation in coastal areas. This article aims to determine whether the territorial support frameworks of settlement in the St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions meet the modern conditions of settlement system development. A cartographic modelling of the settlement structures of the two Russian regions was carried out using Golden Software Surfer 20. The models obtained were supplemented with isolines reflecting the fields of ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
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This article aims to propose and test a methodology for assessing the exposure of territories (as parts of countries) to the sanctions risks using Russian data as an example..
Methods
The following terminology is used in this article. Challenges are conditions that can lead to hazards and threats to the economic security of a country or its region [21], [37]. Hazards are circumstances (phenomena, events, processes) that pose specific threats. Threats create direct or indirect possibilities of causing ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... Novosibirsk, Smolensk, Rostov, Chelyabinsk, Voronezh, Samara, and Kursk regions. These regions exhibit pronounced potential for executing integration functions through the advancement of digital technologies, particularly under favourable geopolitical conditions.
Introduction
In the 21st century, digitalization took centre stage, fundamentally altering many spheres of life. As of June 30, 2022,<1> almost 68 % of the world’s population used the internet, which makes this technology globally ...
On economic well-being and current measures to support small businesses in agriculture in the Kaliningrad region
... an important structural element. At the same time, for the rural area of the region, they perform a more complex role, ensuring, among other things, an increase in the quality of life of the rural population. The current geopolitical and geo-economic conditions in which the Kaliningrad region operates have required strengthening and differentiation of measures and forms of state support for such enterprises. The region has a large-scale program to support farmers, including both financial and non-financial ...
New principles of resource distribution in the EU and their impact on the countries of the Baltic region
... coronavirus pandemic. In the face of a rapidly deteriorating economic situation, EU countries took unprecedented steps radically changing the principles of resource allocation in the Union. These included the recovery plan for Europe, making the EU budget conditional on respect for the rule of law and the new EU resources system. This article seeks to identify the essential characteristics of the decisions made within the Multiannual Financial Framework and define their significance for advancing integration....
The pedagogical conditions of self-care socialisation in primary school students
This article discusses the pedagogical conditions of self-care socialization in primary school children. The authors focus on the essence of these conditions and the need to ensure them in the process of socialization of primary school students.
1. Большой психологический ...
A mathematical model of conversion of GaAs substrate into thin GaNxAs1-x films obtained by nitridation of porous GaAs substrate
A mathematical model of conversion of GaAS substrate into thin GaNxAs1-x films obtained by nitridation of porous GaAs substrate are presented. The technologic conditions influence on GaNxAs1-x parameters are discussed. The comparative analysis of both experimental and theoretic data was applied for optimization nitridation conditions in order to obtain «soft» substrates for GaN growth. The results will help ...
The geoecological conditions of apiculture product manufacturing in the Kaliningrad region
This article focuses on the problem of agrarian land use transformation in the Kaliningrad region in 1960-2011. The author offers and assessment of the geoecological conditions of administrative units, as well as an index of favourable apiculture development conditions.
1. Гаева Д. В. Пасеки как природно-технические системы и возможности их развития ...
On the role of government regulation in creating conditions for the development of Russian regions: the case of tariff policy
The elimination of disparities in the economic conditions of regional development is an important task of government regulation. The tariff policy influences the economic development of Russia and different regions. The market incentives for innovation are not sufficiently strong. The rise in prices ...
Social Facilitation: the Kaliningrad Region and Russian Mainland Regions
... an empirical study of the levels and characteristics of competence in social facilitation, which is here understood as the ability to apply certain knowledge and systems of skills and as a success rate of actions based on experience in improving the conditions of social development. The study was conducted in the Kaliningrad region in 2012—2013. The data was obtained through a survey of 400 respondents using the authors’ methodology encompassing eight basic elements of competence and a structured ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... the selection of indicators for the socio-cultural function, which is associated with the cultivation of high moral qualities and values in students, posed a particularly challenging task. In a broad sense, the purpose of higher education is to create conditions for the development of experts understanding new phenomena and processes of social life, possessing a system of values, cultural and ethical principles, norms of behaviour, being ready for socially responsible professional activity and continuous ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... crisis of 2015 became an “exogenous shock” [1] for European national models of immigration control. Faced with the prospect of hosting an unprecedentedly high number of refugees, states sought to reduce their “attractiveness” by tightening entry conditions and reducing social security. At the same time, the situation with the number of immigrants in Denmark has again become the opposite of Sweden. This is illustrated by the difference in asylum rates in both countries due to the increase in migration ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... boasted a range of joint companies engaged in manufacturing, catering to both Russian and international markets. Competition with cheap imports from the neighbouring states, however, tended to impede the development of local businesses.
The external conditions of the region’s economic development have been changing since 2014, when unfriendly states introduced restrictions, i. e., unlawful sanctions, against Russia. This process is having a particularly pronounced effect on the manufacturing industry....
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... [15], [16]. The significant decrease in economic connections with Western countries, particularly those in Europe that imposed sanctions, prompted a discernible reorientation of Russian foreign trade and transport flows [17], [18], [19]. Under the new conditions, transport routes leading to the Far East, the Barents and Caspian Seas, as well as the countries of Central Asia have become of particular importance for Russia. Currently, these areas are experiencing rapid development, evident not only in ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... direct travel options, and the need to change between modes of transport. The nature and climate of one’s region of origin may produce opposite effects: a migrant might strive to move to an area with similar or, on the contrary, entirely different conditions. Moreover, people may have very dissimilar ideas of these conditions. During our expeditions to Russia’s North and Far East, we often encountered the opinion that one has to move to a place with a similar climate. This consideration was cited ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... term was coined by the American psychologist Robert Tryon in 1939 [32]. A definite advantage of cluster analysis is its applicability to processing a large data set with several variables and classifying objects based on this information. Two necessary conditions for classification are simultaneously met in this case: each object falls into one cluster only; the clusters cover all the objects. A cluster method classification was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics statistical analysis software.
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Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
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Adapting regional strategies to the new non-resource export development target
In the radically new economic conditions of 2020, the Government of the Russian Federation selected supporting non-resource and non-energy exports as one of the four factors of sustainable economic growth. Achieving this target is a challenge, but the absence of sufficient conditions ...
The marine component of human geography studies in Post-Soviet Russia: key trends and development priorities
... Kant. Seriya: Ekonomicheskie i yuridicheskie nauki [Bulletin of the I. Kant Russian State University. Economic and Legal Sciences], no. 3, p. 63—68 (in Russ.).
17. Matrusov, N. D. 1992, On the development of the primorsky regions of Russia in modern conditions. In: Regional’naya organizatsiya i upravlenie morekhozyaistvennymi kompleksami strany [Regional organization and management of marine economic complexes of the country], Saint Petersburg, Russk. Geographical region, p. 50—52 (in Russ.)....
Sustainable development of coastal regions: geographical and geopolitical factors and limitations
... progress balanced across the economy, social industries and environmental protection, has been deemed impossible without identifying and considering regional development factors, such as geographical and economic-geographical position, environmental conditions and their geographical diversity, natural resource and their location, spatial features of the economy and the settlement structure. Coastal regions are affected by sundry other factors, such as the presence of a seacoast, viewed as a special ...
Transzendentalphilosophie als kritische Bestimmung des Standpunkts. Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Annäherung
... Accordingly, in addition to the “Transcendental Analytic”, Kant develops in the “Transcendental Dialectic” an expanded concept of the transcendental. The transcendental ideas do not denote object-constitutive principles but, in a weaker sense, conditions of the possibility of experience. The relation between Division One and Division Two of the “Doctrine of Elements” can be demonstrated exemplarily with regard to Kant’s references to astronomy. Based on the constitutive principles of ...
Sensory fatigue as a functional condition in people with disability
The article explores the theoretical aspects of sensory fatigue as a functional state in people with disabilities. The study focuses on the types and forms of sensory fatigue, triggers causing this condition, switch-on mechanisms, the development of this condition in people with disabilities of different nosological groups, its symptoms and consequences. Sensory fatigue is a condition, which in itself is not a disease and does not require treatment....
Spatial Planning in the European Union: Practices to Draw on in Russia
... describe the level of territorial development management in the EU and its member states. The concept of ‘best practices’ is interpreted as an approach that includes the transfer of expert knowledge, concepts, ideas and practices developed in certain conditions and their adaptation to the needs of a different set of conditions in order to attain similar goals using the components of the transferred technique, model, or policy. We present a classification of spatial planning systems. We show how civil ...
Digital World Communication аnd Translation
... Leszczynski, A. eds., 2019. Digital Geographies. London: SAGE Publications.
Athique, A., 2013. Digital Media and Society: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Barney, D., Coleman, G., Ross, C., Sterne, J. and Tembeck, T. eds., 2016. The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Baumgarten, S. and Cornellà-Detrell, J. eds., 2017. Translation in times of technocapitalism. Special issue. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 29(2).
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Investigation of the conditions of applicability of Wiener's attack on the RSA cryptosystem
... the Wiener’s attack for a small secret key in the RSA cryptosystem. Presented a new bound on the secret key, derived under more general assumptions. It is shown that the obtained bound is more accurate than the Wiener’s bound under the classical conditions. The conditions of applicability of Wiener's attack when the bound on the secret key is exceeded. Recommendations on the choice of parameters for the cryptosystem developer are given.
1. Глухов М. М., Круглов И. А., Пичкур ...
Suspended Particulate Matter Distribution Along the Northern Coast of the Kaliningrad Peninsula
The study of suspended particulate matter in the southeastern Baltic Sea is motivated both by human-induced impact and by the natural features of the Baltic Sea, namely, the high levels of eutrophication and complicated sedimentation conditions. The study area is human-occupied, which contributes to the significance of the findings for sustainable nature, and coastal zone, management. The main aim of this research is to study the spatial distribution variability of suspended particulate ...
Gradation levels of value conditionality in political participation
The article presents the results of a theoretical study on the substantiation of the levels of value conditionality of political participation. On the basis of the subjective and objective nature of values, the level of normative ideals and that of individual priorities in the conditionality of civic activity and the political participation of young ...
Introducing Sectoral Models into Regional Management: An Assessment of Regulatory Impacts on the Economy
... the regional level are not suitable for either analysing various types of impact on regional economy (production, market (product), sector, region), or assessment of their consequences and identification of the necessary measures in any given economic conditions. The authors construct sectoral models to assess regulatory impacts on regional economic performance. Assessments of regulatory impacts on product value chains, economic sectors, and regions as a whole show good repeatability, which makes it ...
Kant’s family ethics and philosophy of love. Part 2. Critique of Judgement
... taste’ are being overcome. Aesthetic love — which dwells in the element of sophisticated taste as a capacity to judge with pleasure in matters of beauty, free from any interest, and without the mediation of concepts — appears to be the paramount condition for the possibility of a relationship between the sexes that is ‘compatible with morality’. This is not a restricting, but rather a liberating and affirming kind of satisfaction. Only the capability to see one another in the element of humanly ...
Regional Geographic Information Systems of Health and Environmental Monitoring
... Voronezh, a major industrial city, located in the Central Black Earth Region with a population of more than 1 million people. The proposed research methodology is based on modern approaches to the assessment of health risks caused by adverse environmental conditions. The research work was implemented using a GIS and multicriteria probabilistic and statistical evaluation to identify cause-and-effect links, a combination of action and reaction, in the dichotomy ‘environmental factors — public health’....
The factors and pedagogical conditions for the development of general cultural competences of cadets in the current educational process at a military university
... university in view of its contribution to the general cultural development of cadets. The author attempts to analyse the factors facilitating and inhibiting the development of general cultural competences in cadets, as well as to identify the pedagogical conditions for the development of cadet’s general cultural competences in the current educational process of a military university based on a comprehensive analysis of these factors. To this end, structural and functional connections between the general ...
An assessment of stubble buckwheat productivity in Ukraine in changing climate conditions
This article analyses the post-harvest agroclimatic resources based on the buckwheat productivity in Ukraine in changing climate conditions. The au¬thor performed calculations to obtain information on the agroclimatic conditions of the formation of four agroecological productivity categories for long-term annual average data (1986—2005) based on a climate change scenario for ...
The discourse of “European identity” in the conditions of the EU crisis
This paper considers the problem of European identity in the conditions of the current European crisis. European identity developed over a long time on the moral and political grounds. The author arrives at a conclusion about the need to reconsider the concept of European identity in the EU crisis conditions. European ...
The technological system of developing professional successfulness of a future engineer with poor health condition in the framework of university physical education
This article describes the content of technological support for the process of developing professional successfulness in engineering students with poor health condition. The author focuses on the technologies of theoretical and practical education and describes self-education mechanisms.
1. Выготский Л. С. Психология развития как феномен культуры. СПб., 1996....
A pool of water soluble antioxidants in some plants of the Kaliningrad region
This article focuses on a pool of water-soluble antioxidants in certain plants of the true grasses (Gramíneae) and legume (Fabaceae) families in the Kaliningrad region in connection with the environmental conditions of their habitat, namely, the varying distance to the Sea coast. It is shown that the level of water-soluble antioxidants was higher in the vegetative parts in the true grasses and the generative parts in the legumes with the exception of the ...
The regional aspect of developing educational and research culture
This article considers the regional aspect of educational and research culture development and the possibility of its formation under certain pedagogical conditions. The development of educational and research culture is planned in view of certain features of the Kaliningrad region through introduction of research problems and development of students’ critical thinking. The authors used a number of pedagogical ...
On the influence of lithogenic factors on the condition of motorways in the Smolensk region
This article offers information on the condition of motorways in the Smolensk region. The condition of local roads is considered in relation to the particle size structure of covering rocks. The authors conducted an analysis of performance characteristics of road surfaces within different ...
Conditions for students' effective research and pedagogical activity at university
This article describes the conditions for effective research and pedagogical activity of students at university on the basis of system-oriented approach to the analysis of research and pedagogical activity. These conditions are as follows: integration of research and educational ...
Influence of conditions of storage of initial components on quality of metal-plastic profiles
An unfluence of duration and conditions of storage on quality of the initial components used by manufacture of metal-plastic profiles is investigated. It is shown, that the storage period and humidity of air render essential influences on physic-technical characteristics of initial ...
The features of the functioning of small enterprises in the conditions of regional exclavity
This article analyzes the features of small business activity in the conditions of regional exclavity. The author shows that these conditions have both positive and negative impact on small business development. The combination of the specificity of small enterprises as business entities and the distinctive features of ...
The preadaptive abilities of birds to inhabit urban environments
Anthropogenic environment, affecting various aspects of birds’ lives, triggers adaptive reactions to changeable conditions. These reactions develop on the basis of preadaptations that create prerequisites for new adaptations. The species that have adaptive abilities can adjust to urban environments. Anthropogenic landscapes are mainly inhabited by species with ...
Opportunities and Challenges of Large Investment Projects in the New Economy: the Port of Ust-Luga
The aim of this study is to search for a mechanism for implementing large investment projects of crucial economic importance in the modern economic conditions characterized by the sanction policy of foreign states, limited public investment, and a mass exodus of foreign investors. An example of a large-scale investment project is the construction of a multipurpose multimodal complex — the commercial ...
Kant on evil in the human nature
... “predispositions to the good”, which describes a human being as a natural being, cultural being, and a personality. In this connection, different types of reason identified by Kant are stressed and the features of “pure practical reason” as a necessary condition of human morality are analysed. Further, the article considers Kant’s definition of evil as a deviation of rules regulating the actions of a human being from their principle of morality. The author analyses the factors underlying the “predisposition” ...