Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... C1, D1, and for 4G coverage — A2, B2, C2, D2. This initial analysis resulted in the identification of three main logical combinations of layers:
A — zones where mobile 4G internet is simultaneously available from all operators in the region (as depicted in Figure 1 in blue).
B — zones where 4G internet is available from at least one of the operators in the region (shown in green).
C — zones where 3G internet is available from any of the operators in the region (indicated in orange).
In the ...
Idyll, history, rationality: city images in “Real Journey to Germany in 1835” by Nikolay Gretsch
... images of the two cities and the tradition of describing Germany as an idyllic place. This tradition was widespread in Russian literature at the end of the 18th century — first half of the 19th century. In Gretsch’s text, Lubeck and Hamburg are depicted as idyllic but to different degrees. The locus of Lubeck is a homogeneous, patriarchal and achronous idyll, a static space that seems to have frozen in the Middle Ages. In contrast to Lübeck, the city of Hamburg is depicted as a large, contemporary,...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... Kaliningrad from mainland Russia, introduce governance of the territory by an international consortium, etc. One of the articles, on one hand, discusses the region’s participation in several European cooperation networks and, on the other, groundlessly depicts the territory as a possible tool for creating threats to other states of the Baltic Sea region (see [6] for a detailed analysis).
Polish researchers have made a noticeable contribution to the study of transboundary ties. Prof. Tadeusz Palmowski ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... direction of structural shifts are usually assessed by analysing capital markets, namely the volume of investment and its breakdown by industry, the contribution of each sector, and the geographical structure of international trade relations.
Several works depict the restructuring of an economy as a highly irregular process contributing to growing territorial contrasts and modifying the socio-economic space (see, for example, [8]). This evolution can be represented as a sequence of consecutive states,...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... establishing business ties) from 2019 to 2022, see Figure 7.
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Net migration of LinkedIn members between countries with AI skills, 2019—2022, % per 10,000 LinkedIn members
Source: elaborated by the authors based on the data of OECD.AI.<17>
The dynamics depicted by the blue background of the columns illustrate the fluctuations in the number of LinkedIn members with AI skills across different countries. Estonia and Lithuania show a positive trend with an increase of 0.76 % and 0.18 %, respectively. Conversely,...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... Union Party, appears among the most frequent sources. He acts as a representative of civil society.
Despite the presence of official sources of information, there is no evidence that the publisher takes an active pro-government stance. COVID-19 is not depicted explicitly as a threat that brings death, and rather, the plurality of different opinions indicates a neutral stance aimed at informing the population about the risks and ways of protection (vaccination) in a timely manner.
Die Tageszeitung
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Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... agriculture, stressing collaborations with northeastern states in the field of wind energy. The strategy underscores Denmark’s extensive export opportunities in the US market and the need to take an active part in the green transition in the US, which is depicted as a ‘goldmine’ for Danish companies. Interestingly, expert and research articles typically focus on the political advantages of Denmark’s special relationship with the US, tending to overlook the associated economic benefits. Strategies ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... East Prussian towns has commanded wide attention as well. The models of medieval Königsberg installed near a hotel in the resort town of Svetlogorsk and at the Kaliningrad Cathedral on Kant Island have been immensely popular with tourists. The latter, depicting the architectural landmarks of the 1930s’ Königsberg,
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was donated to Kaliningrad by the East Prussian Aid Society in 2012.
Memorial objects featuring elements of the pre-war names of local institutions comprise a particular group. A prime ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... [19, p. 15]. Probably, at the time, all the neighbours were considered to pose an equal threat, which is obliquely evidenced by the descriptions of neighbouring peoples and countries found in Polish chronicles. For instance, Gallus Anonymus vividly depicts the Prussians as living ‘without king and without law, and hav[ing] not abandoned their ancient faithlessness and ferocity’, writes that ‘the faith of the Czechs goes up and down like a wheel’; names ‘simplicity’ the characteristic ...
Dispute about Holbein as a dispute about faith: discussion around Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘The Idiot’
... Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to analyze the current trends in the interpretation of Holbein's painting and Dostoevsky's novel, in their relationship with Christian dogmatics, canonical requirements for depicting the image of Christ, the biblical context, and to establish existing and possible interpretive models, their boundaries and perspectives. The article discusses the controversy about the painting by Holbein before Dostoevsky (Karamzin, Zhukovsky,...
Distributive interpretants in the crossword metalanguage
... language. The study of the ontological nature of the crossword, as undertaken in this research, is grounded in an examination of its metalanguage essence. Crossword descriptions reflect the outcomes of metalanguage consciousness operations, which aim to depict the elements of the semantics of encrypted nominations.
The unit of research is the crossword puzzle cell — the basic structural unit, which is formed by the unity of the description and the encrypted nomination. A description containing information ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... them as operational components of the notion. Peter Katzenstein formulates this as follows:
They [regions] are more than the flow of goods and people across physical space that we can assume to be represented directly and accurately by cartographic depictions. Regions are also social and cognitive constructs that are rooted in daily practice [19, р. 129].
A more tangible nature of material facts and the ensuing simplicity of corresponding analysis made them first-priority objects for research....
Transcultural russification of the Buddhist component in the religious and cultural utopia of the cycle “Eurasian Symphony” by I.A. Alimov and V.M. Rybakov
... Symphony”. Buddhist ideas (for example, the idea of karma in its various forms), Buddhist images (in particular, architectural images), Buddhist vocabulary are integrated by the authors into the traditional patterns of Russian culture. Russian Buddhism depicted by V. Rybakov and I. Alimov in the novels of the cycleoffers answers to complex challenges identified by Russian culture and literature (a version of the theodicy), becomes a part of Russian sacred geography (the co-presence of Orthodox and Buddhist ...
Spatial poetics of the story “Number 13” by M. R. James
... shadow, light and dark. The heterogeneity of the temporal organization contributes to the functioning of the space of the novel as oneiric. Special attention is paid to the border of the real and the unreal, its permeability and the means of artistic depiction of these processes. The duality of the chronotope corresponds to the principle of the liminality of space (room 13 in the hotel appears at night and disappears during the day). Thus, the diversity of spatiopoetics, the variability of oneiric ...
Specific ways of creating a northern landscape in H. de Balzac’s “Seraphita”
... creating the northern landscape. It is determined that Balzac’s landscape does not only create an additional emotional background, affect the perception of the characters of the characters, but also becomes a plot-forming factor. Natural space is depicted in the novel using various means of verbal expression, which are carefully analyzed. The author notes that a holistic picture of northern nature is formed in the novel, paving the way for future generations of writers in describing the Nordic ...
“Čut’ živye, v noč’ osennjuju / My s ochoty vozvraščaemsja…” Secondary predicate in Nekrasov’s poetic texts
... to image and plot: on Nekrasov's poetry]. Moscow (in Russ.).
Ginzburg, L. Ya., 1974. O lirike [About lyrics]. Leningrad (in Russ.).
Himmelmann, N. P., Schultze-Berndt, E. F., 2005. Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification. The Typology of Depictives. Oxford University Press.
Jakobson R., 1936. Na okraj lyrických básní Puškinových. In: A. Bern, R. Jakobson eds. Vybrane spisy A. S. Puškina. Prague, pp. 259—267.
Jakobson, R., 1975. Linguistics and poetics. In: E. Ya. Basin, М. ...
Interaction of comparative structures and their elements in modern russian prose
... predicate-actant relations or involves a combination of metaphors and similes in the text based on various relations between elements of the same semantic field. Along with the indicated types of interaction, the article describes cases of multiple images of one depicted object and representation of different objects in a unified figurative way. These cases are characterized as a special type of interaction of comparative tropes. The article highlights the main source domains of interacting tropes. The most ...
Kant’s Asynchronicity Concerning Newtonian Space and Gravity in his Pre-Critical Writings
... for the foundations of physics. This perspective changes under the influence of Euler at the end of the fifties of the eighteenth century and finally leads to his writing of 1768 and the adoption of transcendental idealism in 1770. In the following, I depict this asynchronicity by taking central pre-critical writings into account while discussing Kant’s concept of space and gravity. This sharpens the picture of Kant’s work and the different stages his philosophy of nature went through. Further,...
The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility
I show that Kant’s depiction of the christic figure in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is not contingent but explains how this figure functions in two essential ways: as a representation of a maximum of morality that can ground our moral disposition and in ...
Time and eternity in the literary image of the church procession: Pushkin’s Boris Godunov and Shmeleff’s The Year of the Lord
This article considers the depiction of the church procession to examine the literary interpretation of time and eternity in Alexander Pushkin’s historical drama Boris Godunov and Ivan Shmeleff’s novel The Year of the Lord. The two texts share fundamental similarities in ...
Image of Princess Olga in K.Ryleyev’s DUMA: hagiographical reference points
... means, and the cornerstone of the plot. The analysis of the main characters shows that Princess Olga, the ruler of the Russian land, is the epitome of the ideal Russian female character. The authors conclude that there are hagiographical references in depicting her image.
1. Вацуро В. Э. К изучению «Дум» К. Ф. Рылеева // Избранные труды. Статьи разных лет. 1964—1999. М., 2004. С. 83—102.
2. Даль В. И. Толковый словарь ...
Musical analogies and poetics of H. Broch’s novel «The Death of Virgil»
... the musical analogy in the comments of H. Broch to the novel «Death of Virgil». In the novel, musicality is associated with the motives of ‘voice’ and ‘hearing’. Noting the propensity to onomatopoeia in the work of J. Joyce, H. Broch aims to depict the music of human speech. By doing so, he follows the prevailing tendencies in the music art of the beginning of the 20th century, reviving interest in vocal genres (cantata, oratorios).
1. Broch H. Der Tod des Vergil. Roman und Kommentare ...
On the function of biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in poetic texts of A. I. Polezhaeva and V. Ya. Bryusova
... dominants of the vocabulary of precedent biblical anthroponyms David and Goliath in the biblical texts and poetic texts based on the Bible. It is shown that the precedent name in the poetic text becomes a means of expressing the author’s assessment of the depicted. Changes are revealed in the semantics of images resulting from the author’s individual assessment and the reader’s perception. The author demonstrates the dependence of the functioning of the two biblical anthropoetonims on the character ...
The Intercessor Type of Marian Iconography: Icons from the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art
Analysing the Intercessor type of Marian iconography, this author identifies the iconographic features of such depictions and explores the transformation that the image has undergone in the Russian icon painting tradition. To achieve this goal, the author employs the methods of comparison and generalisation and traces the transformation of the Byzantine image ...
The image of N. M. Karamzin in Russian poetry
... S. N. Marin) and his multiple idolaters and followers (G. R. Derzhavin, P. A. Vyazemskiy, I. I. Dmitriev, P. I. Shalikov, K. N. Batyushkov, V. A. Zhukovskiy, A. S. Pushkin, V. L. Pushkin, N. M. Yazykov, A. N. Maykov, F. I. Tyutchev). N. Karamzin is depicted in poetry as a Russian language reformer; the one who brought harmony into the ‘nature’ of Russian language; a discoverer, ‘Columbus’ of Russian history, in disregard for famous Russian historians before N. Karamzin; and a true Russian ...
Psychological tradition of "Poor Lisa" by N. M. Karamzin in the poem "Eda" by E. A. Baratynsky
... Топоров В. Н. «Бедная Лиза» Карамзина: опыт прочтения. М., 1995.
Karamzin, “Poor Liza” (“Bednaya Liza”), Baratynsky, “Eda”, psychological tradition, author’s self-representation, landscape, depiction
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The ‘secret portrait’ in Eastern Slavic religious paintings on the threshold of modernity: The southwestern accent
... into Eastern European religious paintings. The author identifies stages in the development of this trend and describes aspects of cultural synthesis embodied in a portrait as the first secular genre of painting. A distinctive feature of this process is depicting an actual person in a religious context.
1. Александрович В. С. Портретная живопись во Львове в последней четверти XVI века // Памятники культуры. Новые ...
The motif of forgiveness in the Russian romantic poetry of the first third of the 19th century
This article considers works of two famous Russian poets of the first third of the 19th century. Both works depict the violation of the sixth commandment - ‘thou shalt not kill’. An axiological analysis of the plot and composition structure of both poems shows that the central problem is forgiving enemies – completely amoral persons that violate moral ...
Merezhkovsky and F. Sologub: Gogol's imprint in the dialogue about poshlost’
... article analyzes the dialogue between D. S. Merezhkovsky and Fedor Sologub that showed their vision of “poshlost’” (vulgarity, banality), which in turn had been informed by the legacy of N. V. Gogol. The author traces the analogies in the artistic depiction of poshlost’ by Sologub in his novel “The Petty Demon” (1905) and the critical interpretation of the phenomenon of poshlost’ by Merezhkovsky. The connection between Merezhkovsky’s study “Gogol and the Devil” (1906) and “The Coming ...
Mythologization of the city in the works of B. Schulz and F. Kafka
The author examines the poetic specificity of depicting Drohobych and Prague using the novels «Cinnamon shops» and «The Hourglass Sanatorium » by Bruno Schulz and the novel «The Trial» by F.Kafka as an example. It is alleged that an insurmountable boundary between nature and culture leads to ...
Ch. Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: the axiology of holiday time
The focus of this article is on the cognitive structure and means of verbalisation of the temporal and atemporal layers in Charles Dickens's depiction of Christmas in his novella «A Christmas Carol». In the complex structure of the holiday concept, past and present become intrinsically blended, Christmas time being a manifestation of eternity.
1. Бердяев Н. А. Время и вечность ...
The role of explicator of situation modality in conveying spiritual awakening in L. N. Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection
On the basis of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection, the author considers the text function of linguistic units expressing the meaning of situational modality (possibility, desirability, necessity), as well as their role in the depiction of the moral revival of personality.
1. Бобровская Г. В. Семантика и прагматика риторических вопросов в текстах массовой коммуникации // Университетская ...
The unity of public and family morals in the comedies of Yekaterina II
... Second aimed at introducing the nobility to basic values, in particular, family consolidation and devotion to the interests of the state. A literature means of implementing this strategy was the comedies of Yekaterina II, which combined the satirical depiction of court morals and a mockery of human weaknesses.
1. Сочинения Екатерины II. М., 1990.
2. Лонгинов М. Драматические сочинения Екатерины II. М., 1857.
3. Мадариага И. Екатерина ...
Simon Dach in the history of Königsberg University
... professor of poetry at the university, with which both his work and life are closely connected. One of Dach’s university works is the poetic composition “Prussiarchus” dedicated to the centenary of Albertina (1644). This work is a poetical-allegorical depiction and
interpretation of the history of the Prussian land in the time of duke Albrecht, the founder of the university.
1. Восточная Пруссия. С древнейших времен до конца Второй мировой войны....
The “ideology of love” in Jurek Becker’s novel Heartless Amanda
This article deals with the allegorical representation of the socio-political situation in the GDR shortly before the reunification of Germany as depicted in Jurek Becker’s novel Heartless Amanda through the relationship of the central female character with three men.
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A Königsberg society of friends without Kant
... portrait of Hippel as one of the novel’s characters — the host featured in the Lebensläufe — with the picture of Emil Doertsling showing a dinner party held by Kant, which brought together local celebrities, among whom Kant’s friend Hippel is depicted in the foreground. A copy of this picture is exhibited in Kant’s Museum at the Kaliningrad Cathedral. The article makes an interesting and convincing attempt at identifying the historical figures shown in both group portraits —Lebensläufe ...
The axiological discourse in A. Veltman’s poem The Woods of Murom
... axiological aspect shows that A. Veltman – as well as other Russian poets – is interested in the moral and psychological reasons behind this phenomenon rather than social ones. The plot structure and the author’s position suggest that robbery is depicted in the poem as a cardinal sin that cannot be justified; it forces a person to abandon the moral law and leads to spiritual death.
1. Вельтман А. А. Муромские леса. М., 1831.
2. Веселова Е. К. Психологическая ...