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• The Baltic Finnish Peoples Divided by State and Administrative Borders: Territorial Development of the Karelians, Vepsians, and Setos

  ... Federation is not only an important component of its historical heritage but also a significant resource for development. However, a number of ethnic groups are on the brink of extinction. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of changes in state and administrative borders on the territorial and demographic development of small ethnic groups. The article analyses the case of three Baltic Finnish peoples living in the Russian North-West and divided by borders of different levels: Karelians (Finland, the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Tver regions), Vepsians (the Republic of Karelia and the Leningrad and Vologda regions), and Setos (Estonia and the Pskov region). The analysis ...

• The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features

  ... societies. These rifts limit competition between power groups and reduce the ability of political systems to renew themselves. Having reached the ‘back to the West’ goal, Baltic elites replaced it with the idea of ‘Russian threat’. Bridging internal divides, which may weaken the power of the elites, was postponed as a result. Smirnov V. A. elites, power groups, Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, transformation, Russia 26-39 10.5922/2079-8555-2020-3-2

• The concepts of enclave and exclave and their use in the political and geographical characteristic of the Kaliningrad region

  ... Russian Region within the European Union, Karlkrona, Sweden, The Baltic Institute and the Åland Islands Peace Institute. Rozhkov-Yuryevsky Yuri enclave, exclave, enclavity, exclavity, enclave territories, political geography, parent and surrounding states, dividing state, state border, transit 113-123 10.5922/2079-8555-2013-2-11

• Kant and Solovyov: Convergences and Divergences. Report of the International Conference (Kaliningrad, 15-16 November 2018)

  ... Conference was organised by the Academia Kantiana, a research unit of the Humanities Institute, Immanuel Kant Baltic University, in conjunction with the Department of the History of Russian Philo­sophy at the Philosophical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The presentations were divided into two thematic blocks. The first was devoted to the perception of the ideas of Kant and Solovyov in the Russian philosophical tradition and the second to the perception and critique of Kant’s practical philosophy by Solovyov. The speakers ...

• The Russian language, dialogue of cultures, and F. M. Dostoyevsky

  ... people – that interactions limited to a close circle of ‘us’ impoverishes one’s life and that many values cannot be divided into ‘ours’ and ‘theirs’. The article analyses the increasing interest in Russian culture in Lithuania, as well ... ... explained by the desire to learn and understand Russian culture, read a book, watch a move or a play, feel a poem, etc. It is stated that a certain motivation for learning the Russian language can be the increasing interest in the works of F. M. Dostoyevsky....

• The Christian right movement in the USA in the 1990s

  ... the mid-1990s. The author pays special attention to the question of the interaction between the Christian Right movement and the Republican Party. 1. Bendyna M., Green J. C., Rozell M. J., Wilcox C. Catholics and the Christian Right: A View from Four States // Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 2000. Vol. 39,№ 3. 2. Bolce L., De Maio G. The Anti-Christian Fundamentalist Factor in Contemporary Politics // Public Opinion Quarterly. 1999. Vol. 63, № 4. 3. Brooks C., Manza J. A Great Divide? Religion and Political Change in U. S. National Elections, 1972—2000 // The Sociological Quarterly. 2004. Vol. 45, № 3. 4. Bruce S. Modernity and Fundamentalism: the New Christian Right in America //British Journal of Sociology. 1990. Vol....

• Evolution of International Research Cooperation models in the Contemporary Foreign Policy Environment

  This article focuses on the principle models of international research and academic cooperation. The author divides international academic cooperation into periods and analyses the evolution of the connection between foreign policy and international cooperation in education and research aimed at raising the prestige and improving the position of a state in the international arena. The author focuses on the non-linear nature of periods stemming from the fact that different states are characterized by different (non-linear) time cycles resulting from the differences in cultural and historical backgrounds ...

• Saint-Petersburg in the Baltic Sea region

  ... Branding and Public Diplomacy , UK . Presentation at the 8 th Summit of the Baltic Development Forum. Helsinki , October 31, 2006 . 13. Baltic Metropolis Network. URL: http://www. baltmet. org/ (07.04.2009) 14. Boucher Richard A. URL: http://www. state. gov/r/pa/ei/biog/61773.htm ( дата обращения : 07.04.2009) 15. Browning C., Lehti M. (eds.) The Struggle for the West: A Divided/ Con­tested Legacy. London : Routledge, 2009. 16. Huelsse R. Turkey’s Europeanness, Europe ’s Identity and the EU: Explora­tions below the Surface of the Enlargement Discourse // Borders, Identities and Na­tionalism: Understanding the ...

• Human Development Index as a Tool to Assess Social Development in the Baltic States

  ... development index. Having distinct advantages and disadvantages, this index remains to be the most popular and influential tool for assessing a country’s social development. A statistical analysis carried out with the use of HDI values makes it possible to divide the Baltic States into three groups according to their current development level and advancement trajectories. The greatest gap in progress was observed in 2000. Later, it narrowed as the social advancement of the third group — Lithuania, Latvia, and Russia — ...

• Household management as seen by the federal military per­sonnel during the American Civil War

  ... analyzed in both formal and content-related aspects to find statements concerning the economic well-being of their families. These state­ments were put into the context of a soldier’s or officer’s rank in the family hi­erarchy and their antebellum economic ... ... War Virginia. Chapel Hill, 2008. 3. Paludan P. S. War and Home: The Civil War Encounter. Milwaukee, 1997. 4. Taylor A. M. The Divided Family in the Civil War America. Chapel Hill, 2005. 5. McCurry S. Women Numerous and Armed: Gender and Politics of Subsistence ...

• Assessment of the efficiency of Russian response to the implementation of US missile defence deployment concept in Europe

  ... defence. This work aims to analyze possible Russia’s responses within military and political spheres. The measures proposed are divided into three subgroups: soft, medium and hard depending on the implementation of the adopted missile defence concept by ... ... actions for the Russian Federation, the USA, eastern European countries and the neighbouring countries, including the Baltic Sea states. The practical significance of this study consists in the proposed and justified responses of the Russian Federation that ...

• Territorial differences in the attitudes to the migration crisis in Germany: The political aspect

  The European migration crisis has divided the population of Germany along the lines of the country’s migration policy and the attitude to immigrants. The antiimmigrant ... ... migration crisis. Recent data on the electoral standing of the Alternative for Germany party are used to develop a typology of states, based on the level of support for this party from the local population and on other measures of the migration situation ...

• The development of cooperation between the European Union and Russia on migration issues: from „the „common spaces” to the actual implementation

  ... October 1997 on the Conclusion of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and its Member States, on the one part, and the Russian Federation, on the other part, OJ L, no. 327, 28 November 1997. 6. Council of the European ... ... Migration: The Case of the EU and its Direct Neighbourhood. In: DeBardeleben, J. (ed.), Soft or Hard Borders: Managing the Divide in an Enlarged Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, p. 165—182. 18. Russian Federation. 1999, Russia’s Medium-Term Strategy ...

• Monotowns: A Quantitative Analysis

  ... seriousness of the ‘monotown problem’ as well as the actual challenges it presents. The authors use a cluster analysis to divide monotowns into groups for further structural comparison. The structural differences in the available databases limit the ... ....ru/_upload/year2009/obrazhenie_strzhalkovsky.pdf (accessed 17.12.2015). 10. Oficial'nyj sajt gosudarstvennoj statistiki RF [The official website of the state statistics], 2015, available at: http://www.gks.ru (accessed 27.10.2015). 11. Oficial'nyj sajt Nizhnekamskogo municipal'nogo ...

• Local border traffic as an efficient tool for developing cross-border cooperation

  ... gosudarstv-chlenov ES [President of Russia VV messages Putin, the President of the European Commission and the heads of the EU member states], Russian Foreign Ministry, available at: http://www.mid.ru/bl.nsf/4d6cf8cbe426a71743256918006895e7/ef66e4aefcfa887b43256c23002de579?... ... p. 28. Rossijsko-ukrainskoe pogranich'e: dvadcat' let razdelennogo edinstva [The Russian-Ukrainian borderlands twenty years divided unity], 2011, Moscow, 352 p. 29. Rossija rasshirit bezvizovuju zonu s Norvegiej [Russia will extend the visafree zone ...

• Security in the Baltic region as a Projection of Global Confrontation between Russia and the USA

  ... 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 powers — Russia and the United States, — being a projection of their global geopolitical confrontation. The US strategy thus becomes a major part of the equation. The authors believe that since the end of the second Iraq war the American elite has been divided along ideological lines into adherents of the chaos theory and traditionalists thinking in terms of sharing control with the other centres of global power. The US strategy in the Baltic region does not seek an open military conflict with Russia....

• On combining translator training with foreign language teaching

  ... [Translation. The Ger­man language]. St. Petersburg.: “Soyuz” Publishing House (in Russ.). Alexeeva, I. S., 2008. The current state of translation theory in Russia (critical re­view). Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta [Bulletin of S. Petersburg ... ... org/ACTI/2006/papers/Carreres.pdf [accessed 10 September 2018]. Carreres, Á., 2014. Translation as a means and as an end: reassessing the divide. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 8(1), pp. 123—135. Colina, S., 2003a. Translation Teaching, from Research to ...

• Local border traffic and the development of retail trade in the Kaliningrad region and Polish borderlands

  ... Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on the rules of the local border traffic at the external land borders of the Member States and to amend the provisions of the Schengen Convention"], 2006, available at: http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.... ..., 2011, Rossijsko-ukrainskoe pogranich'e: dvadcat' let razdelennogo edinstva [The Russian-Ukrainian borderlands twenty years divided Unity], Moscow, 352 p. 21. Fedorov, G. M., Zverev, Yu. M., Korneevets, V. S. 2013, Rossija na Baltike: 1990— 2012 ...

• A ‘divided history’: the politics of memory on the territory of the former East Prussia in the light of current discussions

  ... the author examines similarities of and differences between approaches to the politics of history and the politics of memory. The author evaluates the effects of using the notions of ‘memory sites’ and ‘memory conflicts’ in the Baltic Region states, and reviews recent works of historians and political scientists on the changes in the culture of remembrance in Russia in general and the Kaliningrad region in particular during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Modern historiography is used ...

• The Place of Hermann Cohen’s Ideas in the Philosophy of Dialogue

  ... In turn, the partnership relationships between I and Thou create the community We which forms the basis of the law-governed state. The process of artistic creation in the framework of inter-personal relationship is explored in Aesthetics of Pure Feeling.... ... Press. Gordin, J., 1929. Untersuchungen zur Theorie des unendlichen Urteils. Berlin: Akademie. Gordon, P. E., 2010. Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Feuerbach, L., 1986. Principles of the Philosophy of ...