Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... relevant they are in the current political landscape, and describes their differences and similarities. To this end, the intellectual origins of foreign policy ideas prevalent in Poland (Rzeczpospolita) are traced, and the challenges of the external environment are correlated with the way they have been perceived in the course of Poland’s historical development. Two historically contingent expansionist types of strategic culture were identified. Firstly, as a medium-sized state that has faced military ...
A functional description of the model for the protection of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea region
This article identifies the objective conditions of the conflict between the interests of development and those of environmental security. The latter are given added urgency when, within the same ecological unit, one country needs to develop and another to protect its environmental interests. The borders of the countries and regions, the economies of which affect the safety of Russia’s interests in the Baltic, do not coincide with the boundaries of the ecosystems. This calls for a study of the...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... system of the newly born Russian Federation. Along with the already existing bodies such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Security (later, Federal Security Service), Foreign Intelligence Service, Ministry of Environment, the Law recommended setting up a Security Council, Ministry of Defense, and several committees, including the Border Guards Committee, and so on.
However, this document was too abstract and vague to design a coherent national security strategy,...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... significance for research and practice of the polycentric approach to the spatial development of local territories to the benefit of all residents of a country. The convergence of the socio-economic performance of local territories, a brisk business environment and developed infrastructure are an important prerequisite of a country’s balanced territorial and spatial development.
Recent decades have seen changing approaches to Latvia’s towns, most of them well in line with the town planning programmes ...
Regional Geographic Information Systems of Health and Environmental Monitoring
... Environmentally induced diseases include congenital malformations, tumors, endocrine and urogenital pathologies. The main factors having an adverse impact on health are emissions of carcinogens into the atmosphere and the negative impact of transport on the environment. The authors identify and characterize environmentally vulnerable parts of the city and developed principles of creating an automated system of health monitoring and control of environmental risks. The article offers a number of measures aimed ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... Steiner and Andrew Barto [3]. The theory of planned behaviour is also known as reinforcement learning theory [4], [5], [6], [7]. The main aspects (elements) of the theory of planned behaviour include agent (any form of artificial or natural intelligence), environment (the environment the agent interacts with, receiving rewards (reinforcements) or punishments, depending on one’s actions), environment model (agent’s internal perception of the state of the environment in response to one’s actions), ...
The Belarus Business Environment as Assessed by the Management of Leading Finnish Companies Operating in the Country
...,000 companies with foreign capital were registered in Belarus by the beginning of 2013. Finnish companies founded three dozen of these foreign firms. A lack of scientific reports on the perception of foreign businesspeople in the Belarusian business environment necessitated an empirical study. This article studies the attitudes of the directors of Finnish firms operating in Belarus on the Belarusian business environment. In September-October 2013, the author conducted interviews with directors of ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... practical interest in adopting a systemic approach to analyze port activities using multiple criteria. This interest stems from the recognition of the maritime coastline’s substantial resource and communication potential within the complex geopolitical environment of the modern world, characterized by escalating tensions in various regions of Russia (such as Crimea, the Kuril Islands, and the Arctic). In this context, the analysis and evaluation of port activities as a vital component of the transport ...
Electronic portfolio in the system of pedagogical education as an element of the digital educational environment
Modern trends in education and educational policy are associated with a greater involvement of students in the digital learning environment through the creation and active use of electronic teaching materials. The article analyzes the place of the digital learning environment in the system of teacher training. The term "digital learning environment" is defined through ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their cores. A changed environment may slow down the development of some industries (and even cause them to decline) and give a boost to others, with these two processes constituting economic restructuring. In the exclave of Kaliningrad, heavily dependent on international trade ...
Macroalgae Suggested for Inclusion in the New Edition of the Red List of the Kaliningrad region
..., Chlorophyta) в реках на севере Европейской России // Ботанический журнал. 2013. Т. 98, № 10. С. 1201―1211.
11. Bäck S., Kautsky H., Kruk-Dowgiallo L., Jurgilaite D. Phytobenthos // Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 82B. Environment of the Baltic Sea area 1994—1998. Helsinki, 2002. P. 164―165.
12. Brzeska P., Wozniczka A., Pelechaty M., Blindow I. New records of Chara connivens P. Salzmann ex A. Braun 1835 — an extremely rare and ...
The botanic garden of the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia as a centre of environmental education in the Kaliningrad region
This article considers the problem of biodiversity preservation and environmental education on the premises of the Botanic garden of the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia. The authors argue that the Botanic garden has favourable opportunities for promoting environmental culture and spreading environmental awareness in different groups of population. An education programme was developed and empirically grounded; effective means, forms and methods of raising environmental awareness and promoting...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
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Transformation of strategic development areas for the Kaliningrad region since the early 1990s
The region’s manufacturing facilities came to a near standstill in the 1990s, prompting the search for specialisations the region could embrace in the changed environment. Not only was the idea of creating an amber processing cluster widely discussed in Kaliningrad but also a correspondent goal appeared in the national programme for industrial and business development in the region.
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The urban environment quality in the Leningrad region in 2018—2021
Since 2019, the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation has annually assessed the quality of the urban environment in more than 1,114 cities. The paper takes the case of the Leningrad region to consider a number of hypotheses about the correspondence between the Urban Environment Quality Index (UEQI) values, the city’s remoteness from agglomeration centers,...
Sociocultural factors of cross-cultural sensitivity in university students
This article presents a theoretical analysis of the social-cultural factors contributing to the development of intercultural sensitivity of university students. The social environment of students’ training plays an important role in the development of intercultural sensitivity. Of special importance are three aspects: the size of the city or the type of the urban environment where students are study and live; the multicultural ...
EU-Russia cooperation in the Baltic Sea marine environment protection
This article offers an overview of the basic characteristics of the Baltic Sea and stresses the need for closer cooperation between states in the Baltic Sea environment protection. The author identifies the universal and regional levels of cooperation between states in marine environment protection. Special attention is paid to the activity of the European Union in the field of the Baltic Sea environment ...
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 communities perceive the image of risks formed and reproduced via various communication channels. The structural context...
The potential of natural and economic ecosystem accounting to support the management of coastal and marine territories on the example of the Kaliningrad region
The article reveals the statistical potential and the existing possibilities of establishing environmental-economic and ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine management in the Kaliningrad region. The relevance of these accounts is determined by the geopolitical role and strategic importance of this region for achieving the national goals of sustainable development of the Russian Federation, in particular, SDG 14 “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for...
Sustainable development of coastal regions: geographical and geopolitical factors and limitations
... development: stereotypes and reality (Concept of the Russian Geographical Society), Geograficheskie problemy strategii ustoichivogo razvitiya prirodnoi sredy i obshchestva [Geographical problems of the strategy of sustainable development of the natural environment and society], Moscow, RAS, p. 42—47 (in Russ.).
Kondratiev, K. Ya. 1997, Global Ecodynamics and Sustainable Development: Natural Science and the Human Dimension, Regional Research of Russia, vol. 129, no. 6, p. 1—12 (in Russ.).
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Innovative security of the region: the problem of the formation of the innovation environment of the Kaliningrad region
The article is devoted to the topical issue of providing innovation security of the Kaliningrad region, Russia’s exclave on the Baltic Sea. The author discusses the importance of creating a favourable innovation environment in the region for sustainable implementation of the innovative model of economic development. The author assesses the innovation environment in the Kaliningrad region and performs a retrospective analysis of its transformation. Special attention ...
International legal protection of marine environment from vessel-source pollution
This article analyses the basic norms of international law on the protection of marine environment from vessel-source pollution. The universal and regional levels of legal regulation of preventing marine environment pollution are identified. Special attention is paid to the status of the Baltic Sea as a “special area” and as a “particularly ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... discussions in the working group set up in March 2022 by the government including representatives of various political parties in the Swedish Riksdag. The final report of this group, as well as in the case of Finland described above, claims that the security environment for Sweden has deteriorated as a result of the “Russian aggression,” and that the danger of Russian “aggressive actions” against Sweden has grown. Yet the Swedish report pays more attention to the costs the country would bear due to ...
Effective risk communication as a factor in managing protests attitudes in a local community
Contemporary research into the perception of environmental risks suffers from poor knowledge of risk communication in the local community and of how different ways of risk communication affect protest attitudes. This study aims to clarify communication strategies and practices used by members of local communities as a protest response to environmental threats. The work builds on the cultural theory developed by Douglas, Dake, Bremen, and others. This theory distinguishes between several cultural...
Features presentation of environmental risks in the media (for example, deposits of potassium salts in the village Nivenskoe)
This article analyses images of environmental risks using the village of Nivenskoe as an example. Relevance of the research is caused by the fact that modern control systems of technogenic and ecological safety are based on risk assessment methods. Since media play a most significant role in the formation of public opinion and direct perception of risks in public space, communication of risks can be an instrument of latent manipulation with public opinion. The Internet and printed local media have...
Сompetitive environment, business activity, and consumer sentiment: the regional aspect
The methodological issues of assessing regional competition, business activity, and consumer confidence are considered as part of a study of regional competitive environment. The results of an analysis of national and international practices in assessing parameters describing competition, competitive environment, business activity, and consumer sentiment are presented in the article. An approach to monitoring ...
The effect of railway network evolution on the Kaliningrad region’s landscape environment
... historiography made it possible to identify the main stages of the development of the Kaliningrad railway network in terms of its territorial scope and to describe causes of the observed changes. Historically, changes in the political, economic, and military environment were key factors behind the development of the Kaliningrad railway network. Nature was less important. The existing Kaliningrad railway network is to a great degree the legacy of the earlier, pre-war times. Today, its primary function is to ...
The principles of economic protection of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea
This article identifies the principles behind the international protection of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea. The author analyses their content and legal force on the basis of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, international conference declaration, as well as the judicial practice of the International Court ...
The component analysis and content of the methodological materials for teaching foreign languages from the perspective of changing educational environment
A changing educational environment (CEE) is a new, little studied type of local environment. This article identifies and considers the components of CEE, which serves as the basis for a component analysis of the content of a textbook on Russian as a foreign language for teaching ...
The formation of healthcare culture in students in a health preserving learning environment of a university
This paper justifies the formation of healthcare culture in students in the conditions of health protecting educational environment of a university as a pedagogical problem. The author emphasizes the connection between the cul-tural development of students’ personalities and the improvement of their health through including them into the interaction system of the educational ...
An overview of international environmental education projects in the Kaliningrad region
The Kaliningrad Region is an area of intensive international cooperation including that in the field of environmental education. The article offers an overview of joint projects implemented by educational institutions, NGOs, and local authorities and analyses the prerequisites for their efficiency.
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The methodological features of managing the value of companies introducing "green" innovations
... the most important factors of economic development, there is a need to review some provisions of innovation methodology so that new fundamental values are taken into account more fully. Most recent business models are based on the depletion of natural environment, whose potential has been almost exhausted. It is necessary to introduce new ideas that are of use for society and create values for companies. One way of achieving this goal is “green” (environmental) innovations. The next decade is expected ...
A methodology for research on international cooperation on marine environment protection: application of the Baltic Sea practices to the northern seas
This article is dedicated to the methodology for the study of international cooperation on marine environment protection. The author suggests applying the practices of marine environment protection in the Baltic Sea to the northern seas as well as examining earlier projects for the effective implementation of interdisciplinary initiatives bringing ...
Visual text of medieval Vladimir: the analysis of the dominant image of cathedral exteriors
... use the example of Vladimir during the reign of Andrei Bogolyubsky and Vsevolod III to substantiate the city-forming significance of exterior sculptural programs as a visual text that encodes the key parameters of the semantic organisation of urban environment. Hermeneutic presuppositions and initial cultural conditions for such an analysis are formulated. Based on the visual semiotics of Umberto Eco, it is shown that the external temple decoration of Vladimir acts both as an aesthetic object and ...
Development of municipal districts in Saint Petersburg over the last decade: an economic and spatial analysis
... Time: Economic Strategies and Development, Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, № 4 (34), p. 68—83.
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17. Zhitin, D. V., Krisjane, Z., Sechi, G., Berzins, M. 2020, Socio-spatial differentiation in transition: a preliminary comparative analysis of post-soviet ...
Species composition and habitat ecology of sphagna: inventory and monitoring programme on the carbon polygon “Rossyanka” (Kaliningrad region, Russia)
The article provides data on the present-day species composition of Sphagna in the Wittgirrensky peatland (the territory of the Carbon Polygon “Rossyanka”, Slavsk District, Kaliningrad Region). The authors found 8 species of Sphagnum mostly growing in hydrophilic habitats at the bottom of drainage ditches and flooded depressions on the outskirts of the peatland, while the major part of the peatland shows unfavorable environmental conditions for the development of Sphagnum. The situation may well...
Species composition of diatom complexes (Bacillariophyta) in the holocene sediments in the Curonian lagoon
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Migration attractiveness of the coastal zone of Russia’s North-West: local gradients
A well-acknowledged driver of change, population movement intensifies the development of coastal territories. The Russian North-West holds a vast coastal zone. Granting access to the Baltic, the White, and the Barents Seas, it is an area of geostrategic importance where much of the country’s coastal economy — one of the national priorities — is located. Push and pull factors are enormously diverse in the area, as are migration flows forming attraction poles for migrants. There is little research...
Innovative development of rural settlements of the Leningrad region
... industrial cities, but also rural areas. The issue of innovative development of the countryside has acquired particular prominence in the context of securing human capital and preventing the marginalization of rural settlements, though creating a favorable environment for life and business in particular. At the initial stage, the innovation of rural areas is associated with the diffusion and implementation of innovations in the economy and social sectors, as well as expanding the public access to various ...
Migration of researchers in the Baltic region: a forecast and factors
... holds that the outflow of researchers will reduce over the next few years. Others concern factors affecting the number of researchers in the Russian Federation in general and its Baltic part in particular. These factors include salaries and workplace environment. Methodologically, the study draws on Russian and international sources on the migration of researchers and builds models of two types to trace connections and to produce forecasts, while calculating the emigration rate. The models of the ...
Environmental awareness of urban and rural residents
The article presents the results of the sociological analysis of environmental awareness of the residents of a regional centre (the case of Kaliningrad) and a settlement (the case of Nivenskoye, the Kaliningrad region). The study is relevant for the federal authorities since environmental problems have become ...
On the benthic foraminifera species of Alabaminella weddellensis and Epistominella exigua in paleo-oceanologic reconstructions
... deep-sea benthonic foraminiferal distribution in the southeast Indian Ocean: Inferred bottom water routes and ecological implications // Marine Geology. 1979. Vol. 31. P. 115—138.
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Approaches to the Definition of the Baltic Sea Region
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Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation
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Microelement content in lichen hypogymnia physodes in the forests of the Kaliningrad region
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The methodical training of biology students: a systemic-environmental approach
This article offers the authors’ perspective on the development of targeted, organizational, and result-oriented components of the system of methodological training of biology students in the conditions of ecological and educational environment of the region. The author shows that the creation of a developing environment on the basis of the orientation nature of goals and network organizational structure of methodological training can contribute to the transparency of results of ...
The transformation of roadside geosystems of the Smolensk region under the impact of motor transport complex
This article shows that the annual increase in traffic in the Smolensk region affects the environmental features of roadside land pollution by oil products, heavy metals, waste, calcium chloride, and magnesium. The author emphasizes an increase in traffic accidents and road-traffic fatality on the Moscow — Minsk international route. The environmental — geographical situation on regional roads is proved to be more favorable.
1. Кавтарадзе Д. Н., Николаева Л. Ф., Поршнева...
The methods and techniques of ecological zoning of urban territories
This paper describes the conceptual and terminological framework, methodology and criteria of environmental zoning. The author analyses the methods of assessment of environmental condition of urban areas.
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New data on heavy metal bioconcentration on the territory of the Baltic region
... precipitation. The authors calculated the indexes of HM concentration, which underlies the offered classification of the Baltic region countries by in the level of pollution.
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On interaction of a qubit with a fluctuating environment
It is shown that the equations of Gurvitz and Mozyrsky for a system consisting of a qubit interacting with a fluctuating environment in certain conditions are reduced to evolution equations of the qubit. Such evolution equations for the qubit can be generalized to the form, which implies the existence of entangled states of the combined system. Among these entangled states ...
The virtual learning environment of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics
This article considers the innovative technology of educational process organization in the virtual environment of Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics built on the SharePoint platform. The author describes its structure, as well as the purpose and functions of its most important enclosures.
1. Болотин И. Н. Открытое ...