Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... the reputation core of the federal and regional executive authorities have been identified. However, the degree to which these characteristics manifest themselves varies. The reputation of regional authorities is assessed based on a system of values, expectations and the results of their work with the federal centre, citizens’ experience of communication with regional authorities and the assessment of their activity. The reputation of the regional executive authorities is characterised by lesser ...
Competence in social assistance: analysis of the expectations of young people
... of empirical research of the system of ex-pectations that are associated with a person having a high level of competence in the prosocial cooperation. The method of structured interview followed by a content analysis of the 5 categories revealed the expectations of young people which are part of the preparedness for prosocial activity. The study presents the elements of technology aimed at expectations formation by enhancing global social identity, the prediction of personal and social development....
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... up with equal weights, that is, they are assumed to be equivalent. For verification purposes, the author compared different index construction methods (with different weights and summation methods): the results showed a high degree of correlation. As expected, all values of the initial indicators are positively correlated with the integral index (Table 2), with foreign trade risks having a stronger impact than others.
High exposure does not always lead to increased risks, since the latter is also ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... business costs. This article aims to assess the potential of consumer cooperation in the Kaliningrad region under anti-Russian sanctions. The authors analyse the features of cooperation development within the territory and investigate the demands and expectations of the local populace. The principal method employed in the study is a survey of residents of the Kaliningrad region (N = 481), with its results strongly indicating that conditions for a renaissance of cooperative economic models have emerged ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... since it is here that the ‘fragility’ of cross-border interactions (resulting from the geopolitical and geoeconomic reformatting of the Eurasian space) is most clearly manifested [7].
The St. Petersburg agglomeration and the surrounding regions are expected to be the first to feel the consequences of the crisis [8]. Considering the spatial diffusion of the coronavirus infection in the Russian part of the Baltic macroregion, by parity of reasoning, we assume that St. Petersburg, the Leningrad and ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... over Russia not only in the sea but also in air potential, and with Sweden joining NATO, Russian surface ships can only rely on ground-based air defence. There hardly is a spot of the Baltic left, Mertens argues, where a Russian surface ship cannot expect the imminent attack of an advanced sea-skimming missile. Besides, Sweden will be much more integrated into NATO in terms of information and intelligence sharing.<9>
The second group of challenges and uncertainties facing Russia in the Baltic ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... variables, the model used:
— accumulated expenses calculated by aggregating the shares of internal R&D expenses in 2008—2020;
— Scopus field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) of publications for 2009—2021. It is the ratio of citations to the expected worldwide average for the field, type and publication year.<8> A FWCI of 1 means that the citation impact of a work is exactly the global average. We smooth this metric for two consecutive periods.
It has been proposed in the literature ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... index values referring to the most recent year available. The analysis was conducted using StatTech v. 3.1.6 software provided by StatTech LLC.
Some key factors and indices of digital development in Russian regions
Independent variables (factors)
Index
Expected impact
Data source, year
Number of mobile and internet operators in the region, units
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Authors’ calculations based on the data provided by mobile operators: MegaFon,<2> Beeline,<3> Tele2,<4> MTS<5> (for the Republic ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... of the EU and should strive for a stronger EU on the global stage — a union that can lead the way in the international fight for values.<14> Yet, this new focus and Denmark’s ‘return’ to Europe can be seen as a mere attempt to meet US expectations for a more independent and stronger EU, especially in matters of defence.
The main differences in expert assessments of Denmark’s foreign policy transformation concern the specific benefits the country gained through its special relationship ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... minor peak at 6—7 years, probably explained by the need to register children before they start school.
The sex difference in the proportion of migrants obtaining temporary resident registrations is insignificant in Russia, as shown in Figure 1. We expected that, between ages 25 and 45, the proportion of women with a temporary resident registration certificate would be higher. According to our field observations, temporary resident registration certificates are often issued to women with children ...
Attractiveness of the Kaliningrad region: pull factors and reasons for disappointments of migrants from Russian regions
... of the Kaliningrad region before and after their arrival and assess how their ideas change. The survey applied mixed research methods: respondents were recruited via social media and relocatee groups. The data analysis reveals a gap between migrant expectations and reality, identifying the causes of inconsistency between the incoming migration flow and the region’s development objectives and labour market needs. Based on the findings, the authors provide recommendations for a migration policy ...
Satisfaction of Polish Bank Employees with Incentive Systems: An Empirical Approach
... problem. The importance of this study lies in the fact that incentives affect all stages of HRM. This work reports the results of an empirical survey of Polish bank employees, which was aimed to establish to what degree incentive systems met employees’ expectations, and to analyse the impact of such incentives on employee satisfaction. The authors advance the thesis that male bank employees are more satisfied with existing incentive systems than their female counterparts. The discussion is supported ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... abundantly evidenced throughout the history of the Baltic area.
Since the Baltic region emerged as a subject of academic study in the early 1990s, there has been significant debate surrounding the definition of its geographical boundaries. As one might expect, various perspectives have been proposed based on different approaches. The more the research problem leans towards a physiographical or geoecological approach, the clearer picture of the region’s borders is obtained by utilising physiographical ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... did not exceed 1 %, which was partly due to government support. The 2022 federal budget allocated 62.5 billion roubles to address issues in the labour market.<17> Growing employment means that affected businesses place hopes on restructuring and expect recovery when having forged new trade partnerships and adjusted the companies’ specialisation. Moreover, there is still room for local organisations to benefit from the introduction of innovations.
Conclusion
The abrupt change in the international ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... could not but lead to significant problems in the transport sector.
In February 2023, however, Avtotor signed a multilateral agreement with six Chinese companies. In March 2023, manufacturing of the saloon Kaiyi E5 began. The company’s management expects its 2023 production to range from 70,000 to 100,000 cars. For comparison, Avtotor, whose total capacity is 250,000 cars per year, produced about 140,000 cars in 2017.
Companies involved in electronics and the manufacturing of other innovative ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... deposits from banks, or organizing strikes.
Due to the active adaptation activities of the state, businesses and households, the fall in Russia’s GDP at the end of 2022 was not 8—12 %, as many leading foreign and domestic analytical organizations expected at the beginning of events, but only 2.1 %.<9>
The impact of Western sanctions on the development of Russian regions
.The restructuring of economic processes caused by geopolitical upheavals in 2022– 2023 greatly influenced the spatial ...
The end of the collective farm (the case of the collective farm “Novaya Znizn”, Pravdinsky district, Kaliningrad region)
... country in the late 1980s to early 1990s. The analysis presents the main challenges faced by the farm during the period of Perestroika. Despite numerous transformations initiated by M. S. Gorbachev in the agricultural sector, they did not lead to the expected qualitative changes. Phenomena such as rising prices and shortages of goods caused disillusionment with the ideas of Perestroika. The author examines the process of reorganizing the collective farm into a closed joint-stock company. The general ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... encouraging the adoption of Swedish values and social and political practices. The exposure of scholarship recipients to these aspects serves as a means of popularizing the ‘Swedish way’ of life. Foreign students who pursue their education in Sweden are expected to promote Swedish values in their home countries and beyond. The Swedish model of social and economic development is presented as a globally suitable paradigm. This approach became particularly evident when the Swedish Institute shifted its ...
Idiomaticity of translation as assessive category
... translator’s ability or inability to switch codes in an idiomatic mode. With the help of introspection and corpus data, an attempt will be made to clarify the nature of cognitive failures arising from non-compliance with the accepted norms and defeated expectations in the perception of a translated text. The opposition “idiomatic” — “non-idiomatic” can be considered appropriate and sufficient in evaluating the quality of translation.
Boyko L.B.
language, idiomaticity, usage, translation,...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... ethnic and cultural tensions that threatened to undermine both the viability and the territorial integrity of the Russian state. Among these, it stressed social polarization, demographic problems (in particular, decline in birth rates, average life expectancy, and population), corruption, organized crime, drug trade, terrorism, virulent nationalism, separatism, deterioration of the health system, ecological catastrophes, and disintegration of the ‘common spiritual space’. In fact, the 1997 doctrine ...
Depopulation of coastal rural Lithuania: do regional parks stabilise the situation?
... of the landscape, NATURA 2000 habitats, etc. Usually, they are located in natural or semi-natural landscapes of rural areas. These territories, however, have a higher depopulation rate than urbanised districts. Still, conservation priority areas were expected to attract young families as permanent residents and make their population more stable. This study aims to investigate changes in the rural population in three regional parks of the Klaipėda county to determine the number of abandoned villages ...
Foreign trade activity of the subjects of the Russian Federation: prospects for maintaining the geographical structure of supplies
... The fourth group includes the regions whose volume of interaction with “unfriendly” countries is lower than 50 % of the total volume of their imports and exports. The highest indicators of maintaining the geographical structure of deliveries are expected primarily from the participants included in the fourth group.
Novikova А.А.
geography of supplies, unfriendly countries, import, export
36-49
10.5922/gikbfu-2023-1-3
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... between Warsaw and Krakow. The geodemography in the three “backward” eastern voivodeships cannot improve without a significant improvement in cross-border cooperation with Russia and Belarus. In present political realities, it is impossible to expect not only radical but even small improvements. Long before the current political events, Kuznetsov noted that “Poland has demonstrated the unfortunate influence of an ill-considered foreign policy based on historical fears on its economic connections ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... However, the St. Petersburg metropolitan area has 1.08 times more developed railway transport compared to the Kaliningrad region.
The transport networks of the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions may be conducive in overcoming monocentricity, which might be expected in the case of long-settled areas. Moreover, the transport-geographical factors hint at the possibility of a common methodology for the development of settlement systems in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions.
Statistical indicator, the Engel ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... elaborate clear strategic guidelines for the Alliance (the reference to Macron’s famous words on the “brain death”) and supports the increase in financial obligations of the members. In its 2022 National Strategic Review, Paris acknowledges its expectation to be an “exemplary ally” through active participation in joint missions, including those in the Baltic region.<9>
Besides several texts mentioned above, during the same years, the Ministry of Armed Forces of France prepared a special ...
The peaks and troughs of Russian-Estonian relations
... familiar to a very narrow group of specialists in the field. Introducing these materials into scholarly discourse makes it possible to analyse the key trends in the evolution of bilateral relations and highlights earlier obscure details. It is only to be expected that Tambi, an acting diplomat with experience of working in Estonia, pays particular attention to the history of Soviet and Russian diplomatic missions in Tallinn and the Estonian embassy in Moscow. Comprehensive accounts of these topics have ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... generates systemically significant geostrategic risks. At the same time, it serves as an incentive and resource in playing for high geopolitical stakes sharply intensified in the context of the SMO.
Vasily K. Belozerov
. We propose the following objective (expected result) of the work on assessing Russia’s geopolitical security:
1) development and definition of the concept of “geopolitical security”;
2) identification of criteria, indexes and indicators of geopolitical and regional security of Russia;
...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... educational practices, documented political doctrines and public opinion.<30> Investigating the discourse of the Latvian and Lithuanian political elites would be an important contribution to a comprehensive study of Baltic identity. These discourses are expected to have much in common with their Estonian counterpart while possessing some unique characteristics.
The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation within project № 20-78-10159 The Phenomenon of Strategic Culture in World Politics: ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... manifestations of this leading role and the reasons behind the formation of country’s party system. I will also analyse the current trends to understand whether the ‘two-party tendency’ is a temporary phenomenon or its further development can be expected.
Manifestations of the ‘two-party tendency’ in Poland’s political system
I will begin by analysing some examples to demonstrate why Poland’s party system can be classified as a two-and-a-half rather than multiparty one. Firstly, the ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... municipalities
12/5.9
22/10.9
40/19.8
128/63.4
Karelian total
39/6.6
80/13.9
122/21.2
334/58.1
Therefore, the restrictions on travel across the Russian-Finnish border affect the financial well-being of the residents of the Karelian borderlands.
As one might expect, the percentage of respondents catering to Finnish tourists was higher in the borderlands (7.8 %) than in the interior municipalities (5.0 %) or Petrozavodsk (2.7 %). Moreover, 59.4 % of the borderlands residents were ready to work with tourists ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... technologies is higher than the regional average due to the proximity of the European centres of innovation.<14>
As a result of the pandemic, the spread of digital technologies accelerated in 2020, but only in comparison with what was potentially expected. It only partially confirms the second hypothesis. Growth rates should have been declining according to the downward trend of the late stages of diffusion [15], [18].
The digital divide between Russian regions narrowed in 2020 due to the accelerated ...
On connection between codependency and the ideas about abusive relationships in young women
... the codependent woman, the more demands for a less critical attitude towards themselves and more demands from the partner to maintain unreasonably deep emotional relationships. Respondents with high codependency do not seek to start new relationships, expecting initiative from the others, while they themselves avoid open contact. The significance of the connection was assessed with Spearman’s rank correlation.
Karas I.S., Dosaeva A.A.
codependency, abuse, abusive relationships, partnerships,...
Management of Migration Processes in the Far East: Dysfunctions of Socio-Demographic Policy in the Region
... study contains a critical analysis of the demographic indicators of the Far Eastern Federal District and Russia as a whole, through which a critical assessment of the region’s current development program and an analysis of its compliance with public expectations are formed. One of the fundamental issues of the study is migration of Russia’s population, because many regions of the country set an urgent task to increase regional migration attractiveness due to the prolonged migration outflow of the ...
Adapting regional strategies to the new non-resource export development target
... methodology for the normative institutional reflection of non-resource non-energy targets in regional legislative acts. This article aims to improve the methods for embedding non-resource non-energy export targets in regional strategies (the targets are expected to serve as an institutional factor prompting economic diversification). This research is exploratory; methodologically, it stands out for using qualitative and quantitative content analysis with elements of computer-assisted frequency analysis ...
Digital Technology: Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Practical Reason
Are computers on the way to acquiring “superintelligence”? Can human deliberation and decision-making be fully simulated by the mechanical execution of AI programmes? On close examination these expectations turn out not to be well-founded, since algorithms (or, in Kantian terms, “imperatives of skill” that are implemented by technological means) do, ultimately, have “heteronomous” characteristics. So-called AI-“autonomy” is a sensor-directed ...
Translation and the ‘soft’ bridges of communication
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Typology of migration processes of Russian coastal regions
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Migration attractiveness of the coastal zone of Russia’s North-West: local gradients
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Transformationen der Kantischen Postulatenlehre im „Cambridge Pragmatism“ (Charles S. Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce)
... interprets Kant’s “postulate” as the “option” to believe. A deepening of the debate on the relevance of Kant’s analysis of the horizon of religious hope with regard to human praxis for a pragmatism-inspired philosophy of religion can be expected from a detailed discussion of the thoughts of Peirce and Royce, of thoughts, which, in complex ways, relate to, as well as criticise, James’s individuum-focused interpretation of religious faith.
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Linguistic creativity of the avant-garde: language functions in literary and advertising discourses
... avant-garde advertising, the message should be as clear as possible in its form and should be easily perceived by an addressee (the implementation of the conative function) not to focus attention on the text but rather on the action that the reader is expected to perform on the object of reference.
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The Embodied Practical Ideal: Kant’s Ethicotheology and Godmanhood
... enough rational grounds for thinking divine nature. Rational philosophy can think the archetype of perfection only as its pure and whole moral attitude through all the maxims and acts. Philosophy would transcend its boundaries if it claimed more and expected recognition of the prototypical theology of the ideal as the content of church faith. But it is not by chance that Kant sets forth the philosophical theory of the archetype as the content of faith in the subjunctive mood. According to Kant, the ...
Work-life balance during the Covid-19 outbreak: the case of Latvia
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The effect of Covid-19 on labour migration in the CIS
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When to expect the unexpected singularities: the anthropic principle and the dark energy universe
The anthropic explanation of the smallness of the observed amount of dark energy implies the presence of a variable component compensating for the magnitude of the vacuum energy. According to Garriga and Vilenkin, this component should decrease slowly, leading to a change in the accelerated expansion regime to the collapse phase, but not earlier than in a trillion years. However, a decreasing scalar field can lead to unexpected singularities with a finite value of the scale factor. We analyze...
Development of a web-application for interaction of in-terested stakeholders in the life cycle of a residential house
The availability of a suitable web-application (a full-fledged program that interacts with users (stakeholders), meets their requirements and returns the expected results) greatly simplifies the process of monitoring the construction of residential building. The main stakeholders involved in the life cycle of the residential building are considered, the interface of the web-application and the functionality ...
Assessment of transport accessibility of rural territories of the Kaliningrad region using methods of sociological research
... modern socio-economic model entails the intensification of rural – urban interaction. First of all, the process manifested itself in the growth of population flows, daily commuting between the village and the city. As a result, the rural population expects a high-quality transport infrastructure and an efficiently functioning public transport network. Using sociological tools, the authors analyze the degree of satisfaction of the rural population from the eastern municipalities of the Kaliningrad ...
Regionalisation in Northern Europe and the Northern Dimension in Russian political discourse
... comprehensive digital archive of federal and regional printed and online media. The federal discourse on the ND reflected the whole set of relations between Russia and the EU. The idea about the crisis of the programme came from the discrepancy between the expectations aroused by political discourse and the actual results of cooperation. The study shows the ND-related discourse changed over the study period and stresses profound differences between federal and regional discourses.
Kolosov V. A., Sebentsov ...
Tourism development in border areas: a benefit or a burden? The case of Karelia
Border regions are expected to benefit from their position when it comes to tourism development. In this article, I propose a new approach to interpreting the connection between an area’s proximity to the national border and the development of tourism at the municipal ...
Scenarios of increasing the economic efficiency of the Kaliningrad regional transport system
... transport deadlock effect, translates into the limited contribution of transport to the regional economy. Particularly, it manifests itself at the level of regional gross value added, where the contribution of transport is much smaller than one might expect given the significant role the industry plays in the economy of the region. In this study, we examine major ways of increasing the economic efficiency of the regional transport system from the value added perspective. We posit that the structure ...
Reactions of dibenzothiazine amination of quinone derivatives on a «copper film»
... atom. It is the N-substituted derivatives that form a bridge between the dibenzothiazine molecule and the substituent that are considered as the most promising substances. When aminating benzoquinone and its derivatives with dibenzothiazine, we can expect an increase in the potential biological activity and inhibitory properties of new compounds. The presence of copper affects the intensity and direction of the reaction when reactants interact. Practice-wise, the work can expand the spectrum of ...