Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... accounted for 14.3 % of all R&D performed in Russia and 11.7 % of the total expenditure on R&D. Less often, the regions acted as customers of R&D activity.
The scientific landscape here is heterogeneous. The city of St. Petersburg is the leading centre. Figure 1 reflects the differences in the number of projects and the amount of expenditure on purchased and performed R&D among the regions. St. Petersburg leads by far. It has 15.6 times more performed R&D and 6.8 times more commissioned R&D than the ...
Semantic potential of the lexeme twilight in Russian poetry
The article provides an in-depth analysis of both direct and figurative usages, as well as the figurative transformations of the term 'twilight' in Russian poetry spanning over a century and a half of its evolution. The linguistic and poetic examination focuses on contexts featuring the lemma 'twilight' within ...
Axiological potential of figurative units of the Russian language, translating the plant code
... representing the plant code in Russian culture. Attention is given not only to the core but also to peripheral “plant” semas, allowing the inclusion of extensive layers of vocabulary and phraseology in the study. A methodology for axiological analysis of figurative units is developed, consisting of the following stages: identification and typology of evaluative meanings, determination of the basis for evaluation, and modeling a fragment of the value system. In general, figurative language units with the ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... in rural population change, observed over a sufficiently long period, align with the concept of polarization. The intra-regional socioeconomic zones identified with its help (the immediate and remote suburban zones of Kaliningrad, the periphery, see Figure 2) differ in terms of the demographic situation.
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Socio-economic zoning of the Kaliningrad region
As the change between 2010 and early 2023 figures suggests, despite the overall rural population growth observed across the Kaliningrad region, its ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
This article aims to analyse the structure of sites in the Kaliningrad region commemorating events, phenomena or figures of international history, as well as to reveal their symbolic significance. The study uses empirical data on the origin, time of construction and purpose of the monuments, memorials and other places of commemoration. Theoretically, it draws on ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... manufacturing centre. In 2021, its companies accounted for 1.2 % of the national manufacturing production, whilst the population of the region did not exceed 0.7 % of the Russian total. The production output, both in absolute terms and relative to the national figures, had increased significantly compared to the 1991 level. Yet, this rise followed the decline of the 1990s, which was more dramatic in the region than across the country. In 1998, local production facilities performed at 11 % of their 1991 capacity ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... of Scopus and Web of Science databases.
Within the Baltic region, Estonia was the sole representative in this distribution of scientific activity pertaining to students’ entrepreneurial potential, achieving a result of “1”.
The results shown in Figure 2 confirm the interest of scientists from various fields of science in the topic of “entrepreneurial potential of students using artificial intelligence”. The majority of the publications are related to business, management, accounting, and ...
Non-translation as palimpsest in hermetic poetry
... Pound to Arkadii Dragomoshchenko). Poeticheskii zhurnal [Poetry Magazine], 1, pp. 298—325 (in Russ.).
Korchagin, K., 2022. At the origins of actor-network poetry: Alexei Parshchikov’s “Money”. In: Figury intuitsii: poetika Alekseya Parshchikova [Figures of intuition: poetics of Alexei Parshchikov]. Moscow, pp. 159—165 (in Russ.).
Lekhcier, V., 2020. Poeziya i ee inoe: filosofskie i literaturno-kriticheskie teksty [Poetry and its other: philosophical and literary-critical texts]. Ekaterinburg; ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... model employed, which builds on the ideas of Chen et al. developed in [22]. Then follows a description of data on research
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conducted in Russian regions in 2009—2020, which are used along with publishing performance data, 2008 internal R&D expenses figures and patent statistics since 2007. Further, cut-off values are given that were used when forming the final sample of regions. The next section contains the main results of the calculations and offers their visualisation, comparing them to earlier ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... methodological approach to the analysis of the port’s activities, which allows for the consideration of temporal and managerial factors, aspects of investment planning and sustainable development, can be presented in the form of a matrix (Fig. 3).
As seen in Figure 3, efficiency analysis for different management levels is based on different information sources and categories. That is why the suggested approach requires the relevant database about the seaport’s performance: financial reports, port schemes,...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... the concepts ‘reputation regional executive authorities’ and ‘reputation of Russia’s authorities’.
To facilitate comparison, we will provide a brief description of the substantial core of the concept “reputation of Russian authorities”. Figure 1 displays the characteristics grouped into institutional and operational blocks.<7> We have identified the main conceptual attributes of this core, which include the primary characteristics of reputation, a near periphery of the basic ...
Human capital of young public and political figures: A resource approach
This article analyses human capital of young public and political figures in modern Russian society. Based on the methodology of resource approach and the methods of modern statistics, the author identifies three groups of young public and political figures: political leaders, political activists, and social activists,...
Improving Human Resource Training Policy for the Balanced Economic and Demographic Development of the Kaliningrad Region
... naselenija Kaliningradskoj oblasti po problemam zanjatosti v 2013 godu [The results of the survey of the population of the Kaliningrad region on employment in 2013], 2014, Kaliningrad.
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Human Resource Efficiency as a Development Factor for the Kaliningrad Economy
... Informacionno-analiticheskij portal BFU im. I. Kanta. Jekonomika i upravlenie [Information Analysis Portal IKBFU. Economics and Management], available at: http://science.kantiana.ru (accessed 11.11.2014).
6. Kaliningradskaja oblast' v cifrah [Kaliningrad Region in Figures]: 2002, 2002, Kaliningrad, 331 p.
7. Kaliningradskaja oblast' v cifrah [Kaliningrad Region in Figures]: 2007, 2007, Kaliningrad, 238 p.
8. Kaliningradskaja oblast' v cifrah [Kaliningrad Region in Figures]: 2013, 2014, Kaliningrad, 53 p.
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The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... reflecting their specific characteristics, and is subject to fluctuations. The Ozersk MD takes the lead in the share of agriculture, exceeding 75 % in 2020—2021. Additionally, in certain years, the Nesterov, Polessk, Pravdinsk, and Slavsk MDs reported figures of over 50 %. Mining has a significant role in the revenue structure only in the Yantarny UD, where amber is mined. Manufacturing industries occupy the largest share (more than two-thirds of revenue) in the Bagrationovsk MD and the Sovetsk UD,...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... 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 second stage,...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... discourse and broadcasts the state biopolitical programme. At the same time, it positions itself as the source of the most up-to-date and reliable information on the incidence of COVID-19 in Germany (“Zeit online”, “aktuell Zahl” — actual figures), implementing a strategy of education and pluralism of opinions, and thus it seems to distance itself from pro-government data sources. For example: in Die Zeit, 05/01/2022: “ZEIT ONLINE besucht daher täglich diese Seiten und sammelt so selbst ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
... predicated on two factors. Firstly, the inbound tourism flows did not change much between January and March, with the decline beginning in the latter month, and a winter lockdown was imposed in 2021, making inbound tourism virtually impossible. The figures of the first three months of 2020 were never reached over the rest of the year due to the restrictions in place. Secondly, the reduction in international air travel, the preferred mode of transport for most ski resort visitors, was another negative ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... as the core; those with intermediate ones, as semi-periphery; the rest, as periphery. Periphery is divided into two smaller clusters: advanced and deep periphery, the latter associated with the lowest study indicator values.
Results and discussion
Figure 1 shows the spatial structure of tourism in the Baltics and how it changed between 2009 and 2019.
The core includes a the capital (Riga, Latvia) and capital regions: Vilnius county (Lithuania) and Northern Estonia (Estonia).
The semi-peripheral ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) when compared to other ones are characterized by a large (more than 1 %) and increasing rate of R&D funding by the private non-profit sector (R&D (PNP)). In other countries with a high level of R&D funding, this figure is negligible.
Post-socialist countries have a fairly high indicator of R&D funding by the government sector (R&D (GOV)) — above 30 %. Unlike other countries in its group, Russia demonstrates stability in the structure of funding for scientific ...
Cultural discrepancy within Russian-speaking community in Israel
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On poetic emotiology in poetry and beyond
... communications to non-poetic ones. The subjects of the description are emotives — linguistic signs of emotions. The part of the article that deals with poetry interprets emotives in multiple aspects: in the aspect of the grammar of poetic language and in their figurative representation. Within the frames of such grammatical categories as the imperative and subjunctive moods, emotives acquire typologically significant cognitive and semantic characteristics: a drive to display emotions, desire and the unattainability ...
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 so doing acts as a standard ...
N. M. Karamzin on upbringing and education in Russia
The article is dedicated to Nikolai Karamzin, a historian and a major public figure of imperial Russia. His various achievements make him a figure of lasting significance and continuing interest. The subject of the research is N. M. Karamzin’s views on the matters of public education and of ideological and family upbringing ...
Problems of qualifying tax-related crimes based on the characteristics of the perpetrator
This article explores issues relating to qualifying actions of performed by an authorized representative in collusion with the taxpayer or by those conducting entrepreneurial activities through a figurehead. It is stressed that the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court should clarify these issues through introducing amendments to the existing Resolution No. 64 of December 28, 2006 "On the practice of court application of criminal legislation concerning liability for tax crimes".
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Peculiarities of the figurative in the concept of "Time" in middle English
The article examines the most typical for Middle English metaphorical and metonymic shifts of meaning which represent figurative part of time concept. It is proved that the most frequent shifts are: time — event or state, time — traveler or moving object, space — time, time — master, time — system of measurement, time — grammatical category.
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Conceptual picture of the world and the specificity of its formation
In the article the concept is presented as a mental multimodal nonlinear product. Changing of the figure-background relations as a basic mechanism of the perception of any kind of information appears as a ground of the transformation of the meaning of the concept.
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Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... Bundeswehr’s troops.<22> The latest high-level negotiations in the format were concluded in Tallinn on May 26, 2023. Despite the gradual build-up of the German contingent in Lithuania, which was not hastened, Olaf Scholz highlighted broader figures. These encompassed 17 thousand soldiers designated for rotational deployment in NATO’s Forward Presence military groups across Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Lithuania. The discussions underscored the importance of reinforcing ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... region differ from those received across the country as regards attitudes towards consumer cooperatives (Table 1). In particular, 17.7 % of respondents have a negative attitude towards cooperative practices (7.4 percentage points above the nationwide figure). Nevertheless, respondents tend to have an overall positive attitude towards cooperative practices.
Distribution of responses to the question: ‘What is your attitude towards the practices of creating cooperatives?’, %
Response options
Residents
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Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... share of companies that exported their products only to unfriendly countries was about 18.7 % in 2020, but more than half were in regions bordering unfriendly countries: Pskov, Kaliningrad, Belgorod, Murmansk regions, Karelia; for imports the similar figure was about 6 %.
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The role of unfriendly countries in the import and export of Russian regions
Source: calculation is based on the data of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation.
The lowest level of involvement in trade with countries ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... the complex multidimensional structure of geopolitical space. Summarising these approaches, it is more appropriate to speak of the Baltic region having several geopolitical contours as zoning principles, rather than distinct demarcation variants (see Figure).
Fig. An idealised model of the Baltic region
I. Marine or coastal contour. It includes 50- and 200-kilometer coastal zones, parts of countries or entire smaller countries bordering the sea, as well as territorial waters and exclusive economic ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... migrants in the population is higher and daily life is more vibrant than in other areas. Territorial variations in religiously motivated behaviour are evident, with the highest percentages observed in the country’s peripheral regions (despite the overall figures showing a negative trend). These areas also boast the most significant proportion of registered members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Exploring non-Christian religions in Denmark presents a promising avenue for future research.
Introduction
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Poetic figurativeness as a foreign culture cognition instrument
... and semiotic approaches, the cognitive status of poetic imagery is substantiated. The definition of intercultural space is proposed as a conceptual domain and the object of artistic interpretation. The combination of the identification procedure of figurative word usage with the techniques of metaphorical modeling allowed for the identification of conceptual domains-sources of imaginative interpretation of the space of another culture in the texts of twelve French and twelve Russian poets. The ...
Open Use of Reason: Socrates and Kant
Kant is compared with Socrates because the two philosophers have much in common. Both thinkers were central figures in their time. Kant revolutionised the philosophy of the modern period dealing with questions of ethics and epistemology; Socrates brought about a similar revolution in ancient Greek philosophy. The image of Socrates continues to inspire modern ...
Immanuel Kant in the cultural memory of Kaliningrad residents (post-Soviet period)
... there was an expansion of the landscape of “places of memory” related to and associated with Kant. This resulted in the establishment of the philosopher’s image in the cultural memory of the residents of Kaliningrad as a “local” historical figure. The main events of this period were the installation of the Kant monument, the restoration of the Cathedral (near the walls of which the philosopher’s tomb is located), and the inclusion of Kant’s name in the university’s title. Today, according ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... growth rate surpassing the national average and outpacing other economic activities. In 2020, the share of industry in the Leningrad region’s GDP was 1.9 %, accounting for 1.3 % of industrial goods in Russia. Meanwhile, in the Kaliningrad region, these figures were 0.6 %.<3>
In 2022, the extensive anti-Russia sanctions (more accurately termed as restrictions) had a more pronounced impact on the production decline of two out of three regions compared to the national average in Russia due to the ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... a substantial geopolitical element [27]. All these trends affected the architecture of the Russian space, producing a change in its economic and settlement proportion towards coastal territories, which was evident at the level of trends and average figures. The Eurocentric and north-western dimension had the upper hand in this process.
Remarkably, as early as the second half of the 1990s, the principal coastal territories of Russia’s western borderlands — St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region,...
Characteristic features of phraseological units with a somatic component сердце (heart) modal potential
... functional-semantic analysis of the use of idioms with the component сердце (heart), their ability to form a modal context and to explicate various modal and evaluative meanings is revealed. The study also demonstrated that shades of modal meanings in figurative expressions can overlap and be in motivated interrelated relationships with each other.
Karateeva E.O.
modality, evaluation, phraseology, somatic phraseological units, paroemia, proverbs, sayings
13-19
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-4-2
Men’s revolt: the struggle for gender equality in the Polish lands of the Austrian and Russian Empires at the beginning of the XX century: issues of political communication
... with Austrian socialists are separately discussed. Meanwhile, the article examines the positions of key activists in the Polish women’s movement regarding cooperation with men and political parties. The stance of certain politicians and public figures, who did not align with any of the organizations advocating for women’s emancipation to achieve national interests, is characterized.
Dolgushin V.V.
women’s movement, equal rights, Polish lands, Poland, emancipation
35-45
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. Genre specific of the poem by P.A. Viazemsky “Commemoration of the battle of Borodino”
... Classicism epoch and largely intertwine with poetic of battle ode, this is largely about praise of the great historical event and Russian arms (Battle of Borodino) and commanders (Miloradovich and Kutuzov), colorful description of the battle, many tropes and figures (rhetorical exclamations, metaphors), image of lyrical hero-observer, the effect of presence, epic narration. Meanwhile, the poem is not so much dedicated to the great battle, but to the death of a poet’s friend and fallen warriors. Theme of ...
Petroleum as a space for non-translation: Hikmet, Negarestani, Parshchikov
... balam»: Nâzim Hikmet’in Azerbaycan’daki izleri, 1921—1963. İstanbul.
Korchagin, K. M., 2002. Around the origins of actor-network poetry: Aleskey Parshchikov’s Money. In: A. E. Masalov, ed. Figury intuitsii: poetika Alekseya Parshchikova [Figures of intuition: Aleskey Parshchikov’s poetics]. Moscow, pp. 159—165 (in Russ.).
Kurtov, M., 2020. Living oil from Islamic deserts: how Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia transform worlds into each other. Nozh [Knife]. Jan. 22. Available at: ...
Some Remarks about the Difference between Überzeugung and Überredung
... antecedents in the German tradition, but with regard to which he developed ideas of his own. It is my intention to examine precisely some of these passages. I will explain how the philosopher understood this difference, what its relevance is and why the figure of the other is necessary to determine it. For this purpose, texts published in the critical period and students’ lecture notes from the same period are considered. Furthermore, I will compare the treatment of the subject in these sources and ...
Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment and Its Alternatives
..., the essence of the enlightenment was defined not so much by the eighteenth-century Enlighteners as by historians and philosophers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who constructed a model notion of enlightenment against which philosophical figures were then compared. This approach ignored, first, the authentic definition of enlightenment (in Germany and Russia in the eighteenth century there were authentic terms “Aufklärung” and “prosveshcheniye”, and in France the proto-term “eclairé”) ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... and regional), Polish and Lithuanian statistics (Table 1). Sources of information were portals of official state statistics services of Russia,<2> Poland<3> and Lithuania,<4> as well as official statistical publications (Lithuania in figures). The cost of goods in Polish zloty and euro was converted into Russian rubles according to “Calculator. Reference portal”.<5> The study used the end of the year data.
Correspondence of food items in the statistics of Russia, Poland ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... regions differ substantially in the number of towns and urban-type settlements (UTSs): 70 (34 towns and 36 UTSs) over the 85,939 km² of the St. Petersburg metropolitan area and 23 (22 and 1 respectively) over the 15,100 km² of the Kaliningrad region. Figures 1 and 2 show the fields of the spatial structure of urban settlement in the St. Petersburg metropolitan area and the Kaliningrad region, based on the absolute population size values.
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Fields of the spatial structure of urban settlement in the ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... 30 %, with a 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 ...
Units of the lexical-semantic group ‘Information search and receipt’ as personifying metaphors in Russian poetry
... structural-functional analysis methods. The results show a higher frequency of words with the meaning ‘Information receipt than Information search’ as personifiers, with varying distribution over the comparison of ‘question-answer’ images. The analyzed figurative language introduces dialogism into the text, particularly through question-answer constructions with imperative and address, direct and indirect speech, creating unity and increasing dialogicity. The role of such constructions in organizing ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... current presence in the Baltic can already be called significant. In 2019, the Ministry of Armed Forces reported 4,000 soldiers deployed in the region annually (in total for all types of troops).<19> Without further data, it can be assumed that the figure will increase by the end of 2022—2023, but even without any change it would exceed the French contingents in Iraq (600 people) and the Sahel (3,000 before the end of the Barkhane). It is noteworthy that in France, different political parties ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... legislate and form the cabinet. Since 2007, PO, PiS and the electoral blocs led by these parties have won from 79 to 82 % of the Sejm seats in four elections in a row (Table 1). Usually, their results lie at the lower values of the criterion. Not only the figures and rates are important but so is their stability through time. Given this distribution of seats in the Sejm, only PO and PiS members can become the head of government. The other parties can take on the role of junior partners in a coalition, ...
Three stages of publication and perception of A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s artistic works in China
... beliefs. As a result of the analysis, it can be seen that Solzhenitsyn attracts more attention from readers and researchers. Their interest in the literary works of the writer has not disappeared for 42 years. Writer Solzhenitsyn is a more attractive figure in Chinese research works.
Junru Bi, Menglong Li.
Solzhenitsyn, translation, publicism, Russian literature, Chinese Russian studies
61-70
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-1-6