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• Economic and geopolitical aspects of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

  ... the predicted growth in gas demand in the EU markets and the need to strengthen the energy security of the EU. The implementation of the NS 2 project is complicated by the need to allow for the EU energy legislation and by the expanding influence of geopolitical factors on EU – Russia cooperation, including those stemming from the aggressive US energy diplomacy seeking to prevent the project from being successful and thus promoting the geopolitical interests of Washington. In this work, we aim to study the ...

• The Youth in Kaliningrad, Gdansk and Klaipeda: Geopolitical Vision of the World, Identity and Images of the Other

  ... "Kaliningrad — the prisoner of Europe"], Nezavisimaya Gazeta, available at: http://www.ng.ru/regions/2010-10-22/5kenig.html (accessed 14.07.2014). 18. Fedorov, G.M. 2010, The Kaliningrad dilemma: a 'development corridor' or a 'double periphery'? The geopolitical factor of the development of the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, Balt. Reg., no. 2, p. 4—12. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-1. 19. Fedorov, G. М., Zverev, Yu. М., Korneeets, V. S. 2013, Rossija na Baltike: 1990—2012 gody [Russia on the Baltic ...

• The strongholds of Russian coastal borderlands: economic dynamics amid geopolitical turbulence

  In the 21st century, the World Ocean is becoming a key factor in global socio-economic dynamics and a geoeconomic and geopolitical priority of many countries. The Russian Federation, whose economy, infrastructure, and settlement system have been gravitating towards the sea since the late 1990s, is no exception. This article aims to identify and provide a conceptual framework ...

• The dynamics of the world market of gold in the context of the present pulse geopolitical processes. Part 1. Introduction to the problem

  ... devoted to the analysis of the behaviour of bidders in the global gold market affected by short-term and medium-term geopolitical dis­turbances. The direction, volume, speed and time range of investments in gold are determined depending on the nature of geopolitical threats. Based on non-economic factors, the author reveals the main patterns of making trivial and non-trivial decisions on investing in gold. The first part of the article de­scribes the influence of geopolitical processes on the dynamics of the price of gold and the degree of its ...

• The dynamics of the world market of gold and the current geo­political processes. Part 2. The analysis of behaviour patterns of the main gold market participants

  ... London gold fixing and its replacement by the London electronic auction in an attempt to establish the benchmark price of gold under the influence of short-term geopolitical impulses. The au­thor puts forward a hypothesis that different impulses of geopolitical process­es, their frequency and the level of manifestation influence differently the dy­namics of the world gold market. These factors determine the movement and distribution of gold reserves in different geographical places, ‘safe havens’, and can lead to an increase the number of gold bars, futures contracts or, on the contrary, to get rid of them. They can determine the ...

• Russian energy diplomacy and international energy security (geopolitics and economics)

  This article considers national energy security as a component of foreign policy and diplomacy and analyses the current state of Russian energy policy, the role of Russia in global energy geopolitics and the factors affecting it. The author examines energy diplomacy as an instrument of foreign policy at both global and regional levels taking into account the changes in the corporate policy of energy companies. Zhiznin Stanislav global energy, international ...

• Geopolitical development potential of the Russian exclusive region: search for key strategy and mechanisms for its implementation in new conditions

  ... devel­opment strategy has always been and remained an urgent issue. Especially sharply, it arose with a change in the geopolitical position of the re­gion after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Baltic economic area. Ex­clavity is the most important geopolitical factor in the life of the region. The dialectic of exclave is in the discretion of not only the obstacles, but also of the development possibilities of the region. An­other major factor is the immediate proximity of the European Union. Through understanding ...

• The traditions of Russian and European perception of the state frontier in the conditions of transborder regional cooperation

  ... defined through a prism of regional integration processes. The authors examine the role of trans-border relations between Russia and the European Union in promoting mutually beneficial strategic cooperation in the Baltic Sea region. Historical experience, geopolitical position, national psychology and some other factors shape common perceptions of the state frontier in mass consciousness, which can vary from country to country. The state frontier is a key imperative of trans-border regional cooperation. The trans-border relations between Russia and the EU serve ...

• The Factors, Formats, and Avenues of Cooperation between St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad Region in Today’s Eurasian Geo-Economic Context

  ... region on Russia’s ‘hub’ in the Baltic. With a reference to the Framework for a Strategy for Russia’s Spatial Development until 2030, I stress the need for a closer collaboration between Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad in the new geoeconomic and geopolitical conditions. I explore the opportunities for and barriers to the joint geoeconomic positioning of St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad region in the Baltic. This study has proved instrumental in inventorying all the factors, forms, and areas of cooperation between the two regions. In the article, I also pay attention to individual projects and initiatives. 1. Советский Союз на международных конференциях периода Великой ...

• Baltic Studies in 2017

  ... region on Russia’s ‘hub’ in the Baltic. With a reference to the Framework for a Strategy for Russia’s Spatial Development until 2030, I stress the need for a closer collaboration between Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad in the new geoeconomic and geopolitical conditions. I explore the opportunities for and barriers to the joint geoeconomic positioning of St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad region in the Baltic. This study has proved instrumental in inventorying all the factors, forms, and areas of cooperation between the two regions. In the article, I also pay attention to individual projects and initiatives. 1. Советский Союз на международных конференциях периода Великой ...

• The Kaliningrad dilemma: a 'development corridor' or a 'double periphery'? The geopolitical factor of the development of the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea

  ... in the Baltic Sea Region. Russian-Europe Centre for Eco­nomic Poli­cy. Policy Paper, 2001. URL: http://www.etela-suomi.fi/english/pdf/kivikari (дата обращения: 15.03.2008). Fedorov Gennady regional strategies, development corridor, geopolitical factor, Kaliningrad region, Baltic region 4-12 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-1

• On the economic security of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave

  ... labour resources are examined along with the region’s prospects as part of the Great Eurasia (Bolshaya Eurasia) project and as an ‘international development corridor’. Fedorov G. M. economic security, Kaliningrad region, exclave position, geopolitical factors, economic development 40-54 10.5922/2079-8555-2020-3-3

• The coastalisation of population in today’s Russia: A sociogeographical explication

  ... balance between the potential of leading cities, economic and settlement projections of global geoecological, geo-economic, and geopolitical processes, the scale and effect of transnational and transboundary contracts, and the changing images of coastal ... ... coastalisation’ and ‘quasicoastalisation’ are analysed and relevant cases are considered. The author identifies numerous factors and explores prospects of the further coastalisation of population in the Kaliningrad and Leningrad regions and Saint ...

• One Belt - One Road Initiative: A Window of Opportunity for Russia’s Western Border Regions

  ... extension of the project to Russian territories. Special attention is paid to Russia’s western borderlands — 17 regions that account for 8.6 % of the country’s territory, 17.4 % of the total GRP, and 20.8 % of the national population. We analyse the factors in effect — including geopolitical ones, as well as current trends in the development of Russia’s western borderlands. It is shown that the inclusion into the Chinese Eurasian integration initiatives creates additional incentives for a positive re-evaluation of the Russian ...

• Transboundary Clusters in the Coastal Zones of the European Part of Russia: Inventory, Typology, Factors, and Prospects

  ... prospects of transboundary clustering are affected by both global integration and disintegration patterns, coastal infrastructure, geopolitical and geoeconomic ‘neighbourhood’, cultural excellence, and business and investment environment. 1. Druzhinin,... ... ekonomicheskie i ekisticheskie effekty [Transboundary cluster formation in the coastal zones of the European part of Russia: factors, models, economic and telecommunication effects], Rostov-on-Don, 421 p. (in Russ.) 2. Fedorov, G. M., Korneevets, V. S....

• Modern understanding of ‘geoeconomic position’ and the Saint Petersburg agglomeration

  ... Sovremennye proizvoditel'nye sily [Modern productive forces], p. 82. 8. Cowen, D., Smith, N. 2009, After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics, Antipode, Vol. 41, no. 1, p. 33. 9. Lachininskii, S. S. 2013, Russia’s energy policy ... ... (accessed 24.12.2013). 19. Kuznetsova, O. A. 2013, Piramida faktorov social'no-jekonomicheskogo razvitija regionov [Piramida of factors of social and economic development of regions],Voprosy economiki [Questions of economy], no. 2, p. 121—131. 20. Fedorov,...

• Western border regions of Russia: delimitation, structure, typology

  This article is devoted to the western border regions of Russia, which play an important role in terms of history, geopolitics, geoeconomy, culture, and mind­set. Relying on the interpretations of ‘border’, ‘frontier’, and ‘border­lands’,... ... based on environmental, climatic, positional, polit­ical-territorial, resource and economic, settlement-related, and other factors. I provide a multi-criteria typology in view of the actual and po­tential effect of ge­opolitical and geoeconomic turbulence ...

• Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation

  ... top 100 companies, as rated by the Russian Business Channel. Another objective of the study is to identify large businesses’ industrial and regional priorities in the maritime economy and investigate how they are transformed under the influence of geopolitical and geo-economic factors. Amid active Eurasian integration, which includes the Greater Eurasia project, big businesses are spurring the development of maritime economic complexes and the formation of sea-land economic structures, including cross-border ones. The study ...

• Exclavity as a challenge and a resource for foreign positioning of the Kaliningrad region

  ... development. Given the region’s foreign positioning, exclavity is both a challenge and a resource. Guided by the principles of factor analysis, through the method of principal components, the author puts forward several theses regarding the possibilities ... ... limited in nature, and results in some cooperation benefits in the short and medium term. While the Kaliningrad region is secured geopolitical­ly by the military superiority of the Russian state over a potential adversary in the Baltic, there are no comparable ...

• Eastern Europe. On the centenary of the political project

  ... posledst¬vija ["Frozen" conflicts: the prospects for resolution, dynamics and conse-quences], 2007, Vilnius, Centre for Geopolitical Studies. 20. Simon, M. 2014, Integracionnye processy v stranah Vyshegradskoj gruppy: rol' koncepcii Central'noj ... ... 2008, Balto-Chernomorskaja sistema kak faktor formirovanija gosudarstv v Vostochnoj Evrope [Baltic-Black Sea system as the factor of forma¬tion of states in Eastern Europe], Politicheskaja nauka [Political science], no. 1. 40. Tarasov, I. N. 2008,...

• Recreational zoning of the territory of the Kaliningrad region

  This article provides a detailed definition of the concepts of ‘tourist area demarcation’ and ‘tourist zoning’. The earlier proposed components of competitiveness index help identify four major groups of factors of recreation zone differentiation. The recreation zoning of the Kaliningrad region was carried out in view of the geopolitical position, development of tourist infrastructure, and current and potential tourist specialisation of municipalities. 1. Как Россия конкурирует в секторе туризма и путешествий : официальная ...

• Towards a Stable and Dynamic Economy in the Kaliningrad Region

  ... for the period till 2020], 2001, Government Decree of December 7th, 2001 № 866, available at: http://base.garant.ru/1587100/ (accessed 04.01.2015). 23. Fedorov G. 2010, The Kaliningrad dilemma: a 'development corridor' or a 'double periphery'? The geopolitical factor of the development of the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, Balt. Reg., no. 2, p. 4—12. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-2-1. 24. Shastitko A. 2009, Competitiveness of the region: content, factors, policies, Balt. Reg., no. 1, p. 10—25. DOI: 10....

• Strategic development of a university in the Russian exclave

  ... University-Industry-Government Relations. In: H. Etzkowitz, L. Leydesdorff (Eds.), Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations. London. Klemeshev Andrey, Gareev Timur regional strategies, development corridor, geopolitical factor, Kaliningrad region, Baltic region 5-14 10.5922/2079-8555-2010-3-1

• Euroregions as a factor of successful international integration in modern conditions

  ... Federacii i Evropejskogo sojuza [Baltic region as a pole of economic integration of the North-West of the Russian Federation and the European Union], Kaliningrad. 4. Kosov, Yu. V. 2009, Osobennosti geopoliticheskih processov v Central'noj Evrope [Features geopolitical processes in Central Europe], Upravlencheskoe konsul'tirovanie [Management consulting], no. 3, p. 91—97. 5. Zverev, P. B., Toropygin, А. V. and Maryshev, А. А. 2009, Prigranichnoe sotrudnichestvo: teorija i praktika. Politicheskie, pravovye,...

• Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation

  ... systems: concepts and conceptual analysis]. In: Primorskie regiony: geograficheskie i sotsial'no-ekonomicheskie problem, Vladivostok, p. 42—50. 38. Baklanov, P. Ya., Romanov, M. T. 2010, Geopoliticheskie faktory razvitiya transgranichnykh regionov [Geopolitical factors of development of cross-border regions], Tamozhennaya politika Rossii na Dal'nem Vostoke no. 2, p. 60—71. 39. Kolosovskiy, A. M. 2010, K voprosu ob istochnikakh i mekhanizmakh samorazvitiya primorskikh territoriy [To a question about the sources ...

• Integration of Ethnic Groups and Regions into United Political and Legal Space: Characterising ‘Empire’ Scientific Category

  ... characteristics and based on multi-structural public traditions. Imperial administration strengthens the asymmetrical status of ethnic groups and regions in their relation to the centre. Their integration dynamics is preconditioned, first and foremost, by geopolitical and geo-economic factors. The author provides his own vision of the characteristics of imperial statehood. 1.        Дякин В.   С. Национальный вопрос во внутренней политике царизма ( XIX — начало ...

• Communication of Covid-19 consequences in the Baltic States inforsphere

  ... p. 1772—1780. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12991 . 3. Stepanova, V. V., Sivobrova, I. A., Nikolaev, A. V. 2014, Risk Factors Assessment Model in the Regional Operational Management System, GISAP: Economics, Jurisprudence and Management, no. 7.... ... 153—182. https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2016-0007 . 9. Kretinin, G. V., Katrovskiy, A. P., Pototskaya, T. I., Fedorov, G. M. 2016, Geopolitical and geo-economic changes in the Baltic Sea Region at the turnoff the XX–XXI centuries, Balt. Reg., no. 4, p. 13—25....

• The Baltic Sea Region and the Black Sea Area: Two Pieces of the Same Puzzle

  The Baltic Sea region and the Black Sea area are overlapping regions that have their own political, historical and cultural peculiarities. They belong to the same geopolitical system, within which they are developing two regional cooperation subsystems strongly influenced both by internal political and economic dynamics and by external actors. The aim of this research is to analyse the political and economic factors that influence the cooperation in the Baltic Sea region and the Black Sea area by means of comparative approach, which will help to determine the similarities and differences necessary to give an overview of two strategic areas in the European ...

• Potential of Russian-Indian scientific cooperation (the case of western border regions of Russia)

  ... Western borderland of Russia. The research hypothesis supports the assumption that in Indian-Russian sci­entific cooperation, the factor of territorial remoteness can be compensated by a similar level of scientific and technological (S&T) development and the ... ... the Greater Eurasia // Strategic Analysis. 2016. № 40 (6). P. 590—603. doi: 10.1080/09700161.2016.1224060. 20. Lewis D. G. Geopolitical Imaginaries in Russian Foreign Policy: The Evolution of «Greater Eurasia» // Europe-Asia Studies. 2018. № 70 ...

• The Role of Small Countries in Post-Soviet Territorial Restructuring: the Baltic Case

  ....lt/en/press_center/press_releases/lithuania_and_the_united_states_enter_a_new_stage_of_strategic_cooperation.html (accessed 25.07.2014). 11. Motieka, E., Statkus, N. 2004, Global and Baltic Geopolitical Situation: Review of 2001—2003, Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review 2003, Vilnius, p. 9—39. 12. Raik, К. 2013,... ... stanovjatsja znachimym faktorom v politike SShA na rossijskom napravlenii [Temptation Reagan. Border states are becoming a significant factor in US policy towards Russia], Nezavisimaya Gazeta, no. 99 (3779). 16. Ilyin, М. V. 2011, Al'ternativnye formy suverennoj ...

• The development of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in changing geopolitical and geo-economic conditions (based on the GRP analysis)

  The development of the Kaliningrad region, Russian exclave in the Baltic, is significantly influenced by foreign policy factors. The deterioration of rela­tions between Russia and the West has led to a reduction in the region's eco­nomic ties with the neighbouring Baltic States. The coastal position of the re­gion has enabled the development of foreign trade relations ...

• Interregional and cross-country flows of labor resources in the Kaliningrad region: factors and vectors in the contemporary Eurasian context

  ... external and internal conditions for the regional socioeconomic system determines the urgency of migration monitoring and analysis. The aim of the study is to analyze the position of the Kaliningrad region in the labor migration within the transforming geopolitical space. The article describes the regional labor market evolution under the influence of demographic and economic dynamics. The migration situation in the region has been thoroughly considered. It was revealed that, despite the fact that the ...

• Geography and economy of the Kaliningrad region: limitations and prospects of development

  ... able to conclude that the reasons behind the delapidated cross-border relations are rather subjective and lie in the field of geopolitical orientation, information and institutional policy, as well as persistent stereotypes that shape public opinion. In ... ... World Bank Database, available at: http://search.worldbank.org/data?qterm=2263478 (accessed 16 August 2013). 4. PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $), 2013, World Bank Database, available at: http://search.worldbank.org/data?qterm=2263478 ...

• Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District

  .... Geography, no. 2, p. 26—31. 11. Mironenko, N. S., Sorokin, M. Yu. 2001, Faktory szhatija geograficheskogo prostranstva [Factors compression geographical space], Geografija [Geography], no. 48. 12. Nefedova, T. G. 2008, Rossijskaja periferija kak ... ... practice of state regulation], Moscow, p. 67—72. 28. Agnew, J. 2001, The new global economy: time — space compression, geopolitics, and global uneven development, Journal of world systems research, YII. 2, p. 133—154. 29. Desai, M. 1996, The ...

• Opportunities and Challenges of Large Investment Projects in the New Economy: the Port of Ust-Luga

  ... demonstrated by the federal and regional authorities. The article also considers the challenges the project faces — unfortunate geopolitical situation, growing competition from other seaports, and lack of investment. Based on the analysis of challenges, ... ... Baltic University, no. 1, p. 140—147. 15. Nikulina, S. V. 2011, Faktory konkurentosposobnosti mezhdunarodnyh morskih portov [Factors of competitiveness of international seaports], Jekonomika i upravlenie [Economics and Management], no. 5, p.141—143....

• The Baltic economic model: some results of the 1990—2015 transformations

  ... demokratizacii v kontekste politicheskih transformacij na postsovetskom prostranstve [The theory of modernization and socio-economic factors of democratization in the context of political transformations on the post-Soviet space], available at: http://gisap.eu/ru/teoriya-modernizatsii-i-sotsialno-ekonomicheskiefaktory- ... ....lv/latvija/138988-gatis-krumins-psrs-latviju-patereja.htm (accessed 26.04.2015). 10. Mezhevich, N. М. 1991, Geopoliticheskoe polozhenie Jestonskoj SSR: mify i real'nost' [The geopolitical position of the Estonian SSR: Myths and Reality]. In: Politicheskaja geografija i sovremennost'. Regional'nye i prikladnye ...

• The labour market of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave amid Covid-19

  ... (accessed 21.09.2020). 27. Lialina, A. V. 2018, Interregional and cross-country flows of labor resources in the Kaliningrad region: factors and vectors in the contemporary Eurasian context, Vestnik BFU im. I. Kanta. Seriya: Estestvennye i meditsinskie nauki ... ... Kaliningradskaya oblast’ v novykh koordinatakh Baltiiskoi geopolitiki [Kaliningrad region in the new coordinates of the Baltic geopolitics], Kaliningrad, IKBFU Publishing, p. 189—221 (in Russ.). Yemelyanova L. L., Lyalina A. V. great lockdown, Covid-19,...

• Transformation of global value chains in Russia and the Baltics amid Covid-19: prospects for regionalization and implications for economic policy

  ... bilateral trade conducted within global value chains (GVC) and operations of multinational companies is much more resistant to geopolitical and economic shocks than traditional international trade. In particular, the accession of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ... ... of reciprocal EU-Russia sanctions in 2014 did not curb GVC activities between Russia and the Baltics. The article discusses factors in the transformation of the Baltics-Russian GVCs amid COVID-19. The research aims to prove regionalisation as a viable ...

• Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West

  ... available at: http://www.ironcurtaintrail.eu/en/index.html (accessed 24.01.2017). 12. Alexandrova, A. Yu. 2015, The Silk Road; the geopolitical, geographic and economic aspects of designing cross-border tourism route, Nauki o Zemle. Nauka. Innovacii. Tehnologii ... ... Technologies], no 2, p. 68—77. (in Russ.) 13. Andreev, V. A., Ostropol’tsev, S. Yu. 2016, International transportation routes as a factor of the trans-border clusters emergence. Тhe Territory Of New Opportunities, The Herald of Vladivostok State University ...

• Natural Increase in the Baltic South and South-West

  ... perspective / eds. I. Süli-Zakar, I. Horga. Debrecen, 2006. Р. 137—142. 50. Rauglaudre P. de. Russophones in Latvia: a geopolitical approach // Multicultural Regions and Cities. Region and Regionalism / eds. M. Koter, K. Heffner.1999. № 4. P. ... ... Środkowowschodniej 1989—2000. Pułtusk, 2005. 60. Yemelyanova L. L. International cross-border migration in South-East Baltic: factors, structure, consequences // Baltic Region. 2010. № 4(6). P. 55—64. Michalski T. Baltic Europe, natural increase/decrease ...

• Opportunities for sustainable economic development of the coastal territories of the Baltic Sea Region in the context of digital transformation

  ....17059/2019-1-11 (In Russ.) 5. Druzhinin, A. G. 2020, The strongholds of Russian coastal borderlands: economic dynamics amid geopolitical turbulence. Balt. Reg. 2020. vol. 12, no. 3, p. 89—104. doi: 10.5922/2079-8555-2020-3-6. 6. Palmowski, T., Tarkowski,... ... & Policy, no. 97, p. 58—66. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.04.002. 16. Sokolovskaya, O. E. 2019, Various aspects of ecological factor influence on the formation of a region’s sustainable development, Moskovskiy ekonomichskiy zhurnal [Moscow economic journal],...