Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... state sees as imminent; the existing security beliefs and discussions; the terms and categories deemed adequate to describe the external environment [5, p. 7—9]. Strategic culture in a narrow sense was believed to have three components — political goals and justification of power actions, basic rules of conduct towards the opponent (annihilation, attrition, safeguarding of achievements) and operational preferences (the way resources are used to attain goals) [6, p. 7—12] — all three being a ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... Libya, and Syria was driven not so much by objective national security interests as by the desire to enhance its visibility and prestige as seen by its American ally. Even the format of Denmark’s involvement in these operations was subservient to this goal, along with the choice of regions for deploying Danish contingents, the composition of the units, financial and material expenditures, and many other aspects. The conditions for Danish participation in operations are deliberately designed so that ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... prominent element of the latter is the so-called ‘sea factor’ [4], an umbrella term for the conditions shaped by Russia’s coastal (or near-oceanic) location, its jurisdiction over the section of the World Ocean surrounding its coast and its strategic goals and interests conveyed in the national Maritime Doctrine<1> — all these factors have been recently discussed in the literature [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. The country’s strategic goals have been significantly affected by two tendencies, which ...
The system approach to modernisation and innovative regional development: strategic objectives
Russia must follow the path of modernisation and innovative development. The analysis conducted shows the absence of laws, strategies and uniform terminology regarding modernization and innovations. The author examines the factors affecting the content of these terms, describes the system approach to modernization and regional innovative development, develops regional methodology and identifies the strategic targets for modernisation and innovative development.
1. Aganbegyan, А. G. 2010, Uroki...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... economic and other domains of life. The authors aim to define the concept of ‘entrepreneurial potential’ and elucidate the contribution of AI in augmenting the entrepreneurial potential among university students in the Baltic States. To achieve this goal, the authors employ a range of methods, including comparative analysis, analogy, generalization, classification, and structural-functional analysis, among others. These methodologies are integrated within an interdisciplinary framework, enabling ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... health and life protection practices and how they were promoted in the discourse of non-state media outlets during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is assumed that non-state media used various pandemic communication strategies to achieve common biopolitical goals, striking a balance between propaganda and outreach. A comparative analysis was conducted of German publications that focused on the pandemic and appeared during the four waves (January 2020 —March 2022). A total of 54,515 texts from the German ...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... a tendency towards fragmentation, which the EU has also displayed. The most illustrative example of it is the recent Polish-Hungarian ultimatum on the long-term budget of the European Union for the period 2021—2027.<3> Integration is both a goal and a development mechanism that faces external and internal challenges. The EU countries implement their policies following a common European approach. However, this approach assumes a certain degree of autonomy for each country. In addition, the ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... education of children and young people in a civil spirit”.<7> This included “the introduction of a system of spiritual-moral and patriotic education of citizens”.
On July 21, 2020, President Putin signed a decree “On National Development Goals of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030”. Three of the five national goals are related to societal security: (a) taking care of the population, its health and well-being; (b) opportunities for self-realization and development of peoples’ ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... a comprehensive analysis of the performance efficiency of Russia’s Baltic seaports, taking into account various economic indicators and addressing investment planning and management issues. Special attention is given to the sustainable development goals and objectives of the seaports, considering their significance in transport and logistics systems. The primary objective of this work is to develop a system approach for conducting multi-criteria studies on seaport performance efficiency. The ...
The communication of persons: Kant’s theory of marriage law held captive by pagan anthropology
... matrimonial law. It focuses on the idea of this law as “possession of a person as a thing and its use as a person”: Kant conceives marriage as an interpersonal relation in an external form of real possession, in the aspect of the objective and subjective goal of such relation, but primarily in the aspect of its legal and ethical possibility. Given the naturalistic interpretation of the constitutive act for this kind of law, the legal deduction of marriage comes in a desperate contradiction with Kant’s ...
The influence of S.T. Shatsky’s pedagogical views on the organization of children’s life during the formation of the pioneer organization (1922—1929)
... perspective of the educational process, allowing for the identification of valuable experience for further use in modern conditions, when a new stage of development of children’s organizations is observed in the Russian Federation. Despite the primary goal of ideological education in the pioneer organization, its activities reflected comprehensive elements such as play, labor education, art, and social education. According to S. T. Shatsky, these are fundamental elements in organizing children’s ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... several regionally-produced goods have been restricted, and transit through the Baltic States has become more difficult. This article aims to assess the impact of these restrictions on the development of manufacturing industries in the region. Another goal is to provide a rationale for the restructuring of specialization and changes in the geography of external relations in these increasingly complex external circumstances. Recommendations based on the findings obtained will contribute to the region’s ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... Poland, Lithuania, Germany, and other Baltic region countries, has served as a forum for participants to engage in collaborative discussions, publish articles, and collaborate on cross-border cooperation projects with Russian counterparts. The shared goal has been to expand and deepen mutually beneficial interactions in the realms of economy, ecology, and the social sphere [5], [6], [7], [8]. However, during the sixth conference held in October 2022, the title “Region of Cooperation” was no longer ...
Language indicators of confrontational speech strategies used in everyday marital discourse
The article examines the features of representing the confrontational speech strategy of discreditation, used in everyday communication, particularly in marital discourse. The goal of the research is to identify the speech tactics employed in domestic communication between spouses for the purpose of discrediting and weakening the communicative position of the communication partner. To achieve the research goal, descriptive ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... migration or the share of the population for whom relocation becomes technically impossible due to the absence of transport links or poor spatial cohesion, we would have concentrated on calculating the precise length parameters of transport routes. Our goals, however, were different. We sought to understand the general proportion of the population moving different distances and whether migration distances differ between demographic groups.
The calculations show that 31.3 % of relocations are associated ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... authorities at the regional level, specifically focusing on regional executive bodies. In doing so, I will take into account socio-economic factors that contribute to the formation of reputation across the regions of the Russian Federation. The ultimate goal is to address a fundamental scientific problem — the development and substantiation of a methodology for studying the concept of the ‘reputation of Russia’s authorities’. This will make it possible to take an applied approach and determine ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... firm up this conclusion: not only the distribution of seats in the Sejm (the main criterion) but also many other quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the political system contribute to the development of the current political trend. The main goal of this article is to identify the factors that have led to the emergence and development of the tendency and assess the prospects of its further evolution, considering that both leading parties face multiple difficulties. The article concludes by ...
Digital didactic games as a means of remote support for schoolchildren
... article presents an overview of some didactic games available for teachers and students on the platforms and services of the Internet and the relevant methodology, as well as a descriptive algorithm for self-development of such games for teachers. The goals, features and advantages of digital didactic games for the elimination of typical subject-related and psychological difficulties in the educational activities among students of different ages are shown.
The work expands the search base of research ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... country, affecting the population structure, traffic and socio-economic development. It persists despite the numerous attempts of authorities of different levels to restore the polycentric spatial development of the past, which is not touted as a goal for the future.
Until 1991, most towns had thriving local manufacturing enterprises involved in furniture, electronic appliance and garment production, precision engineering, prefabricated building, construction, and agriculture (agricultural processing,...
Sustainable development of coastal regions: geographical and geopolitical factors and limitations
... society], Moscow, RAS, p. 42—47 (in Russ.).
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Glazovsky, N. F. 1999, Goals, opportunities and mechanisms of sustainable development at different levels of natural and social systems. In: Geograficheskie aspekty problemy perekhoda k ustoichivomu razvitiyu stran Sodruzhestva nezavisimykh gosudarstv [Geographic Aspects of ...
Frolova Ye. The theoretical and methodological issues of the revival of natural law
... meaningful only as an individual experience of a person, social requirements become moral only through a self-determined person. Being critical and formal, the moral principle does not eliminate the possibility of a combination with certain temporary goals. The formulas of a categorical imperative are aimed at an individual but their requirements are based on such objective repre-sentations as law and state.This article shows that, according to Novgorodtsev, the moral critique of law rests on under-standing ...
The functional determination of speech aspects of a document
... research works. This approach produces an integrated picture that takes into account parameters affected by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The article describes speech representations of the key genre elements. These are the communicative goal, the image of the author and the addressee, the image of the past and the future, the content of the dictum, the language of a genre, and relevant means of speech representation. The authors conclude that the informative-explanatory function, which ...
Developing and testing a balanced scorecard for a trading company
... developing a balanced performance scorecard for a Kaliningrad trading company. A general solution includes five stages: analysing economic performance, studying dependencies between performance indicators, building strategic map charts, identifying goals and planning relevant measures, and assessing the efficiency of such measures.
1. Каплан Р. С., Нортон Д. П. Сбалансированная система показателей. От стратегии к действию. ...
The features of using manipulative techniques to influence public opinion (based on the materials of the US presidential campaign of 2012)
... manipulative techniques used by US presidential candidates B. Obama and R. Romney in the 2012 election campaign. Language manipulation is presented as one of the major components of persuasion which guarantees the successful implementation of the intended goal. The main goal of the candidate’s election campaign is to win the election. The results of a comparative analysis of manipulative techniques used by the presi-dential candidates are presented in the article.
1. Eric Smalls: Dear Mr. President ...
The Role of Small Countries in Post-Soviet Territorial Restructuring: the Baltic Case
... Lithuania for 2014—2020, 2014, Parliament of the Republic of ithuania, available at: http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter/w5_show?p_r=4028&p_d= 146140&p_k=2 (accessed 31.08.2014).
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3. Agreement of the Political Parties of Lithuania on Foreign Policy ...
Commentary on a poetic work as philological genre
... reliance on facts, and various interpretational possibilities. While numerous scholarly materials have been written in the genre of literary commentary, there appears to be a limited reflection on the parameters such commentary should possess, the goals it should set, and the factors it should consider. This article fills this theoretical gap, demonstrating that commentary on poetry should primarily be oriented towards the genre-specific nature of this type of artistic work. The main focus is on ...
Company history as a subgenre of the corporate website
... hypergenre, its sections are genres, and subsections are subgenres. Pragmatic, media-related, structural-semantic, and stylistic-linguistic subgenre parameters of the “Company History” subsection are examined. A comprehensive initial communicative goal of this subsection is identified: to shape a positive image, create a successful brand, and strengthen trust in the company. The research results contribute to understanding the structural and compositional features of a corporate website, its ...
Poetic figurativeness as a foreign culture cognition instrument
The article analyzes the metaphorical conceptualization of intercultural space in French and Russian lyric poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. The research goal is to determine the cognitive potential of poetic imagery as a means of exploring the space of another culture. Based on classical (S. A. Askoldov, A. J. Greimas) and contemporary (V. V. Feschenko, M. Freeman) linguistic, philosophic, and semiotic ...
Polydiscursive paradigm of specialised translation in the glocal multilingual coordinates
... author’s extensive translation experience, focuses on horticultural discourse in two non-cognate linguistic and cultural environments (Russian and German), with the research subject being the discursive and translational features of this discourse. The goal and research tasks are centered on identifying the features of the poly-discursive nature of specialized translational discourse (using horticultural discourse as an example). Hermeneutic-interpretative methods and discourse analysis allowed for ...
The Boundaries of Ecological Ethics: Kant’s Philosophy in Dialog with the “End of Human Exclusiveness” Thesis
... Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
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Characterization and use of synthesized antimicrobial peptide in the composition of biodegradable food film
... direction in the development of food packaging involves the use of biodegradable safe materials along with antimicrobial agents. Among the promising prescribed ingredients for biodegradable films are biopeptides with antimicrobial properties. The research goal was to develop a biodegradable food film using a synthesized antimicrobial peptide. The objects of the study were the peptide, test strains of C. albicans, Escherichia coli, and Bacillus subtilis. The confirmation of the purity and primary structure ...
Vulnerability assessment of coastal systems in the Kaliningrad region using the coast vulnerability index (CVI)
... protect and preserve the coastal zone. For the study, the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) methodology was selected, which is considered the most versatile compared to others but requires specific parameters for the studied object/territory. The research goal is to assess the vulnerability of the coastal zone on the Kaliningrad Oblast coastline. The CVI method represents a classic scoring system that allows identifying key areas and suggesting a series of measures to prevent the deterioration of the ...
Old Believers in the Northwestern krai of the Russian empire in the 19th — early 20th century: guides of the Russian idea or religious outcasts
The article examines the issue of the place of the Old Believer community in the Northwestern region of the Russian Empire during the process of Russification in the 19th to early 20th centuries. To achieve the research goal, the following tasks were addressed: a historical overview of the formation of the community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was provided, a characterization of the existence of the Old Believer community in the region within the Russian Empire was ...
Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
... translation of the contexts of the poem Instructions for Christians. The problem of studying the phenomenon of instructions and the representation of the indisputable position of faith in the ancient culture of the Anglo-Saxons is posed. The overall goal and objectives of the study determine the complex nature of the traditional methods used for philological analysis of texts and the semiotic approach to texts. The analysis of the Old English text showed the interweaving of plots of the Old and ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... of technological dependence, i. e. basing critical national infrastructure and production on foreign technologies. In May 2023, the Russian government adopted the Concept of Technological Development until 2030. According to the document, the primary goal for the next decade is to attain the nation’s technological sovereignty. It requires moving into an innovation-driven economy by creating conditions for the sustainable development of production systems. Thus, this study aims to assess the scientific ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... accelerated the erosion of the non-aligned status of Finland and Sweden. They were increasingly involved in joint military activities with NATO, including Aurora, BALTOPS, and Cold Response military exercises, although officially they did not set the goal of joining NATO. At the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales, the two countries signed memoranda with the Alliance to join its Host Nation Support program, which opened the way to inviting NATO forces in crisis situations and for exercises [2, p. 16]. In May ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... corporations to actively engage in shaping the framework of emerging expansive international maritime socio-geographical structures, facilitating the shift toward global maritime polycentrism. The solution to these problems is closely linked to the priority goal of strengthening Russia’s geostrategic standing in the Baltic region, particularly with a focus on its maritime components. These developments are anticipated within the context of the Russian Baltic Area, envisioned as a borderland with trans-basin ...
New integration practices of mathematics education into university digital educational environment for pre-service teacher training
... the field of mathematical education. Three directions for modernizing the teaching of the fundamentals of queueing theory are proposed (target aspect, organizational processes, substantive aspect of knowledge transfer), which include updating the goals of mathematical education for bachelor students in pedagogical disciplines, creating organizational infrastructure to ensure digitization and informatization of mathematical education, and updating its substantive aspect with algorithms for solving ...
Prospects for a new intervention by military in the political processes in the Republic of Turkey
... control, organizing mass repression in the country. The last attempted coup in 2016 undermined the already weakened position of the military, but there is no firm certainty that the army will not attempt to reclaim its role as a hidden guardian. The goal of the undertaken research was to forecast the conditions under which the military might attempt a coup. Scenario analysis was used for the prediction. As a result, three scenarios for the development of the Republic of Turkey were obtained: the ...
The end of the collective farm (the case of the collective farm “Novaya Znizn”, Pravdinsky district, Kaliningrad region)
... the collective farm, materials from the primary party organization, etc., this microhistorical study explores the final years of the “Novaya Znizn (New Life)” collective farm in the Pravdinsky district of the Kaliningrad region. The research goal is to reconstruct the views of collective farm members on the processes occurring in the 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 ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... similar institutionalized model of cooperation between Russia and the neighbouring non-EU countries.
The research aims at identifying the main trends in paradiplomacy by examining the experience of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation.
To achieve this goal, several objectives should be reached:
— to overview the theoretical grounds of the concept of paradiplomacy;
— to analyse three cases of regional Russian-Finnish cooperation;
— to identify and characterize the main trends of modern paradiplomacy....
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... democratic values.
The establishment of the SI Visby programme in 1995 served as a clear demonstration of Swedish foreign policy and national branding priorities. This programme was strategically designed to bolster academic cooperation and advance the goals of the Swedish Institute.
The SI Visby programme aimed to support exchanges at Swedish partner universities, offering students the flexibility of choosing between semester or academic year options. Beyond this, the programme facilitated the pursuit ...
A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
... Habermas’ theory of communicative action. In: M. Murphy and T. Fleming, eds. Habermas, critical theory and education. London, pp. 47—62.
Ongstad, S., 2010. Synchronic-diachronic Perspectives on Genre Systemness: Exemplifying Genrification of Curricular Goals. In: S. Kvam et al, eds. Genre and Cultural Competence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Texts. Berlin, pp. 35—50.
Ongstad, S., 2019. A conceptual framework for studying evolutionary origins of life-genres. Biosemiotics, 12 (2),...
Gothic components of science fiction’s genealogy
... Gothic literature. In Gothic, the features of science fiction began to form: in M. Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus”, the motives of the supernatural are rationalized through the use of scientific and technical issues. The goal of the presented research is detecting the nature, methods and specifics of the transformations of the Gothic plot that led to the formation of the science fiction genre. It is achieved by the use of comparative, historical-genetic, hermeneutic,...
The ways of modality expression in the poem “On the way to Skyros” by Joseph Brodsky
This article focuses on an in-depth analysis of the poem “On the way to Skyros” by Joseph Brodsky. The goal of this article is to identify the ways the author expresses his guidelines in the process of transformation of the mythological plot (the myth of Theseus). The analysis has been carried out on three levels: linguistic, compositional and ideological ...
Conflictogenicity of digital communication forms in the aspect of linguistic security (on the comments on blogs of the Yandex-Zen platform)
... cooking and beauty as a tool for the implementation of verbal abuse. The purpose of the study is to highlight the linguo-conflictogenic components of discourse that violate the linguistic security of participants in digital communication. To achieve this goal, a descriptive method and the method of discursive analysis were used. In the course of linguistic analysis, it was revealed that online media content is characterized by an increased emotions, expressiveness, aggressiveness, sarcastic tone and conflict ...
Revisiting harm caused by illegal entrepreneurial activities
... cognition, analysis, synthesis and statistical method are used as the methodological basis of the research. The purpose of the research is to determine the amount of income received and the damage caused by illegal entrepreneurship. The achievement of this goal predetermined the need to consider various approaches to the interpretation of such a concept as "income from a crime under Article 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation". Within the framework of this study, a classification ...
Opportunities for sustainable economic development of the coastal territories of the Baltic Sea Region in the context of digital transformation
... sustainability. It also assesses the 2009—2018 level of the socio-economic development of the BSR coastal territories, underpins the importance of the blue economy and highlights the role of digital transformation in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the BSR through digitally-driven innovations. A comparative and problem-targeted statistics analyses show significant differences in the level and dynamics of socio-economic development in the BSR coastal territories with their GRP per ...