Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... Logistics between the region and the main part of the country have been significantly complicated. Manufacturing industries have faced disruptions in the supply of essential foreign-made semi-finished products. The exports of 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 ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... demonstrated greater resilience in withstanding the crisis [3].
In 2022, Russia faced increased sanctions from unfriendly countries (see Russian Federation Government Directive № 430-r of 5 March 2022). They prohibited the export of a wide range of goods and technologies to Russia, suspended software sales and maintenance and technical support services, and restricted access to various online resources and digital systems. The ‘cancel culture’ targeting Russia has diminished its opportunities ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
This paper aims to study how geopolitical shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their cores. A changed environment may slow down the development of some industries (and even cause them to decline) and give a boost to others, with these two processes ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... St. Petersburg, the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions. Their development is closely connected with the blue economy: maritime transport, fishing and fish processing, coastal tourism and recreation, shipbuilding and other regional industries exporting goods by sea or using seaborne raw materials and semi-finished products. The three study regions performed these functions in the Soviet period as well.
Although the fishing industry lost some of its importance after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... pre-crisis industrial output by 2021, it strategically diversified its economic functions, particularly through the burgeoning service sector. In 1997, St. Petersburg contributed 3.3 % to the total GDP of Russian regions, accounting for 2.3 % of shipped goods in its own industrial sector. By 2020, this share had increased to 5.6 % (with 4.1 % in the industrial sector), positioning St. Petersburg as the second-largest contributor to GDP, ranking only behind Moscow and the Moscow region.
In the Leningrad ...
Kant on evil in the human nature
... Kant’s works. The author attempts at reconstructing the key stages of Kant’s logic of ethics and, on this basis, reconstructs his idea of evil. Of special importance is the analysis and criticism of the anthropology-focused study of the sources of good and evil in the work Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. The author sees the key to understanding Kant’s approach to the problem of evil in the differentiation of the levels of the existing and the due in his theory. The article has ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... sanctions [3] from the United States, the European Union (EU), Japan, Australia, Canada, and most Western countries. Various types of financial restrictions have been introduced, including refusal to lend, invest and insure cargo, export of certain goods and energy resources, and import of certain goods, including high technologies among many others. Countries that carry out such actions are called ‘unfriendly’ in the literature [1], and this term has received an official legal status in Russia....
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... study found that rising prices for commodity groups falling under the import ban were the most significant change in the regional food market. As a result, the share of Kaliningrad and Belarusian manufacturers in the regional market basket of consumer goods rose dramatically, as the volume and range of products increased and new manufacturers entered the market. At the same time, the dependence of purchases of “sanctioned” goods on non-material reasons (quality, personal preferences) determined ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... demonstrates the diversity in the availability of mobile internet access among residents in various categories of border and interior regions. Furthermore, the research establishes a link between the quantity of transmitted digital data, the import-export of goods and services, international migration, and two key metrics: the accessibility of 4G mobile internet and the number of mobile subscribers. The article pinpoints specific border regions within the Russian Federation, including Krasnodar Krai, Leningrad,...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... expectations of the populace determining these priorities.
The economic crisis and geopolitical transformations have highlighted the problems of the Kaliningrad economy, whose unique risks are a product of its enclave position and dependence on imported goods and supplies from ‘mainland’ Russia. Transport costs are a severe limitation upon food accessibility for the population, leading to reduced consumption levels. Additional constraints are the difficulties encountered by regional food industry ...
The category of pity in «The Great Divorce» by C.S. Lewis and «The Lord of the Rings» by J.R.R. Tolkien
The article analyzes the main features of the category of pity in the texts of two inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in the context of the ethical binary opposition of “good and evil”. This binary opposition is not randomly chosen: Lewis wrote “The Great Divorce” in order to refute the famous artistic idea of William Blake about a fruitful union or the marriage of Heaven and Hell, which personifies the creative ...
Analysing the dynamics of the Baltic States’s production linkages with Russia
... response to the existing problems, remaining resistant to the geopolitical and pandemic shocks. This article examines the production linkages between Russia and the Baltic countries, investigating the export-import flows of consumer and intermediate goods in 2003—2020. A comparative study of the Baltic States’ production linkages with Russia and their main partners in the EU — Germany and Finland — is carried out. It is concluded that, before the introduction of sanctions in 2014 and the ...
Commodity flow model for an exclave region: Rent-seeking in the ‘transitional period’ of the special economic zone
... economy in the transitional period of the special economic zone (SEZ) functioning. The key method of analysis is the comparison of data on the generation of gross regional product and regional foreign economic activities (including export and import of goods and moving goods from/into the Kaliningrad region to other Russian regions). It results in a conceptual CFMER, which is assessed as of 2011. The availability of additional — as compared to a regular region — data on commodity flows in the framework ...
Competitive effects of low trade barriers: evaluations for the Kaliningrad region
... two major lines of analysis: a) a comparison of the international trade growth rates of different Russian regions; b) an assessment of the influence of Russian and European prices on the consumer price index as well as prices for particular tradable goods in the Kaliningrad region. Rosstat and Eurostat serve as the main data sources. To test their hypothesis, the authors use the methods of statistical and econometric analysis. The status of the free economic zone and unique geographic position of ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... scale and structure of the economy of a territory. Apparently, realizing this problem, Rosstat has supplemented the IM database with a new Accounting Statements section. It presents data on the number of economic entities and net revenues from sales of goods, products, works, and services (excluding value added tax, excise taxes and other similar obligatory payments). The data on the total number of legal entities (that is, both large and medium-sized companies and small ones) are available for 2019—2021,...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... of 37 European countries in the total Russian commodity exports was 53—55 %. After the launch of the first wave of anti-Russian sanctions, this share decreased, but not very much — from 2015 to 2021 it ranged from 42 to 49 %. For certain types of goods, it was even higher. For example, in 2021, Europe’s share in Russian gas exports was 79 %, petroleum products exports — 56 %, and oil exports — 48 %.
The situation was similar to the import of goods: from 2011 to 2014, 37 European countries ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... policy, and in 2003, when Denmark took part in the invasion of Iraq [2]. It has been mentioned in the literature that the modest position of the Nordic states in the international hierarchy prompts them to compete for a status that can be described as ‘good power’. Improving a country’s status within this paradigm requires adopting a value-driven approach and creating an image of a dependable partner in relations with leading powers or in the framework of multilateral diplomacy and international ...
Vernunft und Glaube. Zu Kants Deduktion der Gnadenlehre
... justify it by means of one’s own resources requires thinking of God as the external judge in the internal court of justice, respectively as one’s conscience. This reference to God implies that one makes oneself susceptive to the principle of the good instead of vainly trying to make it dependent on one’s own deeds and thoughts. The renunciation of the attempt to justify one’s evil disposition, i.e. the moral conversion to a good disposition, is thus enabled by the principle of the good. Thus ...
Trends in the development of cross-border trade in the Russian-Finnish borderlands
... always been depended on the national policies of the two countries. Since the 19th century, cross-border trade in the Russian-Finnish borderlands has been the product of two factors. The first one is the demand from local residents for certain imported goods that are either absent or much more expensive in their own country. The second factor is the possibility of receiving additional or even basic income. We distinguish several periods (peddlar trade, Soviet-Finnish tourism, shuttle trade, shopping ...
Evaluative lexis expressing the “good/kind” semantics as a means to represent the concept of “god” in the Old Russian texts of the 11th-14th centuries
Evaluative lexemes with the “good/kind” semantics representing the concept of “god” are considered on the basis of Old Russian texts of the 11th—14th centuries. The author analyses the semantic features of the functioning of these lexemes.
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University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... Table 8 provides the values of the correlation coefficients.
The results of the correlation analysis of regional development indicators and group indices of universities’ functions
Indicator
Group Index
GIEF
GIRF
GIRATTF
GISCF
GIMF
Share of innovative goods. works. and services in total goods, works, and services
0.51
0.37
– 0.01
0.25
0.46
Innovation activity level, the share of organizations carrying out innovation activities in the total number of organizations surveyed in the reporting year
0....
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... corridors: Corridor № 2 (“East-West”) and Corridor № 9 (“North-South”), they are important for the country’s economic development [14], [15]. The main idea of the North–South MTK is to create favourable conditions for the delivery of goods from the Middle East to the Baltic states. Goods from the Persian Gulf, India, and Pakistan are transported to the ports of the Northwestern region of Russia and further to their destinations. MTK “East-West” allows cargo to be delivered ...
From Kant to Frank: The Ethic of Duty and the Problem of Resistance to Evil in Russian Thought
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Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... vulnerabilities to ensure the unhindered survival and development of the society. I proceed from the fact that the geopolitical space has four major forms: geographical (the main actor is the state), economic (the main actor is corporations producing goods and services), information and ideological (the main actor is the media, academic, artistic, literature communities, teaching and management staff in education), information and cybernetic (the main actor is software and network developers).
Structurally ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... identity and the interactions between political institutions. This process involves making decisions and comparing personal beliefs about the priorities of social development with the ideologies and objectives of political actors [55, p. 7—8]. A good reputation makes it possible to identify a subject according to values/identities with strong social legitimacy [34].
Research Methods
Conceptual analysis is the main method of building a conceptual model of the concept ‘reputation of authorities’ ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... 89], the latter is a flexible pragmatist committed to technocratic solutions rather than ideology (the policy of ‘warm water in the tap’) [10, p. 185].
The polarisation has turned the relations between the two parties into a zero sum game: what is good for PiS is bad for PO and vice versa. In the shadow of these two parties (and to some extent in their orbit), there are other less influential political forces, which, however, do not unduly affect the agenda. The choice between PiS and PO is the ...
The Ethics of the Categorical Imperative. Lossky under the Influence of Kant
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Spontaneities and Singularities: Kant’s Hypothetical Approach to the Supersensible and the Re-Foundation of Metaphysics
... attributed to them by predicative thought. Kant’s “practico-dogmatic” account of the postulates of God and immortality of the soul, based on the “fact of freedom” and its connection to the moral imperative, ensure the possibility of the “highest good” as final aim of moral behaviour — but cannot satisfy our need for knowledge of the supersensible. To “lay the groundwork” for experience of our own self-conscious reality, the reality of others like ourselves, of things which transcend the ...
Is Spinoza’s Ethics Heteronomous in the Kantian Sense of the Term?
... the quality of an agent’s law-oriented motivation, ii) distinction between human nature as rational and affective, ascribing different sets of laws to each, iii) endowment of reason with moral content, iv) recognition of the non-subjective notion of goodness. Added to this is my discussion of freedom and necessity in Kant and Spinoza in which I show that Spinoza’s overarching determinism is not an impediment for autonomy in the Kantian sense of the term. I end the article by presenting possible ...
Kant and the Problem of Optimism: The Origin of the Debate
... the philosopher examined the problem in the framework of a polemic on Crusian philosophy. This article presents Crusius’s arguments against the theory that this is the best of all possible worlds and in favour of the theory that there are several good worlds. God’s choice of the actual world owes therefore to the freedom of contradiction (libertas contradictionis) and to the freedom of contrariety (libertas contrarietatis), which are eliminated in the teaching of optimism.
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On the Role of Gesinnung in Kant’s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Part I
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Scenarios of increasing the economic efficiency of the Kaliningrad regional transport system
... model and the earlier developed system of transport tariffs and value added calculation for the Kaliningrad region, we produce scenarios and consider changes in value added in the case of selected cargoes carrying intermediate, investment, and consumer goods (as defined in the International Classification for Broad Economic Categories ICT BEC-4). Our calculations show that higher value added and greater economic efficiency of a regional transport system are associated with re-orientation towards investment ...
Development of musical hearing during education at different musical departments
... training. Alternative hypothesis (H1): The accuracy of sound and interval perception (absolute and relative musical ear) depends on the field of musical training. Among brass and string instruments, a generally low percentage of musicians have good musical ear. Findings. No dependence of the accuracy of tone perception (absolute music ear) between groups of musicians was revealed, the difference significance level between groups is p = 0.383; the highest indices in the interval perception ...
The image of a ‘good Frenchman’ in Russian press between the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars
... journals published between the Napoleonic and Crimean wars. In many Russian journals, the emphasis was laid on creating a positive image of some social strata of French society. The author identifies the reasons for this phenomenon. The image of a ‘good Frenchman’ reveals the attitude of Russian press towards acute political and social issues of the time.
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Rent-seeking behavior and rent-oriented behavior in the sphere of art and culture
The article investigates the phenomenon of rent-seeking and rent-oriented behavior in the sphere of culture and arts. The author describes the specific features of the cultural production. It is shown that, the supply of cultural goods is characterized by the different level of rarity and consists from creative production, services of the institutions of culture and art, antiques, reproductions of works of art. Given the demand the cultural goods are structured in compliance with ...
Analytic philosophy: a historico-critical survey
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I. Kant’s and E. Husserl’s practical philosophy
... adequate understanding of the thinkers’ positions requires distinguishing between Kant’s transcendentalist perspective and Husserl’s phenomenological descriptive perspective, between the a priori of pure reason and the material a priori, between good will as a duty and the thetic acts of will, and between the absolute and relative compulsoriness of the categorical imperative. At the same time, the possibility of reconciling the obligatory and a priori greatest good with a concrete, practical ...
«Which Side are You on, Boy?» Roman Jakobson in the Interwar Pragu
... is invited to assess Jakobson’s loyalties: whether to concur with Georgii Chicherin’s opinion that Jakobson is perhaps “an unreliable but absolutely indispensable” because, as the chief of the Soviet delegation, Antonov-Ovseenko, put it, “a good half of our information comes from him,” or to give credence to the Prague Police Directorate’s portrayal of Jakobson as the resident of “the Third International… charged… with a political mission,” or to accept as fact a testimonial ...
Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Methodological Eliminativism about Things-in-Themselves
... faithful to Kant’s views, (2) it must show that his views are internally consistent and his major arguments are valid, and (3) it must not rest on premises that are themselves philosophically implausible. Howell concludes that it would be philosophically good to find a satisfactory resolution of these problems, but also suspects that no such resolution will be found. The author fully agrees with Howell’s three conditions of adequacy on a philosophically satisfactory resolution of the problems, and holds ...
Kant’s family ethics and philosophy of love. Part 2. Critique of Judgement
This paper deals with the forms of satisfaction in the Critique of Judgement — disinterested affection for a beautiful form in a pure feeling, vital love for something sensorily pleasant, rational respect for unconditioned good, and non-self-regarding love for humanity. A synthetic union of the above gives the conceptual key to the critical philosophy of love, which was never fully articulated in Kant’s lectures or published works. Moral love and legal awareness prevent ...
Changes in prices for basic consumer basket goods: The case of the Kaliningrad region
This article presents the results of a study into changes in prices for goods constituting the minimum consumer basket. The analysis uses the indicative method based on studying variations in the chain growth rate of prices, trends method, and time series variation. The calculations made it possible to describe changes in ...
Socially efficient entry barriers?
... so-called ‘perfect’ competition. The authors aim to show that the absence of entry barriers does not improve competition in certain markets. On the contrary, it may result in a decrease in social welfare. This is particularly true of capital-intensive goods, for instance, large diameter pipes for gas pipelines. Lack of proper competition in such sectors of the market necessitates entry barriers, for they help to achieve a separating equilibrium at the market. Since there are costs associated with creating ...
Eurasian Future of Russia: Alternating Integration and Disintegration Cycles
... necessitates a number of steps: a significant strengthening of the Eastern vector in the development of Russia, the formation of the Moscow-Beijing-New Delhi triangle (Evgeny Primakov's idea) as well as providing access of energy-intensive and water-intensive goods from East Siberia by railway to the Chinese and Indian markets. Russia has expressed its interest in the construction of a railway from China to India. It will allow Russia to reduce transportation costs and use a potentially heavy transit traffic ...
The motif of temptation in G. G. Byron’s mystery play Cain
... possible to conclude that, striving for absolute freedom, the human being is incapable of protecting themselves from the spiritual captivity of passions and their soul cannot remain independent from such opposite forces as the light and the darkness, good and evil, god and the devil.
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Freedom as an axiological category in G. G. Byron’s mystery Cain
... in the images of Adam’s sons is based on the antithesis between the true and false freedom, whereas the general literary structure of the mystery is used to direct the reader to the conclusion that it is impossible for a human being to stay beyond good and evil.
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On the eurysemy of adjectives in the modern English language
The English adjective GOOD is under study in the article. Samples of its meanings found in dictionaries are compared with those from the Oxford English Corpus. As a result of the contrastive analysis, considerable changes were found. This spectrum of differences as well as ...
Consumer right as a socioeconomic and legal category
This article considers the right of consumers to knowledge regarding their rights and their protection and information about goods (works, services) and their quality, requirements for such information, and responsibility for the violation of these requirements both at the legislative and judicial levels.
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On the nature of thinking without representation
This article focuses on Deleuze’s attempt to describe so-called thinking of differences, which severs any connection with the premises of natural pre-philosophical thinking and good will tending towards good and truth. The author believes that Deleuze’s thinking of differences does have a rather evident premise. For Deleuze, thinking is an energy flow or sensual “vitality”.Another approach to analysing the fundamentals ...