University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... socio-economic life. Therefore, the socio-cultural function of the university is of particular importance. In addition, given the developing concept of lifelong education, a noteworthy feature of higher education is the broader participation of different age groups. Researchers distinguish the function of retraining and advanced training of employees (e. g., [19], [20]). Since the development of a university depends on its priorities set by the administration (research university, entrepreneurial university,...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
Today Russia has difficulty doing business-as-usual with EU states. It seems that the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) and the Baltic Assembly/Baltic Council of Ministers (BA/BСM) have contributed substantially to this state of affairs. Overall, the tensions between Russia and the EU are building up – another tendency that did not arise on the Russian initiative....
Factors in local governments’ digitalisation in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia: social media review
... cannot ignore social media, which have millions of users. According to the study “Digital 2023: The Russian Federation,” 73.3 % of the Russian population have accounts on social media. Therefore, pages of governors and mayors, as well as official groups of various ministries, departments, and services, were created on social media to reach out to citizens. In 2020, Regional Management Centres were established nationwide to process citizens’ messages and complaints on social media and provide ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... urbanization, proximity to developed internet markets, infrastructure accessibility, local cultural specificity and population density [21]. Trofimova [22], studying the digital divide between Russian regions, comes to similar conclusions, defining three main groups of its factors: socio-economic, socio-demographic and cultural.
Regarding digitalization in Russian regions, key economic factors include the gross regional product per capita, which exhibits a positive correlation with the level of telecommunication ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... self-sufficient towns, whose unique landscapes and architecture make them attractive as places of residence and tourist destinations. Then, the socio-spatial approach came to the fore, drawing attention to the practices and activities of urban social groups: authorities, businesses, civil society organisations and local communities [1, p. 10—11]. Today, these two methodologies have merged within various development programmes for EU cities to produce a geosociospatial approach spanning 12—13 aspects....
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... diameter shows the average expenditure on a performed R&D project. The chart does not show St. Petersburg, whose share of national expenditure on R&D is 0.69 % for those commissioned and 10.05 % for those performed.
In general, there are three large groups of regions distinguished by their involvement in research activities:
Group 1 — the core, including St. Petersburg and the adjacent Leningrad region, which are far ahead of other subjects of the Federal District in terms of performed R&D, while ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... divergences in dialogue with Italy [6], Poland [7], [8], and Turkey further accentuated these constraints. In such a scenario, it became imperative for Germany to form partnerships with certain small and mid-sized states within the ‘Western democracies’ group [9]. These states are willing and capable of being reliable supporters of Germany, thereby bolstering its efforts to increase its presence and influence in Europe and beyond. Lithuania emerges as a standout partner for Germany.
The aim of the article ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... Lithuania. The ways to obtain embargoed food were systematised using content analysis of social media, advertising and joint purchase services, travel agency websites, regional news portals and blogs. The 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 ...
National innovation systems: a comparative study of the Baltic and South Caucasus States
... Index (ISDI) comprising 46 indicators was developed. The authors employed the macro-clustering method, as well as aggregation and combination techniques for parameters and sub-indices. Additionally, complete-linkage and K-means methods were used to group the countries. Kalinsky-Kharabaz and Duda-Hart indices, as well as dendrograms, were found to be the most effective techniques for producing the novel classification proposed in this contribution. It was demonstrated using the former method that ...
Portfolio optimization in the case of an exponential utility function and in the presence of an illiquid asset
... going to infinity. We show that the optimization problem with the exponential utility function is not connected to the optimization problem with the HARA utility by the limiting procedure and we obtain essentially different results. We provide the Lie group analysis of the corresponding HJB equation.
For the main three-dimensional PDE with the exponential utility function, we obtain the complete set of the nonequivalent Lie group invariant reductions to two-dimensional PDEs according to an optimal ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... Russia), based on an analysis of a clustered set of national characteristics: R&D financing and staffing in the scientific and technological subsystem. A total of ten indicators, absolute and relative, are investigated. The study relies on combined grouping, graphical and cluster analysis to build a typology of countries and distinguish their types according to their scientific and technological excellence As a result, a typology of the countries of the Baltic Sea region has been proposed and ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... integral components of both nation branding and soft power, aimed at strengthening Sweden’s global influence. The Swedish Institute (SI) has specifically identified Russian students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and university teachers as target groups for its scholarship and grant programmes. Despite the fact that the SI among the other scholarship agencies suspended Russian participation in their programmes in 2022, an exploration of practices adopted in foreign nations can provide valuable ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... among the BSR countries. Although for Russia migration currently is not a serious challenge, Moscow, being in solidarity with its Baltic neighbours, actively supports their efforts in this area.
Child protection. Russia participates in the CBSS expert group on children at risk, which has been highlighting issues of regional concern since 2002, such as children in alternative care, promoting child-friendly justice, preventing trafficking and exploitation of children, as well as promoting the best interests ...
Spatial and structural patterns in the distribution of R&D, innovation and production activities in Russia
....47 “Forestry”) with the names of the subsections of the All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities (OKVED 02. ‘Forestry and logging’). 255 thematic subgroups of more than 700 of the GRNTI that had an applied focus were assigned to 18 OKVED groups included in sections A-E, hereinafter referred to as the thematic areas. The determination of the economic specialisation of the regions of the Russian Federation was carried out by using data on the volume of shipped goods of one’s own production ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... distinct from the period starting in 2016, when Poland terminated the SBT: the ‘temporary’ border closures during the pandemic quickly transformed into formidable barriers due to the subsequent rupture between Russia and the West.
The study uses three groups of sources. The first includes statistics from Rosstat, the Federal Customs Service, and executive bodies. Analysing this data is complicated by changes in the methodology for treating socio-economic indicators. For example, investigating structural ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... motivated by different drivers and forming different migration flows, students and pensioners move longer distances to concrete destinations: university towns and areas perceived to offer a better quality of life respectively [10], [18].
In the middle age group, migration distances may be shorter than in the younger cohorts. The mobility of ‘older seniors’ (aged 75 and older), which is often caused by tragic events, the inability to carry out farming, or the loss of a business, is mostly short-distance ...
On certain groups in the Soviet outbound tourism (on the example of the Kaliningrad region)
... urgency of this topic is caused by poor knowledge of specific issues in development of Soviet outbound tourism, especially on the regional scale. The purpose of this research is to define the functional aim and effectiveness of use of specialized tourist groups in the structure of outbound tourism in the Kaliningrad region. For this purpose, the author examines the available archive materials of the Kaliningrad Regional Council of Trade Unions and the Regional Council of CPSU (Communist Party of the USSR),...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... support and 35 per cent opposing, indicating an increase in the share of supporters by approximately 4 per cent compared to the survey conducted in January of the same year.<3>
The events that began on February 24, 2022, became a triumph for that group of politicians in both Nordic countries who had always focused on maximum rapprochement with NATO. Among them, in particular, is the former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt, one of the principal architects of the EU Eastern Partnership program,...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... is a modification of the relational analysis model proposed by Kao [18], who adheres to the multiplier form. And we will do the same.
So, n objects of observation (regions) are given, for which panel data have been collected for T periods and three groups of variables: inputs Yr, outputs Xi and carry-over (transitioning from one period to another), Zp. In the context of dynamic DEA, particular attention should be paid to carry-over variables Zp (Fig. 1) since, without them, the model would be a ...
The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features
This research focuses on the features and transformations of power groups and their role in the political life of the societies of the Baltic countries. This article aims to analyse structural and functional changes in the composition of the Baltic political elites after these countries gained independence in the 1990s....
Social and cultural determinants in the perception of environmental risks: Douglas grid group analysis
... following cultural determinants were identified: individualism, hierarchism, fatalism and egalitarianism. Social determinants were factors related to the respondents' living environment — urban or rural. The main method of research was a focus group with subsequent processing of results using ATLAS.ti software programme. The study revealed that environmental risks are not a priority problem for the region. Rural residents are more concerned about environmental risks. There are similarities ...
Linear and center-projective quotient groups of the second order differential group
The problem of constructing of center-projective group by factorization of the second order differential group is considered.
. Евтушик Л. Е. Дифференциальные связности и инфинитезимальные преобразования продолженной псевдогруппы ...
Development stages of ethnic contact zones in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since the end of the 19th century
.... This methodology simultaneously considers the direction of change in the ethnic mosaic index used to determine the phases of growth and dissolution of ethnic contact zones and the positive or negative dynamics of the proportion of titular ethnic groups. The ethnic mosaic index helped identify five prominent ethnic contact zones: the capitals of the Baltic countries, Ida-Viru County in Estonia and the Latgale region in Latvia. Over the past century and a half, these ethnic contact zones have exhibited ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... in Russia with an accumulated investment volume of 22.3 billion euros.<1>
During these years, Russian companies often opened their subsidiaries in European countries, trying to integrate into international value chains. For instance, the NLMK Group still owns three metallurgical enterprises in France and one in Denmark, supplying its products produced in Russia for further processing.<2>
Problem points of Russian-European economic cooperation
. It should be noted that Russia has been ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... 10 service people during its years in Afghanistan.<4> Major General Gunner Arpe Nielsen, the Chief of the Royal Danish Army, stressed when discussing Denmark’s military involvement in the Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS:<5> ‘We have a group of employees who have undertaken an extraordinary effort. We engaged in Iraq in October 2014 and have flown more than 4,000 hours, more than 410 missions, and have dropped more than 350 bombs. We cannot continue to do this.<6> This leads one ...
Foreign trade activity of the subjects of the Russian Federation: prospects for maintaining the geographical structure of supplies
... economic activity. Given the fact that about 30 % of national budget is formed by the foreign economic activity, the assessment of the prospects for maintaining the existing supply geography becomes expedient. The article divides the subjects into four groups, taking into account the “new” criterion which determines the level of contribution of “unfriendly” countries to the total volume of exports and imports of Russian regions. The first group included the regions whose volume of interaction ...
The racial issue in the context of the activation of intraparty pressure groups in Great Britain in the 1950―1960 s
... decisions in this sphere of migration in 1965. The research was created in the functional paradigm, which provides to explore relationships between government structures and political currents of Tories. Based on unexplored proclamations of lobbying groups there was created an assumption, that the structural design of these pressure groups and the formation of their internal committees were the keys factors that allowed lobbyists to achieve their goals. In their work, this club and another right ...
Resilience of cultural attitudes of local communities to risks: the «group / grid» model
The study focuses on the empirical test of the grid/group model applied to the actual perception of the environmental risks by the local community (the case of the potassium mine development in the village of Nivenskoe, the Kaliningrad region). It tests to what extent the structure of the theoretically ...
Cultural Islam in Northern Europe
... programmes for international partnership. The forces promoting the cultural Islam project position it as an antidote for political and radical Islam. At the same time, the main factor preventing the legitimation of cultural Islam across immigrant Moslem groups (or, more precisely, communities, i.e. associations of people originating from countries where Muslims predominate) is the relevant isolatedness of those groups and their commitment to the Ummah. The novelty of research into how Islam and culture ...
The hierarchy of the subgroups of the linear group at isolation of one index value
Non effective, factor-effective and special-effective projective spaces are considered. In an non effective projective space the linear group is acting. When one index value is isolated in the Cartan structure equations of a linear group, the hierarchy of its seven subgroups is constructed.
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About geometrical objects fields of the -framed hypersurface of the projective space
... fundamental-group connection are made. These comparisons show that the curvature object forms a geometric object only in combination with components of the second-order connectivity object. In the general case, the object of curvature of the fundamental group connection of the second order does not form a tensor.
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Foreign nationals on the Boards of Directors of Russia’s Ten Largest Non-Financial Companies Investing Overseas
This author analyses the international membership of the boards of directors of Russia’s ten largest outbound investors. The data used in the study come from the companies’ annual reports and official websites. The information is correct as of February 2017. It is concluded that foreign nationals hold 30 % of board seats in Russia’s ten largest non-financial companies investing abroad. US, British, and German nationals comprise two-thirds of foreign nationals on the boards of directors. Among the...
A review of the existing generalizations of the Deuring Reduction Theorem
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A comparison of the condition of the sand hopper Talitrus saltator Montagu, 1808 groups depending on the ecology of the Vistula and Curonian Spits’ coast
A study into the condition of Talitrus saltator Montagu, 1808 groups on the coast of the Vistula and the Curonian Spits in April — October 2011 showed significant differences in the seasonal dynamics of key parameters characterizing these groups. On the Curonian Spit, an increase in the average and total abundance ...
Health expenditures and health outcomes in Central Europe and the Baltic Region
... given in Table 1. The different components of per capita health expenditure employed are measured in terms of international purchasing power parity in each country. The mortality rate is measured per 1,000 population in each country and across gender groups. The data is analysed using STATA version 15.1.
Results
Figure 1 in the appendix section illustrates the trends in different components of health expenditures specific to Central Europe and the Baltic region, the Euro Area, and the OECD countries....