The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
....<4> This is undeniably associated with the cultivation of a favourable image for the country when an alum returns to their homeland after completing their education.
Contemporary state of the research
The examination of education as a soft power instrument has been a subject of increasing interest in a burgeoning body of literature over the past few decades. This interest originated in the late 1980s when Joseph Nye introduced the concept of ‘soft power’ [1, p. 153—171], [2, p. 223—232]....
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... paradiplomacy is related to the political space. At this level, the local expression of identity (which may differ from the national one) emerges. Some scholars [6; 14] note that due to technological development, contemporary paradiplomacy operates not only in instrumental fields (such as international trade and global markets, environmental issues, scientific and technological cooperation, and transport), but also in “areas of social and political concern such as ethnic conflicts, public health, education,...
Civil protection in the EU and its effect on the safety of the Baltic region
... changes towards a more planned approach to providing civil protection. The authors address the issue of extending the current civil protection system by introducing preventive measures. The project, co-financed by the by the Civil Protection Financial Instrument, is used as an example of the introduction of preventive measures in the Baltic Sea region.
1. Civil protection — full report, 2009, Special Eurobarometer, no. 328, November.
2. The Report of the International Law Commission: Sixty-second ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... neighbourhood, which, in turn, result in a reconfiguration of political influence, the flow of goods, capital, tourists and information between integration associations, countries, and their centres. The functions and regimes of borders, therefore, operate as instruments facilitating the adaptation of both the economy and society to this altered landscape. In response, the state may reinforce the barrier nature of borders by modifying visa requirements and customs regulations, thereby impeding the free movement ...
Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West
Developing cross-border tourist routes is an effective way of developing cooperation between border regions of Russia and the neighbouring countries. The author presents an approach that interprets cross-border tourist routes as an instrument for the conservation, reproduction, and promotion of natural, cultural, and historical potential and as a means to boost business activities in border regions. This article summarises international practices and presents the theoretical and ...
Family ethics and philosophy of love in Kant’s Lectures on Ethics
This article considers Kant’s deliberations on the essence and varieties of human love, based on the Lectures on Ethics. Kant distinguished between the love of benevolence (ethical love) — a commitment to the other’s wellbeing (discussed in Kant’s other ethical writings) — and a love of delight (aesthetical love), further divided into the sensual and intellectual love. The sensual love of delight is identified with sexual love. The intellectual love of delight eludes definition, since such...
Virtual instruments are research tool of two realities
The didactic possibilities of virtual instruments in the engineering education are studied. Defined eight system characteristics of this technology: means of measurement, metrologichnost, real-time, communication, information content, poliontizm, the variation of the scale interval.
1. Нестерова ...
The development of small innovative enterprises through harmonising economic interests
The harmonisation of economic interests is one of the essential preconditions for the development of enterprises, including small ones. As practice shows, the harmonisation of major interests of small innovative business requires not only market instruments, but also state regulation, which demands the development of a corresponding mechanism. This study sets out to develop and justify the macroeconomic mechanism of development of small innovative enterprises on the basis of harmonisation of ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... countries and the countermeasures taken by Russia and Belarus. In 2022, the collaborations came to an end, accompanied by the dissolution of previously established forms of cooperation that had fostered regional unity. In addition, new ‘collective’ instruments for dividing the Baltic region emerged, informed by an anti-Russian and anti-Belarusian sentiment. As a result, Russia had to announce its withdrawal from the CBSS, as the members of the organisations were no longer considered equal.
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The Boundaries of Ecological Ethics: Kant’s Philosophy in Dialog with the “End of Human Exclusiveness” Thesis
... main message is that natural complexes and resources exist to be useful to the human being who sees them only from the perspective of using them and does not take into account their intrinsic value. Kant’s anthropocentric teaching argues that the instrumental attitude to nature has its limits. These limits are hard to determine because the anthropocentrists claim that the human being is above nature. Indeed, the “human exclusiveness thesis” (J.- M. Schaeffer) assumes that its advocates underestimate ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... international trade classification codes. These goods account for 78 % of the imports and 16 % of the exports of Kaliningrad production facilities, as seen in 2021.<12>
This list includes, amongst other things:<13>
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Musical instruments, percussion (e. g., drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas);
Swords, sabers, rapiers, cutlasses, bayonets, pikes, and similar weapons, parts of the listed weapons, scabbards, and sheaths;
Non-electric lamps and lighting equipment;
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Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... Notably, some foreign experts also proposed the development of cross-border connections, advocating for the formation of a bipolar Three-City system (Gdansk — Gdynia — Sopot) — Kaliningrad [4].
The Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University has been instrumental in facilitating an international platform for discussing cross-border cooperation through its annual conference “The Baltic Region — a Region of Cooperation”. This conference, supported by numerous partners from Poland, Lithuania, Germany,...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... Lithuania generated approximately 300 jobs annually and made a notable contribution of over 1 million euros to the country’s economy. A study conducted by the University of Latvia during the same year indicated that student-run businesses in Latvia were instrumental in creating more than 50 job positions and contributed around 100 thousand euros to the country’s economy.
One of the articles by a team of well-known Latvian economists contains data on the effectiveness of student entrepreneurship in ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... project. Danish Euroskepticism may have further contributed to the militarisation of the country’s foreign policy. Initially linked to the pursuit of special relations with the US, ‘activism’ could potentially spill over into other contexts
An instrument of Danish foreign policy since 1920,<13> the country’s ‘activism’ is not directly associated with its NATO membership or the position of the US as a global leader. The end of the Cold War gave an additional impetus to these long-standing ...
The language of muteness: examining the work of Gazdanov and Salkazanova in Paris
... Istoriko-etimologicheskii slovar' osetinskogo yazyka [Historical and etymological dictionary of the Ossetian language], Vol. IV. Leningrad (in Russ.).
Ambartsumyan, A. A., 2000. Magician Sarastro (Zoroaster) in The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart (magic instruments, Zoroastrian ordeals and Freemasonry)]. In: Voprosy instrumentovedeniya: sbornik referatov IV mezhdunarodnoi instrumentovedcheskoi konferentsii «Blagodatovskie chteniya», 4—7 dekabrya 2000 g. [Issues of instrumental science: collection ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... was applied to eliminate the effect of the initial low base effect present when the traditional measure of percentage excess of the 2020 absolute mortality rates over the 2015—2019 average.
Secondly, regional and, in some cases, municipal statutory instruments laid in response to the pandemic were analysed, which made it possible to describe the institutional differentiation in the COVID-19 response of Russia’s Baltic regions. To this end, the number of the statutory instruments was examined alongside ...
Evaluating the impact of integration processes on the ethnopolitical competition of languages in the Baltic Region
... etnosotsiolingvisticheskie terminy i ponyatiya [Language policy and ethnosociolinguistic terms and concepts], The decision of the national language issues in the modern world. CIS and Baltic Countries, Azbukovnik, p. 91—101. (in Russ.)
11. Tarasov, I. N. 2019, Instruments of ethnic policy in Latvia, Yuzhno-rossiiskii zhurnal sotsial’nykh nauk [South Russian Journal of Social Sciences], vol. 20, no. 2, p. 34—44 (in Russ.).
12. Kazak, E. A., Klimenko, O. K. 2013, Yazyk v global’nom kontekste: Severnaya ...
Georges Gurvitch and Sergey Hessen on the Possibility of Forming Social Unity
... polemic in the pages of the journal Sovremenniye zapiski (Contemporary Notes). Although they differ radically in their definitions of the status of the state they concur in defining society as a set of social institutions and communities existing as instruments for expressing personal freedom. The social regulations they propose are already legal situations. Hessen and Gurvitch believe that the individual can fully exercise his/her freedom only in conditions of such legal pluralism. However, the ...
OPOIAZ and Bakhtin: the Decision Science’s perspective
... Study of Poetic Language”(OPOIAZ) conceived of the writer as a rational agent pursuing a specific goal, and of the means at his/her disposal to attain it. Their approaches, I will illustrate, correspond well to two specific types of rationality: “instrumental” and “bounded.” To conclude, I will juxtapose the Formalists’ conceptualization of poetic creativity to Mikhail Bachtin’s view on the subject arguing that the way he conceives of the strategies available to the literary author ...
The Legal Regulation of the EU Immigrant Integration Policy
... the Union the power to issue legislative acts aimed at harmonizing national rules for the integration of immigrants. However, in the aftermath of the migrant crisis in Europe, this problem has been receiving increased attention. I systematize legal instruments for immigrant integration, analyse the conditions of the system formation, emphasize trends in the policy development, and examine the formation of relevant legislation at a national level in the case of Germany. Using the method of legal ...
The Swedish model of spatial planning: Functions, problems, and solutions
In this study clarification and definition are provided for the bodies responsible for making administrative decisions for territorial development. The regulatory framework of spatial planning is also embodied. The main instruments of spatial planning are shown as different types of plans: Regional plan, Municipal comprehensive plan, Detailed development plan, Special area regulations and Property regulation plan. Particular attention is paid to the influence on the ...
Resolution of optical instruments
... Калининград, 2008.
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Pahotin V., Molostova S., Nikitin M., Chugajnov A.
optic instruments, diffraction, theory of optimum reception, resolution capability, Rayleigh criterion.
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Evolution of International Research Cooperation models in the Contemporary Foreign Policy Environment
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in the sphere of education], Moscow, The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
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2012, Vestnik MGIMO University, no. 4.
10. Fedyukin, I. I. 2012, Vystuplenie na otkrytii Baltijskogo obrazovatel'nogo ...
Cooperation between Russia and the EU in the field of innovative development of tourism: the case of the Lithuania — Poland — Russia cross-border cooperation programme
To study the key instruments of international cooperation between Russia and the European Union aimed at stimulating innovative development of tourism co-financed by the EU and Russia. The author describes specific projects implemented in the framework of the Lithuania-Poland-Russia ...
Development of International Clusters in the Baltic Sea Region
... Russian Ministry of Economic Development], 2011, available at: http://www.ved.gov.ru/moder_innovac/analitic/analytical_materials/obzor_innov_klasteri/ (accessed 4 December 2012).
27. Pogoreckaya, V.Ya., Zhuran, Ye. A. 2011, Transgranichnye klastery — instrument formirovanija korporativnoj strategii [Cross-border clusters — an instrument for shaping corporate strategy], Prometej [Prometheus], no. 2 (35), p. 195—199.
28. Segedin, V. N. 2011, Perspektivy razvitija transgranichnyh sistem predprinimatel'stva ...
Strategic opportunities for economic development of the Baltic Sea coastal zones and sea industrial and port complexes
... Gogoberidze, G. G. 2009, Baltijskoe more: primorskie regiony i ih morehozjajstvennyj potencial [Baltic Sea: coastal regions and marine economic potential], Ekonomicheskie strategii, no. 8, p. 150—155.
2. Gogoberidze, G. G. 2008, Indikatornye metody kak instrument kompleksnogo analiza i ocenki primorskih territorij [Indicator as an instrument of a comprehensive analysis and assessment of coastal areas], Vestnik INZhEKONA, Ser. Ekonomika, no. 3, Saint-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economic,...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... territories, analysing the prospects of such economic models is relevant for Kaliningrad, a territory where pressure from anti-Russian sanctions has proven challenging. Enterprises with collective (popular) forms of ownership may serve as the most effective instrument for achieving the sustainability of the Baltic region territories [9].
The role of cooperation in a territory’s development is informed by the very functioning of cooperative economic models, which seek to safeguard the interests and needs ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... economic activity, but in 2023, this impact was less explicit due to economic adaptation and transformation. Based on the results of the study, some recommendations can be formulated.
Introduction
In recent years, sanctions have become a significant instrument of world politics. These economic restrictions are widely introduced against countries, regions, individual legal entities, or individuals to change their actions by other countries and organizations. At the beginning of 2024, most countries ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... analysing the package of draft legal acts presented by the Commission, several aspects merit particular attention. According to established international practice, confiscation as a criminal penalty is applied to property or money that has served as an instrument of a crime or has been obtained as a result of criminal activities. At the time of asset freezing, individuals subject to corresponding restrictive measures have not committed any violations.
Provisions of Article 10 of the Directive on the ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... certify their activities.
The Church is actively engaged in education. It operates three music schools in Vestervig, Løgumkloster, and Roskilde, as well as branches in several other cities, providing a variety of courses related to playing musical instruments, conducting, and singing. Special attention is paid to inclusive education.
Since 2014, the Centre for Pastoral Education and Research has been operating in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Løgumkloster. Its work includes training for pastors and ...
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 approaches, the cognitive status of poetic imagery is substantiated. The definition of intercultural...
The Problem of the Possibility of an Artificial Moral Agent in the Context of Kant’s Practical Philosophy
... 41-275. (In Rus.)
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Nagl, L., 2022. Digital Technology: Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Practical Reason. Kantian Journal, 41(1), pp. 60-88.
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Schönecker, D., 2022. Kant’s Argument from Moral Feelings: Why Practical Reason Cannot Be Artificial. In: H. Kim and D....
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... American expert centres are warning that Russia will not put up with the deterioration of its geopolitical position (even despite the mixed effectiveness of the campaign in Ukraine), and increase its reliance on nuclear deterrence and other military instruments in the region, as well as on hybrid methods of influencing a potential enemy [22].
The value of the two Nordic countries for the United States and NATO in their addressing ‘hybrid’ threats — the main source of which being Russia, as ...
The specifics of psychological atmosphere within inclusive groups of university students
The description and results of an empirical study conducted within two inclusive student groups at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University are presented. The instrument used for this research was the “Psychological Atmosphere in the Group Scale” (F. Fiedler’s scale adapted by Yu. L. Khanin) with the inclusion of open-ended questions to assess participants’ attitudes toward inclusion in the university....
Text formation function of the author's modality in the poetry of Joseph Brodsky (on the poem «I always kept saying that the fate is a game...» — «Я всегда твердил, что судьба — игра...»)
... compositional. The role of the following language resources in structuring the authorial modality of the analyzed text has been identified: syntactic parallelism, poetic meter and rhythm, tropes of various structures, stylistic diversity of vocabulary, phonetic instrumentation, and compositional organization of speech. It is established that the combination of means expressing the author’s modality in the poem is a way of representing significant philosophical categories for the poet, such as time, space,...
Pure and Impure Philosophy in Kant’s Metaphilosophy
... between pure and impure philosophy. Second, I critically examine four different readings of Kant’s views about the status of ‘impure’ philosophy: (a) that it is not genuine philosophy; (b) that it is bad or inferior philosophy; (c) that it is instrumentally valuable; and (d) that it constitutes an indispensable part of Kant’s philosophy, both in a theoretical and practical sense. I argue that Kant is best interpreted as endorsing readings (c) and (d). Third, I offer some concluding remarks....
A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
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Kordonsky, S. G., 2011. Veernye matritsy kak instrument postroeniya ontologii [Fan matrices as a tool for constructing ontologies]. Washington (in Russ.).
Kovrigina, L. Yu., 2014. Negaussovoe modelirovanie leksiko-statisticheskoi struktury variativnogo teksta: na primere «Skazaniya o Mamaevom ...
On economic well-being and current measures to support small businesses in agriculture in the Kaliningrad region
... in which the Kaliningrad region operates have required strengthening and differentiation of measures and forms of state support for such enterprises. The region has a large-scale program to support farmers, including both financial and non-financial instruments. At the same time, it is necessary to assess not only support measures, but also the economic well-being of local agricultural entrepreneurs in a dynamically changing economic environment. With the help of expert interviews with local ...
The attitude of teachers of additional music education to inclusive education of blind and visually impaired children
... teachers of additional education request some adapted methodological support for teaching performing arts to children with different types of disabilities, taking into account both the special educational needs of such children and the specifics of musical instruments. The problems are identified and tasks are set to ensure inclusive additional music education.
Simaeva I.N., Churkin A.I.
Inclusive additional education, visual impairment, music education for the blind and visually impaired, music ...
Struggle of the Serbs in Austria against the union with the Catholic Church in the 18th century
... Orthodox Church under Austrian rule since the end of the Holy League war with Turkey from the end of the 17th century to the era of Josephism. After having settled in Austria, the Serbs were exposed to the assimilation policy of the authorities, the main instrument of which was the union with the Roman Catholic Church imposed on the Serbs. The sources for the study were normative and administrative acts of authorities at various levels, decisions of the Serbian people's church councils, official and private ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... global SDGs at the regional level.
Youth. The BSR countries believe their young people are the future of the region. Learning about, and from, each other contributes to strengthening regional identity. In this context, the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue is an instrument for building transnational trust and mutual understanding, in particular in challenging times, and should provide the basis for sustainable BSR youth cooperation in media, education, science and the labour market.
Human trafficking. The CBSS ...
Institutional approach to assessing the transition to a circular economy: the case of the Kaliningrad region
... hinder the transition to a circular economy, which has been proposed as one of the outcomes of the reform. This study aims to address possible obstacles to transitioning to a circular economy in the Kaliningrad region. Methodologically, the study uses instruments of new institutional economics: by comparing discrete institutional alternatives for municipal solid waste (MSW) management, the authors propose incentive schemes that will likely stimulate the transition to a circular economy in the region....
Kant and the New Enlightenment: On the Balance between Duty and Utilitarian Ends
... Colclasure. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 150-163.
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Nagl-Docekal, H., 2021. Why Kant’s “Ethical State” Might Prove Instrumental in Challenging Current Social Pathologies. Kantian Journal, 40(4), pp. 156-186.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2021-4-6
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Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... one that is dynamic and generally non-essentialist [8, р. 4—11]. This new approach emphasises the inhomogeneous and fluid nature of international actors’ identities. Although, in analytical terms, it transpires that one blurred concept becomes instrumental in revealing the content of some other, often just as blurred, phenomena, the focus of research shifts, and strategic culture itself turns into an independent variable [9], [10]. Nevertheless, when examining strategic culture, one can identify ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... their thanks to Tatiana A. Andreeva, a senior lecturer at the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics of the Institute of Earth Sciences at St. Petersburg State University. Her assistance in editing and designing the cartographic material has been instrumental in enhancing the visual representation of the article.
Martynov V. L., Sazonova I. E.
Poland, census, population, settlement system, voivodeships
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10.5922/2079-8555-2023-2-3
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... communicative, resource, military-strategic and other capabilities) falling within its political, economic and humanitarian interests.
Vasily K. Belozerov
. Russia’s geopolitical security deserves close attention from researchers. Taking into account instrumental and applied considerations and the latest developments in the international arena, it makes sense to view Russia’s geopolitical security as the security of its geopolitical space.
I would like to emphasize that problems and obstacles are ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... capitals’ environs into a single route. The first attempts to organise such tours were made in Latvia by Latvia Tours and Amadeus.<14>.
As emphasised above, the capital regions are leaders in the international inbound tourism market. Various EU instruments and institutions have contributed to their development. Latvia’s Presidency of the EU Council in the first half of 2015 helped to promote the country’s international image and present Riga as a business travel destination. About 200 events ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... Russia’s effective participation in international cooperation and the international division of labour has temporarily slowed down. Therefore, interregional collaboration and closer ties with countries of the EAEU, SCO, and BRICS can become essential instruments for scientific and technological development.
Finally, the study will be further complemented by expert surveys and an analysis of the Baltic region’s exports/imports traffic and patent activity. This approach will enable a characterization ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... the Soviet legacy. Together, they account for most of the context where the Estonian political leadership is likely to abandon labelling their country as a Nordic state and change the focus to its Baltic identity. This shift has a value-based and instrumental motivation. On the one hand, the stigmatisation of the ‘Soviet legacy’ is an essential element of national identity reinforcement, readily accepted by the local population and external observers alike. On the other, it contributes to ...
Cultural and leisure activities in the Kaliningrad region in the second half of 1940s—1980s
... development. On the basis of archival and published sources, as well as interviews with immigrants, the author attempts at reconstructing the idea of leisure time activities of Kaliningrad residents on the new Soviet territory. The study also analyzed the instruments of state control which were applied to this important part of human life. In particular, the measures of the state, aimed at ensuring that the majority of free time people spent centrally, are considered. Leisure time for the Kaliningrad residents ...