Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
The paper adopts a sociopragmatic approach to the study of emotion processes and investigates discursive traits of the reader’s interest. The field of written popularization was examined to establish how it conceptualizes the reader’s interest through discourse structures. The text materials were obtained experimentally. They consist of 104 pairs of expository text; each of ...
A functional description of the model for the protection of the environmental interests of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea region
This article identifies the objective conditions of the conflict between the interests of development and those of environmental security. The latter are given added urgency when, within the same ecological unit, one country needs to develop and another to protect its environmental interests. The borders of the countries and regions,...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... common European approach. However, this approach assumes a certain degree of autonomy for each country. In addition, the scale and diversity of the countries of the united Europe make the specifics of their foreign and domestic policies natural. The interests of groups of countries that are ‘embedded’ in common interests are de facto the norm in European and global policy. Busygina and Klimovich, well-known Russian Europeanists, proposed an interesting formula, “a coalition within a coalition”,...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... Latvia and Lithuania. The spatial and temporal organisation of tourism in these countries has undergone significant changes since they became independent and joined the EU. These changes have affected the geography of tourist flows and destinations of interest. This study aims to define the geographical and economic peculiarities of the development of tourism in the Baltic States and to identify the central, peripheral and semi-peripheral regions. Elements of the centre-periphery structure were identified ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... Germany (FRG) has been a part of the community of ‘Western democracies’. However, this longstanding affiliation took on new significance in the mid-2010s. Germany sought to compensate for the weakening of its positions outside the Western sphere of interest by bolstering ties with other NATO and EU member states, particularly in the context of deterring adversaries. Brexit and Trumpism in the latter half of the 2010s, along with negative consequences associated with these events [3], [ 4, p. 146—152],...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... being formed implying the containment of Russia to one degree or another: the Lublin Triangle or the Three Seas Initiative in particular [3], not to mention regular exercises including the US Navy.
Another notable trend in this context is the growing interest of European countries not geographically located in the Baltic region. Of these countries, the French Republic stands out, as its foreign policy traditionally focuses more on the South (the Mediterranean and Africa). Under President Emmanuel ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... 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]. American scholars have often characterized ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... Science databases.
Within the Baltic region, Estonia was the sole representative in this distribution of scientific activity pertaining to students’ entrepreneurial potential, achieving a result of “1”.
The results shown in Figure 2 confirm the interest of scientists from various fields of science in the topic of “entrepreneurial potential of students using artificial intelligence”. The majority of the publications are related to business, management, accounting, and computer science. However,...
The US ballistic missile defence policy in the Baltic and Nordic regions
... missile defense], available at: http://www.belvpo.com/ru/32388.html (accessed 10.09.2015).
3. Konishev V. N., Sergunin A. A. 2014, Voennaja bezopasnost' Arktiki [Military security of the Arctic], Nacional'nye interesy: prioritety i bezopasnost' [National interests priorities and safety], p. 56—64, available at: http://ormvd.ru/pubs/15530 (accessed 12.07.2014).
4. Gensek NATO privetstvuet reshenie Niderlandov osnastit' sudna radarami [The NATO Secretary General welcomes the decision by the Netherlands ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... article examines Sweden’s and Finland’s motives for ending their long-time non-aligned policies and joining NATO after Russia had launched a special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. The two countries’ decision is shown to be in the interest of the United States, which has always sought to fill the geopolitical vacuum reigning after the collapse of the opposing Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union itself. Finland and Sweden were the missing links for Washington and NATO in the Baltic ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... place for the researchers and admirers of Kantian philosophy), a memorial plaque on the site of the philosopher’s house, a memorial plaque with quotes from Kant and a Kant bench at the World Ocean Museum. The late 1980s-early 1990s witnessed a growing interest in Kant from Kaliningrad intellectuals. At the beginning of the 21st century, the philosopher’s name and image were integrated into tourist narratives and practices. In 2016, Tsentralny Island in Kaliningrad was officially renamed Kant Island....
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... rational resource management and enables timely corrective actions.
The study of both domestic and foreign literature, including the examples provided in these sources [3], [6], has led to the recognition of the significant scientific and practical interest in adopting a systemic approach to analyze port activities using multiple criteria. This interest stems from the recognition of the maritime coastline’s substantial resource and communication potential within the complex geopolitical environment ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... 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 have ...
The teacher’s interest as a phenomenon and concept
This article stresses that the teacher’s interest as a phenomenon is a unity of both the objective, which - being the meaningful component – serves as the focus of attention, and the subjective, which reveals the teacher’s motives for ducation and training activities. As a concept, the teacher’s ...
Political interests in the context of political diversity in the Russian Federation
This article addresses the problem of the realisation of political interests in the Russian Federation in the context of political diversity stipulated in the Constitution. The author distinguishes the social groups of political process actors, analyses their current state, and formulates the problems and possibilities ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... regions. Helping identify different types of region-building relations, regionalisation processes and regions, functional differences in the activities of actors and geo-space properties for the basis of the social regionalisation typology. Of special interest are transboundary regions and, therefore, transboundary geo-adaptational and geopolitical relations [5]. The Baltic region, which is the focus of this study, instantiates a ‘testing ground’ of such typology, which will be considered below....
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... cross-industry fishing sector, which accounted for 12 % of the country’s fish and seafood catch and 33 % of the region’s industrial output. The crisis also affected machine engineering, which, comprising 28 % of industrial production, primarily served the interests of the fishing sector and the military [20].
Located in the western part of the USSR, the Kaliningrad region was one of the USSR’s strongholds. It housed one of the bases of the Baltic Fleet, numerous garrisons, and military airfields. The ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... Denmark endeavoured to make a contribution that would make it stand out amongst the US-led allies, no matter how much these efforts exhausted the country’s defence capabilities.
A study of Denmark’s track record fits the context of growing research interest in investigating the strategic culture of medium-sized and small states striving to fill a distinctive unique niche in the international system [5]. Another area of interest is the militarisation of the country’s foreign policy after the end ...
The best interests of the child in the context of criminal procedure policy
... of consistency in the identification of Criminal Procedure policy for minors. Reforming the legal status of minors in criminal proceedings could be more effective in the case of a system-forming basis.
The international legal principle of the best interests of the child could be the foundation of the criminal procedure policy for minors, ensure the systematic development of the Criminal Procedure Law, and contribute to combating crime. The study of implementing the principle requires the application ...
Kant and His Heritage in Belarusian Philosophy of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
... ideas, the analysis, polemic and occasionally sharp criticism of these ideas. It is helpful now to look at Kantian studies beginning from the 1920s to the present time. I will show that immediately after the October 1917 revolution and until the 1930s interest in Kant’s teaching was waning. When they turned to his ideas during that period Belarusian authors described and analysed them primarily in textbooks or when examining, or rather criticising, the views of Western philosophers, thereby rigidly ...
Foreign lobbying as an instrument of defense cooperation between Poland and the United States
... military cooperation with the United States, regarding it as a jumping board to accelerating its economic and technological development. This article examines a mechanism underlying defence cooperation between the US and Poland, i.e. lobbying Poland’s interests in another state. This allows Warsaw to actively promote its interests in the US. The research methodology employed includes the periodisation of Polish lobbying activities in the US and an empirical study of lobbying based on analysis of original ...
The alignment of stakeholders’ interests in interfirm networking
... solutions and approaches to management. The development of network society suggests a transition to management in the conditions of growing market turbulence and interdependence of market actors. Therefore, the ability of managers to align the diverse interests of stakeholders — groups, organizations, and individuals that affect or may be affected by the organization's actions — appears to be crucial for its success. It raises a number of management issues, which require resolution both in theory ...
The “personal-social” antinomy as a mechanism for analysing and assessing pedagogical studies on developing cognitive interests in cadets
Using the “personal-social” antinomy, the author analyses the results of a historical and pedagogical reconstruction of the 1960s— 80s theoretical and practical studies on the development of cognitive interests in cadets within the training process at military schools. The analysis helps to identify the conditions for critical and creative application of these results in humanising the system of military education in modern Russia.
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The Emerald Network of areas of special conservation interest
The article focuses on the scientific and practical conditions for the development of the Emerald network of areas of special conservation interest in Russia. The authors examine the role of biological reserves in conserving rare and endemic animal and plant species, including those of European significance. The article stresses the need to create a geoecological framework of a territory....
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... will have to return all funds belonging to Russia. The Commission proposes to split the decision on the use of Russian assets into two stages.
In the first stage, the Commission proposes to invest the assets of the Central Bank of Russia to generate interest income, which can be directed towards Ukrainian reconstruction. In the future, after a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and the lifting of restrictive measures, Russian assets will be returned to Russia. However, the EU believes ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... overview at both the national and regional levels. An analysis of representative data provided by official religious and non-religious organizations is necessary.
In practice, studying the experience of European countries and borrowing it is of great interest for involving the capabilities and resources of religious organizations in the development of Russian regions that have similar social, demographic, and religious characteristics.
Denmark is an example of a Northern European country, where 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
... social specifics of the Old Believer community in the Northwestern region were examined. Special attention was given to the complex relations between the state authorities and the official church with the Old Believers in the Northwestern region. The interest in this topic is linked to the study of the role and place of the Old Believer community in the system of ethnic and religious relations that developed in the Northwestern region during its incorporation into the Russian Empire. The role of the ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... towns, irrespective of their municipal structure. Numerous studies concentrate on the settlement systems of the two regions and the geodemographic characteristics of their municipalities [7], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]. With the heightened state interest in ensuring food security, there are relatively detailed statistics available for the agriculture sector. This is the only segment of the municipal economy for which Rosstat publishes data for all enterprises, not just the large and medium ones....
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... results show that, firstly, the regions of Northwest Russia are connected within the framework of the national system of scientific knowledge redistribution. Regional actors perform R&D on external requests and act as purchasers of projects on topics of interest. The regions have more R&D performed than commissioned, which reflects the high level of their research and technological development. However, in some cases, it can indicate the ignorance of regional organizations about localized competencies ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... democracy and the ‘open door’ policy of NATO, combined with the strengthening of its eastern flank in military terms. Russia perceived this policy of the West as a manifestation of the U.S. and Western expansion at the expense of its legitimate security interests. Russia was particularly opposed to Ukraine’s attempts to join NATO [18].
Following the commencement of the special military operation (SMO), by November 2022, the West viewed the “victory of Ukraine... as quite possible, provided that the ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... out by Moscow scholars [3], [5], [11], [24], [25], etc. The core-periphery dynamics in rural areas have been studied extensively by international scholars [19], [21], [22], [27], etc.
Researchers of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region may find of interest the works of Lithuanian authors [20], [23], [28], etc. The settlement system in Lithuania bears similarities to that of Kaliningrad, with comparable processes governing the organisation of agricultural production. The influence of the unified ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
For several decades, EU-Russian regional cooperation helped effectively respond to the local challenges. The EU terminated programmes for regional cooperation with Russia and Belarus in 2022. The existing paradiplomatic structure, however, may be of interest to scholars and policymakers as a model to be reproduced by Russia in cooperation with non-EU neighbours. The study aims to identify the main trends in paradiplomacy by examining Russian-Finnish regional collaboration. It reviews theoretical ...
Callus cultures of Spergularia marina (L.) Griseb.: obtaining and phytochemical analysis
In recent decades, interest in halophyte plants has increased due to their high content of biologically active substances with powerful antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antitumor properties and promising for the prevention of various diseases. Several species ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... it did contribute to legitimating Estonia’s Northern European identity. Aldis Purs notes that few observers ‘register[ed] Ilves’s attempts at humour within the speech’, but ‘[h]is suggestion ... set off a long-lasting debate’ [6, р. 10].
Interestingly, if one pursues a closer investigation of the Estonian leadership’s political rhetoric, the identity escapism discussed above will lead them into a paradox: if the Baltics do not exist as a single entity, why does Ilves, just like many ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... services due to the competition of businesses. In Kabardino-Balkaria, the value is below 22 % due to poor infrastructure development, a high proportion of rural residents in remote mountain settlements, and the spread of shadow businesses that are not interested in using digital technologies, including Internet banking. Online delivery is less developed in most regions of the North Caucasus, in many regions with a large proportion of the elderly population (Ryazan, Oryol, Lipetsk, and Ulyanovsk regions),...
‘Polish Question’ in Lithuania and Problems of Polish-Lithuanian Relations at the Turn of the Century
... partnership has been complicated by disagreements and mutual claims. The main problem is the situation of the correspondent ethnic minorities in the two countries: Poles in Lithuania and Lithuanians in Poland. According to the Polish authorities, the interests of Lithuania’s Polish residents are not safeguarded, and their rights are infringed. Similar complaints are voiced by Vilnius regarding the situation of ethnic Lithuanians in Poland. These contradictions are partly smoothed by common political ...
Geography of "digital footprints" of Kaliningrad citizens in the border regions of Poland and Lithuania: results of content analysis
... in the accumulation of huge amounts of digital data that enables quantitative assessment of various social processes. This article uses data on Internet search user queries in the border region, namely the Kaliningrad region of Russia, to assess the interest of its inhabitants in establishing local cross-border links with the border regions of Poland and Lithuania. The data source is the Yandex. Wordstat open service, which displays statistics and geography of queries in the Yandex search engine....
Report of the Roundtable “The Relevance of Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy”
This report of the roundtable that took place on 25 November 2021 at The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) attempts to explain the obvious growth of interest in Neo-Kantian philosophy in general and the philosophy of the head of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, Hermann Cohen, in particular. In their contributions, the participants in the discussion demonstrated that the current interest in Neo-Kantianism ...
Narrative in structure of genre: A.I. Kuprin’s “Four beggars” ..... 15 Babenko N.G., Koreshkova E.K. Functional analysis of the linguistic reflection in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s “Justification of the Island”
The study of narrative within various scientific paradigms is determined by the narration interest to an event in the life of an individual and society. Epic narrative genres are characterized by a consistent presentation of the series of events. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of various narratives in a work that reveals ...
Exclavity as a challenge and a resource for foreign positioning of the Kaliningrad region
... economic decisions of the federal authorities using the development trends of the manufacturing industry in the region as an example. The increased potential conflict around the Russian exclave in the Baltic slows down the convergence of regional interests in the socio-economic sphere with the interests of neighboring countries. Intensified relations with other regions of the Russian Federation could make up for the situation. In practice, such intensification is limited in nature, and results ...
Economic and geopolitical aspects of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project (NS 2) along the bottom of the Baltic Sea is aimed to increase gas supply from Russia to Germany and other EU countries. It serves mutual economic interests: the predicted growth in gas demand in the EU markets and the need to strengthen the energy security of the EU. The implementation of the NS 2 project is complicated by the need to allow for the EU energy legislation and by the expanding influence ...
Modern geopolitical research in Russia
... geopolitics examine the combined effect of the properties of territories on the policies of states implemented in them. We stress that most geographical and geopolitical works focus on analysing the geopolitical location of territories, the geopolitical interests of states, and the identification of mechanisms behind the geopolitical vision of the population.
Pototskaya, T. I., Silnichaya, A. V.
10.5922/2079-8555-2019-2-7
112-135
geography, geopolitics, content-analysis, geopolitical location ...
Political technologies and international conflicts in the information space of the Baltic Sea region
... political technologies, which cause instability in the information space, damage the reputations of all the states involved. To reconcile the differences that underlie the information conflict in the Baltic region it is necessary to take into account common interests. There is a pressing need to join efforts in solving the challenging social problems that cannot be overcome without either international cooperation among the countries or effective social partnership.
Kirilenko V. P., Alexeyev G. V.
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Kant’s family ethics and philosophy of love. Part 2. Critique of Judgement
... awareness prevent the encroachment of vital love, as the maxims of ‘barbarian taste’ are being overcome. Aesthetic love — which dwells in the element of sophisticated taste as a capacity to judge with pleasure in matters of beauty, free from any interest, and without the mediation of concepts — appears to be the paramount condition for the possibility of a relationship between the sexes that is ‘compatible with morality’. This is not a restricting, but rather a liberating and affirming ...
Coalition Within a Coalition: The Baltics in the European Union
... create ‘coalitions within coalitions’, essentially acting as free riders and transferring costs and political responsibility for decision-making to larger players. Such an asymmetric strategy makes it possible for small powers to advance their interests within alliances and save resources. The authors test this hypothesis on the behaviour of the Baltics in the European Union. It is demonstrated that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have created a stable small coalition within the EU and actively ...
Geopolitical and Geo-economic Changes in the Baltic Sea Region at the Turn of the XX—XXI centuries
... and Geographical Structure of the Baltic Sea region, Balt. Reg., Vol. 8, no. 3, p. 11—21. doi: 10.5922/2079-8555-2016-3-1.
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11. Pototskaya, T. I. 2014, Geopolitical interests of Russia in the former Soviet Union: Western border, Izvestiya SmolGU, no. 2, p. 293—305. (In Russ.)
12. Pototskaya, T. I. 2013, Geopolitical interests of Russia in the former Soviet Union: Baltic region, Integration Initiatives Analysis ...