The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... political communication, such as awareness campaigns, has been shown to have a number of deficiencies: inconsistency of the decisions made and excessive politicisation [24]. Spanish researchers have proposed an original quantitative model for assessing the lockdown effectiveness, which made it possible to determine the amount of GDP that would have been saved had the lockdown been imposed earlier [25]. Southeast Asia’s Covid response policy has been examined by Singaporean experts by analysing local coronavirus ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... audience, leading to the acceptance of broadcasted opinions and specific behavioural patterns. Consequently, educational and propaganda discourses in the media were strategically directed towards influencing people’s behaviour, including compliance with lockdown measures, social distancing, wearing masks, and opting for vaccination.
The context of any pandemic is marked by stress, panic and uncertainty. The results of a significant number of studies show that people’s awareness of risks is the main ...
Disease control and border lockdown at the EU’s internal borders during Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Finland
The article discusses the lockdown of the EU’s internal borders during the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. Special attention is paid to bordering as a means of disease control and the governments’ aim to “protect the population and secure functions of society”. Not only ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
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A large body of research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism has accumulated to date. In the first year of the pandemic, studies focused mainly on the losses incurred by the global tourism industry amid border crossing restrictions and lockdowns [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]; in the second and third years, publications increasingly focused on changes in the amount and direction of international tourist flows began to appear.
Notable works have been published covering the situation in ...
COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: information campaign, media, society
... Television Production and Consumption in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic — The Case of Germany, Baltic Screen Media Review, № 8 (1), p. 30—34,
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32. Lemenager, T., Neissner, M., Koopmann, A. et al. 2020, COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions and Online Media Consumption in Germany, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18 (1), № 14,
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010014
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33. Link, E. 2021, Information avoidance during health crises: ...
Toil, Passion, Serendipity, Money, and Marketing: a Fresh Look at Agents of Translation
... Country’s Reputation for Health Leadership?
Foreign Affairs
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brazil-pandemic-pariah [Accessed 5 May 2021].
Pocock, E., 2020. Harry Potter Series A U. K. Lockdown “Bestseller” Says Bloomsbury.
Forbes
, July 21. Available at:
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Rodrigues, A. H. and ...
Adaptation of laboratory work for undergraduate students of the «Information Security» direction of Physics and Mathematics Institutes to the conditions of lockdown
... laboratory work in a remote format in technical disciplines, during the pandemic, through the development and use of automated information systems in the form of training programs and software simulators.
Vetrov I. A., Pyanov S. I.
pandemic, lockdown, laboratory work, information security, training program, software simulator
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The labour market of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave amid Covid-19
... oblast’ v novykh koordinatakh Baltiiskoi geopolitiki [Kaliningrad region in the new coordinates of the Baltic geopolitics], Kaliningrad, IKBFU Publishing, p. 189—221 (in Russ.).
Yemelyanova L. L., Lyalina A. V.
10.5922/2079-8555-2020-4-4
61-82
great lockdown, Covid-19, pandemic, migration, labour market, unemployment, migrant workers, Kaliningrad region, Russia
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... Kaliningraders, which predetermined rapid growth and high peaks of morbidity, the dependence of the economy on external links, and the collapse of cooperative ties. External and internal pandemic-related restrictions, complicated logistics and, especially, lockdowns and the ensuing drop in consumer demand disrupted operations in the automotive industry, electronics, and many branches of the service sector. Foreign engineers and workers could not come to Kaliningrad, which caused delays in the implementation ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... The difference between regions in terms of access to the Internet is twofold, whereas, in terms of digital technology use, the gap is manifold. In many regions, the share of online commerce, which became the driver of economic development during the lockdown, is minimal. Based on the results of the study, several recommendations have been formulated.
Introduction
Over the past few decades, there has been an active diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT),<1> in particular,...
Active derivational models of the Russian language based on the «Corona» vocabulary
... Russian language (stem composition and suffixes for nouns; prefixes for adjectives) and are the result of word-building play. The purpose of such units is to focus on current social problems, reflect on the attitude to the problem of the pandemic and lockdown, and also have an emotional impact on the addressee.
1. Буцева Т. Н., Зеленин А. В. Лексикография в ситуации неологического экстрима (на материале неолексики,...
Work-life balance during the Covid-19 outbreak: the case of Latvia
This paper aims to shed light on work-life balance in Latvia during the state of emergency. The Covid-19 outbreak has led many governments to introduce lockdowns. While imposed restrictions may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may also result in substantial damage to population well-being. The Covid-19 outbreak in Latvia demonstrates the extent and ways in which socio-demographics factors ...