The coastal factor in spatial development programmes for the municipalities of the Kaliningrad region
... both the growing cities of the Kaliningrad agglomeration and areas of low population density, the latter located primarily along the bays. These circumstances determine what effect the coastal factor has on the socio-economic development of a certain municipality in the Kaliningrad region. We believe that the municipalities that use this factor to a limited degree do not fully realise the potential of their geographical location. Alongside employing other development resources, it is logical for ...
Municipal Tax Autonomy under Conditions of Budget Federalism: Reform Experience in Italy and Russia
The article deals with the questions of the current legislative budget process of local autonomies in the Russian Federation and Italy. The current
budget process of an Italian autonomy is characterized by the growing role of municipal taxes and overall decline in public transfers. In the Russian Federation, municipal budgets depend crucially on the mechanism of federal and municipal tax redistribution at this stage of municipal reform. The author comes to the conclusion that ...
Municipal development in modern Russia: a geopolitical aspect
The modern transformation of the world order and Russia's new place in it, which generates additional problematic situations and challenges for the country, initiate the "municipalization" of approaches both in socio-geographical, regional studies, and in the field of state regulation of spatial development. In the municipal theme itself, at the same time, issues related to geopolitics come to the fore. The article ...
On the dynamics of economic activity and its impact on the budgetary stability of municipalities of the Kaliningrad region
Municipalities of the Kaliningrad region are increasingly differentiated in the pace and nature of their socio-economic development in the paradigm of the center-peripheral model. The economic center and the coastal zone bordering on it are increasingly ...
The methodology of assessing the strategic competitiveness of municipalities: an integral approach (the case of the Kaliningrad region)
The authors present a methodology for assessing the competitiveness of municipalities on the basis of an integrated approach. The validity of the method of integrated assessment of the competitiveness of municipalities is demonstrated in the case of the Kaliningrad region. The authors use a complex of statistical data on ...
On trends in the development of cross-border cooperation in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation
... approved within three cross-border cooperation projects over the past ten years. I focus on the projects that were successfully completed by the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University — a key actor in cooperation. I examine collaborations between municipalities on either side of the border when preparing and running projects under cross-border cooperation programmes. I classify the municipalities of the Kaliningrad region by their involvement in the projects and try to explain why a certain ...
Geographical factors as a principle of strategic planning of municipal entities
This articles deals with the generally accepted principles that should be used by the developers of strategic documents as guidelines. The author pays particular attention to the geographical factors explaining their importance for the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad region and comes to the conclusion that strategic planning of the development of municipal entities should be based on the geographical features of territory that are prevalent in determining the course of economic ...
Innovation centres as growth points for smaller towns and rural areas
This article addresses the role of innovative centres in the development of surrounding areas beyond large cities. At the same time, the innovative development of rural areas should be of a composite nature; municipality development strategies take innovations into account. International practices serve as a an argument in favour of establishing innovative centres in smaller and medium-sized towns in order to facilitate the socioeconomic development of the ...
Twin cities: a new form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region?
... in Russian political studies to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the “twin city” movement as a form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic region. This phenomenon emerged as a result of a global tendency towards more active involvement of municipal units in international cooperation, on the one hand, and aspirations of frontier cities and towns in the Baltic region to solve common problems together, on the other hand. This work is based on a comparative analysis method and a case study ...
Determination of students personality type and its impact on the quality of learning
The article presents the results of a study on the influence of students’ personality types on the quality of education, based on the example of the “Public and Municipal Administration” degree program. The study proposed and tested a hypothesis regarding the statistically significant relationship between a student’s professional personality type and their educational outcomes. To assess students’ professional ...
Innovative development of rural settlements of the Leningrad region
... is to assess the existing differences between the rural and urban population in the provision of banking, public, information and communication services as the basis for activating the innovation process. The study is carried out on urban and rural municipalities of the Leningrad region. Special attention is paid to the spatial factor in concentration of service renders. It is revealed that there is a significant gap in innovation susceptibility both between urban and rural settlements, and within ...
Legal Regulation of Disposition of Property Assigned to State and Municipal Unitary Enterprise
The article analyses some legal regulation problems concerning the disposition of property, assigned to them, by state and municipal unitary enterprises, including the current tendency towards the limitation of unitary enterprises’ authority in this field, which is reflected in the Law on Competition Protection.
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Some Aspects of Development of Law on Competition Protection in terms of Exploitation of Property in State and Municipal Ownership
This article analyses the issues of legal regulation in the framework of concluding contracts on the disposition of state and municipal property and considers the opportunities of improving antimonopoly legislation in the given field.
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Some problems of applying competition protection legislation to transactions related to the disposal of property of public and municipal unitary enterprises
This article analyses certain problems of legal regulation in the field of agreements on the disposal of property of public and municipal unitary enterprises. The authors consider the ways to improve the corresponding legislation.
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Assessment of transport accessibility of rural territories of the Kaliningrad region using methods of sociological research
... result, the rural population expects a high-quality transport infrastructure and an efficiently functioning public transport network. Using sociological tools, the authors analyze the degree of satisfaction of the rural population from the eastern municipalities of the Kaliningrad region with a current public transport network and the quality of transport services provided. The findings led to the conclusion that the existing passenger management system satisfies most of the respondents. At the ...
Territorial Public Self-government (TPGS) as a form of local self-organization of the population
... that in the Kaliningrad region, a modern wave of TPSG formation began in 2017, with the number of TPSGs increasing from 3 to 56 between 2020 and 2024. At present, there is a high density of TPSGs (number per 10,000 inhabitants) in rural and peripheral municipalities. Furthermore, for most peripheral municipalities in the Kaliningrad region, a high level of TPSG presence correlates strongly with a significant number of socially oriented non-profit organizations (SONPOs).
Gumenyuk I. S., Kudryavtseva ...
Ethno-cultural aspects of arctic specificity in socio-economic development strategies of regions and municipalities of the Russian Federation Arctic Zone
... addresses the integration of ethnocultural aspects of the Arctic issues concerning the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Russian Far East (ISNP) into the socio-economic development strategies (SEDS) of the regions and municipalities within the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF). The study is based on the authors' methodology for content analysis of strategies, which enables the identification of the presence of various Arctic-specific topics in the texts....
Genesis of the concept of “unclaimed land share” in Russian legislation
... legal regime of unclaimed land shares and improvement of its efficiency: procedural improvement to recognize land shares as unclaimed and the criteria for classifying them as such; regulation of the extrajudicial transfer of unclaimed land shares into municipal ownership; establishment of a term for the right to recognize unclaimed land shares as municipal property; use of the legal mechanism for recognizing ownership of unclaimed land shares as ownerless; limitation of the period of use of the legal ...
The legal regime of information systems in Russian agriculture
... the information infrastructure and show that agriculture lacks a single information infrastructure. Further, I review existing classifications of information systems and the types of information provisions using such systems. I consider national and municipal information system as a means to provide state and municipal services and as a regulatory practice and examine the possibility of classifying information systems as a source of law.
1. Амелин Р. В. Правовой режим государственных ...
Some problems of the procedure of recognising a citizen as a person with low income for the purpose of providing accommodation in the framework of a social rent contract
The law of the Kaliningrad region On the Procedure of Recognising a Citizen as a Person with Low Income for the Purpose of Providing Municipal Accommodation in the Framework of a Social Rent Contract serves as a basis for the consideration of issues of introducing a mechanism of assessing the level of a citizen’s income and the value of their property for the purpose of recognising ...
The development of municipal authorities' financial independence
This article examines the results of municipal reform, analyses the budgetary policy of the Kaliningrad region, and identifies the problems of formation of local budget revenues. The author described the methods to improve budgetary policy, which could level the differences in economic and ...
Settlement system of the Kaliningrad region: dasymetric analysis
... demonstrated using GIS tools. Areas of the highest population concentration within the region, coinciding with the agglomeration's influence territory, have been identified. A decrease in population density to the east of Kaliningrad is also shown. For the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad region, the area and density of inhabited territories have been calculated. Dasymetric analysis has revealed areas of compact placement of rural settlements, aligning with the designated government rural agglomerations....
Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
The article is devoted to studying the territorial patterns of the formation of an innovative space and ensuring innovation security at a municipal level. The geography of the study covers the municipalities of the Rostov region. The analysis of some indicators of innovative activity characterizing the level of provision of residents and small and medium-sized businesses of municipalities ...
Transformation of the settlement system in the Kaliningrad region
... 1,068 settlements in the region (excluding cities and urban-type settlements) and their transport and geographical position resulte in conclusions on the state of the settlement system both in the region as a whole and in the context of individual municipalities. The main conclusion is that the relatively small size of the region and high transport connectivity (along with a high level of economic development) generally smooth out negative socio-demographic processes, making the gap between agglomeration ...