International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... Russian history: the Grand Embassy of Peter the Great, the battles of the Seven Years’, Napoleonic, First World and other wars. The area abounds with sites commemorating the final events of the Second World War in Europe, particularly the Red Army offensive of autumn 1944 — spring 1945. The past of East Prussia is inextricably linked to German, Polish and Lithuanian history. Despite the destruction wrought by the war and the complex fate of the local monuments, most of them survived the Soviet ...
The Amber Industry: Development Сhallenges and Combating Amber Trafficking in the Baltic Region
..., Criminalistic characteristics of illicit trafficking in amber, Rossiiskii sledovatel' [Russian Investigator], no. 12, p. 5—7. (in Russ.)
11. Art. 7.5 "Unauthorized extraction of amber". Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses No. 195-FZ of December 30, 2001 (as amended on July 29, 2012) (as amended and supplemented, effective from 06.08.2017). (in Russ.)
12. About the statement of the Order of reference of unique amber formations to precious stones: The governmental ...
August 1914: the tragedy of the 72nd infantry division in East Prussia
The article examines the course and outcome of the operations of the 1st Russian Army during the second stage of the East Prussian offensive in August 1914. The author used the example of an infantry division to analyse its combat operations in the battles in East Prussia and its disbandment following the operation. The failure of the Russian invasion to Germany at the beginning ...
Redeployment of the 3rd Belorussian front troops on the eve of the Samland Offensive of 1945
This article describes the final stage of the East-Prussian Offensive of 1945. Particular attention is paid to the problem of redeployment of the 3rd Belorussian Front forces to create the necessary conditions for defeating the enemy during the Battle of Königsberg and the follow-on front mission on the Samland ...
On the periodisation of the battle for East Prussia in 1944—1945
This article considers the problematic issue of the prehistory of the Kaliningrad region. The author analyses different approaches to the periodisation of the East Prussian offensive, delimits the periods of its stages and determines the date of the termination of the operation.
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истории Восточной Пруссии. Калининград, 2002.
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Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... Russian Empire, were only marginally involved in military conflicts with Prussia (the German-Prussian state). However, in both the First and Second World Wars, Lithuania’s territory (as part of the Russian Empire and later the USSR) became the target of offensive operations by the German army, leading to subsequent occupation. In May 1939, under intense pressure from the Third Reich, the Klaipeda (Memel) region was separated from the official possessions of Kaunas. In contrast, the USSR ensured the return ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... which has long lost its aggressiveness and shifted to defence, being closed from the sea and having surrounded all its cities with high stone ramparts, embodied the idea of the border in its famous Great Wall. Since on its left flank, Russia was the offensive side, it is clear how erroneous the initiative of our diplomacy was”.
Threats and Factors of Geopolitical Security
Andrey P. Klemeshev
. We believe that a constructivist approach focused on discursive practices is a promising direction for ...
The preventive function of the notary: topical issues
... preventive function of the notaries, some additions should be made to the legislation on notaries, namely, Art. 1 of the Fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the notary, the provision that the main purpose of the notary is to prevent offenses by performing notarial acts, provided for in Art. 35 Fundamentals.
Yaroshenko T.V.
notary, notarial activity, preventive justice, court, mediation, Fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on notaries, Civil Procedure ...
Equipment of Prussian lieges in the State of Teutonic Order in the second half of the XIIIth — XIV centuries (on written sources)
... comparative-historical analysis which defines the kinds and types of Prussian weapons and their subsequent comparison. The research established links between the arsenal of Prussian lieges and politics of the Order and church, who sought to unify both defensive and offensive weapons of Prussian by involving it in the terms «light weapons» and «service by armour» that were regulated by the norms of Kulm charter. This unification identified the functions of Prussians in the Order’s army (defense of borders, ...
Playing with spectres
... a pre-linguistic condition of instinctive drives and the ‘symbolic’ manifested in socially oriented identification and discursive practices. The problem of play at the interface of its interactions is examined in the context of a danger of an ‘offensive of spectres’ against the reality, which can turn the latter in a ‘simulated hyperreality’. The author stresses Kant’s moral rigour in the context of game theory, which is interpreted as an indirect warning against ‘chimeras of imagination’ ...
The problems of exemption from criminal liability for tax offences
... of December 7, 2011 ‘On the Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation’. It is noted that the effectiveness of rules pertaining to the exemption from criminal liability for tax offenses largely depends on the phrasing of the relevant articles of the Criminal Code.
1. Казаков Е. С. Комментарий к федеральному закону от 07.12.2011 № 420-ФЗ «О внесении изменений в ...
The US ballistic missile defence policy in the Baltic and Nordic regions
... authors analyse the internal structure of the US BMD in Europe, stages of its implementation, and its influence on the military equilibrium in the region. Being similar to other regional missile defence systems of the Pentagon, BMD in Europe increases the offensive capabilities of the US armed forces and its allies and in doing so, it stops performing a purely defensive mission declared by Washington. It is stressed that the deployment of mobile sea- and land-based BMD elements in the Baltic Sea region ...