Organized crime in Soviet Russia: the paradox of institutionalization. Part two
This article follows the previous publication, which showed the growth of the organized crime in the Soviet period of Russian social history. This part of the article reveals the features of organized criminal activity during the so-called "stagnation period." At the same time, the author emphasizes that the 1980s were ...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
The article discusses a theoretical framework for investigating regionalisation and geopolitical regionalisation, employing the activity-geospatial approach. The main theoretical foci of this study are system-forming, or region-building, socio-geo-adaptation and geopolitical relations. The article examines various types of transboundary and transnational geopolitical regionalisation as manifestos of geopolitical relations. These types are categorised based on scale, functional area, historical and...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... 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 were involved in these processes.<1> Moreover, the challenge of growing global contradictions means that any country or some of its regions in one form or another may be a subject to direct ...
Opportunities for studying cultural landscapes in the Kaliningrad region
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Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
The Kaliningrad region is a socio-economically developed area with a steadily increasing population. Its economy is predominantly influenced by manufacturing industries, whose growth is supported by the region’s strategic geographic position on the Baltic coast and the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) regime. However, the region’s exclave status, which makes it reliant on external factors, hinders its development. Any change in these external factors could necessitate a restructuring of manufacturing...
Assessment of hepatic volume ex vivo by the formulas of the ultrasound volumetry
The article focuses on determination of the liver volume which is an urgent task for clinical medicine. It is directly connected to the need for an objective quantitative assessment of organ size. The complexity of calculating the volume is due to an irregular geometric shape of the organ, which can not be approximated to an ellipse or any other geometric figure. The aim of the study is to ex vivo evaluate the possibilities of measuring ...
The international cooperation ability of management in the strategic potential of an organisation
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Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
This paper examines the transformation of the territorial structure of tourism in Estonia, 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...
The strategic potential of an organisation: A theoretical framework for research
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Inter-organizational networks as seen by western economic sociology: An analysis of theoretical approaches
... approaches to studying interorganizational networks offered in foreign economic sociology. The authors describe main conceptual problems, the key aspects of network form of interorganizational interaction, and embeddedness effects.
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The assessment of research and technical potential in the framework of the innovative model of development of regional economy
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The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
The article explores the impact of geopolitical processes on the spatial organisation of society, a matter that has gained increasing importance in Russia. It focuses on the utilization of the World Ocean and its coastlines for resource extraction, logistics, military-strategic purposes, and settlement. Methodologically, this study combines modern socio-geographical approaches emphasising the role of the maritime factor in spatial development with classical geopolitical ideologemes drawing a line...
In search of a theoretical framework for factors influencing work and life balance
Work-life balance (WLB) has gained noticeable attention amid the pandemic. Yet before the outbreak of COVID-19, the increasing pace of life encouraged investigations into individual and organisational aspects of WLB. Physically and mentally healthy people help society develop and grow, whilst health issues caused by work-life imbalance lead to dissatisfaction with work and life. This discontent results in stress and stress-related illnesses, such as burnout. From the organisational point of view...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... (Lviv) fell within this sphere. With the Soviet annexation of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine in 1939 and the incorporation of the Lithuanian SSR into the Soviet Union in 1940 [22], the eastern regions of present-day Poland were left without major “organizing centres”, although some of them were returned to Poland in 1944 (the Bialystok region of the BSSR together with Bialystok [23]) and 1945 (from the Ukrainian SSR, the city of Przemysl with the adjacent territory, present-day Przemysl in the ...
Contacts with Diasporas and Diaspora Organisations as a Key to a Successful Migrant Integration Policy in the EU
We analyse European Commission and European Parliament documents — directives, communications, conclusions, recommendations — and best practices for EU member states’ international projects focusing on migrant integration in both the EU states and the countries of origin. Special emphasis is placed on the role of diasporas and the efforts taken by the EU to involve them in the integration process. We stress the need for a new supranational EU immigration and integration policy, in view of new...
Organization of passenger transport: сivil law regulations
The article examines the main problems of regulating public relations in the organization of automobile passenger transport as well as contractual obligations of parties ensuring the performance of passenger transportation services within the framework of the civil law. The organization of automobile passenger transportation is ...
Socially efficient entry barriers?
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The impact of changes in dissolved organic carbon concentration in a solution on the sorption of platinum compounds
This article considers the impact of changing dissolved organic carbon concentration in a solution on the sorption of platinum (II), (IV) compounds (K2PtCl4, H2PtCl6) at different soil horizons. The authors prove that even small concentrations of dissolved organic carbon play an important role in platinum ...
The endocrine function organization in flatworms
... the help of adenylate cyclase system, which is peculiar to vertebrates. Endogenous steroids – sex steroids and glycocorticoids
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Migration and the Transformation of Multiethnic Population Structure in the Kaliningrad Region of the Post-Soviet Era
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On the possibility to adopt the historical practice of applying technologies for land fertility increase in Eastern Prussia at agricultural enterprises of the Kaliningrad region
... according to the well-known principles of agricultural science. The authors offer an overview of scientific approaches to the reconstruction and practical application of ideas and principles of progressive agriculture consistent with a more general area of organic agriculture. Special attention is paid to the modern agricultural practice in the territory of the Kaliningrad region — former East Prussia — and the possibilities to use the methods for increasing land fertility that were intensively employed ...
Speech features clinical guidelines for patients
... (leading function — informative); created to encourage patients to take care of their own health, engage in disease prevention — persuasive (leading function — pragmatic); created to attract potential clients to a medical institution, shape the organization’s image, promote medical products and services — advertising (leading function — representational). Based on the analyzed material, recommendations of the first two types are proposed to be grouped together and qualified as an informative-imperative ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
..., as this can vary depending on the local economic development level and the ratio of urban to rural population. In particular, the decline of small businesses is noticeable in regions with high incomes and abundant employment opportunities at large organizations. This trend is also observed in economically challenged peripheral areas characterized by low demand for the products and services provided by small businesses.
Problem Statement
Traditionally, in Russia, the differences in the level ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... post-socialist countries, whose common features are observed in all sets of main characteristics. Several subtypes are described as well. The research draws on 2010—2019 (2020) statistical data from the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
Introduction
The research and technological component is an integral part of the global production systems (GPS) and its scientific ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
Current geoeconomic and geopolitical transformations project on Russian society and its spatial organisation, highlighting the problems of spatial socioeconomic development and its governmental regulation. This article examines the theoretical and applied aspects of the incorporation into the national regional policy of the sea factor, understood as a combination of location and resources, which is determined by a country’s jurisdiction over coasts and waters, its maritime activities and coastalisation...
Impact of remigration on the worksphere under Covid-19: the case of Lithuania
Remigration opens up the opportunity for a country to see the return of its citizens from migration, bringing with them their ideas, knowledge, values and skills. The work sphere is one of the main areas where these social remittances can be used. Still, very little attention is paid to the workplace in social remittance literature. Therefore, the first aim of this article is to explore the types of remigrants’ social remittances, the ways they are transmitted and their acceptance in the work sphere...
The Emergence of Onto-Gnoseology among Russian Intuitivists as Criticism of Neo-Kantianism
... onto-gnoseological categorial apparatus were mainly connected with the criticism of the Neo-Kantian theory of cognition and the possibility of transcendent knowledge as such. The main sources of my study are The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge and The World as an Organic Whole by N. O. Lossky and The Object of Knowledge and The Unknowable by S. L. Frank. My investigation makes it possible to treat Lossky’s categorial framework as the representation of a system of levels of the universe each of which is characterised ...
Legal regime for church property in Russia and the Baltic states
... consider the reasons why the complete transfer (return) of the church property seized in the Soviet period is impossible.
Smorgunova V. Yu., Dorskaia A. A., Tolstukhina T.V.
10.5922/2079-8555-2018-4-4
60-73
church property, state, religious organization, state budget
Language as a person's achievement and as a self-organizing system
The article explores the basic properties of language as a person’s achievement. The author proceeds from the interpretation of language proposed by L. V. Shcherba and A. A. Zalevskaya, in which language is represented as a socio-personal continuum of linguistic phenomena of different ontology. The purpose of the article is to describe the basic properties of human language as a complex self-organizing system of processes. Active and subjective character of reality and knowledge representation...
Ergonomics and the translation process
The translation process can be regarded as a complex system involving many agents, organizational factors such as workflow, communication processes, project management, job security, and translator status. Environmental factors in the physical sense (e. g. lighting, temperature, air quality, space) as well in the broader sense of the role of translation and translators in the economy and society as a whole can also influence the process. Viewing translation from an ergonomic perspective can provide...
A methodology for analysing an organisation’s innovation potential
This article is devoted to the urgent issue of analyzing the innovative potential of an organisation’s employees. The study aims to develop a methodology for identifying the potential at the level of enterprises. The author presents an original method for assessing the innovative potential of an organisation’s employees and a mechanism of its identification. The most significant factors affecting the innovation potential of personnel are as follows: the availability of resources for innovation...
Protection of steel from corrosion and hydrogen absorption by organic inhibitors: experimental and quantum-chemical studies
... of hydrogen along the depth of steel by means of standard Gaussian function made it possible to establish the integral hydrogen content of the sub-layer (up to 80 μm) with high degree of accuracy. The efficiency of protective actions of the studied organic compounds against corrosion and hydrogen absorption by steel were compared with the data of quantum chemical computations performed for isolated molecules of the studied inhibitors with the help of the MNDO method. The results obtained point to
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The concept of open innovations and a study into the strategic potential of organisations
... Management Review (Spring). 2008. Vol. 49, № 3. P. 43—51.
16. Gans J., Hsu D., Stern S. When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Ctale of Creative Destruction? // RAND Journal of Economics. 2002. Vol. 33, № 6.
Chuikin A. M.
strategic potential of organizations, sustainable competitive advantages,
open innovation business model
32-41
Kant and medicine
... philosophischen Grundlagen der modernen Medizin. Stuttgart ; N. Y., 1982.
22. Tsouyopoulos N. Die Neue Auffassung der klinischen Medizin als Wissenschaft unter dem Einfluß der Philosophie im frühen 19. Jahrhundert // Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Organ der Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte e. V.), hrsg. von F. Krafft. Bd. 1. Wiesbaden, 1978. S. 87—100.
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The Kaliningrad Region as a Potential Coastal Transport Cluster
The coastal regions of Russia, which ensure the country’s major export/import transactions, have potential for developing special forms of spatial organisation of regional transport system – transport clusters. This form of spatial organisation is better adapted (in comparison to a transport complex) to the ever-changing conditions of a competitive market. It suggests that all business entities of the territory interact thus increasing the competitiveness of transport cluster as a whole. The...
The innovative process in the Baltic Sea region
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Mäkinen Hanna
10.5922/2079-8555-2012-3-5
55-65
Baltic Sea region, competitiveness,...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... that religious institutions have on cultural, socio-economic, and political processes. Traditional Christian denominations continue to predominate in Europe, despite the secular trends, observed especially among the indigenous population. Religious organizations not only own and manage religious and cultural infrastructure in residential areas, but they are also characterized by the active implementation of social responsibility [1], [2]. Moreover, there are examples of countries and regions where ...
You know how to speak, be able to listen! Inefficiency of communication as a result of violation of the principle of active listening
The issue of the effectiveness of speech communication is considered, which is largely determined by the adequacy / inadequacy of verbal and non-verbal behavior of communicants, as well as the problem of organizing dialogical interaction as a process of social, communicative, and discursive nature. The research aims to identify the essential characteristics of active listening techniques used in organizing verbal communication based on the analysis ...
Development of network business structures in the spatially distributed cluster St. Petersburg-Leningrad region-Kaliningrad region as a tool of interregional interaction
... presence of Saint Petersburg companies with their own brands in the Kaliningrad region. The research covered 33 companies from Saint Petersburg. It was found that in the Kaliningrad region, only eight Saint Petersburg companies, including federal-level organizations, have regional representations, offices, branches, own stores, or dealer centers. Excluding federal-level organizations, this number is five. The financial services sector turned out to be the most represented, while the least represented ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... in Helsinki since 2017. The right to participate in it is granted to member countries of the European Union and NATO. After Finland and Sweden become NATO members, the role of the North Atlantic Alliance in the functioning of this formally European organization will increase. The competence of this centre includes countering threats that are non-military in nature but directly affecting the security of various countries. They include activities in the information and psychological sphere, active ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... disappeared, and there is now an apparent ‘anti-Russian front’ led by the United States, NATO, and the EU.
According to a survey conducted online in 53 countries worldwide in the spring of 2023 by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by the former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen), the ratio of positive and negative assessments of Russia is as follows: in Poland (– 68 %),<6> in Denmark (– 57 %), in Sweden (– 55 %), in Germany (– ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... the interactions between individuals, digital technologies, and geographical space. Moreover, it delves into the resulting changes in the role of geographical location within the digital realm, shedding light on emerging patterns in the territorial organization of the information society.
The increasing number of digital world studies is associated with the development of geoinformatics (geographical informatics, geomatics, geocomputer science, computer geography, or comgeography [4]). This research ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
The article analyses the challenges associated with the development of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region. The author analyses trends in the development of agriculture, population dynamics, and settlement patterns, while also exploring their interconnectedness and external impacts. The research draws upon comparative-geographical, economic-statistical, and cartographic analyses utilizing official statistical data. The study reveals that since the early 2000s, agricultural production in the Kaliningrad...
New integration practices of mathematics education into university digital educational environment for pre-service teacher training
The need for integration and digitization in the field of mathematical education for bachelor students in pedagogical disciplines is being actualized during the transition from the SPOD (Stable, Predictable, Orderly, and Democratic) world to the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world. The directions for modernization and integration in the teaching of modules and disciplines in the mathematical and information cycles under the conditions of digitization of mathematical education...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
The primary objective of the article is to evaluate the significance of status and allied reputation within Denmark’s strategic culture. Amongst Danish international relations scholars, there is a well-established notion that one of the key motivations for the use of military force in Danish foreign policy was the aspiration to cultivate special relations with the United States and achieve the status of a privileged ally. This status would confirm guarantees for Denmark’s national security, provide...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... schedule of having one session per year.<19> The intensity in BA/BCM activity at that time reflected nervousness in the Baltic countries caused by a multi-stage, albeit standard, assessment of their application by the EU. The BA agenda of the events organized was not diverse and was dominated by such topics as the regional security strategy, the common regional gas and electricity market, the implementation of the Rail Baltica project (a project for a railway connection of the Baltic countries with ...
Cultural types and the perception of current environmental risks by local communities of the Baltic Sea region
This work presents findings from research into the relationship between the structural organisation and cultural attitudes of local communities in the Baltic Sea region and the way they perceive environmental risks. The response of the Kaliningrad community to the development of a local potassium and magnesium salt mine is used as an illustration. The article deals with how local communities perceive the image of risks formed and reproduced via various communication channels. The structural context...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
In the Club of Rome report Come on! Capitalism, Short-Termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (2018) Kant, along with other “old” Enlighteners, is presented as the father of a world-view which led to the destabilisation of the environment in which humanity exists. The authors of the report argue that the “old Enlightenment” with its individualism, faith in the market and a consumerist attitude to nature should be scrapped. I maintain that this assessment of Kant’s philosophy...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... assessment and reveals trends in efficiency. Olga Komarevtseva [32] uses DEA to assess the intensity of the link between the financial and social efficiency of municipalities in the Orel region. The methods can also be employed to assess the efficiency of organizations, using financial indicators of financial and economic performance rather than focusing solely on the amount of resources expended or outputs [33]. Aliya Alimkhanova and Artur Mitsel emphasise the applicability of DEA to assessing efficiency ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... that since the 2000s, maritime transport has played a decisive role, accounting for up to 60% of all cargo transportation in conducting export-import operations. The significance of the effective functioning of a port as a connecting element in the organization of export-import operations, enabling the growth of various sectors of the economy, has long been recognized. As mentioned in the study [10], the “maritime factor,” traditionally considered in the context of various aspects, is an important ...