Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... the location and combination of its elements — settlements (nodes) and transport links (lines) — and the interaction between them. Each TSFS has a main city, which is the core that performs the function of political administration, concentrates people, industries, and resources. Additionally, there are linear elements comprising thoroughfares, with roads and railways being the most important ones. As Pavel Polyan wrote in 1988, ‘economic and social development is increasingly displaying tendencies ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... 2021 data were collected online, through phone interviews with either a citizen calling a special line or census takers (pol. — rachmistrzów spisowych) calling a citizen, as well as through face-to-face interviews conducted by enumerators visiting people’s homes. Thus, the NSP 2021 data appear to be complete and reliable, allowing for an objective assessment of the current geodemographic processes in Poland.
Statistics Poland (Główny Urząd Statystyczny, hereinafter referred to as GUS) published ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... Researchers note that citizens have a request for morale in politics, which creates the potential for value-based agreement between authorities and society. Moral principles and norms ensure the cohesion of society; they prevent the alienation of people from authorities and increase their motivation to participate in social life [2, p. 44—46].
According to [3, p. 50—56], reputation reflects the population's attitudes towards authorities and serves as a source of power. A strong reputation ...
“Russian people” in the literature and documents of the 19th century: an experience of linguistic portraiture
The article describes the ideologeme “Russian people” and its use in the texts of fiction and documentary literature of the 19th century. The authors explored both the socio-political concept “'Russian people” and its verbalization in Russian. The research material included examples from the ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
This article offers a new approach to evaluating the significance of cross-border tourism for residents of the border region of Karelia amid COVID-19 restrictions. The work draws on data of a municipal-level survey of the region’s population (575 people), conducted by the author in collaboration with Dr Ekaterina Shlapeko in 2021. Analysis of the survey results has confirmed the customariness of cross-border tourist mobility for the Karelians and the essential role it plays in their lives. These ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... and the need to change between modes of transport. The nature and climate of one’s region of origin may produce opposite effects: a migrant might strive to move to an area with similar or, on the contrary, entirely different conditions. Moreover, people may have very dissimilar ideas of these conditions. During our expeditions to Russia’s North and Far East, we often encountered the opinion that one has to move to a place with a similar climate. This consideration was cited by residents of Sakhalin ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... Firstly, the region is characterized by a developed industry and a high level of human capital potential, making it one of the most developed international areas [29]. Secondly, five out of the ten countries in the region were previously part of the “people’s democracy” or the Soviet Union, and therefore share similarities in their development paths with the Russian Federation. Thirdly, the countries in the region have a long history of economic ties and relations that extend beyond the four freedoms ...
The concept “people” in the Cadet Party rhetoric
The article considers the interpretation of the concept “people” by the Constitutional Democratic Party supporters. This concept is of fundamental importance for the analysis of Cadet ideology. The concept “people” was of great political value for the Cadet party. The author correlates this concept with ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... witnessed an increase in the rural population, with the growth rate reaching 0.89 % in 2022. This rise is attributed to migrants from other, mostly eastern and northern, regions of the country, as well as from the CIS.
Despite this growth, the number of people employed in agriculture rapidly declined in the region from the mid-2000s to 2020. Only in 2021—2022 did a small increase occur (Fig. 1). Between 1990 and 2022, the region’s rural population increased by 49,000 people (26 %), whilst the number ...
Breakthrough in Chinese Kant Scholarship. Interview with Prof. Deng Xiaomang
... New Explorations of Hegel’s Dialectic]. Changsha: 湖南教育出版社 Hunan daxue chubanshe [Hunan Educational Press].
Deng, X., 1998. 灵魂之旅 Linghun zhi lü [Journey of the Soul]. Wuhan: 湖北人民出版社 Hubei renmin chubanshe [Hubei People’s Press].
Deng, X. 2001. 新批判主义 Xin pipan zhuyi [New Criticism]. Beijing: 北京大学出版社 Beijing daxue chubanshe [Peking University Press].
Deng, X., 2005. 徜徉在思想的密林里 Paihuai zai sixiang de milin li [Wanderings ...
The concept “people” in the modern European political thought: Hobbes, Spinoza, Pufendorf
The author considers the evolution of the concept “people” in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf and Benedict Spinoza. The political thought of Europe in the 17th century demonstrates a conscious turn from the medieval scholastic tradition of thinking about people and power....
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... above, Russia should seek economic growth, development of the country’s R&D capacity, “the preservation and augmentation of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values as the foundation of Russian society, and its education of children and young people in a civil spirit”.<7> This included “the introduction of a system of spiritual-moral and patriotic education of citizens”.
On July 21, 2020, President Putin signed a decree “On National Development Goals of the Russian Federation ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... affecting the national and regional patterns of coronavirus spread. For example, Aleksandr Pilyasov, Natalya Zamyatina and Yegor Kotov proposed a regression model for all Russian regions to explain the dependence of excess deaths rate on the share of people employed in contact-intensive wholesale and retail, manufacturing (large teams working at continuous production facilities), as well as on the proportion of the population over 65 and the number of retail outlets per 1,000 population [19].
The ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... strategy is considered one of the leading techniques of propaganda [13], [14]. The publication of intensive care statistics and the number of deaths from the coronavirus was aimed at instilling fear of the disease. This fear played a role in motivating people to adhere to the imposed restrictions and seek vaccination [15]. At the same time, propaganda corresponds to a sequence of well-planned messages spread over a long period of time [16], with repetition as the most effective technique [14].
Public ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... technologies contribute to the formation and dissemination of geopolitical images of countries and regions [35].
Chinese researchers [36] have demonstrated that geographical proximity remains a significant factor in capturing online attention. Typically, people tend to engage with content that is geographically tailored, either created in their region of residence or specifically for it. Additionally, internet users in neighbouring countries, sharing cultural and linguistic commonalities, tend to exhibit ...
The influence of urbanization on the morphometric indicators of women (the case of the indigenous peoples of the north)
The period of the development of the Northern Territories, the process of urbanization, the mixing of blood had a negative impact on the way of life formed for centuries, morphometric indicators and, accordingly, on the health of the indigenous peoples of the North. The authors compared the morphometric indicators of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the north living in camps, in rural areas and migrating to the city. A retrospective analysis of the birth histories selected by the ...
Youth unemployment in the Latgale region of Latvia: causes and consequences
Youth unemployment is a serious problem in Latvia, as unemployed young people make up 16.3 % of the total number of unemployed in the country, while in the Latgale region the number of unemployed young people aged 15—24 years was 18.8 % of the total number of unemployed in the country in 2015. The purpose of this study ...
Social inclusion of people with disabilities de jure and de facto: the included, the self-inclusive and the non-self-inclusive
The article presents an analysis of the social systems, in which human health is not limited to its inclusion in social relations, processes and practices. The main aim of this research work is to study the impact of self-identification of people with disabilities on their social integration and inclusion. The complexity of internal contradictions of these processes and a limited number of research works on the problem determined the need for a new integrative analysis and synthesis ...
On the principles of the constitutional status of a people
This article deals with the types and content of principles of constitutional status of the people of the Russian Federation. Among other principles, the author distinguishes the principle of legality, the principle of harmonious combination of personal and public interests, the principle of priority of national interest over the government's ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... in Ukraine, European countries accepted about 6 million Ukrainian refugees: 56,165 of them were accepted by Sweden, and 41,155 — by Denmark.<6> As a result, according to the latest published estimates, 25.9 % of the population of Sweden are people with a ‘foreign background’ (utländsk bakgrund) — who were born abroad or whose parents are of foreign origin.<7> At the same time, in Denmark the share of “immigrants and their descendants”<8> of the population is 15.4 %; ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... have some exceptions), the Lomonosovsky and Kirovsky MAs (both without two settlements), three settlements of the Vyborg MA and one settlement of the Priozersky MA. The authors estimate the population of the St. Petersburg agglomeration at 6.5 million people, out of which 5.6 million people live in St. Petersburg. Since the total population of the Leningrad Region is more than 1.9 million people, it is easy to calculate that the agglomeration includes less than half of the residents of the Leningrad ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... population of Russia has seen a significant increase over the three inter-census periods, even without factoring in Crimea (Table 1).
Population change in Russian coastal cities, 1989—2021
Years
1989—2002
2002—2010
2010—2021
1989—2021
1,000 people
Total
– 233
348
1234
1349
Crimea excluded
– 173
354
1140
1321
%
Total
98.0
102.7
109.5
110.5
Crimea excluded
98.5
103.0
109.4
111.0
* Prepared by the author based on the All-Union and Russian censuses of 1989, 2002, 2010 and 2021.<8>
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Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... education (+), spending on research and development (+), economic growth (+/–)
Multilevel Modeling (MLM)
Vicente, Lopez, 2011 [35]
1. Share of households with access to the Internet, %.
2. Share of households with broadband connection, %.
3. Share of people who regularly use the Internet, %.
4. Share of people who ordered goods or services online, %
GDP per capita (+), high level of education (+), age (–/+), employment in services (+)
Factor analysis for dependent variables
Pick, Sarkar, Johnson,...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... towns (Iecava and Koknese were accorded town status on 1 July 2021)<3> are home to 68 % of the national population; 1438 villages, 32 %. Seventy-three urban settlements have 50,000 residents or fewer and are considered towns; fewer than 3,000 people live in half of them.<4> Latvia has a steadily ageing and declining population: the average age increased from 26 in 1990 to 45 in 2019; the population fell from 2.668 m to 1.92 m over the same period.<5> Urbanisation in Latvia was ...
The concepts of citizenship and estate in Russian history — continuity and / or intermittence
The author studied the development of the concept “people” in contemporary history taking into account its possible interpretation as a bearer of sovereignty. This concept goes back to the time of early bourgeois revolutions. The author holds that there are certain parallels between the ideology of ...
The Baltic Finnish Peoples Divided by State and Administrative Borders: Territorial Development of the Karelians, Vepsians, and Setos
... on the brink of extinction. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of changes in state and administrative borders on the territorial and demographic development of small ethnic groups. The article analyses the case of three Baltic Finnish peoples living in the Russian North-West and divided by borders of different levels: Karelians (Finland, the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Tver regions), Vepsians (the Republic of Karelia and the Leningrad and Vologda regions), and Setos ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... only by internal (local socio-economic and institutional conditions) but also by external factors. Some of them have a more profound effect on border regions. These include the border regime and its changes, which determine the freedom of movement of people and goods [1], as well as the price policy of sellers on both sides of the border. Cross-border price gradients are important for many market players, as they determine the preferences of residents buying food products, the strategy of foodstuff ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... other political force in virtually every electoral group stratified either by age, education, place of residence or profession. Since the mid-2010s, PiS has secured support across all electorate groups: youngsters, students, residents of big cities and people with higher education except managers [14, p. 104].
The two-party tendency apparent in Poland since the mid-2000s has contributed to the stability of the party system. The 2007 election was the first one where no new parties entered the parliament....
The concept “people” in A. S. Shishkov’s manifestoes in the discourse of the Patriotic War of 1812
... class identities coexisted. With the de facto ban on discussing the idea of a civil nation, Russian intellectuals focused on the cultural and linguistic components of nationalism. The aim of this study was to identify the content of the concept of ‘people’ in the manifestoes by Shishkov. These texts expressed the official position of the supreme authority on national unity. The method of discourse analysis employed by the author, made it possible to place Shishkov’s texts in a broader historical ...
Sensory fatigue as a functional condition in people with disability
The article explores the theoretical aspects of sensory fatigue as a functional state in people with disabilities. The study focuses on the types and forms of sensory fatigue, triggers causing this condition, switch-on mechanisms, the development of this condition in people with disabilities of different nosological groups, its symptoms ...
Billionaires and Millionaires of the Baltic Sea Region: A Comparative Analysis of National Business Elites
... society, a high level of female representation, a relatively even geographical distribution, engagement in industrial production and technology, and a weak tendency towards oligarchy. Yet, Germany has a small proportion of self-made and talented business people. The strong points of Russia’s business elite are considerable wealth, relatively young age, and a high proportion of self-made and talented business people. Russia’s business elite is limited in number, has weak roots in the society, a low ...
Kant’s fundamental idea of state and law in Pushkin’s Boris Godunov
... literary world — the world of Pushkin — manifested itself in a work of art. This article sets out to prove the influence of Kant’s philosophical and legal ideas on A. S. Pushkin during the poet’s work on Boris Godunov. Kant’s thought that the people is the only monarch and that legislative power is vested in it in a rule-of-law state is the central idea of the tragedy. When working on Boris Godunov, Pushkin not only studied the Critique of Judgement but he also read Kant’s works on epistemological ...
Book-centric picture of the world in O. Tokarchuk’s novels “The Journey of the Book-People” and “The Books of Jacob”
The authors have conducted a comparative analysis of the novels by Olga Tokarczuk, "The Journey of the People of the Book" and "The Books of Jacob,", where the conceptual role is played by motifs of travel and books, and the theme of religious-mystical societies of the 17th-18th centuries becomes significant. The genre specificity of the ...
Lifestyles of Kaliningrad youth
... universities, this paper attempts to reconstruct the actual space of Kaliningrad youth lifestyles, as well as to identify and describe groups following these lifestyles in socio-economic and demographic terms. Five style groups are identified: the party people who prefer to spend their free time in bars and clubs; the hipsters who frequent theatres and lecture halls, whilst being staunch upholders of the consumerist culture promoted via social media; the ‘normal’ young people choosing physical exercise ...
Kant in the Time of COVID
... important healthcare resources such as COVID-19 vaccines, medical staff, ICU beds and ventilators. Public health officials in the U.S. have had to make decisions about two major issues: which infected patients should be treated first (triage), and which people who are at risk of infection should be inoculated first (vaccine distribution). Following Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism, adopted guidelines have tended to value both whole lives (survival to discharge) and life-years (survival for years ...
The journal “1812”and the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812
The author explores the perception of the characteristic traits of Russian people that was widespread among military intellectuals and their associates — publishers, authors and subscribers of the journal “1812” at the end of the 19th — the beginning of the 20th centuries. The same group of military historians, academics ...
German youth slang as a reflection of modern reality
In this article, I consider how the environment affects the functioning of youth slang. I aim to explore how elements of today’s world are reflected in the vocabulary of young people. The objects of my study are units of today’s German youth slang, particularly, those identified as the most popular by surveys of the German publishing company Langenscheidt. I consider the main periods in the formation of German youth slang ...
Age-related characteristics of English, American, and Russian compliments
In this article, I identify and analyse the linguistic features of the generation and perception of compliments by people of different age identities from English, American and Russian cultures. Language is not the same across different age groups, which necessitates a thorough examination of age-related parameters in language and the identification of semiotic markers ...
On the protection of the right of disabled people to transportation services
It is of the utmost importance to ensure equal access of people with various disabilities to transport. This article examines the rights of disabled people associated with the use of vehicles as well as the main problems pertaining to it. The author considers legal practices and the existing provisions for ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
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The high demand for church-organized events is confirmed by both the number of adherents and the degree to which religious behaviour is exhibited. Despite secular trends, voluntary membership and church tax, almost 4.3 million people (72.1 % of the country’s population) are members of the Church as of the beginning of 2023.
Territorial disproportions should be noted. The leaders in terms of the share of adherents are the peripheral dioceses of Viborg (83.1 %), Ribe (82.1 ...
Semantics of abionims in S. Snegov’s novel “People as Gods”
The article studies the onomastic space of the science fiction trilogy “People as Gods” by the Soviet science fiction writer of the second half of the 20th century. Literary abionyms related to the habitats of the heroes of the work are in the focus of the research. It is noted that the space objects of the solar system ...
“My statement was lost in the depths of the People's Commissariat of Education”: petitions and intercessions for personal pension provision of Vera Uspenskaya, the daughter of Gleb Uspensky
... analyzed the frequency of changes in the size of Vera Glebovna's personal retirement benefit, the authors found that all the increases in pension amounts were related to personal applications of the pensioner or petitions from her brother, sent to the People's Commissariat of Social Security of the RSFSR through intermediaries. The world-famous writer Aleksey Gorky, People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, leadership of the Union of Soviet Writers and the Literary Fund took part in ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... Despite the destruction wrought by the war and the complex fate of the local monuments, most of them survived the Soviet rule. Besides German, Polish and Lithuanian memorials, there are singular objects honouring the historical tradition of other European peoples and states, for example, France.
The region’s international memorial heritage does not constitute a unified composite but has a complex structure. The symbolic significance of some commemorative sites permits embedding them into the Russian ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
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Poland’s strategic culture did not originally have a clear hierarchy of potential adversaries. For example, the first Polish chronicler Gallus Anonymus wrote in the early 12th century: ‘in spite of being surrounded by all the many aforementioned peoples, Christian and pagan alike, and frequently attacked by all and sundry, it has never been completely subjugated by anyone’ [19, p. 15]. Probably, at the time, all the neighbours were considered to pose an equal threat, which is obliquely evidenced ...
Cultural and leisure activities in the Kaliningrad region in the second half of 1940s—1980s
... article analyses cultural life and leisure activities in the Kaliningrad region during the Soviet period. The concepts of “leisure”, “free time” at different times were different in contents. On the one hand, leisure was understood as time when people recharged after hard work, and on the other hand, it meant their spiritual development. On the basis of archival and published sources, as well as interviews with immigrants, the author attempts at reconstructing the idea of leisure time activities ...
Migration processes in the Kaliningrad region, Klaipeda region, Warmia and Mazuria in 1945—1950: a comparative study
The change in borders as a result of World War II spawned massive displacements of millions of people that affected East Prussia, ceded to the USSR and Poland. The article examines the migration processes caused by these changes in the territory of the former German province, i. e. in the Kaliningrad region of the RSFSR, the Klaipeda region of ...
The coasts we live in: can there be a single definition for a coastal zone?
Throughout the history of humankind, people have settled along seashores. The gradual accumulation of population and industrial activity in coastal areas has created preconditions for coastalisation — the movement of people and socio-economic activity to marine coasts. To date, coastal ...
Kant as the German Theorist of the French Revolution: the Origin of a Dogma
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Aleksandrov, G. F., 2003b. Letter to G. M. Malenkov and A. S. Scherbakov of 3 May 1944. In: A. D. Kosichev,...
“The point of departure of peoples determines their fate”: Peter Chaadaev and Alexis de Tocqueville
In 1836, Peter Chaadaev in his private letter to Alexander Turgenev mentioned that the French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville had stolen from him a “deep thought” that the point of departure of peoples determined their fate. Russian and foreign scholars interpreted these words differently, trying to assess the seriousness of Chaadaev’s reproach. The article explores the history of the expression ‘le point de départ’ and the use of it ...
The Name of Prophet Abraham in the Old Russian Literature of XI—XIII centuries
... comparison of the events of the recent past with an episode from Abraham’s life. Examples of formulaic references include cases like "Abraham bosom", "children of Abraham", where Abraham not only appears as a forefather of the sacred people, but also personifies the afterlife. The name of Abraham is described in the historical chronology, in which the prophet appears as the emblem of time or a genus. Depending on the context, the formulaic and free references to his name in the Old ...