International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... growing instability and conflict as much as by intensifying confrontation in the information space, part of which is the ‘struggle for the past’ seeking to preserve the established accounts or making major changes in the ‘memory space’. Just like popular science, educational and media narratives, an essential element of this struggle is the transformation of the symbolic space: the removal of ‘alien’ memorials failing to fit the symbolic landscape. The most effective way to wage a ‘war of ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... note a successful import substitution in Russia in three product groups: poultry, pork and tomatoes [12]. Receiving active state support, agricultural producers often continued to be market-oriented, i. e. they increased the production of crops most popular domestically and internationally sometimes to the detriment of other less profitable but still important products [13].
In this context, the Kaliningrad region is a vivid example of a region that, on the one hand, in 2014, was extremely highly ...
The ethnopolitical movement as a vehicle for nationalism institutionalisation in modern Latvia
This article investigates the Popular Front of Latvia, a public ethnopolitical movement that substantially contributed to the independence of the modern Republic of Latvia. The study aims to identify how much the movement influenced the development of ethnic nationalism, which has ...
German youth slang as a reflection of modern reality
... 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 in the 20th/21st centuries and review the events that affected its formation. I provide evidence that there is a link ...
The political success of the Baltic People’s Fronts as a result of the 1989—1990 elections
This article considers the political success of the Baltic Popular Fronts in the years of perestroika on the materials of 1989—1990 elections. The author analyses the motives behind the establishment of mass movements and their ideational imperatives, describes the dynamics of changes in the demands of popular ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... cooperation has in increasing the economic capacity of territories, analysing the prospects of such economic models is relevant for Kaliningrad, a territory where pressure from anti-Russian sanctions has proven challenging. Enterprises with collective (popular) forms of ownership may serve as the most effective instrument for achieving the sustainability of the Baltic region territories [9].
The role of cooperation in a territory’s development is informed by the very functioning of cooperative economic ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... of the capital city (with 53 beds at tourist accommodation establishments per km2), stands out against the general background. North Estonia, second by a large margin has five beds per 1 km2. Lithuania’s Klaipėda County, where the country’s most popular resorts are located, ranks third. In the semi-peripheral regions of the first order, the accommodation density is only 2 beds per 1 km2; in the second order and periphery, less than 1.
A region’s tourist appeal largely depends on the presence ...
The concept “people” in the Cadet Party rhetoric
... nature. The “people” included the educated public and was opposed to the “authorities”. In its new meaning, “people” was seen as the “third class”, the future civil nation, called to construct a political system based on the idea of popular sovereignty. In this sense, the Cadet ideology was revolutionary and implied a break from the Ancien régime. The “people” were not considered as some unique whole but rather as an integral part of humanity, developing together with it ...
Logic Manuals for Women in the Late Enlightenment Era
... answer these questions I analyse the chosen works on logic and the reviews which they prompted. I demonstrate that logic manuals for women published in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century constitute one of the numerous varieties of the popular philosophy genre. Simple language, dialogic or epistolary form, practical orientation and eclecticism — all this brings logic within the intellectual reach of any civilised person, providing him/her with an instrument of performing their own ...
Human Development Index as a Tool to Assess Social Development in the Baltic States
Reinvigorating Russia’s development strategy requires a comparison between the social development of the Russian Federation and other Baltic region states, some of which are world leaders in terms of living standards. The most popular tools for country comparison are composite indices that take into account various components affecting the quality of life. This article analyses the current level and changes in the social development of the Baltic States in 1990—2016. The ...
Lexical means to express an author’s opinion in popular science groups on the VKontakte social network
Based on the materials of ten most-visited popular science groups on the VKontakte social network, this article considers key lexical means to express an author’s opinion. A typology of such means is introduced in the context of analysis. It is concluded that the lexical means used to express ...
The Baltics and Russian North-West: the Core and the Periphery in the 2000s
... regional science association (ERSA) Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 27—30, 2003, available at: https://www.jyu.fi/ersa2003/cdrom/papers/503.pdf (accessed: 11.12.2013).
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30. Todd, D. 1974, An appraisal of the development pole concept in regional analysis,...
V.Ye. Cheshikhin as a populariser of the Tristan and Iseult motif in Russian culture
This article examines the work of V.Ye. Cheshikhin as a translator, populariser, and interpreter of the legend of Tristan and Iseult — the basis of libretto to R. Wagner’s opera. The author identifies the basic assumptions of V.Ye. Cheshikhin’s critical concept: Wagner as an “interpreter of the old legend”, the connection between the Tristan and Iseult legend with the texts of Hellenic and Celtic cultures, the emphasis on the language component of the legend and opera, and the role of literary...
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... projects or assess the degree of neighbourhood between countries and their parts. In the Baltic region, one can distinguish several zones of remoteness from the sea (see below for more details). The ‘core — periphery’ scale is probably the most popular with scholars of socio-geographical phenomena, particularly, regionalisation. For instance, models have been proposed for ‘periphery — periphery’, ‘core — core’ and ‘core — periphery’ interfaces. Finally, there is the ‘continuous/areal ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... the indigenous population of the country. However, its attractiveness to migrants from non-Western countries and their descendants was unexpected (Table 3), since there are no Lutheran traditions present in most countries of their origin. The relative popularity of membership among migrants from Western countries and their descendants can be attributed to their ethnic background. As of the beginning of 2022, 5.1 % of migrants in Denmark identified as Germans, 2.4 % as Norwegians, 2.3 % as Swedes, 1....
Mass, Community, Communion
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Open Use of Reason: Socrates and Kant
... both to explain the interconnection between the freedom of reason and its publicity advocated by Kant and to draw a demarcation line between Socrates and the Sophists who were also public intellectuals. Whereas the Sophists sought personal gain and popularity, Socrates viewed the practice of philosophy as a form of self-sacrifice for the good of society; this led the Sophists to relativism and Socrates to the discovery of rational thinking. The conclusion is that openness, interpreted as accessibility ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... From the beginning of 2012 to the end of 2022, the population of the Guryevsk MD almost doubled, while the total region’s population grew by 9 %.<7> The Svetlogorsk and Svetly UDs show incomes higher than the regional average. The former is a popular Baltic resort, while the latter is a home for the region’s largest (by revenue) company — the Sodruzhestvo agro-industrial complex. Over the past decade, only two municipalities, namely Baltiysk and Ladushkin (the latter being the smallest ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... (Southern, North Caucasian, Ural and Far Eastern), mobile internet is more widespread than broadband access. The presence of mobile networks in Russian regions is closely tied to economic hubs, such as areas with significant mineral development and popular tourist destinations. Additionally, the quality of existing transportation infrastructure plays a role in determining the accessibility of mobile networks in these regions [32].
Digital technologies play a special role in border, peripheral and ...
Functions of words-realities in S. Rushdie’s novel “midnight’s Children”
... meaning of which can be understood by a non-native reader only within a specific context. Lexico-semantic groups of realia words are highlighted, contributing to the creation of national-cultural color and referentially related to local objects and popular dishes of Indian national cuisine. The artistic pragmatics of realia words in the novel "Midnight’s Children" is characterized. The role of toponyms is characterized by their involvement in structuring the local coordinates of the ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... Swedish Institute exerts influence on Sweden’s relations with the recipient countries while also encouraging the adoption of Swedish values and social and political practices. The exposure of scholarship recipients to these aspects serves as a means of popularizing the ‘Swedish way’ of life. Foreign students who pursue their education in Sweden are expected to promote Swedish values in their home countries and beyond. The Swedish model of social and economic development is presented as a globally ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... communication with their customers through virtual employees.<11>
AI has emerged as one of the most promising and disruptive general-purpose technologies (GPT) with the potential to change every aspect of our lives and drive economic growth. The most popular 2022 Google search topics in the Baltics were ‘marketing’, ‘artificial intelligence’, ‘computer programming’, ‘Internet bot’, ‘machine learning.<12>
According to the data from the OECD Observatory of Artificial Intelligence ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... issues through content analysis of conceptual documents, official speeches, media articles, and parliamentary debates is a time-tested and widely practised academic approach. Qualitative methods of content analysis are still prevalent, with earlier less popular quantitative tools gaining wider currency. For example, despite the earlier tendency for researchers to rely on qualitative methods, a recent work employs quantitative content analysis to understand similarities and differences between the defence ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
...
The post-Copenhagen School approaches that try to connect the notion of societal security to the concepts of human security, sustainability and resilience are slowly gaining momentum in the Russian political discourse; however, they are still not very popular in the academic community or among decision-makers. With very few exceptions, there is almost no research done on societal security in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) [2], [3], [4].
This study aims to examine how the societal security concept is perceived ...
Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment and Its Alternatives
The modern popularity of the Kantian definition of enlightenment often leads to a distorted notion that his understanding of enlightenment was dominant already during his lifetime, expressing the quintessence of all-European Enlightenment. This turns our attention ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
The nonparametric method of dynamic data envelopment analysis (DDEA) has become increasingly popular for conducting comparative efficiency evaluations. In recent years,
dynamic data envelopment analysis (DDEA), a variant of this method, has gained significant attention. This article applies dynamic analysis to evaluate the efficiency of the ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... level of detail.
Introduction
Russian academic literature has paid much attention to Poland’s ambition to play a special role in Europe, set an example to its neighbours and preserve and enhance its asset of Latin Christian values [1], [2]. A popular view holds that official Warsaw strives to become not only the leader in Central and Eastern Europe but also a mediator between the West and post-Soviet states. Most of these commentaries emphasise Poland’s attempts to exacerbate the disagreement ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... successful and enjoying a population growth, exert a ‘coercive’ effect on the nearby areas and contribute to the development of corresponding planning structures, i. e., the territorial support frames of settlement. Therefore, this study drew on two popular concepts: the core-periphery model and new economic geography.
A comparative spatial analysis of the structural elements of the territorial support frames of settlement showed that both regions have an established monocentric model of concentric ...
Multimodal text as a means of political identification: an analysis of the Russian blogosphere
... “Producer-consumer environment”. Vestnik Rossiiskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Seriya: Sotsiologiya [RUDN Journal of Sociology], 3, pp. 66—79 (in Russ.).
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Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
The paper adopts a sociopragmatic approach to the study of emotion processes and investigates discursive traits of the reader’s interest. The field of written popularization was examined to establish how it conceptualizes the reader’s interest through discourse structures. The text materials were obtained experimentally. They consist of 104 pairs of expository text; each of the pairs includes a text published ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... for example, the participation of Finnish troops in the French peacekeeping mission in Lebanon or the involvement of Danish and Swedish contingents in Operation Barkhane in the Sahel [5].
It should be noted that today French foreign policy remains a popular research topic both for Russian and foreign authors. For instance, Obichkina explores the diplomatic strategy of the Fifth Republic in the modern world emphasizing the intention of Paris to play the role of an all-European leader [6]. Chernega ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... as a gauge of political system stability [32, p. 171]. Reputation can be considered a crucial indicator of the social efficiency of authorities, playing a pivotal role in ensuring political stability.
The reputational approach has gained considerable popularity in the analysis of political elites, where rating systems are developed to evaluate the reputation of politicians and countries worldwide. An instance of this is the reputation rating of countries, conducted by the international consulting ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... from the image of a ‘post-Soviet country’, which might be evoked in the mind of an external observer confronted with the term ‘Baltic States’. Estonian politicians also emphasise that in some respects (sometimes very specific ones, such as popular knowledge of English or internet connection quality), Estonia is not inferior to the Nordic countries. These achievements are opposed to the possible negative associations relating to ‘Soviet legacies’, for example, corruption [17, р. 192—193],...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... important role was played by the annulment of the pension reform carried out under the rule of PO and the reduction of retirement age. The PiS programme stated as its main goal ‘a Polish model of a modern welfare state’.<5> At the high of its popularity in the early 2020, PiS enjoyed the record level of support in the region of 50 %.<6> In its turn, PO benefits from the evident discontent of many Poles with the authoritarian and clerical trends associated with PiS: the attacks on the ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... diffusion.
In 2022, amid breaking global production chains, worsening trade relations and other restrictions, the role of digital technologies is increasing in Russia. Online stores (for example, Ozon, Wildberries, Yandex.Market, etc.) have become more popular, providing the import of goods (including parallel imports) and their delivery throughout the country. There is a record growth in online commerce.<5>
The aim of this study is to describe general spatial trends and identify significant factors ...
Phraseological units as a means of information compression in the American election discourse
... Secondly, we seek to categorize these phraseological units according to the “impression” they make on the addressee. Thus, the final stage of the analysis is to estimate which type of information compression via phraseological units is the most popular while manipulating. The findings reveal the enormous potential of phraseological units as a means of information compression to modify the behavior, views, and attitude to things as well as give an idea of something by making the addressee visualize ...
Levels of context: how textual analysis becomes discourse analysis: the case of Internet lifestyle media
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Bhatia, V. K., 2015. Critical Genre Analysis: Theoretical Preliminaries. HERMES-Journal of ...
Lifestyles of Kaliningrad youth
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COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: information campaign, media, society
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a serious challenge to the entire global community. Globally, countries were forced to introduce restrictive measures to contain the infection, inevitably causing popular discontent. Germany introduced some of the most painful restrictions. In times of crisis, timely and reliable information is a prerequisite for public motivation to comply with restrictive measures. Thus, it seems essential to retrace how the ...
The ‘Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’: truth or fiction
The ‘route from the Varangians to the Greeks’ is widely known and often mentioned in research, popular science and educational literature. Much less often is it mentioned that the existence of the trade route is seriously doubted and needs additional evidence. The discussion about the actuality of a ‘route from the Varangians to the Greeks’ ...
Speech portrait of a modern Russian woman: an onomastic fragment
... The author analyzes the tendencies of changes in naming in various historical periods, as well as the reasons for such changes. The paper also studies the trends in the selection of names, identifies the criteria for a fashionable name and lists the popular names of the current time. The meaning of the name turns out to be significant to understanding the female linguistic personality.
Koroleva I.A.
language picture of the world, speech portrait of a modern Russian woman, personal name, ...
The Eric Zemmour phenomenon in French politics
The article examines the peculiarities of the worldview and political views of French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, an extreme right-wing nationalist whose popularity came as the main political surprise of the 2022 election campaign. The article reveals Zemmour's attitude towards the key issues of historical politics and the current French political agenda, such as identity crisis, total nihilism, feminization ...
On the development of a western worldview in the context of the journal “Vestnik Evropy” in the correspondence between Alexey Veselovsky and Alexander Pypin
... materials of his epistolary exchange with the literary historian and academician Alexander N. Pypin we have outlined this scientific and literary circle of philologists along with their personal and business relationships, better defined their input in popularizing the ideas of Westernism at the end of the 19th century, and also described their journalistic activities during the period of cooperation with a liberal journal “Herald of Europe”. The author believes that Pypin's ideas influenced ...
Book Review: M. Lewin, Das System der Ideen: Zur perspektivistischen Begründung der Vernunft im Anschluss an Kant und Fichte. Freiburg & München: Alber, 2021, 378 pp.
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The impact of fashion magazines language onto the trends in speech
... speech to be back to their pages in a new perfected form. This process contributes to the consolidation and the widespread usage of the fashion industry vocabulary in modern Russian. The frequency of certain lexemes used in speech gets influenced by the popularity of objects or phenomena named by them, as well as by the trend for the words themselves.
Budnik A.A.
the Russian language, lexical and semantic system, verbal forms of expression, trendy discourse, media language
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Who is Rationalising? On an Overlooked Problem for Kant’s Moral Psychology and Method of Ethics
... philosophy. The main problem I see with Kant’s conception is that there are no theory-independent criteria to determine whether an exercise of rational capacities constitutes rationalising. Kant believes that rationalising is wide-spread and he charges the popular philosophers and other ethical theorists with rationalising. Yet, his opponents could, in turn, charge him with rationalising and some theorists, namely Act-Consequentialists, seem to be in an even stronger position to charge Kant with rationalising ...
Reception of German Literature by Syrian Translators and Critics in the Context of German-Arabic Literary Relations
... It has been established that now the problem of German literature perception among the Arabic language speakers is relevant. Syria is not considered to be a center for translation of works into Arabic, though the number of translators and publishers popularizing German literature in Syria is growing. The activities of translators (for example, Abdo Abbud, Fuad Ayub, Mohammed Jadid, Ahmed Al-Hammo), who played an important role in promoting the works of German-speaking authors, are examined in detail....