The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... considerably in the first two decades of the 21st century. Chaotic rotation of several unstable parties has been replaced by a much more well-structured model with two new parties — Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) — as its key elements. Each president and prime-minister who has assumed office in the country since 2005 is a member of either PiS or PO. The polarisation of political life has also increased with the two-party rivalry growing into the nerve centre of Polish politics. Its intensity ...
Poland’s Foreign Policy Mechanisms: Legal Framework and Policy Analysis
This article describes the features of Poland’s foreign policy. Special attention is paid to the foreign policy mandate of the president, government, and minister of foreign affairs and the procedure for devising Poland’s foreign policy strategy. Another focus is the contribution of local government to Poland’s foreign policy. The author describes the features of Poland’s ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
This article examines the current military-political strategy of France in the Baltic region. This area has not traditionally been among the main priorities of French diplomacy. However, under President Emmanuel Macron, France pays closer attention to the Baltic Sea due to the growing tension between Russia and the West. According to France’s key strategic documents, the government assesses the present-day situation mainly in a negative way,...
The Baltic Sea region and increasing international tension
... Russia’s position. However, gaining positive momentum may prove instrumental in overcoming the confrontation between Russia and the West in the future.
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The effect of Covid-19 on labour migration in the CIS
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Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... and territorial integrity of Russia, with a possibility of direct military aggression. However, in dealing with these threats the document called for international cooperation.<4>
The novelty of the national security strategy (NSS) adopted by President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009, was its introduction of the system of indicators to characterize the state of affairs in the field of national security. This system of indicators included the following parameters: (a) level of unemployment; (b) decile ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... formation of reputation (“the work of local authorities is assessed based on personal experiences of interaction”). As one expert pointed out, “there is a tendency to accord greater respect and favour to those occupying the highest (such as the president) and the lowest (such as the district or municipal levels) positions of authority, as well as those who are less visible to the public eye and those who are encountered more frequently.” The study emphasizes the reputation characteristics ...
New opportunities for the Russian Baltic exclave in the context of changes in the country’s geopolitical situation
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Problems and prospects of EU — Russia dialogue on visa-free travel
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The position of international community on the restoration of independence of the Baltic States
... Baltic region, further research on the history of the Baltic region, Germany, and the USA, and preparation of lectures.
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Modern Lithuanian foreign policy: the adjustment of traditional policy
... attention is paid to the adjustment of the major foreign policy vector, which concentrated earlier on the cooperation with the United States of America and strategic partnership with the Republic of Poland. The article analyses the attempts of Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė to formulate the so-called «new foreign policy» based on the multivector approach to the intergovernmental cooperation. This research is timely because of an increasing influence of small states on foreign policy decision-making ...
Extralinguistic factors of city renaming in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
The article is devoted to extralinguistic factors that contribute to the renaming of cities in one of the North Caucasian regions of Russia. The study of toponymy, in particular, the oikonyms of a certain territory, is of great importance for the study of the history, ethnography, and culture of the people living in this territory. The purpose of this work is to identify the original names of settlements and study new names of cities, which will contribute to a more fruitful study of socio-historical...
Geography of voting in the presidential elections of 2018 in the Kaliningrad region
The article considers the geographical aspect of voting in general presidential elections in the Kaliningrad region in 2018. Two voting features, bipolar and fragmented, have been identified through the electoral analysis. There are a number of geographical factors which have a significant impact on the voting: the power of friends and neighbors and the power of the election campaign itself. Voting results are visualized in the work by means of cartographic method.
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The features of using manipulative techniques to influence public opinion (based on the materials of the US presidential campaign of 2012)
... intended goal. The main goal of the candidate’s election campaign is to win the election. The results of a comparative analysis of manipulative techniques used by the presi-dential candidates are presented in the article.
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Russia and the European Union in the Baltic region: a treacherous path to partnership
... initially ignored Russian national interests in the region, yet eventually resulted in cooperative efforts in the areas of common interest such as energy, transport infrastructure, environment, research, education and culture. The results of the Russian presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (2012—2013) are evaluated. It is noted that, despite an appealing presidency strategy and certain achievements in its implementation, Russia was unable to draw up a regional agenda and use the CBSS ...
The regional approach in the policy of the Russian Federation towards the Republic of Estonia
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EU — Russia energy cooperation: major development trends and the present state
... legal discussions on the development of common rules have become more constructive. In sum, the current situation in EU — Russia energy relations is favourable and positively affects cooperation in the Baltic Sea region.
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On the historical context of innovative development in Russia
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Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
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Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
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As emphasised above, the capital regions are leaders in the international inbound tourism market. Various EU instruments and institutions have contributed to their development. Latvia’s Presidency of the EU Council in the first half of 2015 helped to promote the country’s international image and present Riga as a business travel destination. About 200 events were organised during Latvia’s presidency, with 25,000 people staying in ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... Baltic States have in common almost completely derives from shared unhappy experiences imposed upon us from outside: occupations, deportations, annexation, sovietization, collectivization, russification’.<6> Later, during his term in office as president (2006—2016), Ilves spoke of the struggle of the ‘three Baltic musketeers’ for freedom,<7> the ‘Baltic’ peoples’ striving for independence,<8> the intellectual and geographical proximity of the ‘Baltic States’,<9> ...
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 of politics, his attitude towards Germany, the USA, NATO, the EU, Russia and...
On interpreting the legal category “form of government” (the case of Russia and Kazakhstan)
The article justifies the need to clarify the true content of such a fundamental legal category as the “form of government”, since, so far, neither scientifically nor at the practical level, there hasn’t been given any unambiguous interpretation. The authors point to one of the typical conceptual errors in elucidating the content of this category, admitted by some legal theorists: the essence of the “form of government of the presidential republic” concept is interpreted with descriptors...
Minimising Investment Risks Through Optimising Public-Private Partnership: The Case of the Kaliningrad Region
... solving the problem of regional development and gives recommendations on overcoming barriers and implementing PPP projects in the region.
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This article discusses the verbal behavior of the German President, Joachim Gauck, in political communications. The author analyses the linguisticstylistic and pragmalinguistic means employed in the texts of his political speeches. Special attention is paid to the strategy of dialogue with supporters, which ...
The methods of manipulative influence on the addressee aimed at creating a positive image: the case of 2012 presidential election campaign
This article deals with the problem of public opinion manipulation through creating a positive image. Special emphasis is given to the description of the manipulative technique. The research is based on the texts of the 2012 Russian presidential election campaign.
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... the new territories of Germany (the former German Democratic Republic) by September 1, 1994, and after the completion of the same process in Lithuania by September 1, 1993 [10, p. 71]. Official Bonn closely monitored the Kremlin’s (first under USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, then Russian President Boris Yeltsin) commitments to withdraw troops from the former GDR. Despite facing difficulties [21], Germany contributed to a similar process in the Baltic republics and portrayed these steps as supporting ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... companies, have completely switched to the Russian market, having lost direct contracts with European manufacturers, which not only offered better prices than mainland Russian companies but also provided technological advantages. As Evgeny Perunov, President of the Kaliningrad Furniture Makers’ Association, so vividly put it: ‘I say to all our manufacturers: forget that there is such a thing as Europe! Imagine that you’ve woken up and Europe is no longer there!’<10>
In agriculture,...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... Germany, France, the Netherlands, and others [9], [10], [11]. As a result, transport operations in the Baltic, both freight and passenger, developed very quickly. In the mid-1990s, transport departments and businesses managed to convince the then Russian president to sign decrees on the construction of three new ports in the Leningrad region — Ust-Luga, Primorsk and Batareynaya Bay. This decision fundamentally changed the situation with the Baltic transit in favour of Russia, although the leadership ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... to Marco Nilsson from the University of Jönköping, in this situation, Moscow will intensify operations to influence public opinion in the countries of the region and even try to stimulate internal instability there [17].
However, judging by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s step-by-step abandoning his ‘principled’ position in 2022—2023, and concessions he made to the majority in NATO (and primarily to Washington) on the issue of Stockholm’s membership in the Alliance, this issue ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... April 4, 2023, Finland became the 31st member of NATO. As of the time of writing this article, only Turkey and Hungary had not yet ratified the agreement on Sweden’s accession to NATO. However, on July 10, 2023, after a closed meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in Vilnius, it was announced that Turkey had agreed to ratify the protocol admitting Sweden to NATO.
Cross-border cooperation
In the altered conditions, not only political but ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... amounts, to surrounding villages. Here, it is advisable not to limit oneself to conventional socioeconomic regulation but to embrace social innovations, which cannot be introduced by villages alone (it is worth noting that opinion polls show that rural presidents appreciate such innovations). In some areas, social innovations have already gained currency. These are household-driven rural tourism, production of new crops (asparagus, bog bilberry, mushrooms, etc.), breeding of new animals (quails, ostriches,...
The relationship between student’s tendency to manipulation and the results of project activities in university education
... professional activities are closely related to interpersonal relationships in professional communication. The experimental base for the study was provided by the Western Branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA). The students' inclination toward manipulation was assessed using T. Bant's scale. The research showed that the inclination to use manipulative techniques and methods in the process of project-based learning ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... a global opportunity, and Danish foreign policy has shifted from an adaptation policy to active internationalism [22]. This perspective appears to reflect the state of affairs observed from 2000 to 2015. However, with the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2016, the US adopted a strategic shift towards containing China. Furthermore, the abolition of the Danish defence opt-outs in June 2022, followed by Denmark’s participation in EU military operations and missions and ...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... Ministers (BCM) was created in 1994. The Council holds tripartite meetings at the level of prime ministers and relevant ministers. They are usually organised once a year within the framework of the autumn session of the BA held in the capital of the country presiding in the BCM.
The Visegrad Four (V4). The conception of the Visegrad Four has become a part of European political life. This association is reasonably perceived as an important factor in the formation of the political and economic situation in ...
Socio-political moods of the residents of the Kaliningrad region as an indicator of the geopolitical security of the region
... incomes of the population, high prices for food and essential goods, high tariffs for housing and communal services. The hypothesis is confirmed that in the conditions of geopolitical tensions, the population's trust in local and federal authorities, the president and the army will increase. The political activity of the population, for the most part, comes down to discussing political events with friends, workmates in person and voting in elections. Most Kaliningraders do not consider moving out of the ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... municipalities was reduced by a factor of 3.5, from 119 to 42; from two to nine municipalities were brought under one local government. The questionable consequences of the reform have been mentioned by experts, members of local government councils and the president of Latvia. The heavy dependence of regional towns on European structural and investment funds, as well as on other international and domestic sources of finance, complicates their development.
Yet, reasonable autonomy of local authorities, community ...
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...