On the international cooperation of North-West Russia in the field of innovations in the Baltic
... the Russian Federation and the Baltic countries (Finland, Estonia, and Norway) in the field of innovations at national and regional levels, as well as at the level of corporate cooperation. The author reviews successful implementation of innovation projects within cross-border and transnational cooperation programmes. The most significant projects focus on the development of information and communications technologies in healthcare, the development of networks uniting innovation centres in the Baltic ...
Cross-border cooperation between nongovernmental organisations in the Pomeranian and Warmian-Masurian voivodeships
... to assess their activity in attracting funding from European budgets. The article widely applies the results of surveys of NGOs conducted by the author, compares the results of performance reports submitted by these organisations within international projects, and offers the data presented in relevant publications (Euroregion Baltic documents and Phare CBC reports, Interreg IIIA and, Interreg IIIB, NMF, and Polish-Swiss Cooperation reports, as well as the data of the Central Department of Statistics)....
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... author concludes that paradiplomacy intensifies globalisation and regionalisation processes. In the past years, the main paradiplomacy trends in cooperation between Russia and the Baltic Sea region states, particularly Finland, were as follows: (1) project activity gathering momentum; (2) diversification of paradiplomatic actors; (3) equal and symmetrical partnership between Russia and the European states.
Introduction
During the past few decades, EU-Russian regional cooperation was a channel ...
Opportunities and Challenges of Large Investment Projects in the New Economy: the Port of Ust-Luga
The aim of this study is to search for a mechanism for implementing large investment projects of crucial economic importance in the modern economic conditions characterized by the sanction policy of foreign states, limited public investment, and a mass exodus of foreign investors. An example of a large-scale investment project is the ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... assessment, financial planning, resource management, etc. The ‘entrepreneurial university’ model focuses on student entrepreneurship but also covers such aspects as entrepreneurial education, support and financing of students’ entrepreneurial projects. The development of entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour can have a long-term positive effect on the future careers and life paths of student youth.
The general basis of the concepts described is made by the “theory of planned behaviour”....
Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West
... Barragán Iturriaga, A. 2013, Accessible Routes in Historical Cities: Best Practice Guide, European Foundation Centre, Brussels, Belgium. p. 38.
2. Baltic Culture and Tourism Route Fortresses, 2007, Results of trans-national cooperation in INTERREG-III-B project 2005—2007, Berlin, p. 146.
3. Bâtea (Bota), C.-M. 2014, Cross-border projects means for sustainable tourism development along the Romanian-Hungarian border, Analele Universităţii din Oradea, Seria Geografie, no. 2, December, p. 134—142....
Developing student’s critical thinking skills through project based learning: international experience
... international research, the authors attempt to present approaches to interpreting the concept of “critical thinking,” its component composition, and methods of its development through the implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL). The project serves as the core of the educational process, directing it towards creating conditions for the development of critical thinking and creative abilities of students in interdisciplinary environments when solving real-life problems. The stages ...
About generalizations of the Cartan projective connection on smooth manifold
The Laptev projective structure of the 1st order presented a fibering of special linear coframes with multidimensional gluing is considered. The Laptev linear connection by means of the object containing a tensor is set in this fibering. If the tensor vanishes we ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... provides evidence that innovation activity is more susceptible to the negative impacts of crises and other destabilizing factors. In a period of uncertainty, innovative companies, especially small and medium-sized ones [30], tend to curtail investment projects and reduce their R&D spending, focusing on current activities.
The consequences of the 2007—2008 crisis, the 2020—2021 Covid recession, and the current geopolitical tensions around the situations in Ukraine and Taiwan bring out the low resilience ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... Secondly, the very culture of limited power politics has assumed some unique characteristics in the country: greater readiness to take risks and fascination with power actions. This state of affairs is largely a result of the contours of the regional project having been drawn for the neighbouring states mostly based on the negative type of consolidation (against the Muslims and later the Bolsheviks) and therefore never reaching a sufficient level of detail.
Introduction
Russian academic literature ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... further activity in the region includes enhanced cooperation with Sweden and Finland after they accede to NATO, an already planned increase in military contingent in the Baltic States in 2023, and the development of the European Political Community project. The author concludes that even if France’s presence in the Baltic does not yet pose a critical threat to Russian security, Paris’s policy is becoming more pro-Atlantic to the detriment of previous statements about ‘European sovereignty’ ...
Economic and geopolitical aspects of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project (NS 2) along the bottom of the Baltic Sea is aimed to increase gas supply from Russia to Germany and other EU countries. It serves mutual economic interests: the predicted growth in gas demand in the EU markets and the need to strengthen the energy ...
On trends in the development of cross-border cooperation in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation
... this article, I examine trends in the development of cross-border cooperation between the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation and the Republics of Lithuania and Poland within a range of cross-border cooperation programmes. I analyse all the projects approved within three cross-border cooperation projects over the past ten years. I focus on the projects that were successfully completed by the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University — a key actor in cooperation. I examine collaborations ...
Bogdan Kistiakovy’s Project of “State of the Future” as Synthesis of the Ideas of Liberalism and Socialism
... attributing concrete thinkers to this movement. The article emphasises the inconsistency of classifying Kistyakovsky’s socio-philosophical concept as liberal. The analysis performed is based on Kistyakovsky’s model of the ‘state of the future’ — a project of a socialist rule-of-law state developed by Kistyakovsky at the turn of the 20th century. The article identifies distinct Marxist analogies and parallels in the contents of this project. The ‘state of the future’ as a rule-of -law socialist ...
The antinomy of political reason. Some deliberations on Kant’s “Answer-ing the Question: What is Enlightenment?”
This article analyses Kant’s work “Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?” It is shown that Kant’s enlightenment is a political project. The author focuses on the philosophical prerequisites and the essence of this project and analyses the difference between the “public” and “private” use of reason. The article emphasises the major significance of this difference for developing ...
Electric energy cooperation in the Baltic Sea region and the role of Russia in it
This article examines cooperation in the electric energy sector in the Baltic region. The author explores the existing undersea HVDC power exchange projects. It is emphasised that cooperation in the electric energy sector is concentrated largely in the EU member states despite earlier plans to establish the Baltic energy ring, which would also include Russia and Belarus. The author stresses that ...
Pure and Impure Philosophy in Kant’s Metaphilosophy
Kant’s metaphilosophy has three main parts: (1) an essentialist project (“What is philosophy?”); (2) a methodological project (“How do we do philosophy?”); and (3) a taxonomic project (“What are the different parts of philosophy, and how are they related?”). This paper focuses on the third project. In ...
Kant’s Perpetual Peace Project and the Project of the European Union
The article examines the following problems: 1) How well-founded is the comparison of the ideas of Kant’s essay «Towards Perpetual Peace», written in late XVIII century, with the implementation of nowadays project of European Union 2) If such parallels are possible, to what extent the structure of the EU corresponds to Kant’s vision? 3) Which Kantian ideas are of the foremost importance to future development of the EU? Basing on the analysis of Kant’s ...
The ‘Russian Poetic Speech — 2016’ Project as a Cultural Narrative of Modern Russian Poetry
This article presents a methodological description of the ‘Russian Poetic Speech — 2016’ narrative project aimed to identify, demonstrate, and study a cross-section of modern Russian poetry. The author addresses the foundations of the narrative project, its ideology, as well as its publication and promotion components. The article explores the mechanism ...
How transcendental are Kant’s principles of public law?
... «Negativnaja mudrost'» politicheskogo Prosveshhenija [The „Negative Wisdom“ of Political Enlightenment], in: XI Kantovskie chtenija: Kantovskij proekt prosveshhenija segodnja: materialy mezhdunarodnoj konferencii [XI Kant Readings: Kant's Enlightenment Project Today: Proceedings of the International Conference]. Kaliningrad. P. 178—181. URL: kant-online. ru/?p=1693 (accessed on 18.07.2015).
5. Kant, I. 1994а, Antropologija s pragmaticheskoj tochki zrenija [Anthropology from a Pragmatical Point of ...
A method to construct the projection operators for the Poincare and Rossby waves in the atmosphere
... wave structure of the atmosphere determine the frequency of the waves. These data are generally insufficient to identify the type of wave disturbances as well as the spatial scale is not defined waves. Problems can be solved by applying the method of projection operators, which allows us to identify the contribution of certain types of waves in the observed wave field. This work presents a procedure for constructing the projection operators for the Poincare and Rossby planetary waves in the spherical ...
Kant’s perpetual peace project and the project of the European Union
The article examines the following problems: 1) How well-founded is the comparison of the ideas of Kant's treatise «Towards Perpetual Peace», written in late XVIII century, with the implementation of nowadays project of European Union? 2) If such parallels are possible, to what extent the structure of the EU corresponds to Kant's vision? 3) Which Kantian ideas are of the foremost importance to future development of the EU? Basing on the analysis of Kant's ...
The formation of a risk management system for projects in the field of aquaculture innovative development in the Kaliningrad region: a case study
This article sets out to develop the concept and the principal scheme of the formation of a risk management system for innovative economic development projects in the field of aquaculture. The research carried out by the authors helps identify the main problems and characteristics of risk management projects for the development of aquaculture in presentday Russia. The authors outline the status and ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... when Halford Mackinder published his seminal works. The seven decades of Soviet rule were marked both by pronounced continental tendencies (see, for instance, [22]) and extensive (and mostly successful) efforts to launch a quasiglobalist maritime project. The ideological framework for this project was provided in the 1976 publication of Admiral Sergey Gorshkov titled The Marine Power of the State [23], which postulated the marine-continental status of eh USSR. Many of these successes, however,...
The relationship between student’s tendency to manipulation and the results of project activities in university education
... 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 at the university negatively affects the overall results of project activities of individual creative groups.
Kondratenko A.B., Rudinsky I.D.
manipulative relations, project activities, impact on education, students, results of learning
86-95
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-3-9
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... defence expenditure, a refusal to host American military bases and nuclear weapons (with the exception of Greenland, the location of an airbase and Thule Site J, the latter remaining a crucial element of the US missile early warning system, and the Project Iceworm, which was terminated in the late 1960s), an attempted ban on the entry of American ships carrying nuclear weapons into Danish ports and discussions about non-nuclear zones in Northern Europe collectively created a conflicting and unfavourable ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
....448
31.77
12
Ust-Luga
156 000.25
All year round
1 188.1997
67.56
41
Source: complied according to the Rosmorport.<3>
The next step of the Baltic Seaports analysis includes an investigation of the investment activities. Consider the investment projects realized up to the current period and their results (Table 2).
Investment projects implemented by the Baltic Seaports, 2022 year
Port
Investment project
Period
Results
Saint Petersburg
Icebreaking fleet facilities have been launched (two berths ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... active research into the area of national and international security, with a particular focus on the development of a monitoring system known as the ‘Security Equation,’ designed to monitor Russia’s geopolitical security.
The implementation of the project involves a series of stages, beginning with the creation of a conceptual model for assessing Russia’s geopolitical security. As part of this initial stage, a seminar was held to explore key concepts related to geopolitical security, including ...
Party system nationalization in Estonia
This article explores the Estonian ‘integration’ project, which was launched in the early 1990s to bridge the differences between ethnic Estonians and ethnic Russians by assimilating the latter with the former. Since the project will soon turn thirty, it is timely to ask whether it has been a success....
The influence of the transport factor on the investment competitiveness of coastal regions in the European part of Russia.
... capable of harnessing the benefits of agglomeration and seaside factors in such regions. A tool to improve the level of economic development and investment attractiveness of these regions is the implementation of large trasnsport infrastructure projects. The article analyzes how the implementation of projects under the Federal Target Program “Development of the Transport System of Russia (2010—2021)” contributed to an increase in the economic efficiency of the transport industry in ...
The modelling of investment and current costs in investment project evaluation using spreadsheet tables
This article focuses on the calculation of investment and current costs of an investment project. The structure of calculations and approaches to their classification are described. Recommendations on organizing calculations of investment and current costs of investment project calculations in spreadsheet tables are produced. It is proposed ...
The prime of Jimmy Carter: The 90th anniversary of ex-President
... Джимми Картер // Американские президенты: 41 исторический портрет от Джорджа Вашингтона до Билла Клинтона. Ростов н/Д, 1997.
5. 2014 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project // Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project. URL:
http://www.habitat.org/cwp/2014-1
(дата обращения: 14.04.2014).
6. Carter R. The First Lady from Plains. Boston, 1984.
7. Carters look back before their 30th Habitat work project // ...
The project method in multicultural education: Polish practices
This article analyses the results of an international project aimed at fa-miliarizing Kaliningrad teachers with the Polish multicultural education practices. The author stresses the potential of a number of methods and tech-niques, including the project method. The article addresses the teachers’ pre-paredness ...
The development of universal learning actions in primary school students by means of project-task technology
This article presents a model of formation of universal learning actions in younger school students through solving project tasks. The author offers a technology of its implementation, which makes it possible to create personal, regulatory, informative, and communicative universal educational actions.
1. Асмолов А. Г., Бурменская Г. В., Володарская ...
Cooperation between Russia and the EU in the field of innovative development of tourism: the case of the Lithuania — Poland — Russia cross-border cooperation programme
To study the key instruments of international cooperation between Russia and the European Union aimed at stimulating innovative development of tourism co-financed by the EU and Russia. The author describes specific projects implemented in the framework of the Lithuania-Poland-Russia cross-border cooperation programme for 2009—2013 in the field of tourism. Special attention is paid to analysing tourism innovations that have emerged as a result of the projects aimed ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... “ghetto list” until 2021), the number of these areas has decreased to 12 in 2021 and to 10 in 2022.<33> In 2021, the new government initiative “Mixed residential areas — the next step in the fight against parallel societies” published a project for ‘mixed cities’ (blundede byer)<34> that involved cohabitation of the residents, despite their economic, social and ethnic differences.
In December 2022, “The political basis for Denmark’s government” outlined the course of ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... importers, inflated prices for the transportation of goods across their territory, created obstacles to the construction of transit transport infrastructure, and put forward various political demands. In particular, in 2013, Poland refused to approve the project for the construction of the Yamal — Western Europe-2 gas pipeline, demanding as an ultimatum that in the section leading to the Polish border, the pipe should not pass through the shorter and more reliable route through Belarus, but through ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... and Security Policy (CFSP). More than two-thirds of those participating in the referendum voted for the abolition of that provision, which until that moment had been one of the foundations of Copenhagen’s limited status in the European integration project. Actually, given the sharp aggravation of the security situation in Europe and the confrontation between Russia and the West, any attempts by the European Union to build its military and political identity, autonomous from NATO and the United ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... working actively to achieve tangible results within its above-mentioned three long-term priorities: regional identity; sustainable and prosperous region; and, safe and secure region. More specifically, they invited the CBSS to identify and launch new project activities, with a view to achieving concrete results within each of the following subject areas:
Sustainable development. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change marked the beginning ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... image and present Riga as a business travel destination. About 200 events were organised during Latvia’s presidency, with 25,000 people staying in Riga for 2—3 days [17].
The Baltic States are active participants in the European Capitals of Culture project supported by the Council of the European Union. Repeated victories in this prominent annual competition have played an important role in raising European tourists’ awareness of the three capitals. This prestigious title was awarded to Vilnius ...