The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... through. After the deal failed, there were many media reports saying that the reasons for the refusal were politically motivated.<4> General Motors, which controlled Opel at that time, under pressure from the American authorities, did not want to provide Russia with access to Opel technologies and patents, even though these technologies were mass-produced and could hardly be considered the most advanced and sensitive from the point of view of military rivalry.<5>
It is also necessary to ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
The study exemplifies the use of an institutional-territorial approach for a comprehensive description of a national denominational landscape. The article aims to provide such an account by analysing relevant official data and performing statistical processing using computational tools. The focus is on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark and its administrative-territorial structures. The study places emphasis ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... and the in-migration from the region’s municipalities merely offsets the out-migration from administrative centres to larger cities. The largest and most attractive city in the NWFD is St. Petersburg, which is a separate federal subject — a status providing more budgetary rights. The registration of PJSC Gazprom in St. Petersburg in 2021 resulted in a 2.5-fold growth in the profit of the city’s economy and augmented its budget revenues. The population of the Helsinki subregion is also growing ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... amplifying the entrepreneurial potential of students in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. This aspect is increasingly gaining attention from universities, which collaborate closely with the business sector, governmental bodies, and regional agencies to provide diverse forms of support to aspiring business students. The final part of the article addresses issues that require more active and innovative participation of academia in activities enhancing the role of student youth in the economic development ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... principles to select and interpret empirical data:
1. Sources should be representative, i.e., they need to reflect typical rather than irregular developments in the Russian discourse on the BSR societal security;
2. Preferences are given to the data that provide valuable and timely information on Moscow’s policies in the region;
3. Priority is also given to the sources that reflect original data as well as fresh/non-traditional approaches both to the Russian BSR discourse and Moscow’s policies within ...
On fate and/or providence in Pushkin’s short story ‘The blizzard’
... the functioning of the traditional plot are considered against the background of the interrelation and interdependence between fate, chance, and free will. In a Christian reading, the attitudes of the main characters of the three works to God's providence explain the motives behind their actions, the further course of events, and the endings of the works.
Vasilyev, S. А., 2008. “Metel” or “Myatel”? On the title of the story of A. S. Pushkin. Nauchnyi zhurnal Russkaya rech' ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... Sanctions against large legal entities created risks for the stability of regional economies but the increase in demand for domestic products offset this impact. Foreign enterprises exiting the market posed risks of disrupting production chains but also provided opportunities for local business development. Before some countries introduced sanctions, their companies had held more than 20 % of the market share in Kaluga, Moscow region, and the city of Moscow. However, the share of foreign firms that announced ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... 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 and dynamics of the economic development of territories are considered for regions (constituent entities of the Russian Federation) and macroregions ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... regionally-produced goods have been restricted, and transit through the Baltic States has become more difficult. This article aims to assess the impact of these restrictions on the development of manufacturing industries in the region. Another goal is to provide a rationale for the restructuring of specialization and changes in the geography of external relations in these increasingly complex external circumstances. Recommendations based on the findings obtained will contribute to the region’s sustainable ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... 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 country with an opportunity for distinctive influence in decision-making and agenda-setting in NATO, the EU, and transatlantic cooperation. A qualitative content analysis of the 2017—2018, 2019—2020 and 2022 Danish foreign policy strategies ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... ‘reputation of regional executive authorities’ and ‘reputation of Russia’s authorities’.
Given the aforementioned findings and the study’s aim to identify distinctive attributes of the reputation core of regional executive power, it is relevant to provide an expert opinion regarding the concepts analysed. Experts were asked the following question: “Are there, in your opinion, attributes, characteristics or aspects specific to the reputation of regional executive authorities?” and “Is it possible,...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... trends.
The territorial development index (TDI) for regions, towns and villages, devised by the Latvian State Regional Development Agency, is an adequate measure of inequalities in the socio-economic development of the country’s towns. The TDI may provide a better understanding of the structure of development disparities amongst towns, helping to make the socio-economic disparity removal policy for regions, municipalities and towns more targeted. The index will also be of use when conducting ...
On some aspects of psychological assistance on Instagram
The research is devoted to identifying the specifics of professional and non-professional psychological assistance provided in Instagram. The authors carried out content analysis of the accounts of 50 bloggers, 25 of whom are professional psychologists and 25 parapsychologists working on the Instagram every day. Each blogger has from 19,000 to 2,500,000 subscribers....
Some problems of the procedure of recognising a citizen as a person with low income for the purpose of providing accommodation in the framework of a social rent contract
The law of the Kaliningrad region On the Procedure of Recognising a Citizen as a Person with Low Income for the Purpose of Providing Municipal Accommodation in the Framework of a Social Rent Contract serves as a basis for the consideration of issues of introducing a mechanism of assessing the level of a citizen’s income and the value of their property for the purpose of ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... scale and they remain ‘slightly favourable’ or ‘semi favourable’ — for example, the ‘family reunion’ indicator is only 25 points. At the same time, non-Western migrants<4> are the most limited in their civil rights and the least provided with security — this indicator in Denmark is only 17 points.
The European migration crisis of 2015 became an “exogenous shock” [1] for European national models of immigration control. Faced with the prospect of hosting an unprecedentedly ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... meeting documents within the B3 + 1 format. Lastly, the theory of armed forces building is utilized to examine armed forces as continually evolving organisms, where any significant change carries both military and political implications. The article provides a detailed analysis of the step-by-step reinforcement of the Bundeswehr’s military presence in Lithuania, highlighting changes in its complexity principle alongside the evolution of Lithuanian land forces.
Historical and political contours ...
Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
... theme of moral instructions in the Old English tradition. The poem, along with other Old English sermons and Christian poems, represents the suggestion of moral rules regarding early Christian life, being a set of orders for believers. This article provides the author's translation of the contexts of the poem Instructions for Christians. The problem of studying the phenomenon of instructions and the representation of the indisputable position of faith in the ancient culture of the Anglo-Saxons is ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... cross-border cooperation, the restructuring of foreign trade relations in Russia’s three Baltic regions, and the geopolitical and military factors influencing the development and security of these territories. Based on the findings, several suggestions are provided to promote the ongoing growth of Russia’s Baltic regions and enhance their economic and military security.
Introduction
In our earlier publications, my colleagues and I, in assessing interstate interactions in the Baltic region, analysed ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... and women retire. URL:
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Agricultural production dynamics and industry consolidation
A monograph by Gintarė Pociūtė-Sereikienė provides a detailed analysis of the situation in agriculture [28]. Below, more recent data are presented comparing the dynamics of agricultural production and population in the Kaliningrad region.
Figure 6 shows that after a fall in the regional agricultural ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... internationalization of higher education in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are closely tied to a country’s image promotion through public diplomacy. In this context, donor countries develop support mechanisms for incoming foreign students or interns, providing them with insights into the social, cultural, and political landscape of the host country. Until 2022, the scholarship policies implemented by the EU and national foundations and agencies in Europe and America towards Russia generated mixed ...
Information and propaganda strategies in German non-state media discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
... help individuals adapt to unfamiliar or challenging circumstances. However, knowledge disseminated through education is independent of one’s interests. Education does not force opinions and does not control the implementation of imposed attitudes; it provides a choice and may even retreat if the ideas and attitudes being broadcast are not accepted. Within the framework of education, various forms of communication are available, including interactive methods like discussions and debates. The key element ...
Really: syntactics without semiotics?
... characteristics of all sign systems, from a perspective of interpreting most or all of them as secondary respective to natural language. Formal models of language deal with classes of elements and predict their positions. Lexicographic descriptions provide instructions to the use of particular language items treated as signs with their concepts and syntactics. Functional words including discourse particles allow both approaches. The existence of Old Russian particle TI1 as has been proved by Zaliznjak ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... efficiency of regional research and education systems [26], the energy sector [27], environmental management systems [28], and innovative production [29]. DEA does not focus on processes within the system but aids in analysing inputs and outputs, as well as providing recommendations on optimizing them to increase the system’s efficiency [30].
Using DEA to study the system of knowledge production offers helps make informed personnel and financial decisions at a regional level to ensure the efficiency of ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... performance efficiency. The findings obtained through the proposed methodology consider criteria at different levels of seaport management, offering valuable practical implications. Notably, this study fills a gap in the literature as no previous work has provided a comprehensive methodology for studying and analyzing ports from the perspectives of management, logistics, and macroeconomics. The system approach can also incorporate environmental considerations and innovative solutions in port infrastructure ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... villages belonging to different municipalities, between cities and their suburbs, i. e., between territories, the distance between which can be associated with migration and commuting alike.
The data obtained through observations and field studies have provided empirical evidence that individuals tend to travel relatively short distances when they enter vocational school. The distance of migration to university is classified as medium-length. Yet, very few 16- and 18-year-olds move distances shorter ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... European countries. The spatial structure development is examined from the standpoint of the centre-periphery model of tourism space. The identification of core regions, less developed peripheral territories and intermediate semi-peripheral areas provides a rationale for spatial development strategies for tourism and makes it possible to increase the efficiency of tourism destination management by distinguishing between driver regions and territories in need of support.
State of research
A surge ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... highest risk. All of them are in close proximity to St. Petersburg, constituting the periphery of its agglomeration.
In the other two zones of the Leningrad region, the restrictions were less tight. In the first zone, single-window service centres provided a limited range of services by appointment only; the clients were required to wear masks when visiting the centres. In the second zone (the Volosovsky, Kirishsky, Kirovsky, Lomonosovsky, Luga, Priozersky, Slantsevsky and Sosnovy Bor districts),...
Typographic landscape in urban space: a sociolinguistic approach
This paper suggests a sociolinguistic approach to typographic landscape analysis. Typography is discussed as a semiotic resource with meaning-making potential. The paper argues that typographic variation provides dynamic indexical links to social practice. It obtains its ‘social voice’ and becomes an integral part of the social context in which it is perceived as typical and able to generate particular socially loaded meanings. This research is in ...
The racial issue in the context of the activation of intraparty pressure groups in Great Britain in the 1950―1960 s
The relevance of the article is connected with the evolution of the racial issue, which includes a large amount of different social problems. These problematic developed after the Second World War and still stay a very important. This article provides an analysis of the evolution of special lobbies in British political system, and their influence on the creation of political decisions in this sphere of migration in 1965. The research was created in the functional paradigm, which provides to ...
The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility
... argument is made: 1) the sublime nature of the image of Christ — as an image of universal respect for the law — awakens the moral feeling of subjects in the sense of the possibility of overcoming one’s perverted nature; 2) as moral perfection it provides immediate transparency to the end goal of morality; 3) just as in the case of associative construction of empirical concepts, the sublime provides the prototype for association through which empirical acts are determined as moral ones; 4) the ...
The special economic zone in the Kaliningrad region: towards a more effective legal regime
In this article, I aim at identifying the main trends in the development of the laws on the special legal regime of entrepreneurship in the Kaliningrad region. I address the problems of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the Kaliningrad region and provide recommendations for improving its legal regulation. I analyse the 12 years experience of the practical application of the federal law on the regional SEZ and examine the gaps and conflicts in the regulatory legal acts. In this study, I consider ...
German youth slang as a reflection of modern reality
... 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 between events taking place in the lives of young people and in their country, on the one hand, and neologisms that emerge in youth slang, on the other. I list slang words and expressions most popular among the youth ...
Western border regions of Russia: delimitation, structure, typology
... geopolitics, geoeconomy, culture, and mindset. Relying on the interpretations of ‘border’, ‘frontier’, and ‘borderlands’, which are traditional for Russian limnology, I outline the geo-concept of ‘western border regions of Russia’ and provide a rationale for its understanding as a continuous-discrete, dynamic, multi-scale, transboundary socio-geographical phenomenon. I pay particular attention to the principles of, and approaches to, the delimitation of western border regions....
Forensic Thinking and Crime Investigation Programming
In this article, I provide an overview of the history of investigation programming and analyse the shortcomings of the algorithm method. Apparently, these shortcomings can be overcome by forensic thinking. I provide my own interpretation of forensic thinking structure and ...
The Amber Industry: Development Сhallenges and Combating Amber Trafficking in the Baltic Region
... Case No. 5-346 / 2016 on an administrative offense under Art. 7.5. Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, Archive of the Baltic District Court of the Kaliningrad Region, 2016. (in Russ.)
16. Case No. 5—342 / 2016 on the administrative offense provided for in Part 1 of Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. Archive of the Baltic District Court of the Kaliningrad Region, 2016. (in Russ.)
17. Case No. 5—87—1М / 2017 on an administrative offense provided ...
Introducing Sectoral Models into Regional Management: An Assessment of Regulatory Impacts on the Economy
... authors construct sectoral models to assess regulatory impacts on regional economic performance. Assessments of regulatory impacts on product value chains, economic sectors, and regions as a whole show good repeatability, which makes it possible to provide a rationale for economic decision-making. The authors propose new sectoral models using the Kaliningrad region as an example. The models are used in a comprehensive analysis of conditions for a GRP growth resulting from an increase in sectoral ...
Rationality criteria of technical item multifunction degree in equipment park
Criteria of rationality of degree of multifunctionality of the technical park providing functioning of park of equipment are offered. Criteria are developed taking into account features of functioning of system of higher level of hierarchy, than the system providing functioning of separately taken technical products.
1. Анипко ...
On asymmetry in game-theoretic semantics
This article provides an analysis of the key aspects of game-theoretic semantics and demonstrates its advantages in presenting incomplete information and imperfect memory. The author identifies the limitations of J. Hintikka’s game-theoretic semantics as to the ...
The features of providing telecommunication infrastructure for business activity
This article considers the basic provisions of the methodology for providing telecommunication infrastructure for business activities at different management levels. The author proves that it is possible to develop this methodology on the basis of queuing theory. The author proposes an algorithm of forecasting changes ...
The technical neural system for mobile robots
The concept of the technical neural system for mobile robots is described. Mathematical description and the algorithm of learning are provided. A brief description of a subject domain is given and a feature of the problem is explained. The ways of application of the theory to mobile ropotics are specified. The future design of the theory is provided.
1. Буков А. А. Технические ...
The Balance Model of Regional Development Management in Certain Territorial Conditions: Development and Application
In this article the authors detail the methodology of regional development forecasting with the balance method. They provide with an overview and assessment of the existing models and systems, and their use for the purposes of public administration at the regional level. The article underlines the need to develop a balance approach models for specific territorial conditions....
Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
...
Political geography studies encompass a wide range of topics and methodologies, reflecting the complex and multifaceted nature of political geography and geopolitics. Within Russian political geography, various theoretical approaches have emerged, aiming to provide theoretical frameworks for interpreting extensive empirical data.
The most influential of these concepts is the territorial-political organisation of society [1, p. 289—290], which represents a continued evolution of the more general concept ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
...
2.9
2.9
2.8
3.2
3.1
3.0
2.5
– 0.4
Pskov region
4.4
3.5
3.6
3.9
3.8
3.8
3.8
– 0.6
Republic of Karelia
3.6
3.6
3.7
3.9
4.0
3.9
3.2
– 0.4
Komi Republic
2.6
3.1
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.6
2.7
0.1
Compiled based on Rosstat data<1>.
Since 2015, the major providers of the GRP growth observed in the NWFD have been manufacturing (Vologda, Murmansk, Leningrad, Novgorod regions), mining (the Republic of Karelia), wholesale and retail trade (St. Petersburg)<2>. There is no doubt that human capital is ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... researchers who have compared statistical data on the development of cooperatives in Russia in the 1990s with the location of modern industrial clusters. The concentration of industrial zones in areas with a high percentage of cooperative enterprises provides implicit evidence of a connection between cooperative development and industrial production growth [7]. These trends acquire special significance amidst bans on foreign product imports and the necessity for import substitution development prompted ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... subparagraph of Article 83(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), i. e. this violation falls into the category of particularly serious transnational crimes. Remarkably, this is the first case of expanding the number of Eurocrimes provided for in Article 83 (1) of the TFEU after the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.
Moreover, the Commission has prepared a new draft directive on confiscation<14> intended to replace Directive № 2014/42/EU,<15> which is currently ...
Vocational education in Russia and China: the role of values in the transmission of experience revisited
... students, is conditioned by the comprehensive realization of a wide range of professional pedagogical values. Attitudes, means, knowledge, qualities relevant for the educational process are shown to be subordinated to the main value — the need to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve maximum technical freedom for a full artistic interpretation of a musical work. A conclusion is drawn that the rich axiological potential inherent in the Russian piano education ...
The Imperishable Kant: Deleuze on the Consistency of the Faculties of Reason
... and “gaps” that find their solution in the Critique of Judgment. Deleuze refers to the free coherence of the faculties as to “something third”, which gives options for reactualising Kant’s philosophy without striving to overcome it. I also provide a brief history of the issues related to Kantian philosophy, appearing in the works of Deleuze — from a course of lectures on the problem of grounds, given by the young Deleuze at the Lyceum Louis the Great in Paris, to his last article published ...