A Relation to the Politikal Revolution as a Touchstone for Practical Philosophy
This paper presents a critical review of an article by the eminent Russian Kantianist Prof A. N. Kruglov published under the title “Immaturity and the objective of a true reform in ways of thinking” in Kantovsky Sbornik (issues 3—4, 2014). The critical analysis focuses on the practical conclusion, in which Prof Kruglov expresses his negative attitude to the French Revolution and shows ambiguous disapproval of Kant’s ...
Media images of the Kaliningrad region in the structure of migration attitudes of millennials and the reform generation
... economically attractive area, a territory of developing infrastructure, and a tourist destination. The most substantial intergenerational differences concern the media images of a military outpost and an economically attractive area. Members of the reform generation are more likely than millennials to see a military threat and consider the security aspect when moving. Millennials showed greater awareness of what constitutes the image of an economically attractive region. It is concluded that differences ...
Mobility and migration intentions of the Reform Generation and Millennials of the Kaliningrad region
This paper focuses on the results of a sociological study of mobility and migration intentions of the Reform Generation and Millennials in the Kaliningrad region. In this regard, different approaches to the theory of generations are analyzed. The authors define the age groups that make up the Reform Generation and the Millennials and identify features ...
Land Use Policy and Land Management in Estonia
This article studies the effect of land reform on the development of current land policy and land management efficiency. The authors present a review of materials focusing on the new land policy, land management and land use system at a new stage of Estonian development. This policy has led ...
Kant als Mystiker? Zur These von Carl Arnold Wilmans’ dissertatio philosophica
... Anfänge des Pietismus im Luthertum. Gießen: Töpelmann.
Breul, W., Meier, M., Vogel, L., hg. 2011. Der radikale Pietismus. Perspektiven der Forschung. 2. Aufl. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Bubenheimer, U., Oehmig, S., hg. 2001. Querdenker der Reformation. Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt und seine frühe Wirkung. Würzburg: Religion & Kultur.
Danckelmann, E. von, 1897. Kant als Mystiker?! Eine Studie. Leipzig: H. Haacke.
Dekens, O., 2000. Les droits du coeur. Réceptivité de la raison et ...
Geography of Electoral Volatility in the Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship of Poland
The authors describe the impact of administrative reforms on the electoral volatility in the Warmia and Mazury voivodeship of Poland. The administrative reforms resulted in the formation of a new territorial organization of power. Using three large administrative units of Poland as an example, the authors ...
Municipal Tax Autonomy under Conditions of Budget Federalism: Reform Experience in Italy and Russia
... autonomy is characterized by the growing role of municipal taxes and overall decline in public transfers. In the Russian Federation, municipal budgets depend crucially on the mechanism of federal and municipal tax redistribution at this stage of municipal reform. The author comes to the conclusion that legal innovations in the field of the tax base of local autonomies in Russia follow the pattern of the Italian local autonomy reform.
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закон об общих ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
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The increase in the number of immigrants influenced changes in integration policy. This was reflected in the new strategic document for 2018 — “The government’s long-term strategy to reduce and counteract segregation” based on the “Long-term reform programme to reduce segregation for 2017—2025”.<43> This programme was proposed by the government, headed by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and represented by the coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party. These reforms ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
The article explores the impact of geopolitical processes on the spatial organisation of society, a matter that has gained increasing importance in Russia. It focuses on the utilization of the World Ocean and its coastlines for resource extraction, logistics, military-strategic purposes, and settlement. Methodologically, this study combines modern socio-geographical approaches emphasising the role of the maritime factor in spatial development with classical geopolitical ideologemes drawing a line...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
This article aims to analyse the structure of sites in the Kaliningrad region commemorating events, phenomena or figures of international history, as well as to reveal their symbolic significance. The study uses empirical data on the origin, time of construction and purpose of the monuments, memorials and other places of commemoration. Theoretically, it draws on the concepts of cultural memory and sites of memory. The idiographic and historiographic methods were employed along with general scientific...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... The socio-economic situation in the country, which became more uncertain following the 2019—2021 territorial consolidation, does not ensure either equal growth of territories or sustainable and harmonised national development. In the course of the reform, the number of 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 ...
Local government reforms in Estonia: institutional context, intentions and outcomes
The local government reforms of 1989 and 1993 were intended to establish a dual pattern of central-local relations in Estonia. The choice of this model was inspired and supported by the Nordic states. Although the legal framework for local government has remained untouched ...
Towards methodology of humanities on the way to reform in logic
The article discusses several options for developing the methodology of the humanities by means of the "reform of logic" which is understood as the "organon" of cognition. I argue that the theories of Hermann Cohen, Wilhelm Windelband and Ernst Cassirer deliver the examples for the transition from epistemology to philosophy of culture, and ...
The legal status of the allotment land in the period of P. A. Stolypin’s agrarian reform
This article analyses the changes to the legal status of various categories of allotment during P.A. Stolypin’s agrarian reform. It is shown that the introduction of the institution of personal property (which is not identical to private property) did not mean the elimination of rural community’s ownership of a significant part of the allotment land.
1. Анфимов ...
The legal aspects of community elimination during the Stolypin agrarian reform
... though analyzing the legal nature of the farmstead and district land tenure formed through placing land in personal ownership, individual allotments, and complete division of rural lands into farmsteads and isolated land plots. It is shown that the reform legislation did not suggest legal discrimination of the community, which retained its administrative, economic, and land-related functions.
1. Вронский О. Г. Государственная власть России и крестьянская ...
Peasant affairs institutions in post-reform Russia
This article is an attempt to identify the role of peasant affairs institutions in the governmental system of post-reform Russia. The subject of the research is the public policy towards peasant affairs agencies during the second half of the 19th century. Special attention is paid to the change of the legal status and authority of these institutions and their relations with local authorities and population.
1. Катаев М. М. Местные крестьянские учреждения 1861...
Does corruption influence the sustainability of economic growth?
... strengthened institutional structure continue to deliver the results of technical cooperation to the ultimate end-users? Individuals and organizations can join in sharing resources for creating a sustainable future. Anticorruption strategies are related to the reform of state institutions. One advantage of the fundamental economic reform approach is that by linking anticorruption strategies to the reform of economic policies and institutions, the struggle against corruption can be seen as one of the issues ...
Institutional approach to assessing the transition to a circular economy: the case of the Kaliningrad region
The article discusses possible reasons for the failure of Russia’s waste management industry reform and highlights the ownership blurring as a factor that may hinder the transition to a circular economy, which has been proposed as one of the outcomes of the reform. This study aims to address possible obstacles to transitioning to a circular economy ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... positioned itself as the region’s most Catholic country and, when devising its project, relied on the logic of converting neighbours to a ‘truer’ religion. Yet, in the 16th—17th centuries, this doctrine lost its popularity amid the turbulence of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. To a degree, this development was very much in line with the general European trend towards secularisation. According to Kalevi Holsti’s calculations, in 1648—1713, states tended to abstain from religious justifications ...
Heritage aspect of personal insurance
The relevance of the presented study lies in the active process of reforming domestic civil legislation, and in particular, the rules of insurance. A number of proposals for changing the current legal regulation, formulated in the Concept for the Development of the Provisions of Part Two of the Civil Code of the Russian ...
Von der mathematischen zur kritischen Metaphysik der Natur. Lambert und Kant
In the mid-1760s, Johann Heinrich Lambert wrote a letter to Kant who offered cooperation with a view to reforming metaphysics. Based on the short correspondence between the two philosophers, it can be shown that this cooperation could never really come about. Nevertheless the thesis was sometimes put forward in research that Lambert had a defining influence ...
Attempts to reform the financial system of the German Empire in the early XX century
... till 1909. By this time a large-scale project, dedicated to creation of powerful navy (since 1897), was already – in progress. New Reichschancellor’s Government tries to stimulate the financial system of the country, however, without much progress. Reforms of the German financiers of that time have been the issue to study by Russian or foreign scientists. This article is concerned with the task of examination of these reforms taking place in 1904 and 1906.
Maksimov I.P.
German Empire, Prussia,...
Latvian policy on the Russian-language education
The article studies the development of Russian-language school education in independent Latvia from 1992 to 2020, as well as the process of reforming this system by official authorities. At the time of declaration of independence and withdrawal from the USSR, a bilingual education system which was formed in Latvia, made it possible to get education at all levels (from kindergarten to technical ...
The political debate on the change of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland after the parliamentary elections of 2015
... zmiany konstytucji. Warszawa 2017. P. 160.
8. Pastuszko G. Instytucja konstruktywnego wotum nieufności w systemach ustrojowych państw europejskich — analiza prawno-porównawcza // Przegląd Sejmowy. 2014. No. 3(122). P. 38—39.
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10. Banaszak B. Opinia prawna na temat przedstawionego ...
Constitutional reforms and stability of the Сonstitution: balance finding problems
... revising the Constitution. Based on 25 years of experience in implementing the supreme law of the Russian Federation, various approaches to changing the text of the Constitution are analyzed. Speial attention is paid to the analysis of proposals to reform the constitutional law, which in effect means replacing the current Constitution with a new one. The author aims to study possible effects of constitutional reforms and the stability of the Constitution. He substantiates his position regarding ...
Institutional and investment projects in the context of railway transport reform (reflections on the book)
... В. А. Крюкова. Новосибирск, 2017.
3. Тамбовцев В. Л. Основы институционального проектирования : учеб. пособие. М., 2008.
Shekhovtseva L. S.
institutional project, reform, railway transport, complexity, uncertainty
114-118
Representation of religious and confessional values of the Reformation and Protestantism in the phraseological heritage of Martin Luther
The article is devoted to the study of German phraseological units and paroemias, which go back to Martin Luther and reflect the era of the Reformation and its confessional values. The analysis showed that the unique confessional experience left a significant trace in the phraseological picture of the world of the German people. The author draws a conclusion that the conceptual foundation ...
‘A power of shuffled letters’: anagrams in the European culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
This article addresses the history of anagrams in the European culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The author stresses the variety of application of anagrams within cultural practices of difference social groups. Promising areas of research on anagrams in the context of European culture are identified.
1. Дементьев И. О. «Что (не) написал Соссюр»: полвека дискуссий о теории анаграмм // Вестник Балтийского федерального...
Peasant’s personal land ownership during Stolypin’s reforms: Myths and reality
This article provides a legal analysis of personal ownership of estate, parcels of land in homestead villages, and fortified communal land in the village, which was acquired by peasants under the legislative acts of the agrarian reform. Based on a comparison of general civil and peasant legislation, the author emphasises the differences between personal ownership, which replaced the family ownership of a peasant homestead, from private ownership. They related to maintaining a ...
On the legal nature of collateral in view of the reforms in the Russia civil legislation
This article addresses certain issues of the legal regulation of collaterals in view of the civil law reforms. The author considers the problem of establishing the legal nature of the collateral, as well as the possibilities of using certain types of collaterals.
1. О совершенствовании Гражданского кодекса Российской ...
Education in the context of the problem of rationality
... in this context. Education distinguishes between training and upbringing and emphasises the need to increase the level of rationality of education in order to overcome crisis phenomena in the society. Special attention is paid to the higher education reform implemented in Russia.
1. Автономова Н. С. Рассудок, разум, рациональность. М., 1988.
2. Андрейчук Н. В. Проблема непрерывного образования в контексте ...
Rightists against Stolypin: traditionalists on Stolypin’s judicial and law enforcement reform
This article focuses on the position of Russian right-wing parties in the beginning of the 20th century regarding one of the components of Stolypin modernisation programme — the judicial and law enforcement reform.
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Lutheranism in Finland: past and present
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3. Makarov, I. V. 2007, Ocherki istorii Reformacii v Finlyandii (1520—1620-e gg.): formirovanie nacional'noj cerkovnosti. Portrety vydayushhixsya deyatelej finskoj Reformacii [Studies in the History of the Reformation in Finland (1520—1620-ies.): Establishment of a national church life. Portraits of prominent figures of the Finnish Reformation], St. Petersburg, 560 p.
4. Martynov, V. L., Faibusovich, E. L. 2010, Social'no-e'konomicheskaya geografiya ...
The Youth in Kaliningrad, Gdansk and Klaipeda: Geopolitical Vision of the World, Identity and Images of the Other
... looks to the Baltic Sea], Nezavisimaya Gazeta, available at: http://www.ng.ru/politics/2009-10-02/3_kartblansh.html (accessed 12.07.2014).
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10. Kolosov,...
Russia and the European Union: an elusive quest for common values?
... to fight prison voting plan, The Independent, 23 May, available at: http://www. independent. co. uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-tofight-prison-voting-plan-7781521.html (accessed 17 June 2012).
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Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... system and its structures in Europe, the dissolution of the USSR and the formation in the Baltic space of ethnocentric post-socialist states undergoing a process of ‘Westernization’ occurring at different speeds across the area. This process involved reforms rooted in Western political, economic, and humanitarian technologies. For the first time, despite the ongoing divergence in geopolitical stances among states within pre-existing subregions, there was active development in economic, social, and ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... Christians. Two-thirds of these identified as Protestants.
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the Faroe Islands is autonomous as well. From the end of the 10th—beginning of the 11th centuries until 1538, the archipelago was a Catholic diocese. After the Reformation, it existed for some time as an independent Lutheran diocese and was then incorporated into the diocese of Zealand of the ELCD.
Since its independence in 2007, the Church of the Faroe Islands is the smallest state church in the world. It consists ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... The global crisis of 2008—2009 highlighted the precarious state of the economy of the region where the decline in GRP and international trade was more considerable than across the country (Fig. 1).
In 2006, the SEZ-1996 regime underwent extensive reforms. These changes were driven not only by the fragile economic situation but also by the push for closer Eurasian integration, Russia’s accession to the WTO, and the concerns of producers from the country’s mainland regions. According to the ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
Over the past 25 years, Russia has faced several economic and geopolitical challenges, including the 2008 global financial crisis, sanctions imposed in 2014, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To remain resilient in the face of these challenges, Russia needs to adopt a flexible development strategy and transition to a new path of development. This transition requires the development of new knowledge-intensive industries, expansion into promising markets, strengthening trade and economic partnerships, and...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... between Europe and North America via the Greenland — Iceland — United Kingdom (GIUK) gap, as well as in the Arctic. It is not yet known which JFC Sweden will be assigned to after joining NATO. The authors of these publications expect that further reforms of NATO’s command structure will be guided by a strategic vision for the Nordic and Baltic regions as a joint operational area [26].
The ‘nuclear factor’ in the military-political equation that is emerging in the new conditions, will most ...
The Transcendental Deduction of Categories as Philosophical Proof
My aim is to reconstruct the basic steps and the fundamental idea of Kant’s transcendental deduction of categories as well as Hegel’s interpretation and reframing of Kant’s idea. Hegel’s reading is crucial for two reasons: first, for fixing the basic form of the Kantian argument and secondly, for understanding its metaphilosophical relevance. For Hegel, philosophical proof has a specific nature, which distinguishes it from scientific proof and brings it closer to a juridical one. In this...
The end of the collective farm (the case of the collective farm “Novaya Znizn”, Pravdinsky district, Kaliningrad region)
... a guarantee of support in the face of the critical economic situation in the Russian countryside in the early 1990s.
Filev M.V.
agriculture, Kaliningrad region, collective farm, microhistory, history of everyday life, Perestroika, agrarian reforms
58-68
10.5922/sikbfu-2023-3-6
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... reinforcing values such as freedom of speech, diversity, democracy, and collective resilience, resonating with the core principles of Swedish soft power and diplomatic efforts in the region.<12> Therefore, after the socio-economic and political reforms in the post-Soviet area had taken place, the SI initiated its soft power activities to promote the Swedish understanding of democratic values.
The establishment of the SI Visby programme in 1995 served as a clear demonstration of Swedish foreign ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
...
Benefits acquired, evaluation of transformation success
Exchange of confidential information, a higher status in the eyes of Washington compared to other European countries, and privileged relations with the US ensure Denmark’s greater influence on NATO reforms and the transformation of transatlantic relations
Transformation and modernisation of the Danish armed forces, their evolution from a means of national defence into a tool for power projection; military force is now seen as a legitimate and ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... strengthen the CBSS as a key platform for regional cooperation and communication as well as confirming three current long-term priorities as strategic goals for the foreseeable future.<17>
Moscow actively partook in the discussion on the CBSS Reform Roadmap which was approved during the Latvian chairmanship in 2018—2019.<18> Russia also supported the Danish presidency in its efforts to adopt revised Terms of Reference of the CBSS and of the CBSS Secretariat. Moscow was also helpful ...
The transition process and institutions: on the issue of the standard of living in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe — members of the European Union
... inherited such home ownership structure from the centrally planned economy institutions, i.e. individually-owned and cooperative housing, as well as subsidized state-owned housing stock that became the private property of tenants at the start of market reforms. We propose a technique of taking into account households’ income and housing costs (mortgage and rent) in one indicator given the current home ownership structure in an economy. After the purchasing power parity (PPP) adjustment, our calculations ...
Kant and the New Enlightenment: On the Balance between Duty and Utilitarian Ends
... points of the philosophy of balance: the balance between development and justice (Kantian republicanism), between the speed and stability of development (external policy, the Kantian peace project), and between the short-term and long-term perspectives (reform policy). I then touch upon the problem of the implementation of Kantian principles in politics in the light of the reception of Kant in the modern theories of social conflicts, the communication theory of J. Habermas and the justice theory of J....
Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment and Its Alternatives
... nravouchitelnoy filosofii. i chastyakh eya iz Entsiklopedii [Articles on Moral Philosophy, and Parts of It from the Encyclopedia]. Part II. St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoy Akademii nauk. (In Rus.)
Krouglov, A. N., 2014. Immaturity and the Objective of a True Reform in Ways of Thinking. Part II. Kantian Journal, 4(50), pp. 39-53. (In Rus.)
Krouglov, A. N., 2023. The Concept of Enlightenment in Russian Philosophy of the 18th Century. Khristianskoye Chteniye, 1, pp. 225-245 (In Rus.)
Lichtenberg, G. C., 2000....
Evolution of civil promotion in rank in the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries
... servants are seen to be essential for the XIX century. The article attempts at answering the question why the government failed to abolish civil ranks throughout the entire 19th century. In addition, the article explores possible alternative ways of reforming the system of civil ranks that could be adopted by the government of the Russian Empire.
Makei A.D.
Russian Empire, civil bureaucracy, officials, bureaucracy, historiography
39-52
10.5922/sikbfu-2023-1-4