The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... statistical indicators. Based on the space of places/space of flows dichotomy, Russia’s Baltic regions can be divided into three spaces: 1) St. Petersburg, the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions (dominated by spaces of flows; highly permeable space); 2) the Republic of Karelia and the Murmansk region (the key factors are rotational employment and the introduction of the virus from without); 3) the Novgorod and Pskov regions (lowly permeable spaces of places; the central role of local foci of the disease)....
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... countries in foreign trade is only an indicator of foreign trade’s exposure to sanctions restrictions, but the region’s economy may be weakly vulnerable to this risk if it is generally oriented towards the domestic market, like the Kostroma region, the Republic of Khakassia, etc. The share of foreign companies that could potentially leave Russia (and or announced their decision to leave announced it) may be weakly related to the actual closure of enterprises and suspension of production, since the factories ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... region
3.4
2.9
2.9
2.9
3.0
2.9
2.7
– 0.7
Leningrad region
2.4
1.9
2.1
2.1
2.1
2.2
2.1
– 0.3
Murmansk region
3.2
2.9
3.1
3.2
3.1
2.5
2.1
– 1.1
Novgorod region
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
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Since 2015, the major providers of the GRP growth observed in the NWFD have been manufacturing (Vologda, Murmansk,...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... It has 15.6 times more performed R&D and 6.8 times more commissioned R&D than the Vologda Region occupying the second place, 22.4 times higher expenditure on performed R&D, and 10.6 times higher on commissioned R&D than the Leningrad region and the Republic of Karelia.
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Geographical distribution of R&D projects and total expenditure on R&D by performers and purchasers by regions of Northwest Russia, 2019—2021, % of the national total
Source: developed by the authors based on EGISU NIOKTR.<1>
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Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
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Our calculation
For reference
Efficiency in 2009—2022
Rank
RIS efficiency, 1998—2012
HSE’s Russian Regional
Innovation
Ranking 2018
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2
3
4
5
6
Ivanovo region
IVA
0.988
1
7
11
Kostroma region
KOS
0.974
2
3
71
Kemerovo region
KEM
0.967
3
20
22
Republic of Mariy El
ME
0.964
4
15
8
Novosibirsk region
NVS
0.964
5
10
10
Tomsk region
TOM
0.963
6
4
1
Belgorod region
BEL
0.960
7
43
19
Moscow
MOW
0.960
8
1
6
Lipetsk region
LIP
0.959
9
2
59
Arkhangelsk region
ARK
0.959
10
63
49
Republic of Tatarstan
...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... generation within the context of the current mobile network density.
Research Methodology
The study covers 85 out of the 89 Russian regions. It includes Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, as well as Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea, considered jointly. Notably, the study excludes the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions due to a lack of available information. The geoinformation analysis of ...
The Role of Small Countries in Post-Soviet Territorial Restructuring: the Baltic Case
This author analyses the 2013 Lithuanian presidency of the EU in the context of the Ukrainian crisis and evaluates the contribution of Latvia and Estonia (the former Soviet republics set to preside over the EU in 2015 and 2018) to the shift in the power balance in the post-Soviet space. Through assessing the actions of small countries in promoting the Eastern Partnership programme with an emphasis on the anti-Russian agenda,...
Geographical structure and dynamics of foreign trade relations of the Republic of Crimea with the border countries and economic security issues
The status of the Republic of Crimea as a new border region of Russia prioritizes the study of the region's foreign economic relations. The article focuses on general and particular foreign trade indicators of the Republic of Crimea while ensuring economic security of ...
Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West
... in the border regions of Russia’s North-West. The author describes successful tourist routes within the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) crossborder cooperation programmes. Particular attention is paid to the routes in the Republic of Karelia — the Blue Road, the White Road, and the Mining Road. The article stresses the importance of developing transboundary tourist routes in the border regions of Russia’s North-West. Designing and developing transboundary tourist routes ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... general (also China [2, p. 266—272] and Iran).
This shift in emphasis has entailed a reevaluation of tactics rather than a revision of the ultimate goal — the establishment of a global strategic presence. Since its creation in 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) has been a part of the community of ‘Western democracies’. However, this longstanding affiliation took on new significance in the mid-2010s. Germany sought to compensate for the weakening of its positions outside the Western ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... post-socialist state in Eastern Europe in terms of area and population, and it has a long common border with the post-Soviet countries of Russia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Moreover, there are clear similarities in the political transformation of the Republic of Poland and the Russian Federation. Since the PiS party (Pol. “Prawo i Sprawiedliwość”, Eng. “Law and Justice”) came to power, Poland has aligned its foreign and domestic policy with the values that are traditionally important to ...
The history of the integration between Russia’s Kaliningrad region and Poland’s northeastern voivodeships: A programme approach
... interact with neighboring voivodeships, 2016, Government of the Kaliningrad Region, available at:
https://gov39.ru/news/101/108786/
(accessed 17.01.2017). (In Russ.)
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http://www.klaipeda.mid.ru/img/eururegion.gif
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4. Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Poland on border crossings of 22 May 1992,...
Land Use Policy and Land Management in Estonia
... and denationalisation of real estate. The article describes mechanisms of the Romano-Germanic land management model, which has replaced the Soviet model in Estonia. It is shown that the model’s introduction has contributed to the development of the Republic’s land market and increased land use efficiency, in particular, in agriculture. There are positive trends towards land market development and an increase in production and investment in land use. Estonian land resources are a reliable strategic ...
Local border traffic as an efficient tool for developing cross-border cooperation
... simplified border crossing regime in border areas. This article analyses local border traffic as a cross-border cooperation tool. The territory described in the study includes the external borders of the EU (and Norway) with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The article will be of interest to specialists in international and, particularly, in cross-border cooperation. The authors analyse the mechanism of local border traffic and identify possible trends based on the general socioeconomic ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... regions in European Russia is substantially different from the rest of the country [29]. This means that in addition to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region separate consideration should be given to the three slower developing northern regions (the Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic, and the Murmansk Region) and the remaining five more successful regions (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, and Kaliningrad Regions). The Nenets Autonomous Okrug was studied as part of the Arkhangelsk Region....
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... foreign and domestic policy. This study uses a comparison method to analyse the activities of the two organisations and identify their significance for the EU.
Introductory remarks
Eastern European states (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic) and the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) are amongst the closest geographical neighbours of Russia. The history of Russia’s bilateral relations with them is rich in significant events from the countries’ common past and reflects ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... Initiative in particular [3], not to mention regular exercises including the US Navy.
Another notable trend in this context is the growing interest of European countries not geographically located in the Baltic region. Of these countries, the French Republic stands out, as its foreign policy traditionally focuses more on the South (the Mediterranean and Africa). Under President Emmanuel Macron, France has been making efforts to pay attention to the north-eastern borders of the European Union as ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... of regional economic policy on tourism.
Transboundary tourist mobility is a staple component in the lives of people residing in the Karelian borderlands and, at the same time, a promising area for the development of international tourism in the republic. It consists of mutual travel of the region’s residents and their Finnish counterparts for tourism, shopping and leisure. This article aims to answer the questions as to the role of transboundary tourist mobility in the life of the local community ...
The political debate on the change of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland after the parliamentary elections of 2015
In 1997, the Constitution of the Republic of Poland was adopted. Since then, constitutional disputes have continued in Poland. After the 2015 elections, they sharpened. In addition, Polish President Andrzej Duda proposed a change to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. This ...
German-German Relations and Credit Policy of Federal Republic of Germany in 1982-1985
This article investigates the credit policy of the Federal Republic of Germany towards the German Democratic Republic from 1982 to 1985. The author attempts to analyze the role of these credits in the development of German-German relations.
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Павлов Н.
В
. История современной ...
Experience of assessing the ethnic contrast of the borders of the republics of the Ural-Volga region
The experience of determining the ethnic contrast of the borders of the republics in the Ural-Volga region is presented based on a methodology that relies on assessing interethnic marriage rates between the titular nations of the republics and the Russian population. To achieve this, the study introduces an indicator called ...
The Republic of Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of Russia as a sub-regional security complex
... closely connected with military security. Although this interdependence is not new, the regional security system has been relatively stable for quite some time. The steadily, albeit gradually aggravating situation around the Kaliningrad region and the Republic of Belarus has caused a response — coordinated cooperation in the framework of the Union State. The consequence of which was the formation of a sub-regional security complex (SRSC), which includes the Republic of Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad ...
Between the Eurasian and European subsystems: migration and migration policy in the CIS and Baltic Countries in the 1990s—2020s
... selfperpetuation and self-undermining dynamics of migration processes, Working paper 19, International Migration Institute, Oxford.
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19. De Haas, H., Czaika, M., Flahaux,...
On interpreting the legal category “form of government” (the case of Russia and Kazakhstan)
... 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 of a political state regime.
1. Конституция Республики Казахстан (принята на республиканском референдуме 30 августа 1995 г....
Poland’s Foreign Policy Mechanisms: Legal Framework and Policy Analysis
... affected by the relations between the government and the president and requires consensus on all major foreign policy issues. The author emphasises the effect of the domestic policy situation on Polish foreign policy mechanism and, as a result, the Republic’s stance in the international arena.
1. Tsygankov, P. A. (ed.) 2009, Vneshnjaja politika: voprosy teorii i praktiki. Materialy nauchnogo seminara [Foreign policy: Theory and practice. Seminar materials, Serija: «Nauchnye seminary», «Kruglye ...
The Role of Tourism in the Development of Russia’s Northwestern Border Regions
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6. Gosudarstvennaya programma RF “Razvitie kultury I turizma na 2013—2020 gody”: rasporyazhenie Pravitelstva RF ot 27.12, 2012 N 2567-р [State ...
Estonian Political Parties in the mid-2010s
The article provides an analysis of political party system of the Republic of Estonia in the mid-2010s. The analysis is based on the works of Moris Duverger. As one might expect, the establishment of proportionate electoral system in Estonia has resulted in the formation of a multi-party system, in which no single party ...
The historical aspects and current issues of the development of Russian-Lithuanian economic relations
... the identification of the sources of modern Russian-Lithuanian economic cooperation and the prospects of future mutually beneficial economic relations. The first attempt at establishing economic relations was made in 1919. However, young Lithuanian Republic gravitated towards the West, severing ties with the Russian market. However, the initiatives of Lithuanian authorities did not result in successful state building, and the economic situation remained unchanged. The USSR leadership made an effort ...
The formation of the political elite in Lithuania at the turn of the 1980s—1990s: the role of “moral politicians”
This article considers the trend of structural changes in the political elite of the Republic of Lithuania in the post-Soviet period through analyzing the role of the so-called “moral politicians” — intellectuals, artists, and cultural figures, who played a decisive role in the period of the communist system disintegration and further ...
Problems of transliteration and translation of Kazakh geographical names
... Kazakhstan: The case of ergonyms as another scene of linguistic landscape of Astana. Language Problems and Language Planning, 38 (1), pp. 42—57,
https://doi.org/10.1075/
lplp.38.1.03akz.
Dambuev, I. A., 2016. Normalization of toponyms in the Republic of Buryatia. Vestnik Novosibirskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ser.: Lingvistika i mezhkul'turnaya kommunikatsiya [NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication], 14 (2), pp. 13—20 (in Russ.).
Dambuev, I. A., 2017. ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... unveiled on the site of the Old Altstadt Cemetery in Kaliningrad in 2007. Its installation was initiated by the administration of the Immanuel Kant Russian State University (now Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) and the Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania. The project was funded by a private benefactor, the poet and entrepreneur Boris Bartfeld.
The university past of the city is also commemorated by the monument to professors of the University of Königsberg, which was erected in ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... demonstrated for the US that estate owners move longer distances (by 75 %) than renters, albeit this difference is visible only as long as short-distance is concerned and disappears for distances over 50 km [15]. A study into the situation in the Czech Republic [27] demonstrates that an increase in the proportion of estate owners causes the significance of long-distance migration to diminish, as estate owners seem to be particularly attached to their places of residence.
The concrete values of migration ...
Ethnic minority organisations in Russia and Poland: a comparison challenge
... everyday resistance in an illiberal nationalising state: ethnic minority nationalism in Russia, Nations and Nationalism, vol. 24, № 3, p. 624—647,
https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12366
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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 school and university) in both Latvian and Russian languages. The rise to power in the 1990s. nationalist...
Pechora scrolls: St. Augustine’s miracle of the revelation of the Elder
The Ust-Tsilemsky region of the Komi Republic is known for its collection of medieval handwritten books and manuscripts. These collections found in the area of the Lower Pechora River contain a rich variety of Old Believers’ written documents of different genres. The authors explore ...
Factors and features of innovative development of the Republic of Crimea
The innovative development of a region is the essential condition for increasing its competitiveness. The reintegration of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation requires considerable efforts aimed at overcoming external geo-economic barriers in socio-economic development, as well as at revitalizing the economic activities of enterprises, including production ...
Certain issues of correlation between the international financial law and the EU law
... Право и институты Европейского союза. Современный этап эволюции : учеб. пособие. М., 2016.
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The intensity of population movements through the Russian- Polish border after the suspension of the local border traffic mechanism: 2016 outcomes
The mechanism of the local (or small) the cross-border movement is a form of cross-border cooperation. On the border between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Poland this mechanism worked from 2012 to 2016, and provided for a significant intensification of mutual border-crossing. In this case the suspension of the local border traffic regime on the Polish side, as well as the regime itself, caused ...
Local border traffic and the development of retail trade in the Kaliningrad region and Polish borderlands
Signing the agreement on local border traffic (LBT) between the Republic of Poland and the Russian Federation was welcomed by experts as an important step towards the future visa-free regime between the European Union and the Russian Federation often discussed in the international dialogue. The three years of LBT ...
The system of financing political parties in Latvia
This article considers the mechanism of financing of political parties in the Republic of Latvia. The author analyses the participation of financial and economic groups in the country’s political life. Key business actors affecting the formation of Latvian political system are identified. It is concluded that, since regaining ...
The Christian right movement in the USA in the 1990s
This article analyses the factors that strengthened the influence of the Christian right movement in the USA in the 1990s. The author considers the organizational changes and ideological transformation within the movement and its effect on the political process in this period. The article identifies the problems facing the Christian Right movement in its attempt to devise political tactics in the mid-1990s. The author pays special attention to the question of the interaction between the Christian...
The contribution of V. I. Lytkin to the establishment of scientific ties between the Komi Republic and Finland
This article is devoted to the development of cooperation between the Komi Republic and Finland in the 20th century and the contribution of one of leading specialists in Finno-Ugric studies V. O. Lytkin to this process.
1.
Вихман Э.
Краткий очерк научной поездки к зырянам в 1901—1902 ...
Factors of Legal Classifier Construction and Improvement Methods
The article defines and compares four groups of factors influencing the construction and development of the united legal classifier in the Republic of Belarus and the classifier of legal acts in the Russian Federation: legal systems and all its structures, legislative system and all its structures, the system of public administration; electronic system of legal information collecting, processing,...
The Baltic Sea region and increasing international tension
... No 6-FKZ «O prinjatii v Rossijskuju Federaciju Respubliki Krym I obrazovanii v sostave Rossijskoj Federa-cii novyh sub’ektov – Respubliki Krym I goroda federal’nogo znachenija Sevasto-polja» [Federal Constitutional Law “On acceptance of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation and the creation of new constituent entities of the Russian Fe¬deration – the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol”], 2014, Krem¬lin.ru, available at: http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/38220 ...
The Baltic Finnish Peoples Divided by State and Administrative Borders: Territorial Development of the Karelians, Vepsians, and Setos
... administrative borders on the territorial and demographic development of small ethnic groups. The article analyses the case of three Baltic Finnish peoples living in the Russian North-West and divided by borders of different levels: Karelians (Finland, the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Tver regions), Vepsians (the Republic of Karelia and the Leningrad and Vologda regions), and Setos (Estonia and the Pskov region). The analysis is based on the cartographic and statistical demographic data, as ...
The Belarus Business Environment as Assessed by the Management of Leading Finnish Companies Operating in the Country
... University of Turku.
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Human Resources of Post-war Lithuania and Their Role in the Rebuilding of Klaipeda
This article focuses on the issues of post-WWII economic restoration effort in the Soviet Lithuania. German occupation of the republic caused significant damage to its industry and agriculture. Pre-war Lithuania was an agrarian state aspiring to embark on an industrial-agrarian path of development. After the war, this aspiration did not only persist, but was intensified. To ...
The structure of political elite networks in the Republic of Poland in 1993—2013
... structural dynamics of political elites for the purpose of forecasting major trends in the structural transformation of Polish political elites. In the course of the study, biographical data on the presidents, ministers, advisors, and party leaders of the Republic of Poland was collected and processed. The work follows the network analysis paradigm and identifies the dynamics of the key network parameters: distance, density, transitivity, and compactness. The author analyses the dynamics of representation ...
The role of transit in the economy of Latvia
Transit is an important issue in the history of world economy, including the economy of Latvia. Transit makes a significant contribution to the budget of many transit countries, one of which is the Republic of Latvia. These countries do not have significant natural resources and prefer to focus on logistics and infrastructure in order to facilitate the transit process. This article focuses on the role of transit in the economy of Latvia, whose unique ...