The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... joining NATO, took place long before Russia began the special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, at least after the political and military crisis in that country started in 2014. Even in the earlier period, various formats of defence and security cooperation between the Nordic countries, regardless of their affiliation with military-political alliances (primarily the Northern Defence Cooperation Forum (NORDEFCO) established in 2009 comprising Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden),...
Implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code and amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS 74/78) for ship-building
This paper focuses on the status of shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises under international maritime security regimes. The author analyses amendments to SOLAS 74/78 convention, including the ISPS Code, which were adopted in December 2002 in the aftermath of September 11 attacks. Although the shipbuilding industry requires heightened security, the reasonability ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... require substantial changes in the global order, including at macro-regional levels, for a return to what was once considered ‘bbusiness as usual’. The study examines the development level and dynamics in the three regions, alongside their economic security. Another focus is on foreign policy and a geopolitical typology of the Baltic region states. The article investigates the impact of a changed geopolitical landscape on cross-border cooperation, the restructuring of foreign trade relations in ...
Latvia in the System of European Territorial Security: a View from the Inside and Outside
This article focuses on Latvian contribution to European security, which, for the purposes of this study, is understood as a territorial system of regional security. Such system is a combination of interconnected institutions with Latvian participation operating in the field of security, Latvian cooperation ...
Security in the Baltic region as a Projection of Global Confrontation between Russia and the USA
This article considers the problem of security in the Baltic region, namely, that of Poland and the Baltics. The authors rely on the works of Karl Deutsch, Emanuel Adler, on Michael Barnett’s theory of security communities and Barry Buzan’s regional security complex theory, address ...
Geopolitical security of contemporary Russia: essence, structure, fundamentals of monitoring
The article examines the essence of the geopolitical security phenomenon, studies the specifics of the geopolitical security of modern Russia. The main threats and vulnerabilities affecting the current state of Russia’s geopolitical security are highlighted. The author determines necessity, content and ...
Socio-geographic approach to substantiating economic security boundaries of a border region
Dramatic geopolitical and geo-economic changes occurring since 2022 have created a new development context for Russian border regions redrawing their economic security boundaries. The latter are also changing, which is understood as the required level of security in the current mode of functioning of the territorial system in terms of its openness or closeness. These regions, especially ones located along the ...
Energy security in the scientific and institutional discourse in Russia and Poland: problems and solutions
This article examines fundamental and applied approaches to energy security. The authors explore differences and similarities in the views of scientists and politicians on the issue and analyse energy security policies pursued in Poland and Russia (the Kaliningrad region). On this basis, the authors propose rational ...
Evaluating and Measuring the Security of Russia’s Border Regions: Theory and Practice
The economic security of Russia’s regions has been the focus of numerous studies. Significant contributions have been made to relevant methodological approaches and measurement tools. However, economic security has been little studied in the context of border regions....
On ensuring the energy security of the Kaliningrad region
This article analyses possibilities for minimising energy threats to the economy of the Kaliningrad region — an isolated Russian exclave. The au-thors consider the key aspects of the region’s economic security, identify threats, and provide a critical assessment different solutions to this problems. The research is based on the data of Rosstat and international statistics (IEA), analytical materials, and publications on the problems of global and regional ...
The US ballistic missile defence policy in the Baltic and Nordic regions
This article examines the implications of the deployment of the US ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in the Baltic and Nordic regions. These implications are to be considered to ensure Russia’s military security. Using the structural-functional method, the authors analyse the internal structure of the US BMD in Europe, stages of its implementation, and its influence on the military equilibrium in the region. Being similar to other regional missile defence ...
On the economic security of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave
An exclave position makes the economic security problems of the Kaliningrad region more complex as compared with other Russian territories. Deteriorating relations between Russia and the West compound the situation. This has been especially so since 2014 when economic sanctions were imposed ...
Some Aspects of Economic Security of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region under Conditions of Geo-Economic Uncertaint
In this article, I consider individual aspects of the economic security of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region amid the geo-economic uncertainty observed since 2014. The object of the study is the economic and technological sustainability of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region given geo-economic risks ...
Psychological aspects of security rituals in higher education institutions
The article describes the essence of security rituals typical of university environment. Being special patterns of behavior, safety rituals aim at ensuring control over certain factors, which are important to maintain security, integrity and ability to achieve a meaningful purpose of life....
Forecasting Actions of Baltic elites: A Scenario Approach
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Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... 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 high number ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... Economic Measures Act<3> were approved in Canada. According to these amendments, the Prime Minister was granted the right to confiscate property located in Canada and owned by a foreign state in case of a serious violation of international peace and security or of significant and systematic human rights violations in a foreign state [1].
The information disclosed by the Estonian government does not yet clarify how the property confiscation mechanism will work in Estonia and whether it concerns sovereign ...
Conflictogenicity of digital communication forms in the aspect of linguistic security (on the comments on blogs of the Yandex-Zen platform)
The object of this study is a blog as a form of digital communication that often violate the linguistic security. The subject of the study was the comments of Yandex-Zen blogs about cooking and beauty as a tool for the implementation of verbal abuse. The purpose of the study is to highlight the linguo-conflictogenic components of discourse that violate ...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... based on several theories. The post-functionalist version of regionalism stipulates that regional construction in Europe is based on three pillars: firstly, the functional requirements of regionalism, stemming mainly from interdependence in the field of security and the desire for stability; secondly, ensuring regional integration through the efforts of elites aimed at building the regional identity that resonates with public opinion; and, last but not least, the expansion of institutional structures ...
Demographic Situation and Demographic Security in the Regions of Russia’s Western Borderlands
... Although both national and regional demographic indicators have improved in Russia in recent years, many issues relating to sub-replacement fertility, irrational migration, etc. remain unresolved. This lends an urgency to studying regional demographic security, namely, the problems of ensuring replacement fertility, regulating migrations, and overcoming a skewed age and sex structure. I provide a detailed definition of the notion of demographic security and a list of indicators for evaluating it. I ...
SOC. Inefficiency of Implementation
The paper analyzes the main shortcomings and problems of implementing a situational center for monitoring information security (Security Operation Center).
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The development of science as a factor in the Kaliningrad region innovative security
The paper examines the role of research institutions in the system of innovation security of the region and highlights vital interests and security threats to the regional innovation system in the field of research. The author describes important factors having a positive and a negative impact on the competitiveness of the research ...
Non-expansionist variants of Poland's strategic culture: a retrospective of ideas and current implications
... how non-expansionist types of strategic culture emerged and gradually developed in Poland. The study aims to identify the features of non-expansionist types of Polish strategic culture for a more objective analysis of the country's modern foreign and security policy. The article begins by describing the emergence and use of the concept of strategic culture, offering a typology of strategic cultures based on the work of the 'cultural realist' Alastair Johnston. Then it employs a qualitative method ...
Economic security of the Russian-Ukrainian border regions of the Russian Federation in modern conditions
The article is devoted to the urgent problem of economic security of the Russian border regions, directly adjacent to Ukraine: Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov and Krasnodar regions. The study is going to assess the level of economic security in these regions, as well as its dynamics after 2014, taking into ...
Innovative security of the region: the problem of the formation of the innovation environment of the Kaliningrad region
The article is devoted to the topical issue of providing innovation security of the Kaliningrad region, Russia’s exclave on the Baltic Sea. The author discusses the importance of creating a favourable innovation environment in the region for sustainable implementation of the innovative model of economic development....
A classification of objects of economic security studies
This article stresses the insufficient amount of scientific knowledge on the object of economic security studies. Therefore, there is a need for an in-depth analysis of the key component of economic security — its object of study. The article presents a classification of objects of economic security studies.
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Dependence on imported food as a threat to the food security of the Kaliningrad region
This article considers the problem of food security in the case of the Kaliningrad region. The key threat to regional food security is the increasing dependence on import. It is proved that the region’s food security can be ensured through self-sufficiency.
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Problems and prospects of EU — Russia dialogue on visa-free travel
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Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... a subject to direct or indirect external restrictions,<2> which can be considered as exogenous shocks to economies.<3> Therefore, the governments of most countries and regional authorities have begun to pay greater attention to economic security [1], [2]. Accordingly, it is necessary to understand the scale, direction and consequences of possible threats, their monitoring and mitigation, and the sanctions risks analysis is becoming a more relevant scientific topiс. At the same time,...
Socio-political moods of the residents of the Kaliningrad region as an indicator of the geopolitical security of the region
The article considers one of the indicators of geopolitical security — socio-political moods. Social dissatisfaction, political trust, political activity, migration attitudes of the inhabitants of the Kaliningrad region were revealed. The study was based on the theoretical and empirical provisions of FCTAS RAS ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... become less favourable than before [16], [17], [22], [23], which can be clearly seen in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region [15], [24]. The term ‘cool war’ has found its way into scholarly use.
International authors have shifted the focus to security problems when investigating Russia’s relations with the other countries of the region [19], [20], [21], [25], often emphasising possible conflicts that may arise from Kaliningrad’s exclave position [26].
This study aims to explore the level,...
Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
The article is devoted to studying the territorial patterns of the formation of an innovative space and ensuring innovation security at a municipal level. The geography of the study covers the municipalities of the Rostov region. The analysis of some indicators of innovative activity characterizing the level of provision of residents and small and medium-sized businesses ...
SOC. Starts and loses
The paper analyzes the main shortcomings and problems of opposition to the methods of social engineering a situational center for monitoring information security (Security Operation Center).
Strelnikov R. V.
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Regional innovation security as a coherence of multi-cyclic self-organizing: experience in building an ideal model
... (characterizing the innovation subcycle) and the ratio of investment to GRP (characterizing the investment and production subcycle). The results obtained made it possible to typologize the Western border regions according to the level of economic security in its cyclical aspect.
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Foreign lobbying as an instrument of defense cooperation between Poland and the United States
Defence cooperation between Poland and the United States significantly affects the security agenda of Russia, the Baltic region, and Europe as a whole. On the one hand, Poland intends to become a key partner of the US in ensuring European security. On the other hand, it has ambitions to take the leading position in the security area ...
The military and political situation in the Baltic region in the late 20th/early 21st centuries: the prospects of ‘uneasy peace’
In this article, we consider the development of international relations in the Baltic region in the late 20th/early 21st centuries. This study aims to analyse the security prospects of the Baltic region in view of the changes in the overall geopolitical situation in Europe and in the relations between Russia and its closest neighbours and the leading NATO countries. We examine the ideas and forecasts of international ...
Using Gaming Technologies in the Education of Information Security Specialists
The paper analyzes the basic gaming technologies that are possible for useful use in the process of education information security specialists. The game processes and tools that allow students to acquire the necessary professional skills are considered. A comprehensive course on the application of gaming technologies is proposed that simulates the activities of specialists ...
Uneven development of administrative-territorial entities as a threat to the economic security of the Kaliningrad region
The author considers topical issues of ensuring the economic security of the Kaliningrad region. The main indicators of economic development that affect the current state of economic security of the exclave region are identified and analyzed.
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Coalition Within a Coalition: The Baltics in the European Union
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Problems of information security of the firm (manufacture) and a way of their decision
Problems of information security of the firm (manufacture) are considered. Their decision assumes studying of forms, ways and methods of revealing and the danger prevention in information sphere, and also the optimal control of system of maintenance of information security and ...
Social security and social pathology: the facets of the conjugation of the concepts and phenomena
This article analyses the internal and external factors of social security in Russia in the late 2000s. The author pays special attention to the polysemy of the concept of social security and the problems of deviant behaviour.
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Network modelling of economic security organisation in the coastal regions
This article addresses the problem of economic security organization in the coastal region of Russia. The authors offer a network model of the process as a tool of effective management
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Russia and the European Union: an elusive quest for common values?
This article focuses on the dialogue between the Russian Federation and the European Union based on “common values” (legal sphere and the rule of law), which form the framework for the EU-Russia “common spaces” — on the economy, freedom, security and justice, as well as in the field of research and education (including cultural aspects). The author analyses the current state of the EU-Russia dialogue (section 1), East-West cooperation in the framework of the Organisation for Security ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... international trade and global markets, environmental issues, scientific and technological cooperation, and transport), but also in “areas of social and political concern such as ethnic conflicts, public health, education, cultural diversity, human security, human rights, and humanitarian relief or development aid” [6, p. 6]. Therefore, all three layers adopted by Lecours tend to accumulate and intertwine with one another.
Paradiplomacy trends mostly replicate the general tendencies of international ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
This study discusses whether the concept of societal security is embedded in the Russian formal and informal discourses as well as in the Russian strategic documents on national security and the Baltic Sea region. Particularly, the paper describes four paradigms of international relations (neorealism, neoliberalism,...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
The Russian food market has been a fascinating subject for researchers investigating food security risks and ways to mitigate them since the embargo was imposed in 2014. The Kaliningrad region, an exclave of Russia, responded more sensitively to the restrictions than any other territory of the country due to the heavy dependence of its food ...
Securing JavaScript applications with Web Cryptography API
With an increasing number of web applications, the need of ordinary users to have more secure web applications has increased and web developers are attempting to match those expectations. This article is devoted to consideration of the basic concepts of the Web Cryptography API since it defines cryptographic primitives to be deployed ...
Cross-border digitalization of the western border of Russia: potential and prospects
Border regions are significant geostrategic territories, which long-term sustainable development is one of the priorities of Russia’s national security. The specificity of their economic-geographical position necessitates the development and implementation by the authorities of special governance approaches aimed at finding a balance between the openness and barrier function of the state border....
Methodology for processing the results of expert assessment of information security threats
The paper analyzes the possibilities of assessing information security threats based on the methodology of the FSTEC of Russia in terms of processing the results of the work of the expert group. A method for translating linguistic variables into numerical values based on the Harrington desirability function ...