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• The Welfare State (Social State) in the Russian Federation as a Constitutional Principle and its Practical Implementation

  The authors are investigating the content and practical implementation of the constitutional principle of the social (welfare) state in the Russian Federation, especially the relevant state measures supporting families, birth rate and migration. Legal research in this paper is also focused on the selected state projects realized in the contemporary Russia: state program of the ...

• On crisis trends in the legitimacy of the political regimes of the Baltic States

  This article considers the legitimacy of political regimes in the Baltic States by analysing three major parameters: confidence in political institutions, level of corruption, and the development of their party systems. The author identifies the major crisis trends in the legitimacy of the political regimes of Lithuania, Latvia,...

• The evolution of the Russian and foreign state and law. The 80th anniversary of the Department of History of State and Law of the Ural State Law University (1936—2016): collection of articles : in 4 vol. / ed. prof. A. S. Smykalina. Ekaterinburg : Ural St

  The article analyses one of the largest synoptic publications in the field of history and theory of state and law, published in Russia. The author describes many methodology research schools of Russian jurisprudence and explores their differences and similarities with international research tradition. Lonskaya S. V. history of state and law, ...

• Forecasting Actions of Baltic elites: A Scenario Approach

  This paper provides an overview of different approaches to forecasting the future of the three Baltic States. The author’s theoretical approach to studying Baltic elites is used to forecast changes in the action models of the Baltic elites. The article stresses the scarcity of internal political processes in the Baltics. However, a significant number ...

• Coalition Within a Coalition: The Baltics in the European Union

  This article gives an overview of small power problem focusing on the behav­iour of small power states within coalitions and their proneness to free riding. To pursue an independent agenda and increase their significance within large associa­tions, the authors argue, small powers tend to create ‘coalitions within coalitions’, essentially acting ...

• Legal regime for church property in Russia and the Baltic states

  In this article, we carry out a comparative analysis of the legal regimes for church property in the Baltic States and in Russia after the demise of the USSR,. We stress the significance of this problem for the newly established relations between the state and the religious organisations, for the conclusion of agreements between these actors, and for the development ...

• Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District

  ... Sintserov, L. M. (eds.), Szhatie social'no-jekonomicheskogo prostranstva: novoe v teorii regional'nogo razvitija i praktike ego gosudarstvennogo regulirovanija [Compression of the socio-economic area: a new theory of regional development and its practice of state regulation], Moscow, p. 32—48. 2. Edinyj gosudarstvennyj reestr pochv Rossii [Unified State Register of Russian soil], available at: http://atlas.mcx.ru/materials/egrpr/content.html (accessed 10.03.2015). 3. Yepifanova, А. А., Luhmanov, D....

• 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 ...

• Workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad region and their subsequent renaming in 1946—1947

  Part of East Prussia was ceded to the Soviet Union after the defeat of Nazi Germany. As a result, the local toponymy changed completely. The author analyses the documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archives of Socio- Political History, and the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region to trace the Russianisation of German toponyms. The decision to establish workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad ...

• Behavioral geoeconomics: a problem statement

  In this article, I formulate the problem of a search for a new approach to the state in the modern economic system. The aim of this research is a critical analysis of the current scientific picture of the state and a search for a new way to describe interactions among states, organisations, and households. The methodology I employ ...

• Russia and the Baltic States: Some Results and a Few Perspectives

  Russia has a vested political interest in the Eastern Baltics; yet acting upon this interest is made either difficult or altogether impossible when it comes to the Baltic States. For 20 years, the Russian Federation has been actively promoting a model of mutually beneficial co-operation. The anti-Russian discourse of the Baltic States' political elites — driven by their own wish to maintain their political monopoly — ...

• The Role of Political Elites in the Development of Politics of Memory in the Baltic States

  The article focuses on multiple cases of the politicization of history by the Baltic political elites. Three states of development of politics of memory in the Baltic States are identified. Problems of political exploitation of the past are scrutinized in the context of political life and international relations. It is concluded that the narratives of the past ...

• Duty and Coercion in Kant’s Republican Cosmopolitanism

  ... attributes a systematic role to the cosmopolitan right, what justifies considering this part of the doctrine of law as a necessary rational conclusion of the legal system, although its institutional embodiment differs from that required by the rights of states. I highlight that according to Kant states may not behave as individual citizens do, since they do not recognize any higher authority than themselves. Second, cosmopolitan law shows that coercion is not an insurmountable condition to fulfill legal ...

• The Baltic economic model: some results of the 1990—2015 transformations

  During the last 25 years, the economy of the Baltic States has been developing in the conditions of sovereignty, both de facto and de jure. This period has been sufficient to identify regular patterns in the national economic models. Studies into the nature of the economic development of the Baltic States ...

• On some particular functions of the Palestinian national administration

  ... practice, and public finances are formed and spent. The methodology is based on a sys­tematic approach in order to demonstrate the whole complex of interconnected elements and the totality of interacting objects. The findings revealed the weaknesses of state institutions of the PNA, the significant influence of the executive branch and power structures, which are overgrown with client rela­tions and systemic corruption. It is noted that the state budget is formed not only from donor assistance, but ...

• Formal terms of reproach in Russian discourse

  ... agressiya v pechatnykh SMI (na materiale nemetsko- i russkoyazychnykh gazet 30-kh i 90-kh gg. KhKh veka) [Speech aggression in the print media (based on German and Russian-language newspapers of the 30s and 90s of the 20th century)]. Ph. D. Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky (in Russ.). Vorontsova, T. А., 2006. Rechevaya agressiya: kommunikativno-diskursivnyi podkhod [Speech aggression: a communicative-discursive approach]. D. Litt. Chelyabinsk State University (in Russ.)....

• Bogdan Kistiakovy’s Project of “State of the Future” as Synthesis of the Ideas of Liberalism and Socialism

  ... the principles behind attributing concrete thinkers to this movement. The article emphasises the inconsistency of classifying Kistyakovsky’s socio-philosophical concept as liberal. The analysis performed is based on Kistyakovsky’s model of the ‘state of the future’ — a project of a socialist rule-of-law state developed by Kistyakovsky at the turn of the 20th century. The article identifies distinct Marxist analogies and parallels in the contents of this project. The ‘state of the future’ ...

• The influence of implantation on the bright-ness of nitrogen-vacancy centers

  We investigate the properties of spin states in the electronic ground state of a single nitrogen-vacancy center (NV–) in 13C-enriched diamond. The anal­ysis is based on application of a method that uses a complete set of commuting operators (CSCO). Each state is characterized by a single ...

• Assessing competitiveness of the Baltic states in tourism

  Tourism competitiveness is a basic requirement for a country’s presence in the international tourism market. A comprehensive and systematic assessment of tourism competitiveness and comparisons with other states make it possible to identify its structure, strengths and weaknesses. Assessing competitiveness is a live issue in the Baltic region, where tourism is an important part of the economy and a factor in improving living standards. This study advances ...

• The territorial structure of productive forces of Russian North-West in the 2000—2010s

  ... 2010], Rossijskaja gazeta, 2011, no. 5430, 16 March 2011. 2. Informacija o social'no-jekonomicheskom polozhenii Rossii, janvar' —dekabr' 2010 g. [Information on the socio-economic situation in Russia, January —December 2010], 2011, Moscow, Federal State Statistics. 3. Nacional'nye scheta Rossii v 1994—2001 godah [National Accounts of Russia, 1994—2001], 2002, Moscow, Federal State Statistics. 4. Nacional'nye scheta Rossii v 2003—2010 godah [National Accounts of Russia, 2003—2010], 2011,...

• The concepts of enclave and exclave and their use in the political and geographical characteristic of the Kaliningrad region

  ... in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods is emphasised. The author shows the evolution of the use of concepts of enclave and exclave for describing the fe atures of the Kaliningrad region’s positions from the perspective of the mother and surrounding states. The article introduces the concept of dividing states and stresses the need to take their interests into account to ensure the functioning of the Russian exclave. The author substantiates the thesis that the Russian region is an enclave of the ...

• Changes in the cultural landscape of the Kaliningrad region’s periphery in the 19th/20th centuries

  ... Kaliningrad region]. In: Narodnoe hozjajstvo Kaliningradskoj oblasti problemy i puti razvitija [The national economy of the Kaliningrad region and the development of problems], Kaliningrad, p. 86—93. 3. Gosudarstvennyj Arhiv Kaliningradskoj Oblasti [State Archive of the Kaliningrad Oblast], F. 183, Op. 5, D. 133, L. 11, 13. 4. Gosudarstvennyj Arhiv Kaliningradskoj Oblasti [State Archive of the Kaliningrad Oblast], F. 297, Op. 7, D. 262, L. 23—34. 5. Gosudarstvennyj Arhiv Kaliningradskoj Oblasti ...

• Estimation of errors of detecting the condition of a u bitqubit

  In this paper we study the back-action of the quantum point contacton the state of a double quantum dot during the measurement process. To describe this action we introduce an auxiliary subsystem, which is in the entangled states with the original system. This model allowed us to estimate establishment of the steady state of ...

• The historical and geographical evolution of the enclavity of the Kaliningrad region

  ... socio-economic and political features. The article identifies enclave (exclave) problems peculiar to them, including the land access (passenger and cargo transit) of the metropolis to the isolated territory, as well as the issues relating to the origins of state border, border control, visa regime, and political and economic relations to neighbouring states and the mainland. The author reviews cases of evolutional development of enclavity and peaceful and military methods of eliminating enclave formations....

• Тhe legal state over time: the nature and the main approaches to the definition

  The article focuses on different approaches to the definition of the legal state nature that has existed over time. The research is aimed at identifying the modern frames of the legal state that functions as a necessary counterbalance to the state monopoly on power and governance. The cope of research methodology is very wide,...

• Neo-Kantian and phenomenological axiology in N. N. Alekseev’s philosophy of law

  ... theory of law. The course of lectures in Tavrichesky University in 1918—19.], Simferopol, 162 p. 4. Alexeev, N. N., 1919b, Ocherki po obshhej teorii gosudarstva. Osnovnye predposylki i gipotezy gosudarstvennoj nauki [Essays on the general theory of the state. Basic assumptions and hypotheses of the state of science]. Moscow, 209 p. 5. Alexeev, N. N., 1930, Religija, pravo i nravstvennost' [Religion, law, and morality], Paris, 106 p. 6. Alexeev, N. N., 1934, Ob idee filosofii i ejo obshhestvennoj missii ...

• Effect of change in density of compact and spongy bone tissue on the stress and strain state of the bone model samples

  Influence of change of density of compact and spongy bone tissue on the stress and strain state of model samples of the bone. Modeling of the stressstrain state of the bone tissue was conducted in the software package ANSYS using finite element method. It is revealed, that change of density of a spongy component of sample leads to change of ...

• Modern trends in the Baltic countries in the discourse of identity: between sovereignty and European integration

  The publication reflects the problem of new identity of the Baltics in the conditions of competition between European spaces. The Baltic States are presented as a political structure, where mutually competitive identities oriented towards different centres of modern Europe are developing. In the Baltics, the identity discourse acquires new markers. The agenda includes the crisis of confidence ...

• The traditions of Russian and European perception of the state frontier in the conditions of transborder regional cooperation

  The article focuses on the state frontier in European and Russian political cultures as a major instrument for developing trans-border regional cooperation. The term ‘state frontier’ is defined through a prism of regional integration processes. The authors examine the role ...

• Formation of American Foreign Policy towards Poland before and in First Years of Cold War

  ... Печатнов В.   О. Мистер «Икс» в 1945 г . (неизвестное письмо Джорджа Кен­нана) // Проблемы всемирной истории. СПб ., 2000. 2. Alternative concepts of United States foreign policy 1943—1947. European and global aspects of postwar relations with the Soviet Union. Documents. B., 1992. 3. Containment: documents on American policy and strategy, 1945—1950. N. Y., 1978. 4. Dallin D.   J. Russia and postwar ...

• Georges Gurvitch and Sergey Hessen on the Possibility of Forming Social Unity

  ... century saw European philosophical thought becoming increasingly interested in the sociological extension of the idea of law. From the viewpoint of the sociology of law, law is formed in the process of social interactions and is not sanctioned by the state. Sergey Hessen and Georges Gurvitch base their conceptions of social law on the sociology of law in the 1920s and 1930s. They start a polemic in the pages of the journal Sovremenniye zapiski (Contemporary Notes). Although they differ radically in ...

• The noun visilka: a semantic portrait and a system of multiple meanings (based on police search documentation of the second half of the 19th century)

  ... of the second half of the 19th century — the formation of the lexical meaning of the noun visilka (exile, expulsion), typical of the police procedure documentation of the time. The author discovered business texts of this type in the funds of the State Archive of the Tyumen region, the State Archive of the Omsk region, and the State Archive of the Irkutsk region. All texts date back to the late 19th century. The study of the lexeme visilka was conducted in ac­cordance with the lexicographic portraiture ...

• The Role of Small Countries in Post-Soviet Territorial Restructuring: the Baltic Case

  ... international politics (even if the consequences of such steps are miscalculated) and “feed” on it through — so metimes consciously — creating “conflict nodes” in the relations between major players. This is especially true in the case of states that do not bear responsibility for global stability. 1. Accord between the political parties represented in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania on strategic guidelines for the foreign, security and defence policy of the Republic of Lithuania ...

• Agents approach to the state economic policies in the condition of fundamental uncertainty

  The article analyses approaches to understanding the term "economic policies". The author proceeds from the fact that the state acts as a specific economic agent and, being the economic agent, on the one hand has the right to establish formal institutions of the national economics, and on the other hand, it itself is one of the elements of this sector of the global socio-economics ...

• Models of narrative syntactics as a tool for analysing images of states

  This article presents a semiotics-oriented methodology of analysing images of states. Based on the results obtained in the field of structural semiotics of narration, the author introduces a scheme for analysing the syntactics of images suggesting their consideration from the perspective of actantial roles characteristic of the ...

• New and “Old” Sources in N. Karamzin's History of the Russian State

  The article attempts to characterize the sources N. Karamzin used for his major historical work The History of Russian State in the framework of Russian archaeography, its development and achievements in the late 18th — early 19th centuries. The most important of the new sources N. Karamzin used are investigated, including referencing in footnotes. It is concluded that ...

• Competition and Interaction between Languages: A Sociolinguistic Approach

  ... functioning and interaction of cultural and linguistic spaces of the Kyrgyz and Russian languages). Bishkek: Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University Publishing House, 2015. 240 p. The reviewer notes the acute character of the problem, typical of the post-Soviet states and analyzes the functioning of the state and official languages in Kyrgyzstan. the Kyrgyz Republic, state language, official language, language community, interlingual collisions, the dialogue of languages Krongauz M. A. 45-49 10.5922/2225-5346-2018-1-4

• Management of Trans-boundary Water Resources: Comparing Russian and American Experiences

  ... on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. Done at Helsinki, 17 March 1992], available at: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/water/pdf/waterconr. pdf (accessed 11 December 2012). 2. Treaty between the United States and Great Britain Relating to Boundary Waters, and Questions Arising between the United States and Canada. Signed at Washington on January 11, 1909 available at: http://bwt.ijc.org/index. php?page=Treaty-Text&hl=eng (accessed 11 December 2012)....

• On the role of religion in N. N. Alekseev’s axiological model of law

  ... theory of law. The course of lectures in Tavrichesky University in 1918—19.], Simferopol, 162 p. 3. Alexeev, N. N. 1919b, Ocherki po obshhej teorii gosudarstva. Osnovnye predposylki i gipotezy gosudarstvennoj nauki [Essays on the general theory of the state. Basic assumptions and hypotheses of the state of science]. Moscow, 209 p. 4. Alexeev, N. N. 1929, Evrazijstvo i marksizm [Eurasianism and Marxism] // Evrazijskij Sbornik Kn. VI [Eurasian Miscellany. Vol. VI], Prague, p. 7—17. 5. Alexeev, N. N....

• The Pythagorean-mathematical component of P. A. Florensky’s social philosophy

  This article considers the amalgamation of N. Bugaev’s arrythmology and G. Leibnitz’s monadology supplemented by G. Cantor’s set theory as the methodological basis of P. A. Florensky’s teaching on future state, which made it possible for the Russian philosopher to create a holistic social and philosophical project – the quintessence of development of a new culture, where the fate of a person and the state are indivisible. In the future state, people ...

• Borders and Identity in Theory and Practice of the Eastern Baltic Region

  At the present stage of social development in Europe and Russia, studies analyzing and evaluating ethnic and national borders are of increasing relevance. Over the last three decades, the state borders in the Baltic region have been stable, which is not the case in Europe in general. The author believes that the key reason behind the current crisis in Russia-EU relations is the conspicuous neglect of Russian interests in the neighboring ...

• On the establishment of state borders and delimitation of marine areas of the Russian Federation in the Kaliningrad region zone

  This article considered the stage and features of formation of the state border with Poland and Lithuania, as well as the delimitation of the Russian marine area in the Kaliningrad region zone. The Polish border was established by the Soviet-Polish border agreement of 1945. It was of astronomical nature and did not take ...

• Emotional and receptive-axiological aspects of the speech act of threat in everyday conflict communication in Russian

  ... exerted on the listener. Its effectiveness depends on the strength of the negative emotions of anxiety, fear, etc. initiated in the listener. At the same time, the production of threatening statements is often associated with the speak­er's emotional state, which in some cases can serve as a catalyst for imperative influence. The speech act of threat, being an element of conflict discourse, contradicts the traditional princi­ples of productive communication and the legal norms of any developed state....

• The International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature and its Activity in the Baltic Sea States

  The article offers general information about the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL) and its main lines of activity. The authors focus on the activity of MAPRYAL in the Baltic Sea States offering a detailed description of the International Festival of Russian Language in the Baltic Sea States, and the events held by MAPRYAL in Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark. Brunova Natalia, Moskovkin Leonid, Yurkov Yevgeny Baltic ...