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• The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features

  ... thesis is put forward that despite some differences between the Baltic States their political elites have undergone very similar transformations since the 1990s. At the time, Baltic elites asserted continuity with pre-war Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and detachment from the Soviet past. The 1990s elite struggle for power led to sharp ethnic, linguistic and political divides in Baltic societies. These rifts limit competition between power groups and reduce the ability of political systems to renew themselves. Having reached the ‘back to the West’ goal, Baltic elites replaced it with the idea ...

• 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 ... ... is considered in the conditions of political instability and uncertainty typical of transformation processes. In this context, the role of key actors is interpreted on... ... of the content of mechanisms of «new» political elite development in postcommunist societies under the influence of endogenous and exogenous factors in the course of transformation...

• The Denominational Space of Modern Sweden: Christianity

  This article considers spatial and temporal diffusion of Christian values in Sweden and examines the features of the country’s confessional space. The work aims to identify historical and geographical characteristics of the formation of Sweden’s Christian space and of its current transformation. Another objective is to introduce data on the economic activities of large religious organisations into scholarly use. The relevance of this work lies in the fact that Christianity is the most popular religion in Sweden, given that it ...

• Migration and the Transformation of Multiethnic Population Structure in the Kaliningrad Region of the Post-Soviet Era

  This paper analyses the migration processes and their influence on the transformation of multiethnic population structure in the Kaliningrad region. The author uses official statistics (current statistics and census data), as well as interviews with the representatives of ethnic cultural associations as information sources. Special attention ...

• Lutheranism in Finland: past and present

  The article focuses on the spatial and temporal differentiation of Lutheranism in Finland. The study aims to identify historical and geographical features of the development of Lutheran space in Finland, as well as modern trends in its transformation. This study is very relevant, since Lutheranism is currently the major confession in Finland and religion tends to strongly affect the system of values and worldview prevalent in society. The article describes the administrative structure ...

• 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

  The aim of this article is to adjust the technique of comparing the standard of living in 11 countries of Central and Eastern Europe that ... ... differences within seven EU member states at the Eurostat’s NUTS 2 level. 1. Åslund, A. 2012, How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, 2nd ed., New York, Cambridge University ...

• Biosphere transformation in the conditions of technogenic development of society

  Krasnov Yevgeny 118-119 10.5922/2079-8555-2011-1-15

• The transformation of the Swedish political party system in the late 20th/early 21st century

  This article studies the process of transformation of the Swedish political party system in the 1980s. The study aims to develop a typology of the Swedish political party system before and after the transformation processes commenced. The article identifies the key prerequisites for such ...

• Transformations in the Communicative Characteristics of Political Discourse in the Current Information Space

  The article analyses the main causes and the genesis of transformations in political discourse (PD) and provides a comparative analysis of the present and earlier forms of PD. The author examines the ontology and principal characteristics of PD, describes the state of political discourse prior to its current ...

• Technogenic Tendency of Modern Society Informatisation Processes

  The article defines the notion of modern technogenic social and natural development and the role of informatisation in the increasingly technogenic character ... ... society, social and natural approach,social, technical and natural system, techo-noosphere, technogenic society, technogenic transformation of biosphere and human being. 53-61 10.5922/2223-2095-2009-6-8

• 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 ... ... key characteristics of the Baltic States’ economic model. The author puts forward a hypothesis on two stages of the economic transformation undergone by the Baltic States. The first stage is characterised by a combination of transformation and modernisation ...

• The dream dictionary of G. H. Miller: The structural originality and cognitive models of interpretation

  G. H. Miller’s dream dictionary is analysed from the perspective of modern cognitive linguistics. The author examines its cultural characteristics, embeddedness in the context of dreams, the ... ... identified as important features of dream interpretations in the dictionary. The author describes three mechanisms of semantic transformation behind the dream interpretation: metaphoric conversion, metonymic shift, and pragmatic extension. 1. Берестнев ...

• The structure of political elite networks in the Republic of Poland in 1993—2013

  To identify the structure of network ties within Polish political elites; to study the features of network ties formation and the impact that both primary ... ... of time and analyse the 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,...

• Parliament and law-making: modern understanding of the role of parliamentary procedures and laws in transforming society

  The author analyzes the place and role of parliament in today's trans­forming society and investigates the causes of the crisis of parliamentarism, the confrontation ... ... 2009. № 1 (35). С. 27—34. Koshel A. S. parliament, law-making, parliamentary procedures, laws, law-ma­king process, transformation of society, social relations, basic norms 5-18

• Estonia’s party system today: electoral turbulence and changes in ethno-regional patterns

  A well-developed party system has emerged in Estonia over the decades of independence. There are, however, distinct geographical patterns of voting. A number of new political parties have appeared ... ... the Estonian party system as well as the causes of these changes and the effect of the ethnic and geographical factors on the transformation of the electoral behaviour of Estonian citizens. The research employs a systemic approach that makes it possible ...

• Transformation of global value chains in Russia and the Baltics amid Covid-19: prospects for regionalization and implications for economic policy

  ... the economic relations between them are tense today. Nearly stagnating bilateral trade contributes little to the development of either side. The Baltics-Russian bilateral trade conducted within global value chains (GVC) and operations of multinational ... ... EU-Russia sanctions in 2014 did not curb GVC activities between Russia and the Baltics. The article discusses factors in the transformation of the Baltics-Russian GVCs amid COVID-19. The research aims to prove regionalisation as a viable prospect for ...

• Impact of remigration on the worksphere under Covid-19: the case of Lithuania

  Remigration opens up the opportunity for a country to see the return of its citizens from migration, bringing with them their ideas, knowledge, values and skills. The work sphere is one of the main ... ... Educated Latvian Youth Abroad, Sociology of Development, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 183—203. 30. Järvinen-Alenius, P., Virkama, A. 2010, Transformative Impact of Social Remittances in Transnational Settings. In: Faist T. et al. (eds). Transnationalisation and Institutional ...

• Mary Crawford Fraser and Alice Mabel Bacon on the Japanese society of the late 19th/early 20th century

  This article focuses on various aspects of social and everyday life in Japan of Meiji period Japan that were discussed in the memoires of two prominent representatives of the Western world — Mary Crawford Fraser and Alice Mabel Bacon. They paid special attention not to the political transformations but rather to the everyday life of Japanese society. The author stresses the special interest of the travelers in the changes in European ladies that took place during the Meiji Revolution and their effect on women of Japanese aristocratic ...

• Development of Aland Islands: major trends and challenges

  This article considers key conditions and factors of the development of Aland Islands, describes main international legal regulations determining current status of the islands,... ... 2013). 14. Martynov, V. L., Sazonova, I. E. 2010, Transformacija prostranstvennoj struktury jekonomiki sovremennoj Finljandii [Transformation of the spatial structure of the economy of modern Finland], Izvestija Russkogo geograficheskogo obshhestva [Proceedings ...

• Russian Northwest: An integral Assessment of the Conditions of Regional Social, Environmental and Economic Systems and Quality of Life

  The article describes the results of an integral assessment of the regional social, environmental and economic systems (SEES) and the quality of life (QOL) in the ... ... ustojchivogo razvitija na period do 2030 goda. Rezoljucija, prinjataja General'noj Assambleej OON 25 sentjabrja 2015 goda [Transforming Our World: The Sustainability Agenda for the period up to 2030. Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly September ...

• Contemporary threats to the growth of rationality in the Russian society

  This article considers the conflicting conditions of growth of rationality in the modern Russian society, identifies threats relating to the key trends in world community development, Russian science and education, and personality transformations. 1. Андреев А. Л. Общество и образование: социокультурный профиль России // Педагогика. 2002. № 6. С. 20—29. 2. Базовые ценности русских на ...

• Transformation of the institutional matrix of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Russian Empire

  The research focuses on the poorly studied process of a social system passing through a bifurcation point: birth and progress of a crisis — social collapse resulting in the disintegration of the society — recuperation via integration of a part of the disintegrated social structure into a new one. ...

• The political elite recruitment in the Baltic: the role of the ethnic factor

  The role of the ethnic factor in political processes in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia has been ... ... the field of research and education, they can be employed in further research on the transformation of the elite structure in the Baltics in view of the ethnopolitical factor... ... Globalization: Attitudes of the decision Makersin Estonia, Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol. 2, no. 1. 10. Kasatkina, N., Beresnevičiūtė, V. 2010, Ethnic Structure...

• Events and narration in socio-cultural practices

  The article deals with the dynamic interaction of events and narratives. As a result of this interaction, stable links ‘events-narratives’ appear; they influence the formation and transformation of social and cultural processes in society. Event-narrative links form the basis of the system of norms and values of society. The corpus of ‘event-narrative’ links creates be­havioural patterns, serves as a motivator for members ...

• Network Transformations in Economy

  In the context of ever-increasing market competition, networked interactions play a special role in the economy. The network form of entrepreneurship ... ... based on the network principle. The paper focuses on the types of networks widely used in the economy. The authors analyze the transformation of business networks along two lines: from an intra- to an inter-firm network and from an inter-firm to an inter-organizational ...

• Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation

  This article defines coastal zones as a priority subject of studies in social geography and interprets coastalisation of population and economy as a key indicator of the development of ... ... Sankt-Peterburgskiy primorskiy region: geoekonomicheskaya transformatsiya territorii [St. Petersburg coastal region: geo-economic transformation of the territory], Saint Petersburg, 191 p. 14. Bosworth, A. 1996, The world-city system by the year 2000, Journal of Developing Societies, T. 12, Vol. 1, p. 52—67. 15. Cartier, C. 1999, Cosmopolitics and the maritime world city, The Geographical Review,...

• Countries of the Baltic Region in the Global Culinary Space

  Globalisation is creating a global culinary space where culinary traditions of different countries interact and compete. The author sets out to explore characteristic features of the culinary space of nine ... ... Chinese Migrants in England, Food and Foodways, Vol. 23, no. 3, p. 210—230. 21. Luley, B. P. 2014, Cooking, Class, and Colonial Transformations in Roman Mediterranean France, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 118, no. 1, p. 33—60. 22. Mahoney, C. 2015,...

• Kant’s Perpetual Peace Project and the Project of the European Union

  The article examines the following problems: 1) How well-founded is the comparison of the ideas of Kant’s essay «Towards Perpetual Peace», written in late XVIII century,... ... peace, and in some respects went even further. The process of European integration has transformed Europe’s regional buildup from the arena of regular war conflicts into... ... development of rights and liberties, at good-will and cooperation between individuals, societies and states perfectly corresponds to the spirit of Kant’s philosophy and...

• Territorial differences in the attitudes to the migration crisis in Germany: The political aspect

  The European migration crisis has divided the population of Germany along the lines of the country’s migration policy and the attitude to immigrants. The antiimmigrant sentiment, supported ... ... mitigating its effect. The article considers the attitudes of the German population to immigration and immigrants in terms of the transformation of electoral preferences under the influence of the migration crisis. Recent data on the electoral standing of ...

• Reframing paroemias of the coronavirus discourse

  The article explores the specifics of the paremic space of the coronavirus discourse, in which new images of typical situations related to the coronavirus pandemic ... ... mechanisms for their selection and functioning. The research material included examples of phraseological and paremiological transformations characteristic of the coronavirus discourse: refraseologization, formation of new meanings of idioms, and lexical ...

• Kant’s perpetual peace project and the project of the European Union

  The article examines the following problems: 1) How well-founded is the comparison of the ideas of Kant's treatise «Towards Perpetual Peace», written in late XVIII century,... ... peace, and in some respects went even further. The process of European integration has transformed Europe’s regional build up from the arena of regular war conflicts into... ... development of rights and liberties, at good-will and cooperation between individuals, societies and states perfectly corresponds to the spirit of Kant’s philosophy and...

• The influence of the sea on the economic development and settlement structure in the Baltic Sea region

  Earliest studies into the influence of the sea on the economy and settlement structure date back to the mid-19th century.... ... [Civilization and the great historical rivers. Geographic theory of the development of modern societies], St. Petersburg. (In Russ.) 18. Mikhailov, A. S. 2014, Geography of international... ... Development, RSA China Conference 2015: “Harmonious Development, Common Prosperity and the Transformation of Cities and Regions”, available at: http://www.regionalstudies.org/uploads/funding/conferences/presentations/european-conference-2012/pr...

• The transformation of ethnic identity in the condition of post-Soviet development of the independent states

  This article considers the problem of ethnic identity as a polymodal one and analyses certain social, historical, and psychological aspects of its context. Language is one of the major differentiating features in terms of ethnicity. In some historical situations, ethnic identity is determined ...

• The Baltics and Russian North-West: the Core and the Periphery in the 2000s

  This article analyses population changes in North-West regions of Russia (the former North-Western economic zone and the Kaliningrad region) and the Baltics at the level of urban districts ... ... 2008, Transformacija rossijskogo prostranstva: social'no-jekonomicheskie i prirodno-resursnye faktory (polimasshtabnyj analiz) [Transformation of the Russian space: socio-economic and natural resource factors (full analysis)], collection of reports XXV session ...

• The concepts of citizenship and estate in Russian history — conti­nuity and / or intermittence

  The author studied the development of the concept “people” in contemporary history tak­ing into account its possible interpretation as a bearer of sovereignty.... ... citizenship. Unlike them, Russia has gone through several stages of radical changes associated with deep political and social transformations, hence a variety of understanding of the concept analysed. A paradoxical interpretation of the concept "citizen" ...

• Duty and Coercion in Kant’s Republican Cosmopolitanism

  ... from involving a hierarchy over governmental structure. Third, I will discuss that the only reason to perform an active role in the political sphere according to Kant stems from the statehood, so that to help other needy and less developed peoples and societies in order to boost that they achieve their autonomy as a state would not belong to the duties that a republic should abide to. Thus, the transformation of a human society into a republican civil union means according to Kant’s account of right the greatest contribution that a state could offer to enhance the cosmopolitan order. 1. Beck, V., Culp, J. 2013, Interview of K. Flikschuh, R. Forst and D....

• Geography of European Migration

  In recent decades, the role of international migration has increased dramatically in most European countries. The ... ... has made some authors proclaim the beginning of a second Migration Period that could transform the social and cultural identity of Europe. The article presents an analysis... ... differentiated immigration policy taking into account ethnic and cultural features of host societies. 1. Anohin, A. A., Zhitin, D. V. 2013, Geografiya naseleniya s osnovami...

• Geography of international clusters in the Baltic region

  International cluster is a relatively new form of spatial organisation of economy in the globalisation conditions, which has become a frequent phenomenon in European countries,... ... bestellservice/-medien/kurzstudie_internationalisierung.pdf (accessed 10.03.2013). 18. Mikhaylov, A. S. 2013, Case Study on the Structural Transformation of an International Cluster: European Perspective, Modern applied science, no. 7 (12),p. 1—8. 19. Mikhaylov,...

• The methodological bases of comparative evaluation of sci¬entific and technological potential of Russia and the EU: regional and international aspects

  This article analyses approaches to the definition of such categories as “scientific and technological potential” and “innovative potential” in view of their resource, structural,... ... accurate definition of the scientific and technological potential through identifying its resources and orientation towards transforming abilities. On the basis of the existing methods of comparative analysis used in Russia and abroad, the author proposes ...

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

  The so-called “compression” of social and economic space has been the subject of quite a few studies in the past decades. There are two principle types of ... ... Yepifanova, А. А., Luhmanov, D. N. 2010, Transformacija zaselennosti sel'skoj mestnosti Central'nogo Chernozem'ja (1959—2008gg.) [Transformation of the population of rural areas of the Central Black Soil Region (1959—2008)]. In: Artobolevsky, S. S., Sintserov,...

• Economic globalization, production internationalization, creation of international production networks

  ... экономика и культу ­ ра / пер . с англ . М .: Праксис , 2004. 6.  Dicken P .   Global shift. Transforming the World Economy. Third Edition. Lon­don : Paul Chapman, 2001. 7.  Gereffi G . A Commodity Chains Framework ... ... Unit. P. 22. URL: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/ext­ra/pdf/bu­si­ness/ globalisation.pdf 9.  Robertson R. The Relativization of Societies: Modem Religion and Globalization // Robbins Т ., Shepherd W., McBride J. (Eds.). Cults, Culture, and the Law. Chicago ...

• Assessing spatial and temporal changes in the landscape vulnerability in the Kaliningrad region as an element of sustainable spatial planning

  The relevance of applied regional studies aimed at solving problems of adapting the nature management and spatial planning system to the current conditions of natural landscape transformation is based on the widespread interest in this topic from Russian and international researchers. Environmental approaches, which gained currency at the legislative level elsewhere in Europe, are virtually absent in the Russian system of spatial ...

• The Coastal Regions of Europe: Economic Development at the Turn of the 20th Century

  This article explores the current condition and spatial dynamics of the key socioeconomic processes in the coastal zone of the European subcontinent at the turn of the 20th century. Europe is ... ... 32. Fadeev, S. А. 1998, Transformacija pribrezhnyh zon v Zapadnoj Evrope i Evropejskoj Rossii: delimitacija i upravlenie [Transformation of coastal zones in Western Europe and European Russia: the delimitation and management], candidate dissertation ...

• The problems of legal socialisation in the conditions of the anomie of the Russian society

  This article analyses the problems of the influence of family, mass media, and school on the process of individual legal socialisation. Special attention is paid ... ... исследования. 1998. №   8. С . 14—26. 17.  Manson P., Yagudina Z., Shmulyar O . Modernity, Identity, Rationality (MIR): The Transformations of Everyday Life in Post Soviet Russia. Goetheborg, 1998. 18. http://rumetrika. rambler.ru/review/0/3800?article=3800 ...

• The concept of “network” in the system of basic concepts of regional economic geography

  The concept of “network” is traditionally used in sociological and economic sciences and serves as an in important object of research ... ... retail trade], Region sotrudnichestva [Region cooperation], no.1 (53), p. 16—25. 4. Bolychev, O., Mikhailov, A. 2014, Network Transformations in Economy, Balt. Reg., no. 3 (21). DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2014-3-3. 5. Bolychev, О. N. 2013, Territorial'naja ...

• The problem of meaning in Social Semiotics: Max Weber today

  A human activity is based on the constant creation, transmission and transformation of meanings and texts. All the forms of representation of this activity (culture, history, literature, art, politics, law, etc.) can be considered as semantic ensembles consisted from meaningful actions. The concept of “meaning” is fundamental not ...

• Migrant collective farms in 1946—1953: sketches of rural life

  This article focuses on the daily life and problems of the development of new collective farms in the Kaliningrad region (1946—1953) on the basis of earlier unknown archive documents. The study sets out to broaden our perception of the phenomenon of totalitarianism and transformations in the Soviet society in the last years of Stalin's regime, as well as to identify the specific features of regional history at this stage. 1. История сельского хозяйства Калининградской области....

• The antinomy of political reason. Some deliberations on Kant’s “Answer-ing the Question: What is Enlightenment?”

  ... shown that Kant’s enlightenment is a political project. The author focuses on the philosophical prerequisites and the essence of this project and analyses the difference between the “public” and “private” use of reason. The article emphasises the ... ... enlightenment in the field of politics. It is suggested that this ideal be seen in the evolutionarydevelopment of society based on the transformation of public consciousness. Kant’s view that the key discourse for social development consists in a comprehensive ...

• A major principle of Indo-European poetry or arbitrary etymologising? A review of modern international publications on anagrams in the cultures of Ancient East and Antiquity

  This article examines the approaches of modern international scholars to the problem of anagrams in ancient texts. The author addresses the following “problem nodes”: ... ... 330—351. 12. Luz Ch. Technopaignia, Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung. Leiden, 2010. 13. Malamud M. A poetics of transformation: Prudentius and classical mythology.Cornell University Press, 1989. 14. Maleuvre J.-Y. Les Fastes d'Ovide ou ...

• Desertion as a Social Phenomenon of Late European Modernity, 1871-1918

  The paper analyzes the influence of modernization on social processes of different European states. On the example of desertion of the Central Power’s soldiers ... ... manning system of European armies during the 19th century were one of the most important components of traditional society’s transformation and a vital source of new social practices. 1. Вербловский Г. О взаимной выдаче преступниковъ ...