Global value chains in the age of uncertainty: advantages, vulnerabilities, and ways for enhancing resilience
In this paper, we seek to explain the fundamental vulnerability of global value chains (GVCs) to sudden shocks, as revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and outline ways for enhancing their adaptability to the increased uncertainty at both conceptual and policy levels. We consider the concept and a typical multi-structural ...
Introducing Sectoral Models into Regional Management: An Assessment of Regulatory Impacts on the Economy
... assessment of their consequences and identification of the necessary measures in any given economic conditions. The authors construct sectoral models to assess regulatory impacts on regional economic performance. Assessments of regulatory impacts on product value chains, economic sectors, and regions as a whole show good repeatability, which makes it possible to provide a rationale for economic decision-making. The authors propose new sectoral models using the Kaliningrad region as an example. The models ...
Normal range of liver stiffness measurement in healthy people
The article focuses on normative values of the liver shear wave elastography and comparison of various works in elastography of the international and Russian research. A variety of normal values of liver stiffness during shear wave elastography obtained by different authors when ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... output by 0.05 % [6]. Thus, the spread of the Internet is a significant factor of economic growth.
In 2021, the share of Internet users exceeded 59 % of the world’s population, which is higher, for example, than the urbanization rate. The highest values are typical of the countries of Northern Europe, including the Baltic region, North America, and South Korea (more than 80 %), and the lowest values are in the Central African countries (in some countries — less than 10 %). In Russia, the value ...
Analysing the dynamics of the Baltic States’s production linkages with Russia
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Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... structure of the reputation core of the federal and regional executive authorities have been identified. However, the degree to which these characteristics manifest themselves varies. The reputation of regional authorities is assessed based on a system of values, expectations and the results of their work with the federal centre, citizens’ experience of communication with regional authorities and the assessment of their activity. The reputation of the regional executive authorities is characterised by ...
Transformation of global value chains in Russia and the Baltics amid Covid-19: prospects for regionalization and implications for economic policy
... Baltics have historically been economic partners, 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 companies is much more resistant to geopolitical and economic shocks than traditional international trade. In particular, the accession of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the EU and NATO in 2004 and ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... self-sufficiency as regards natural gas, electricity, and food products [12].
After the EU imposed sanctions against Russia in 2014, Russian—(Western) European trade dwindled. This reduction occurred mostly in terms of physical volumes. In terms of value, as the RIA Novosti agency reports with a reference to Eurostat data, 2002 saw an increase in Russian—European trade by 2.3 %<5> due to the growing global prices of goods constituting Russia’s exports [3]. The country’s Baltic regions,...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... funds.<8> Latvia’s government devised a 2030 strategy, drawing on UN and EU concepts. Its backbone is the thesis about inclusive self-sustained growth and wedding urban development goals to common European socio-economic and sociocultural values. The emphasis is placed on the role of towns in social cohesion policy within the social organisation of society, i. e. reducing regional disparities in standards of living and quality of life.<9>
Most Latvian publications scrutinised the ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... and Russia’s involvement in the global economy, on the other, have made them ‘international development corridors’ [27]. They account for a significant portion of Russia’s international trade, and their economies are included in international value chains. All this causes them to outstrip most Russian regions in terms of social and economic development. A positive net migration rate provides for a population increase in the territories: the average annual net migration per 10,000 population ...
Absoluter Wert in Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
In the second section of the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant introduces the concept of an end in itself and defines it as something whose existence has an absolute value. He continues with the assertion that the ground of a possible categorical imperative lies solely in this end in itself. Now Kant, in his remarks on the realm of ends, also operates with the notions of an end in itself and absolute value — seemingly ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... the safeguard for the liberal world order and associated multilateral institutions. Denmark’s value-driven militarised foreign political activism in the post-Cold War era is thus not only pragmatic but also ideological as it seeks to promote liberal values, democracy and human rights under American leadership. The article concludes that factoring in status and reputation in strategic culture studies may complement the explanations of security community formation, alliance strategies and the dynamics ...
Scenarios of increasing the economic efficiency of the Kaliningrad regional transport system
... region is hampered by several factors. This problem, to which we will refer to as a transport deadlock effect, translates into the limited contribution of transport to the regional economy. Particularly, it manifests itself at the level of regional gross value added, where the contribution of transport is much smaller than one might expect given the significant role the industry plays in the economy of the region. In this study, we examine major ways of increasing the economic efficiency of the regional ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... obtained were supplemented with isolines reflecting the fields of the spatial structure of urban settlement. The settlement systems were analysed from the standpoint of transport communications, using the Engel and Goltz coefficients. The coefficient values show that road transport is the most developed in the study regions, while river transport is the least developed. It is concluded that spatial development is leading to urbanisation and reinforcing the monocentric model of spatial structure. However,...
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 ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... is invested with the powers to legislate and form the cabinet. Since 2007, PO, PiS and the electoral blocs led by these parties have won from 79 to 82 % of the Sejm seats in four elections in a row (Table 1). Usually, their results lie at the lower values of the criterion. Not only the figures and rates are important but so is their stability through time. Given this distribution of seats in the Sejm, only PO and PiS members can become the head of government. The other parties can take on the role ...
Ultrasound elastometry of the spleen (review)
Measuring spleen stiffness is an insufficiently described diagnostic method, although it allows to diagnose some of internal diseases. The purpose of the paper is to study the influence of various factors on the obtained values of spleen stiffness. The authors gave an overview of the relevant publications in the RSCI and PubMed databases and well-acknowledged textbooks. Spleen elastometry is not described in current clinical guidelines, so the authors of publications ...
A renovation of values in the educational system
This article discusses the results of a study of youth’s values conducted in Kaliningrad in 2012—2013. Special attention is paid to the understanding of the life mission and the role of social and legal activism in the structure of values. The author presents arguments in favour of introducing prosocial val-ues ...
Kant on Human Dignity: Autonomy, Humanity, and Human Rights
This paper explores the new frontier within Kantian scholarship which suggests that Kant places so much special importance on the value of rational nature that the supreme principle of morality and the concept of human dignity are both grounded on it. Advocates of this reading argue that the notion of autonomy and dignity should now be considered as the central claim of Kant’s ...
Assessment of the CNS function in fetuses with different pathology
... presence of somatic pathology of the fetus, revealed by screening ultrasound; and the intrauterine functioning of the nervous system in the presence of an abnormality of the central nervous system. The research shows that in healthy fetuses the average value of the total assessment of general movements is within the limits of the norm (15 ± 0,88), which indicates the normal development of the central nervous system. In fetuses with CNS pathology, the average value of the total assessment of general ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... SI Stories.<6> These publications give an opportunity to assess the impact of a programme on a grantee and his or her professional development. In addition, the alumni feedback makes it possible to analyze his or her perception of Sweden, its values and the possible transfer of Swedish practices to the country of origin. This is a small-numbered category of publications since it requires the alumni’s consent and pre-moderation of the interview before release.
The Swedish Institute as a soft ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... 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 distance are affected by the size of the country, its geographical diversity, population density, settlements system (particularly, the distance between its main cores) and stage of urbanisation. In the Czech Republic, almost 50 % ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... regression-based analysis. The properties causing the vulnerability of the space of Russia’s Baltic region to the spread of COVID-19 have been identified by analysing selected social and economic statistical indicators. Special attention was paid to the extreme values: regional minima and maxima within the universe of Russia’s seven Baltic regions under consideration.
An effective way to describe the COVID-related features of the Baltic region’s space is by utilizing Manuel Castells’ distinction between ...
Kant in the Time of COVID
... major issues: which infected patients should be treated first (triage), and which people who are at risk of infection should be inoculated first (vaccine distribution). Following Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism, adopted guidelines have tended to value both whole lives (survival to discharge) and life-years (survival for years past discharge). This process of collective moral reasoning has revealed our common commitment to both Kantian and utilitarian principles. For Kant, respecting people’s ...
Axiological analysis of the novel "The Prospector" by Jean- Marie Gustave Le Clézio
The article contains an axiological analysis of the novel "The Prospector" by the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The author of the novel employs a variety of artistic means to express the characters’ and his own value systems referring to the biblical myth of the knowledge tree of good and evil.
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Gradation levels of value conditionality in political participation
The article presents the results of a theoretical study on the substantiation of the levels of value conditionality of political participation. On the basis of the subjective and objective nature of values, the level of normative ideals and that of individual priorities in the conditionality of civic activity and the political participation of ...
Fiscal policies stimulating private investment in the Special Economic Zone in the Kaliningrad region
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special economic zone in the Kaliningrad region,...
Transformation of life strategies of the individual under the conditions of armed conflict
... transformation of life strategies of people living in the area of armed conflict in Donetsk People’s Republic. Due to difficult life circumstances, civilians in the area of armed conflict lose their life goals and priorities, and their attitudes and value orientations change. These basic categories are structural elements of the value-semantic and motivationaldynamic spheres of personality, which influence the transformation of life strategies of the individual. The empirical study done by the author ...
The value fundamentals of the “we image” in Russian culture through the prism of mother-child communication
... Based on the author’s video corpus of interactions in the mother-child dyads, a number of maternal communication techniques are identified, which are proven to be teleonomic using a cognitive discursive analysis. Using these techniques, mothers create value fundamentals of the Russian ethnic picture of the world in the cognitive experience of a child. The article examines verbal and non-verbal means of implementing such techniques and characterises the developed value fundamentals.
1. Аркадьев ...
Psychological aspects of security rituals in higher education institutions
... безопасности личности у интернет-зависимых студентов // Психология, социология и педагогика. 2016. № 4 (55). С. 96—103.
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23. Kutovoy I. N., Syrova T. A. Some features of the subjective priorities ...
Giving the 1st order affine connection by means of the 2nd order vector-valued forms
Affine connection is given by 2nd order vectors called horizontal. Vertical and horizontal forms of 2nd order are entered for 1st order affine connection. It is proved that symmetric affine connection in the bundle of tangent linear frames defines vertical linear operator (a vertical vertical-valued form of 2nd order for 1st order affine connection) from 2nd order tangent space into 1st order tangent space to a manifold. It is shown that affine connection in bundle of tangent lin-ear frames defines...
Modeling Value Chains in Kaliningrad Agriculture
The article describes an approach to modeling and monitoring of the value added in the agricultural sector of the Kaliningrad region in the situration of the need to improve food security and increase internal agricultural output. The results of the first phase of the simulation based on the example of crop production ...
The alignment of stakeholders’ interests in interfirm networking
... of SME innovation clusters development in Russia // Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing.2013. Vol. 28, № 3. P. 240—259.
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Cognitive aspect of value meaning in colour idioms
The article considers semantic mechanisms of value meaning in the structure of Russian and English colour idioms. The authors classify colour idioms according to the factor which forms the basis of value meaning and is specified by the semantics of the colour.
1. Алефиренко Н. Ф. Фразеология ...
The development of international contact culture as a value aspect of educational reality
This article is dedicated to the topical issue of development of international contact culture. The main feature of the article is the emphasis on the need to develop etnocultural tolerance as a value cornerstone of the consciousness of nations and to implement it within the framework of traditional pedagogical methods and techniques.
1.
Булынин А.
М., Громова Е.
М.
Развитие культуры межнациональных ...
The formation of axiological bases of Russian pedagogy in the late 1950s-the early 1960s
This article analyses the formation of Russian pedagogical values in the late 1950s — the early 1960s and identifies the historical preconditions that affected this process. The author focuses on pedagogical problems stemming from contemporary sociocultural and political conditions and emphasises that, despite ...
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 is increasingly viewed as an effective organizational structure to create a market value embedded in innovative business solutions. The authors study the characteristics of a network as an economic category and emphasize certain similarities between Rus sian and international approaches to identifying interactions of economic systems ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... attitudes towards cooperative creation practice, %
Participation experience
Attitude towards cooperative creation practices
Total
Positive
Negative
Neutral
No answer
Yes
74.2
15.2
9.3
1.3
100
No
38.1
21.3
35.6
5
100
No answer
33.6
14.8
36.7
14.9
100
Average values
48.2
17.7
27.7
6.4
100
When considering the prospects of cooperative forms of economic activity, most respondents see cooperation as a catalyst to help them start their own business (57 % amongst respondents in the Kaliningrad region and 55 % on ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... the economies of municipalities in the context of the two most recent crises. While there are papers assessing the impact of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the events of 2022 on individual territories at a regional level [36], [37], this article adds value by providing a more in-depth understanding of the overall situation in the regions of North-West Russia.
An important aspect highlighted in this research is the higher dependence of these regions on international trade relations [38], particularly ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... support: some educational institutions and faculty members may not fully endorse student entrepreneurship due to concerns about its impact on academic standards or study distraction. Nevertheless, a growing number of universities and colleges recognize the value of entrepreneurship in education, offering resources and infrastructure to support student entrepreneurial endeavours.
Discussion and study findings
AI as a means of enhancing the entrepreneurial potential of students (international research experience)....
The urban environment quality in the Leningrad region in 2018—2021
... Federation has annually assessed the quality of the urban environment in more than 1,114 cities. The paper takes the case of the Leningrad region to consider a number of hypotheses about the correspondence between the Urban Environment Quality Index (UEQI) values, the city’s remoteness from agglomeration centers, population changes and migration growth, absolute population and municipal budget expenditures. The use of cartographic and mathematical methods made it possible to conclude that there is no ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... society, the totality of the dominant form of ownership and the main way of managing the production of goods and services (economic resources);
— methods and technical means of influencing mass and individual consciousness to form a system of values determining social behaviour;
— software, information and cybernetic technologies (information resources).
Thus, geopolitical security is an aspect of the national security of a given society ensuring a favourable course and the outcome of the ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
... others, with the amount of tourism growing in all Finnish regions except for North Ostrobothnia and all Swedish counties excluding Norrbotten. Inbound tourism did not recover that rapidly in most of the coastal regions, where the growth in absolute values was insignificant.
A positive trend was observed in the regions of South Sweden and Denmark, with the majority of arrivals coming from Germany. Yet, In Poland’s Lubusz and West Pomeranian voivodeships, where Germans also account for most of the ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... transboundary tourist mobility (cross-border tourism) and the effect of the Covid-19 restrictions on its development along the Karelian stretch of the Russian-Finnish border. The changes that took place on the Finnish side are not considered. Median values are calculated.
The study territory
Seven of the 18 municipal districts in the Republic of Karelia, Russia’s region neighbouring on Finland, served as a model for this study. The study border districts are grouped under the term ‘Karelian ...
To the problem of the genre repertoire transformations in the Russian art media discourse
... process and imposing its results. The inception stage of assessment acquaints the audience with the work, forms a basic evaluation, and highlights the original characteristics. Then, contextual updating is carried out additionally expanding the original value judgment by authoritative opinions, to introduce the necessary connotations. At the third stage, the formed value stereotype is used to create new value judgments regarding other artworks. Each stage corresponds to a specific repertoire of speech ...
Escapism: non-constructive ways of teenage personal self-determination
... of self-image and the inability to defend modern patterns self-image becomes traditional contradiction in teenager’s self-determination. Difficulties of self-determination in the real relationship define teenager’s escapism and search for the value of self-image in a virtual existence. This study highlights the mechanisms and conditions under which escapism becomes dangerous for adolescents, distorts their self-image, and contributes to the loss of its adequacy. The purpose of the study is ...
Application of Shapley value in a regression analysis
The application of the cooperative game theory model, Shapley value, for the estimation of the regression coefficients and the contribution of predictors to the general explainability of the model is considered. The necessary theoretical apparatus is systematized and the construction of Shapley estimates based ...
The communicative and pragmatic category of tolerance as a value constant in modern German linguoculture: the case of the newspaper Die Zeit
Processes taking place in society affect how lexemes are understood and interpreted at different historical periods of a linguoculture. In this article, we use German dictionaries and today’s press to consider the notion of Toleranz as a value constant and lexical-semntic field of German linguoculture. In our study, we relied on the DWDS German text corpus and the periodical Die Zeit. We established that the historical peak of the use of the lexeme Toleranz had been reached in 1992, whereas ...
Representation of religious and confessional values of the Reformation and Protestantism in the phraseological heritage of Martin Luther
The article is devoted to the study of German phraseological units and paroemias, which go back to Martin Luther and reflect the era of the Reformation and its confessional values. The analysis showed that the unique confessional experience left a significant trace in the phraseological picture of the world of the German people. The author draws a conclusion that the conceptual foundation of set expressions is determined ...