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Żagańska kolekcja listów i autografów w Rosyjskim Państwowym Archiwum Akt Dawnych w Moskwie

2021

The Russian State Archives of Historical Records in Moscow (Российский государственный архив древних актор) contains a group No. 1587, which the institutions resource list calls ‘Collection of Autographs Gathered by Princes Żagań.’ The article describes the history of the library of the dukes of Żagań in the 19th century, including the creation of a collection of manuscripts. This collection is of a particular importance as a testimony to the finał years of the Duchy of Courland and Semigalia and the extensive family ties of the princes of Żagań. The collection also includes autographs of important historical figures in Europę, sources concerning the Thirty Years War in Silesia, and relatio…

PARALLELISMS AND JUSXTAPOSITIONS IN ELIZAVETA BAM BY D. KHARMS

2014

Tourism SME sustainability social and economic challenges during pandemic: cases of Russian Federation, Georgia and Latvia

2021

Until 2020, the tourism industry was characterized by a growth rate, the statistics highlight that globally 2019 was the tenth year with a consecutive annual growth. However, the Covid-19 pandemic marked a major turning point in the development of tourism, instead of tourism overdevelopment, the underdevelopment issues appeared in front pages of the industry news. The effects of the pandemic are intensified by the fact that tourism is a labour-intensive industry and that most companies in the sector are SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). At this time, it is crucially important to look at sustainability issues, therefore the aim of this study is to analyse the social and economic dim…

Post-Soviet studies and the transition: the case of the Russian economy

2008

The disintegration of the Soviet Union meant that an essential object of study for research analysing centralised planning disappeared and the reference point for a lot of work dealing with the comparison of economic systems was lost. It could be assumed that such a structural alteration might lead to reduced interest in Russian studies and a crisis for the scientific community involved. The purpose of this study is to test this idea and to show how the scientific community interested in post-Soviet studies has changed during the transition period.

Il ruolo delle elezioni nei regimi non democratici iraniano e russo. Osservazioni a margine delle elezioni politiche iraniane del 2020

2020

La ricerca si propone l’obiettivo di verificare le caratteristiche dell’esperienza iraniana e russa all’interno della cornice dell’electoral authoritarianism, al fine di analizzare il ruolo delle elezioni e delle opposizioni, reali e apparenti, all’interno di questi due ordinamenti. Si metterà in evidenza come, seppure con strumenti diversi, si operi un controllo sulle opposizioni, piuttosto che escluderne del tutto l’esistenza, in modo da garantire un pluralismo di facciata. Within the framework of the electoral authoritarianism, the aim of the paper is to analyze the role of elections and opposition parties, systemic and non systemic, in Iran and Russia, exposing how both countries, albei…

Rusia y la política energética de la Unión Europea

2010

A raíz de las irregularidades en el suministro de gas a la UE en 2006 y 2009 procedente de Rusia se ha vuelto a plantear el papel de este país en el ámbito energético-gasista europeo. En el diseño de un marco para la política energética europea se ha ido reconociendo un papel singular a Rusia, aunque una de las formas de incorporar a ese país en el ámbito energético europeo ha sido a través de su consideración como un riesgo geopolítico. Este enfoque se sustenta en el gran volumen de hidrocarburos que la UE adquiere en Rusia, dependencia que puede suponer que ese país pueda influir unilateralmente en el establecimiento de cantidades y precios, así como en las formas de reorganización del se…

Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia: A review of empirical research

2011

PurposeEntrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia have been of academic interest for over 15 years. This paper seeks to bring together current knowledge concerning the phenomenon, and to suggest further directions for research.Design/methodology/approachThe study consists of a systematic review of 48 refereed empirical articles on entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia.FindingsFrom the articles reviewed it appears that entrepreneurs in Russia use non‐material resources to overcome the financial and institutional obstacles, which still seem to afflict the market. However, theoretical and methodological issues are, in many cases, poorly reported and this undermines the scientifi…

Media for the minorities: Russian language media in Estonia 1990–2012

2013

This article aims to explore the ways in which Estonian public broadcasting tackles one specific media service sphere; how television programmes for language minorities are created in a small country, how economics and European Union media policy have influenced this processes. The article highlights major tensions, namely between Estonian and Russian media outlets, Estonian and Russian speakers within Estonia and the EU and Estonia concerning the role of public service broadcasting (PSB). For research McQuail’s (2010) theoretical framework of media institutions’ influencers – politics, technology and economics – is used. For analyses media regulatory acts and audience surveys are accomplis…

Conflictual Rebordering: The Russia Policies of Finland and Estonia

2023

This article seeks to analyse the process of conflictual rebordering in the EU’s relations with Russia. The authors single out three major crises that triggered and shaped the process of toughening the border regime and the related transformations of political meaning of the EU-Russia border: the COVID-19 pandemic, the drastic deterioration of Moscow-Brussels relations in the beginning of 2021 and the war in Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022. Correspondingly, the EU’s reactions to each of these critical junctures might be described through the academic concepts of governmentality, normativity and geopolitics. Our aim is to look at the three ensuing models – governmental, normative an…

Badanie pamięci lokalnej w kontekście państwowej polityki pamięci w Polsce. Deportacje w głąb Rosji i na Sybir w pamięci nieoficjalnej

2018

Researchers in social memory are bound in their work to include the relations occurring between the memory of local communities and the official historical policy of the State. When events retained and exposed in the local memory are persistently passed over in silence, distorted, falsified or removed from the public sphere by means of decisions taken by the censorship, the remembrance of these events takes on the character of concealed memory, which integrates the given social group tightly (e.g., the Siberians, the Silesians). The transformations which followed in Poland after 1989 (liquidation of the Censorship) formally introduced „commonwealths of memory” into the public debate; howeve…