scholarly journals Musical folklore in the modern education system in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (0) ◽  
pp. 58-81
Author(s):  
Gustaw Juzala
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Education System ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The Baltic

scholarly journals Health in financial crises: economic recession and tuberculosis in Central and Eastern Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (52) ◽  
pp. 1559-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimalan Arinaminpathy ◽  
Christopher Dye
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Quantitative Relationship ◽  
World Health ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
The Baltic

The ongoing global financial crisis, which began in 2007, has drawn attention to the effect of declining economic conditions on public health. A quantitative analysis of previous events can offer insights into the potential health effects of economic decline. In the early 1990s, widespread recession across Central and Eastern Europe accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the same time, despite previously falling tuberculosis (TB) incidence in most countries, there was an upsurge of TB cases and deaths throughout the region. Here, we study the quantitative relationship between the lost economic productivity and excess TB cases and mortality. We use the data of the World Health Organization for TB notifications and deaths from 1980 to 2006, and World Bank data for gross domestic product. Comparing 15 countries for which sufficient data exist, we find strong linear associations between the lost economic productivity over the period of recession for each country and excess numbers of TB cases ( r 2 = 0.94, p < 0.001) and deaths ( r 2 = 0.94, p < 0.001) over the same period. If TB epidemiology and control are linked to economies in 2009 as they were in 1991 then the Baltic states, particularly Latvia, are now vulnerable to another upturn in TB cases and deaths. These projections are in accordance with emerging data on drug consumption, which indicate that these countries have undergone the greatest reductions since the beginning of 2008. We recommend close surveillance and monitoring during the current recession, especially in the Baltic states.

Reinforcement of the NATO Eastern Flank

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Przemysław Furgacz
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Eastern Flank ◽  
The Past ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The Baltic

After the landmark annexation of Crimea and eruption of hybrid war in the Donbas, some states that in the past used to be under Soviet domination began to ask their stronger NATO allies for increased military presence in the Alliance Eastern flank. The worsening security environment in the Eastern Europe, the fear against potential swift Russian incursion, the relative weakness of Eastern European armies, the significant strategic exposure of the Baltic states, these factors influenced the Alliance's decision to augment NATO military presence in the states bordering Russia. Actions like deployment of additional battalions, prepositioning of heavy military equipment, intensified joint multinational military drills are intended to reassure the most vulnerable NATO member states and to deter Moscow from taking too audacious and too assaultive measures. The author shortly describes the actions NATO has made since 2014 in order to strengthen its military presence in the Eastern flank with particular emphasis on U.S.-enhanced forward presence in the region.

Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-123
Author(s):  
MARK MAZOWER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Mass Killing ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Modern Mass

In the middle of the twentieth century, state-sponsored mass killing took place in Europe on a scale unknown before or since. Although the figures are contentious, around six million civilians are estimated to have been deliberately killed under Stalin; around eleven million under Hitler (p. xiii). What makes this phenomenon all the more striking is that not only was it severely circumscribed in time – it came to an end by the early 1950s – but it was also highly localised. Eastern Europe – in particular Poland, the Baltic states, Belarus and the Ukraine – was the epicentre, and its inhabitants among the chief victims. It is the story of these lands – the ‘Bloodlands'– that Timothy Snyder, one of our leading historians of eastern Europe, has singled out. If we are to see this extraordinary spate of murderousness as the central event of the century (as Snyder argues), then we need a much clearer view than we presently have of what happened in the Bloodlands. In particular, we need to jettison the view that modern mass murder took place chiefly in concentration camps – much of the killing happened through starvation or the shooting squad – and we need to appreciate the extent to which it happened as a consequence of the intimate relationship between the regimes of Hitler and Stalin. This, in a nutshell, is the rationale for this book.

scholarly journals New country and host records for Lithuanian Tachinidae (Diptera)

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erikas Lutovinovas
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Leaf Beetle ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Host Associations

This paper updates the knowledge on the family Tachinidae (Diptera) in the Lithuanian fauna. As the result, 68 species are first records from the country and eight species are deleted from the previous list. Among species listed in this paper, 54 represent first records for the Baltic States and 16 are new for all of Eastern Europe. Parasitoid-host associations for 13 species of Tachinidae with 15 host taxa that comprise 17 couples are recorded for Lithuania for the first time. Among these, Meigenia uncinatata is a new parasitoid of the leaf beetle Gonioctena quinquepunctata (Chrysomelidae).

scholarly journals The Attitude of the United States to the Baltic Region in 1918–1922: The Example of Latvia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Ēriks Jēkabsons
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract The article discusses the attitude of the USA towards the newborn independent Baltic States in 1918–1922 using the most devastated of them—Latvia—as an example. Relations between Latvia and the United States in 1918–1922 reflect Latvia’s intense foreign policy efforts to ensure its political and social development through relations with one of the world’s most influential and powerful economies in spite of the United States’ reserved behavior. In addition, this unique era in Latvia and the Baltic States as a whole (influenced by the Soviet Russian and German factors, war and its aftermath, and the ethnically diverse and complicated social situation) illustrates the specifics of US policy towards Eastern Europe and Russia.

Prospects for Central-Eastern Europe to end-2019

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The Baltic

Subject Prospects for Central-Eastern Europe to end-2019. Significance After a strong cyclical upswing in 2017-18, the outlook for GDP growth in Central Europe and the Baltic states (CEB) will be shaped by several political milestones, notably Poland’s general election and Brexit, while softer economic conditions in the euro-area will test the resilience of the region’s export-dependent economies.

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