scholarly journals Travel preferences of Finnish cross-border tourists: Opportunities and limitations for Russian Karelia

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-572
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Kondrateva ◽  
Ekaterina A. Shlapeko
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Russian Karelia ◽  
Tourist Flow

The study aims to examine travel preferences of Finnish cross-border tourists with special reference to the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Data were collected using paper-based and online surveys from 300 respondents travelling from Finland to the Russian Karelia. Although cross-border tourists are a significant part in the inbound tourist flow to Russian Karelia, several obstacles for this type of tourism have been revealed. Measures to stimulate Finnish tourists to travel to Russian Karelia are suggested. The results of this study can be used to improve Karelian tourist products by providing services as expected by tourists. The findings are limited to visitors of Russian Karelia and should therefore be interpreted with caution.

scholarly journals Mediation as a Component of Communicative Competence in Training International Relations Professionals: Collaboration Between Russia and Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Irina E. Abramova ◽  
Anastasia A. Ananyina ◽  
Anna M. Esengalieva
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
International Relations ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

The world lives in the era of conflict, when the safety and well-being of states or individuals to a large extent depend on the availability of well-trained professionals who are able to perform mediating functions, keeping in mind ethnic, national, political, cultural and other differences between conflicting sides. However, employers increasingly claim that todays graduates lack the skills required for conflict management and mediation even in homogeneous working environments, let alone multinational teams and international interaction. This problem is particularly relevant for the field of international relations where conflict resolution by peaceful means is very important. Countries with transition economies, such as Russia and Kazakhstan, where there is a gap between labor market requirements and university teaching practices, have been searching for new ways to educate and train young specialists. This article presents the preliminary results of a collaborative project between Petrozavodsk State University of the Russian Federation and Gumilyov Eurasian National University of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The project includes a set of dialogue- and polylogue-based learning activities with special focus on addressing any discrepancies, misunderstandings and divergence of views. The aim of the paper is to assess the impact of professionally oriented cross-border communication in the English language on the readiness of international relations students from Russia and Kazakhstan for resolving future professional disputes through mediation. The authors used formal structured questionnaires with closed-ended questions for obtaining necessary data and the comparative analysis method for interpreting them. The results suggest that systematic English-language cross-border communication in a realistic work-like environment will demonstrate the importance of mediation as a component of professional communicative competence to the students and will better prepare future foreign affairs staff for conflict resolution and mediation.

scholarly journals Plato's “Republic”: an example of proto-project mental activity and primary experience in design of new social forms

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Polina Rybalkina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Project Activity ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Personal Fulfillment

This article is dedicated to the analysis of Plato's work “The Republic” in the context of the genesis of project mentality  and project activity as the anthropological outcome that goes back to the early cultural states and primary personality-oriented ancient practices. The author shifts to the plane of historical-cultural retrospective of the origin of the phenomenon of project mentality with the objective vicissitudes of its genesis. An attempt is made to reflect on this process, examine and clarify certain moments associated with the prelude and dynamics of the development of project approach towards organizing modern reality. The author substantiates the original perspective on interpretation of Plato's “Republic” as the early typical example of proto-project mentality formed in the depths of ancient cultural practices. Project mentality is a promising vector of the existence of culture, the so-called matrix of personal fulfillment of a significant part of our contemporaries. The author believes that Plato's work “The Republic” should be recognized as one of the very first examples of proto-project due to the presence of a wide range of typological attributes of design. The conclusion is made that in accordance to most parameters, Plato's work “The Republic” falls under the concept of “project activity”, as it features majority of the aspects of sociocultural design.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KOMITMEN ORGANISASI, IKLIM ORGANISASI DAN KEPUASAN KERJA PEGAWAI DI SEKRETARIAT JENDERAL KEMENTERIAN AGAMA RI

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Sugiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Work Atmosphere ◽  
The Republic

<p>Job satisfaction in an organization plays an important part in employees’ performance. It has connection with commitment and work atmosphere in the organization. With referrence to the previous study  on the issue within office of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, there seem to exist problems in the issue. The paper further makes an account of job satisfaction in the organization. Using quantitative method, the finding of the study is that work atmosphere plays more significant part in maintaining job satisfaction among the employees of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs than that contributed by commitment.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords : </strong>Organization’s commitment, work atmosphere, employees’ job satisfaction</p>

scholarly journals Border guard peacetime capacities to counter armed diversionary operations carried out by external entities in the border zone of the Republic of Poland. Analysis and proposals

2019 ◽  
Vol 193 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-442
Author(s):  
Karol Falandys ◽  
Paweł Łabuz ◽  
Piotr Bastkowski
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Special Operations ◽  
Special Operations Forces ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Formation

The article focuses on the possibility of carrying out subversive actions in eastern Poland in the current geopolitical situation. For this purpose, the authors have explained the essence of the undertakings referred to as subversion and diversionary activities. The concept of a new genera-tion war of the Russian Federation and the establishment of the Russia’s Special Operations Forces have been briefly described. It also discusses pretexts to take sabotage actions in eastern Poland and identifies po-tential targets of these actions. A significant part of the article is devot-ed to the analysis of activities countering subversion on the eastern border of Poland. Moreover, the creation of a new formation, which would take over the tasks related to the protection and defense of the eastern Polish border, has been proposed.

Evolution of the Roman Republican Senate: Composition, Election, and Judicial functions (Part 1)

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
L. L. Kofanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Supreme Council ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The World ◽  
Judicial Authority ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gradual Transformation

The paper deals with the Roman senatus in the period from 5th to 3rd century BC, from the point of view of its composition, completion and selected competences. As to its composition, in the most arcaic times of the Roman state, the senate was an assembly of the heads of clans (patres gentium), who represented the ideas of patricians. The autor presents gradual transformation of the composition of the senate and switch towards the inclusion of the plebeians. It describes also the process of the cooptation of the members, rules of which incurred fundamental changes from the hereditary principles to the regulation given by statutes. A significant part of the article is devoted to the judicial functions of the Senate and the relationship between the iudicium senatus and the iudicium populi, the transformation of the Senate court from a regional body to the highest, global court of the entire Mediterranean. It’s noted that if the original Roman Senate de iure was the judicial authority only one of the Latin Confederation, later after 338 BC, it becomes the Supreme court of the Latin Union, and by the end of the Republic is transformed into the «Supreme Council of the world».

State approaches to non-state interactions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Y. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
Almost All ◽  
And Control

The chapter focuses on cross-border relations between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, examining the attempts of respective states to intervene in and/or co-opt long-established traditions of transborder flows. Despite having existed on opposite sides of closely guarded borders for most of the 20th century, the two adjoining regions managed to keep alive long-established traditions of cross-border interactions thanks to shared ethnic, cultural, and linguistic features. The frontier societies there today have lived through multiple challenges – the indiscriminate border policy of the Soviet era on Kazakhstan’s side and the tumultuous early years of socialist China engendered exoduses of people across semi-controlled borders. Almost all official interactions stopped until the 1990s when new challenges and opportunities presented themselves and, with them, the revival of informal cross-border exchanges and states’ attempts to co-opt and control them.

scholarly journals Die erkenning van die noodsaaklikheid van natuurbewaring ten opsigte van basiese grondgebruiksbeplanning in dierepubliek van Suid-Afrika

Koedoe ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.J. la Grange La Grange
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
The State ◽  
The Republic

The concept of a natural resource is explained and nature conservation as a form of land use is discussed in some detail. Special reference is made to the National Physical Development of Planning and the Environment on the role played by nature conservation in basic usage of the soil as planned by the state in the Republic of South Africa.

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