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In the news: Poland and Airbnb; Russian schools in Tajikistan; protests in Moscow; extremism in the UK, and in Ukraine; and the Night Wolves and Montenegro.
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Cross-border cooperation is an efficient way to boost good-neighbourhood relations between adjoining countries. It possesses the necessary set of tools to address the most urgent issues at the level of regions and local communities and is the encouraging factor to urge state authorities to promote cooperation with neighbouring countries in institutional and financial aspects. Cross-border cooperation within Ukrainian-Romanian cross-border region provides numerous opportunities to its residents, business entities and communities in general to improve their living standards, however local and state authorities should have the strong will in creating favourable functioning environment. The paper aims to examine the current condition of Ukrainian-Romanian cross-border region‟s socio-economic development and to suggest the ways to activate it.For this matter, the authors examine current institutional environment of Ukrainian–Romanian cross-border region‟s functioning and its legal foundation. Special attention is paid to the major priorities of Ukrainian–Romanian cross-border region development in the context of 2016–2020 State Program of Cross-Border Cooperation Development of Ukraine. Economic situation in Ukrainian-Romanian cross-border region is studied based on the GDP per capita and average monthly wages and pensions rates in the adjoining “oblasts” and “judeţ”. The authors also emphasize the role of such cross-border cooperation instruments as participation in CBC ENI Programs and in institutionalized forms of cross-border cooperation as far as the region is eligible for three CBC Programs and has four Euroregions established at its territory.
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The special national programme called „Doing School Differently Week”, introduced in 2011 by the Romanian Ministry of Education offers an opportunity for creative, interesting and attractive extracurricular activities. Such an activity was the one entitled „ Oradea – The Art Nouveau capital of Romania”. It took place on the 23rd of March 2018 and it was done together with the 9th grade students from the class I coordinate as a class teacher. The activity was initiated because of two main reasons, i.e. 2018 is the European year of Cultural Heritage and Oradea is the only city in Romania which belongs to the European Art Nouveau cities network.The activity had two distinct parts. A presentation session organized within the school and a study visit in situ, in order to see and examine some of the most important buildings in Oradea whose architecture was influenced by the Art Nouveau style. As a follow –up activity the students were asked to contribute to a specific Padlet, an online virtual board in which they included personal pictures of the sites accompanied by their feelings and comments regarding the experience.
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This paper present the researches about some orders of insects from Tinca area ,during 2019. There were presented some faunistical and ecological data, unpublished in literature. Some species (63) were mentioned for the first time in Tinca area and four species are rare or very rare in area: Polyommates thersites Cant.,Chelis maculosa Gern.,Zerinthia polyxena Denn., Acilius sulcatus L.
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Knowledge about the operation of municipal companies in Poland is small. They occupy an important place in local government and play a significant role in meeting social needs. These entities have a large public property, which they use in the process of implementing local government tasks. Municipal companies are one of the basic organizational forms in achieving local government goals. From a theoretical point of view, these companies are the subject of research interest and the economic category, characterized by specific features. They function in the sphere of public utility as well as beyond it. On the basis of a municipal company there is the phenomenon of information asymmetry and the conflict of social and economic goals. For this reason, these entities remain under the control of local government authorities and administrations, becoming regulated enterprises.
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In recent years, a participatory approach to territorial branding has become more and more popular, emphasizing the importance of internal audience groups in the branding process, treating it as a dialogue between stakeholders. The aim of the article is to indicate the role of social participation in city branding, as well as to identify forms of involving local stakeholders in this process. In order to achieve the goal of the article, a comparison of the possible forms of social participation described in the literature on the subject with the model of the city by Kavaratzis [2008] was made. Good practices of the participation of residents in building the city’s brand on domestic and foreign examples were also pointed out.
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In the era of knowledge-based economy, what is necessary is the cooperation of the small and medium enterprise sector with companies from the so-called business environment offering training, advisory, legal and information assistance, or support at the stage of implementing modern and innovative solutions. There is no doubt that the SME sector plays an important role in the economy, affects economic growth, the amount of unemployment,or stimulates the development of the economy, therefore supporting entrepreneurship development and creating new jobs is a phenomenon characteristic of the modern economy. Any actions taken to stimulate the growth of the SME sector entities and aid aimed at creating favorable conditions for their creation and development are increasingly mentioned as the main areas of economic policy whose implementation may affect the financial and economic situation of entire regions. The objective of the Business Environment Institution is to provide professional assistance to young, developing entrepreneurs in various aspects of their functioning, and the effect of these activities is primarily to promote and develop local entrepreneurship. Institutions within the region have a fundamental impact on its development, and thus on shaping the regional business environment. These institutions also have an impact on the investment attractiveness of the region or on the level of its competitiveness.
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Along with the growing public awareness, modern and future tourists will increasingly need active rest, carried out in a clean environment, away from the hustle and bustle of everydaylife in their place of residence. They will also expect safe and healthy food with high nutritional value,free of residues of plant protection products, mineral fertilizers, hormones and genetically modified organisms. They will probably find these conditions in the wilderness, which often accompanies agritourism activities carried out in farms located in naturally valuable areas. Undoubtedly, such areas include the Bug valley region, known for the beauty of the surrounding nature and clean environment.The main objective of the presented research was, therefore, to analyze and compare the agricultural activity of farms operating in the Bug river valley, where the conventional or organic system of agricultural production takes place. Surveys conducted among 99 owners of these show, among other things, that farms recognized as eco-agritourist farms, i.e. already having the status of organic farmsor in a process of conversion, provided a more varied tourist offer than conventional farms.
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The paper presents the work on building the HydroAnalyzer software application for storage and analysis of hydrometric data. It describes the software architecture model tailored to the specific ways of collecting and storing hydrometric data. The paper examines the application components and the main sequences of their use. The implemented functionalities include processing and comparison of hydrometric data, graphical and tabular data presentation, analysis and notifications of incorrect data. Future development of HydroAnalyzer is directed towards simultaneous analysis of multiple heterogeneous data sources and predicting
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Review of: Zenderowski, Radosław et al.: Mieliśmy swój dom, w którym byliśmy szczęśliwi… Konflikty etniczne na terytorium byłej Jugosławii w narracjach migrantów z państw postjugosłowiańskich mieszkających w Austrii. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKSW, 2019, 138 s., ISBN 978-83-8090-548-1 Levitsky, S. – Ziblatt , D.: Jak umírá demokracie. Praha : Prostor, 2018, 335 s., ISBN 978-80-7260-394-7 SNYDER, T.: Cesta do neslobody. Rusko, Amerika, Európa. Bratislava : Premedia, 2018, 344 s., ISBN 9788081595981 KRE JČÍ, O.: Geopolitika Ruska. Professional Publishing, 2017, 534 s., ISBN 97880906559490 Štefančík, R.: Christlich-demokratische Parteien in der Slowakei. Eine neue Perspektive. Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2019, 212 s., ISBN 978-3-339-11192-0.
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This article uses war-time speeches, notes scribbled on postwar planning pamphlets, confidential government letters and private conversations from the early to mid-1940s to demonstrate how Jan Masaryk’s understanding of postwar Jewish questions, namely who belongs to the Jewish people and where do those Jewish people belong geographically, cannot be unwoven from broader questions regarding German belonging in the Czechoslovak body politic. While the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister remained committed to resolving statelessness as a condition and wanted to protect Czech and Slovak-speaking Jews in his reconstituted postwar state, his commitment to purging Czechoslovakia of its German minority trumped his other beliefs. This obsession with cleansing the Czechoslovak body politic of Germans and German groupness captivated Jan Masaryk so much that he sometimes failed to differentiate German-speaking Czechoslovak Jews from the broader ethnically German mass. Therefore, scholars who desire to understand how Jan Masaryk utilized his power and influence to keep the bricha flowing across the Polish-Czechoslovakian border in 1946 or how he lobbied for the creation of a Jewish polity in the Middle East, must evaluate how his broader Weltanschauung necessitated the reorganization of all east central European peoples along political lines. In this way, Masaryk¹s postwar commitment to enabling Jewish movement away from east central Europe and towards a faraway, ethnicized polity is best understand within the context of the overall ethnic revolution, which gripped the region between Berlin and Moscow across the 1940s.
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A rich body of scholarship has emerged which analyses the crisis of masculinity in German-speaking Europe following the end of the Second World War. The specific area dealt with in this essay covers the constructs of masculinity exhibited by German-speaking Jewish men who chose to remain in a German-speaking country after the war. Such men faced challenging circumstances as many official Jewish organisations declared Germany to be off-limits for the establishment or re-establishment of Jewish communities. Indeed, the World Jewish Congress passed a resolution in 1948 stating that Jews would never again settle on the "bloodstained soil of Germany". A critical and interpretive analysis of three memoirs demonstrates how models of Jewish masculinity were carefully constructed and performed, and how they were influenced by the effects of the Holocaust. These memoirs serve as exemplars of why some Jewish men felt almost compelled to live in the lands so deeply connected with the destruction of more than two thirds of European Jewry. They offer new information about the fragility, the resilience, and the evolutionary nature of Jewish masculinities.
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This article is devoted to Nadzieja Drucka (1898–1986), a Polish writer and translator of Rus-sian literature of Russian origin on her father’s side. Drucka grew up in Russia, in an aristocratic family, thanks to her marriage to a Pole, Maurice O’Brien de Lacy. She found herself in Poland in 1918, where she made an effort to learn the Polish language and culture and to assimilate with Polish society. These attempts proved successful. In the 1920s, Drucka established numer-ous contacts with the Polish literary community and conducted intense literary and social activity. She continued it after World War II, in a new political reality, openly declaring her support for a new political system in Poland.The article traces, on the basis of the writer’s autobiography Three fourths... Memories, the subsequent stages of the cultural reorientation process, as a result of which Poland became Drucka’s second homeland.
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The author writes about the ethnic and educational structure of the population of the Zvornik region from 1945 to 1953. He points out that the area of the Zvornik region after the Second World War was part of the Tuzla District. Since 1949, the Zvornik region was an integral part of the Tuzla region, and since 1952, it was one of the 66 slopes of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Zvornik region, Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats and members of other nations lived together, and the number of inhabitants continued to increase. In Zvornik region, in 1948, there were 84.41% of the population without a school education, with 14.48% who completed primary school, and 0.80% of the population with a lower secondary school. Higher secondary school had 0.24%, and college and high school had 0.02% of the population. In the total percentage of the illiterate population of the Zvornik region, women participated with 56.49%, and men with 43.51%. There were 12 inhabitants of the Zvornik region at the university or college.
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Povodom najavljenog preispitivanja odluke o proglašenju arheološkog nalazišta Grabovik-Zaketuša (Straža, Srebrenik) nacionalnim spomenikom Bosne i Hercegovine, radni tim Zavoda za zaštitu i očuvanje kulturnohistorijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa Tuzlanskog kantona je izvršio terenski obilazak i rekognosciranje lokaliteta, pri čemu je prikupljen veći broj keramičkih nalaza. Uvidom u pronađeni materijal može se zaključiti da je riječ o gradinskom naselju iz kasnog brončanog doba (kulturna grupa Vis-Pivnica). Novost predstavlja pronalazak dva mikrolitska kremena oruđa, koja odgovaraju onima iz kasne faze vinčanske kulture, što ukazuje na mogućnost da je lokalitet poslužio kao pribježište nekoj neolitskoj populaciji u ranoj fazi eneolita. Opći zaključak je da lokalitet predstavlja vrijedno arheološko nalazište koje zaslužuje odgovarajuću zaštitu, a u slučaju moguće devastacije – obavezna zaštitna iskopavanja.
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Sjeveroistočna Bosna je od najstarijih vremena predstavljala poseban kulturno-historijski, geografski i društveno-ekonomski prostor u okviru Bosne i Hercegovine. Razvoj zanatstva može se pratiti od neolitskog doba. Bazu su predstavljala prirodna bogatstva: drvo i rude raznih metala (olovo, zlato, srebro, željezo, i dr.). U doba Rimskog carstva na ovom prostoru željezo se koristilo za izradu oružja. Period Osmanskog Carstva obilježen je razvojem zanatstva i osnivanjem udruženja zanatlija iste struke koji se nazivaju esnafi. U Austrougarskoj Monarhiji i Kraljevini Jugoslaviji ono je bilo preteča industrijskog razvoja.
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Prve pisane tragove o pticama na području planine Konjuh, nalazimo u rezultatima prvih sistematskih istraživanja ornitofaune Bosne i Hercegovine koja je obavio Othmar Reiser, kustos Zemaljskog muzeja Bosne i Hercegovine u Sarajevu u periodu 1889-1915. godine (Reiser 1939). Istina, postoji mali broj podataka za vrste ptica čije je prisustvo pomenuti autor ustanovio na području planine Konjuh (sepmtembar 1889, te april i maj 1900. odine). Nažalost, nakon ovih ornitoloških istraživanja nastaje period od 5 godina u kojem obrada ove faunističke skupine organizama u potpunosti izostaje. Od 1964. godine nastupa period kada se u okviru bioloških makroprojekata istražuje flora i fauna Bosne i Hercegovine.
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U ovom radu donosimo osnovne podatke o nekoliko do sada nepoznatih starina, odnosno, lokaliteta kulturno-historijskog naslijeđa sa područja sjeveroistočne Bosne. Ovi lokaliteti govore da na ovom području postoji ogroman broj potpuno nepoznatih dobara naslijeđa a koji su dokazi bogate i duge kulturne historije sjeveroistočne Bosne. Radi se o lokalitetima u nekoliko općina: Tuzla, Banovići, Srebrenik, Teočak i Sapna. Također, lokaliteti su iz perioda srednjeg vijeka, preko osmanskog, pa do perioda između dva svjetska rata.
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The economic diversification and growing relations with actors other than Russia presents both great opportunities and challenges to the Eastern Partnership states. This includes deepening economic ties with the European Union, but also with China and Turkey. Meanwhile, the outlook for Russia regaining its influence in the region, or at least halting this trend, looks bleak.
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The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that in Romanian Interwar Novel we could find a cartography of rural space. Even in the modern writer Camil Petrescu’s fiction we will analyse many rural spaces that we could find in some of his novel. Also, in another novels we found out that the rural space plays an important role, in the construction of the narrative plot.
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