The article presents Lithuanian culture concept priešas and the concept of Russian culture враг comparative analysis, based on 100 samples of mass-media’s discourse (in Lithuanian language and Russian language corpus). Comparison was performed via tertium comparationis: what is known as an enemy, what signs of the enemy are essential, what does enemy do, etc. Analysis showed that in Lithuanian vision the same entity can be both friend and enemy; Russian examples of similar meaning have not been found. The examples of an enemy in Russian discourse may be Great Britain, Germany, German, in Lithuanian discourse – Polish attacking groups, bolshevik. Lithuanian mass-media’s discourse 56 times more often uses word enemy than the Russian mass-media’s discourse.
Straipsnis skirtas specifinio Rusijos regiono – Kaliningrado srities – socialinio ekonominio vystymosi posovietiniu laikotarpiu analizei. Didelis dėmesys skiriamas srities statusui, kaip pagrindiniam šio regiono plėtros determinantui, problema nagrinėjama aptariant centrinio ir vietinio lygmens statuso transformacijos koncepcijas. Pateikiamos esminės pagrindinių programinių dokumentų, nustatančių prioritetines Kaliningrado srities socialinės ekonominės raidos XXI a. kryptis, charakteristikos. Vertinant regiono raidą atkreipiamas dėmesys į sisteminius planavimo trūkumus, įvertinamas pakitusios geopolitinės situacijos ir pasaulinių naftos kainų kritimo poveikis kaliningradiečių gyvenimo lygiui. Galimas strateginis regiono raidos proveržis siejamas su srities statuso problemos sprendimu.
Due to geopolitical location, North-Eastern Polish regions (voivodships) have a big potential for the development of cross-border cooperation. This kind of international activity can have impact on regional development. Polish authorities on the central, regional and local levels initiate, run and co-finance cross-border projects designed to promote integration, understanding and co-operation across the border. According to the aims of the Polish foreign policy the basis of the long-term strategy of regional development of the North-Eastern Poland could be its geographical position and long-established co-operation with Kaliningrad Oblast. Institutional framework of contacts are: intergovernmental agreements, agreements establishing Euroregions, agreements between regional and local authorities. The cross-border cooperation between Warmia and Mazury Region and the Kaliningrad Oblast could be important part of the Polish foreign policy towards Russia.
Collaboration skills, multicultural awareness, and intercultural sensitivity are essential to the careers of maritime business professionals. The self-development of a multiculturally conscious personality contributes to ensuring safety in the maritime business. Researchers point out that more attention in the maritime industry should be paid to the employee’s personality than to increasing automation of shipping processes. The heterogeneity of employee teams at the national and religious levels is associated with the problem of increased psychoemotional stress. Instead of emphasizing the teaching of intercultural communication rules, it is appropriate to enable future maritime business professionals to cultivate values, to realize their cognitive interests, to understand that the culture or religion of their colleagues is existentially dear to them, and to be open to a culture of dialogue. Therefore, the article presents more relevant methodological prerequisites for the development of multicultural self-awareness and religious tolerance in the spirit of Neo-Thomism, theistic humanism, personalism, and constructivism.
This article aims to assess the dynamic trends in the Lithuania’s hotel market and substantiate, plus illustrate their need, if it exists.Hotel business is becoming increasingly growing entrepreneurial branch that integrates political decisions together with businessinitiatives and local public attitude towards the tourist, or economic benefits left behind. In Lithuania and worldwide hotel businessis expanding rapidly, but the growth of the sector in state was and is particularly vulnerable to the historical conditions, politicaldecisions, new business trends - international business and globalization, and, of course, the needs of incoming tourists. But howand in what direction is reasonable to develop the hotel industry is the main topic discussed in the article with additionally carriedout statistical analysis.
The article is a study of the ways the mythical concepts of the English mythological conceptual world-view are reflected in the Old English lexis. To explain this, we combine all the concepts under analysis into conceptual segments according to their dominant conceptual features. In the article, we specifically dwell on the conceptual segment of the RELIGIOUS SPHERE, which integrates three sub-segments, GOD (god), DEVIL (deofol), and RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL NOTIONS.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the most current problems and issues in marketing management. As all enterprises deal with various difficulties in their business planning, implementation and control, these issues and problems have to be recognized, dealt with, and solved. Most of the business strains will have a lot to do with diverse marketing aspects, as marketing is the main link between enterprises and their markets and customers; strategically mappedand implemented marketing helps to create competitive advantage and pave the way for success, but different problems can endanger firms’ marketing process, thus in today’s volatile business environment marketing executives have to bear in mind and deal with various facets of the marketing in rapidly changing world.
The application of Project Management (PM) tools and techniques in public sector is gradually becoming an important issue indeveloping economies, especially in a new development country like Latvia where projects of different size and structures are undertaken.The paper examined the application of the project management practice in public sector in Latvia. Public sector projectmanagement in Latvia become popular in recent years as there is different type of public funding sources available. The paperdescribes the public sector project management practice in Latvia. Study shows that public sector project maturity level is low andshould be improved. Research period covers the time period from January 2013 – March 2013.