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Бренд–идентификация территорий. Территориальный брендинг: новая прагматичная идентичность
The article deals with the currrent state of place branding in Russia. The author analyses key problems as well as particular cases basing at the marketing approach to place management. Prospective of co-development tourism and grobal brands is considered.
The article is devoted to the problem of borrowing, reproduction of similar constructive and visual-graphical solutions, as well as plagiarism in the field of territorial branding, arising due to a number of factors and conditions of contemporary visual communication, as reflected in the work. This problem is relevant for the perception of visual identification of the target audience and has a direct impact on the existence of a visual brand-identification of the territory in a public space and marketing communications of the brand territory.
The work is devoted to the study of the main compositional, constructive and plastic techniques used in modern typeface brand identification of territories. The article deals with typology of font identity and its structural analysis in the context of the problem of empirical measurability of a work of art.
Students' internet usage attracts the attention of many researchers in different countries. Differences in internet penetration in diverse countries lead us to ask about the interaction of medium and culture in this process. In this paper we present an analysis based on a sample of 825 students from 18 Russian universities and discuss findings on particularities of students' ICT usage. On the background of the findings of the study, based on data collected in 2008-2009 year during a project "A сross-cultural study of the new learning culture formation in Germany and Russia", we discuss the problem of plagiarism in Russia, the availability of ICT features in Russian universities and an evaluation of the attractiveness of different categories of ICT usage and gender specifics in the use of ICT.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.
The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.