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Im Park: CO2-Reduktion ganz einfach

Die grünen Blätter eines Baumes wandeln das Treibhausgas Kohlenstoffdioxid (CO2) unter Einsatz von Sonnenlicht, Wasser und Mineralstoffen aus dem Boden in Sauerstoff und Biomasse um (Photosynthese). Bäume sind damit der beste Klimaschutz. Nachhaltige Städte fällen keine Bäume, schon gar nicht, um Flächen zu versiegeln (z. B. für Straßen).

Kleistpark Frankfurt (Oder)
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Living in Moscow Public Service Delivery public transport

4xM

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Angewandte Artenvielfalt

Mutualistische Beziehung zwischen Biene und Traubenhyazinthe
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Frankfurt (Oder)

Eindrücke im Vorbeigehen

Die großartige Projekt-Website ‚Kunst im Vorbeigehen‘, www.kunst-im-vorbeigehen.de/, hat mich inspiriert, selbst ein paar Eindrücke im Vorbeigehen aus Frankfurt Oder festzuhalten…

Useful things often come in pairs
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Friedenskirche
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Bernau (b Berlin)

Typisch Bauhaus! Typisch Bernau! 30 Minuten nördlich von Berlin präsentiert Bernau reichlich Weltkulturerbe, ein modernes MINT-Gymnasium und ein futuristisches Denkmal zum VEB Schichtpressstoffwerk.

Mit der S2 in 30 Minuten zum Ostkreuz
Typisch Bauhaus-das ADGB-Bundeshaus von 1930
Architektur erzählt Geschichte: Bauhaus bedeutet klare Linie und viel Licht. Der Mensch steht im Mittelpunkt. Innengang im ADGB-Bundeshaus der Architekten Otto Meyer und Hans Wittwer.
Wer lernt, soll auch essen – Lichtdurchfluteter Speisesaal
Industriekultur
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Jung und Alt

DR 64 317 im Bahnhof Frankfurt Oder
Mit DB 143 326-7
Ordnung muss sein!
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Sunday afternoon in Frankfurt Oder

International cargo freighters
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Iconic Pools: The Olympic Swimming Complex at Prospekt Mira in Moscow

In 1979, the Olympic Swimming Complex at Prospekt Mira in Moscow opened its doors. The complex’s three indoor pools hosted the swimming and diving events at the Olympic games the following year. It was a fast pool: for the first time ever, Vladimir Salnikov clocked the 1.500m free under 15minutes!

Many people will also well remember the annual Russian Swimming Championships in the complex that impressed with a futuristic design.

I had a great time at those pools in 2018-2019 when I trained with a masters swimming team of Vladimir Smirnov, the former head coach of the Russian swimming team at the 1996 Olympic summer games.

Since 2020 the Complex undergoes a fundamental reconstruction as pictured below. Looking forward for a brand new pool in the future!

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Retro photo: Ich@Schwimmhalle

Ретро-Фото (2018): на тренировке у Владимира Смирнова на старом СК Олимпийский в Москве. С прошедшим днём рождения, Владимир Евгеневич!!

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Inside Russia: New Article in the NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

Amid off-the-wall tensions between Russia and the US about Ukraine, George Borshchevskiy and I published a new open-access article 🙂 that sheds light on the politics-administration relationship inside the world’s largest country.

Jäkel, Tim and Borshchevskiy, George Alexander. "Leadership Discourses on Bureaucracy: Continuity over a Century" NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, vol.14, no.2, 2021, pp.111-133. https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2021-0017

Politicians in all types of regimes require bureaucracy to extend their rule over society. To prevent administrators from becoming too powerful and publicly signal independence, they seemingly arbitrarily criticize public officials. But when and how do political leaders blame bureaucracy – and when do they praise it?

George and I use Russia as a case to illustrate the complex and ambiguous politics-administration relationship in non-Western regimes. We argue that public statements about bureaucracy accommodate two different legitimation strategies. We provide a content analysis of 311 public statements, from 1917 – 2017, on the role of administration in the country’s development.

Talking about public-sector reform in Russia is instrumental in gaining, maintaining, or extending power, in a broader context of elite struggle.

Have a look the latest issue of NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy to read how, over a century, the rhetoric of Russian leaders oscillated between blaming and praising bureaucracy to secure stability and overcome obstacles in implementing governing strategies. Here is the link to the article: https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2021-0017

Bureaucracy-bashing and strategies of blame-shifting are not unique to non-Western political regimes. The rhetoric of political leaders in Russia contains many things that political leaders in Western democracies do as well.