In the new history of present states, one of the main risks to the socio-economic development of society is corruption. The fight against it is based on the development of normative and legal acts, prevention and prevention, information and investigative activities, and is expressed in the form of deterrence and counteraction.

The fundamental regulatory framework is the “United Nations Convention against Corruption” (adopted in New York on October 31, 2003 by Resolution 58/4 at the 51st plenary session of the 58th UN General Assembly), the Federal Law “On Countering Corruption” of 12/25/2008 N 273-FL. At the same time, to date, combating corruption in local government is regulated superficially and is formal in character. Due to the actual closed nature of the activities and peculiarities of the functioning of local government, the issues of corruption are not fully studied in order to provide effective prevention and counteraction.

The possibility of a detailed study of corruptionogenic factors of local government and the development of methods of counteraction became possible after the elections of 2019, after which non-systemic municipal deputies were elected to the representative bodies of local government. Exercising the powers in the representative body of local government, municipal deputies independent from the territorial executive bodies of state power were able to study the specifics of the functioning of local government, make public the issues of the problem field, identify vulnerable places in the activities, take response measures and make appropriate practical conclusions.

The purpose of this article is to establish the causes of the emergence of corruption in local government on the example of a separate municipality of the MO Svetlanovskoye of St. Petersburg. Study of the causes of the emergence of corruptionogenic factors, search and proposal of possible ways to address the issue of effective counteraction to corruption in local government in the new conditions of life of modern society.

On the basis of the study the authors declare the need to take specific measures of response of the public authorities of the subject of the Russian Federation and the representative body of local government, aimed at creating certain conditions for effective counteraction and prevention of corruption, minimizing the consequences of corruptogenic factors in the modern conditions of democratic functioning of local government.

Legal reform is a method of continuous improvement and promotion of laws. In order to promote legal reform, it is necessary to research and learn about excellent legal reform experiences. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) legal reform experience is worth studying and learning about because the PRC has rich reform achievements. There are two important factors contributing to the success of the PRC legal reform. One is that the PRC establishes correct and reasonable legal reform objectives, and the other is that the PRC provides impetuses for legal reform. Therefore, this paper will analyze the above two legal reform experiences to help other countries complete legal reforms.

The rapid development of technologies for collecting and analyzing big data, including those characterizing trade, is currently taking place. This data, with a high degree of detail, takes into account the whole variety of consumer decisions, which allows them to develop key management proposals on what, where and when to produce and sell. Banks, retail chains, and the state are actively interested in these data. At the same time, individual small and medium-sized enterprises weak use of big data in their activities. The purpose of this study is to highlight the problems and prospects for their application for management purposes, based on an analysis of the current practice of using high-frequency retail data. As a result of the study, the features of the available data of retail companies, payment systems and OFDs, which are manifested in their different structure and limitations for use in the development of management decisions, are highlighted. It is shown that big data characterizing retail trade is available to a narrow circle of people who, as a rule, have their own interests, which are not yet consistent with the idea of open publication of these data, even for scientific purposes. There are very few research publications based on high-frequency fiscal data. Such closeness of data does not create prerequisites for the active development of skills in working with them in most enterprises and organizations, which determines the weak use of microdata for management purposes.

National strategic brands are an indisputable competitive advantage for the reputation formation and attraction of investments within the whole country. Taking into account the geopolitical transformations, the departure of Western brands opens up unlimited strategic opportunities for the creation and popularization of domestic national brands.Main goal of the artickle is to identify the best foreign practice for creating a national brand on the South Korea example. In case of that K-pop cultural phenomenon and experience in the strategic development and the youth innovation ecosystem of the creative economy support strategic analysis is conducted. Based on the identified practice, a domestic national creative economy brand strategic priority was established. The article is based on the theory and methodology of strategizing developed under the scientific supervision of leadership of Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor V.Kvint. The strategic success of the South Korean K-pop phenomenon (the experience of creative economy development) was partly made possible according to a stimulating state policyN — such a policy should include issues of stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation, reducing legislative barriers and improving the conditions for running business in the field of technology, cultural and creative industries. South Korea’s experience as a leader in the creative economy development expresses serious economic and social efficiency. The formed national brand has the power to influence not only the national market, but also the foreign one.

The relevance of studying the dynamics of regional tax revenues to the regional budget is conditioned by the need to analyze the budgetary and tax potentials of the Irkutsk region in the modern period, assess budgetary independence (dependence) on federal assistance, to determine the further development potential of this region. The purpose of the study is to establish the role of regional taxes in the formation of the regional budget of the Irkutsk region at the present stage of development. To achieve this goal, an analysis was made of the receipt of tax and non-tax revenues of the regional budget for the period from 2016 to 2021. Both general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, classification) and special ones (method of economic analysis, statistical-economic method) were used. The general structure and dynamics of tax and non-tax revenues of the subject is shown; analyzed income from regional taxes for the specified period. The indicators characterizing the share of regional taxes in the total amount of regional budget revenues, as well as the volume of gratuitous receipts are given. It is conclusions are drawn that the tax on the property of organizations is the fundamental one, the share of which in the total amount of regional taxes on average for the period under study is 86%. At the same time, the share of regional taxes in the total volume of regional budget revenues is small (11.8% in the pre-crisis period from 2016 to 2018 and 8.1% in 2019–2021). The impact of the crises of 2019 and 2020 is shown on income dynamics. It was determined that in 2021, despite the positive dynamics in most indicators, the volume of regional taxes remained at the level of 2018, and the level of subsidization of the region has increased significantly over the past 3 years.

The social responsibility of religious organizations in modern conditions is reflected in a variety of activities carried out by religious institutions and differ depending on both the confessional affiliation of these institutions and the specific structural territorial unit where they take place. The presented work is devoted to a detailed analysis of the peculiarities of the manifestation of one of the directions of social responsibility of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark (ELCD), associated with minimizing the consequences of COVID-19 on the example of its individual dioceses. The dioceses characterized by the highest proportion of adherents in the population structure (Diocese of Viborg, Ribe, Aalborg and Lolland-Faster) were selected to clearly reflect the trends taking place. The subject of the study is the social activities of the ELCD to mitigate the consequences of COVID-19 for parishioners, the features of the implementation of which are considered on the example of structural units at the regional level. The article substantiates the increased importance of the ELCD in the development of the region, since the designated institution largely assumes the social obligations of the state (duplicates several functions) in connection with the risks of the spread of coronavirus infection. To achieve the goal, methods of analysis of factual and economic-statistical information, comparative comparison were used. The experience of a religious organization in dealing with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is of interest to the public, government bodies and authorities, as well as religious organizations in other countries. The results of the study can be useful in developing a strategy for the development of state-religious relations in Russia, where there are trends of strengthening the social and economic role of religious organizations.

The article examines the historical and legal aspect of the origin and development of militarypolitical bodies, traces changes in the content of their functioning during the February and October revolutions, during the Civil (1917–1922) and Great Patriotic Wars (1941–1945), during the post-war and post-Soviet stages of national history.

The conducted analysis of the current regulatory documents of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Russian Guard, allowed the authors to conclude that the military-political (political) and moral-psychological factors are strengthening in the organization of personnel education in the new geopolitical conditions. The article highlights such priority spheres of activity of officials as the formation of a statepatriotic worldview within the framework of modern informational narratives and the protection of military personnel and employees from the negative informational impact of internal and external destructive forces.

The scientific novelty of the article is provided by the recommendations proposed by the authors for the activities of state authorities on information and military-political support for a special military operation in the territory of Donbass and priority areas for professional and moral and psychological training of personnel of law enforcement agencies, taking into account the military-historical heritage of the Past.

The coming era of digital transformation, from the point of view of the consumer of information services, has a dual character. On the one hand, there is an excess of information, and on the other hand, its absence in the form ready for adequate perception by the vast majority of citizens. The ongoing «information overload» causes the effect of reducing the motivation to use information, which entails the closure of libraries and the reduction of the library stock. Integrating modern technologies into library activities, providing the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds, will bring the library to a completely new level of relationships with readers and significantly increase the efficiency of information use. The article deals with the issues of innovative activities of the library, aimed at developing and implementing the provisions of the digital development strategy, which provides for digital transformation, which implies a significant increase in efficiency through the introduction of new user service technologies. It is substantiated that the methodology of Academician V. L.Kvint, according to which strategy is defined as a system of search, formulation and development of doctrine, which ensures long-term success with its consistent and complete implementation; in accordance with the stated principles of strategizing, the scheme for developing a strategy for the advanced development of a modern library is formalized and described. It is shown that the methodology of program-target management makes it possible to synchronize the process of strategizing with the processes of «substantiating goals in terms of their achievability in time and consistency with resource capabilities», such synchronization is provided by the logical scheme of the method: «goals — ways to achieve — means», in accordance with which the goals set for the digital development of the object of strategizing are implemented by a set of organizational and technical measures provided with the resources required for this.

Bernanke’s policy, as today’s global inflation demonstrates, was not beneficial for the economy of the Unites States as well as for the global financial system in the long run. Yes, in 2008–2009 it “plugged holes”, but in the long run it only accelerated the global tendency of ruining the global financial system, and especially the financial system of USA. At the same time, previous two crises and their solution experiences clearly demonstrated that another policy was mode adequate in such situations. Those two solutions were more beneficial in the long run as they let USA “clear” its economy and launch its long-term powerful economic development.

The purpose of the article is to expand the existing theoretical and applied understanding of strategic motivation by identifying certain aspects of this issue in the scientific works of Laureates of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) in the period from 2000 to 2022.

The introduction discusses the differences in the understanding of the terms “strategic motivation” and “motivation” in the works of domestic and foreign scientists and practitioners, notes a long-term, future-oriented understanding of strategic motivation and its difference from the predominantly operational nature of motivation in the understanding of the classics of management science. The main part of the article sequentially analyzes the lectures and additional materials of the award committee, scientific articles, books and monographs of the laureates related to the research topics for which the award was awarded. The analysis highlights the main aspects of scientists’ research related to strategic motivation, its place and significance in the process of developing and implementing a strategy. Intermediate conclusions are made about the views and positions on the topic under consideration of each laureate, whose work was analyzed in the article. At the end of the article a general conclusion is formulated about the relevance and interdisciplinary (at the intersection of the natural sciences and liberal arts) nature of the issue of strategic motivation, emphasis is placed on the emerging trend towards considering predominantly non-material, psychological and behavioral aspects of the subject under study, the role of innovation in stimulating micro- and macro-levels. The conclusion is made about how it is possible to expand and supplement the existing understanding of strategic motivation taking into account the considered materials. It is noted that the conclusions made on the basis of the analysis can be applied in further research, as well as in practice when creating a system of strategic motivation in enterprises.

The analysis is based on the theory of strategy and methodology of strategizing of the Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Life-time), Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Vladimir L. Kvint.

This article summarises the characteristics of the current platform for BRICS scientific research and cooperation in the Arctic. The BRICS countries’ activities for the development of the Arctic region are analysed. The Arctic cooperation platform is explored through an analysis of official documents, a review of ongoing official events. The BRICS countries are implementing relevant joint projects to develop and explore the Arctic, on the one hand realising their own needs, and on the other using the specific advantages of their economic systems. From time to time, they organise and hold multilateral meetings and conferences. However, most cooperation takes place in a bilateral format. It is based on the organisation of conferences, cooperation between research institutes and joint training. This helps the BRICS countries to expand their influence in the Arctic. Based on an analysis of the identified materials, including projects developed to date but not yet implemented, the author seeks to summarise the main characteristics and features of BRICS Arctic cooperation and to identify its strengths and weaknesses. The conclusions of the paper present relevant proposals for improving the effectiveness of the BRICS countries’ joint work on the Arctic agenda in the medium term.