EDITOR'S COLUMN
STATE AND MUNICIPAL SERVICE
The problem of behavior, action-reaction coordination remains its actuality for regulation and managing by social subjects. The decision by different methodology approaches in sciences and practice seeks its true efficiency proofing. Efficiency providing needs by management tasks technology rationality. Classifying measures became a ground coordination problem solution.
POLICY AND CONSTITUTIONAL STATE
The article is devoted to research of the legal bases regulating the principles of the organization of local government in the Russian Federation, provided by the Federal law of 28.08.1995 N 154-FZ and the Federal law of 06.10.2003 N 131-FZ. The author analyzes the key differences in the organization of local government in the considered federal laws. The emphasis is placed on the following areas: the content of the conceptual apparatus of the organization of local government, a list of issues of local importance, regulation of vesting of local government with separate state powers, the structure of local government bodies, the competence of the representative body of local government, as well as forms of implementation of local government by the population. The Federal law of 06.10.2003 № 131-FZ introduced changes in almost all aspects of the functioning of local government.
POWER AND ECONOMICS
Relevance of integration within the Union State of Russia and Belarus is practically challenged by nobody. However, in practice this integration goes rather slowly. From our point of view, one of the reasons of this situation is inattention to the circumstance that in 27 years of Post-Soviet development in Belarus, as well as in all former Soviet Union (including the Baltics) emerged different economic models. Let’s emphasize, all of them are related to market economy, but have a number of differences in mechanisms of management, structure of property, social policy.
Country economic models are not a new object of research. Nevertheless, in relation to Belarus there are just a few such works. Authors tried not only to specify the essential moments of the Belarusian economic model in this article, but compare it to economic practices of the states of the Baltics, first of all Lithuania, Latvia.
The article deals with the problems of the domestic and foreign market of objects of art as objects of national heritage. The structure of the sphere of circulation of art objects is shown, participants and agents of the art values market are described. Particular attention is paid to the activities of world auction houses and galleries. Methodical approaches are specified and methods for estimating the market value of art objects, including objects of painting, are listed. The article illustrates the authors’ attempt to evaluate the cost of the most mystical pictorial canvas in the history of the national museum science “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan” by the famous Russian artist I. E. Repin. The picture with a tragic-psychological plot was twice attacked by vandals with an interval of a hundred years and experienced a long-term costly restoration, even with not quite successful attraction of the author of this work.
In the article the peculiarities of the formation of the innovative economy in some Asian countries are discovered. The main stages of the formation of the innovative economy in Singapore, Japan, South Korea are analyzed in details. On the basis of studing of vast statistical & theoretical material the main advantages of the innovation economy in the conditions of modern globalization are discovered. The connection between the innovative economy and the global competitiveness of the countries is proved, The main peculiarities of the formation of national innovation systems in Singapore, Japan, South Korea are shown. On the basis of the vast amount of the material the weak and the strong points of the innovative development of different countries and also the perspectives for their development are shown. What experience can be applied for Russian conditions is demonstrated.
In modern conditions, aggravation of problems of ensuring national security of Russia is observed. It is caused by influence of a complex of factors. Authors consider the situation developing in the sphere of ensuring economic and military security of the country. For the analysis both empirical materials and expert estimates, and objective statistical data from the Russian and international sources are used. Authors prove a conclusion about existence of close interrelation of military and economic security, impossibility and inexpediency of their separate consideration in the theoretical analysis that generates need of correction of institutional mechanisms of their providing. At the same time, the conclusion is drawn on priority of start in Russia of mechanisms of sustained economic growth: without solution of this task, ensuring national security in the military and economic sphere will be, according to authors, extremely difficult.
The article considers the current problems of the employment state management. The characteristic of the role of employment management in the system of state economic regulation is given. The dynamics of unemployment, employment, and labor force participation are analyzed. The success of the authorities in achieving the aims of the employment state regulation is demonstrated. A comparison of the current trends in employment and economic development is shown. The consequences for the employment sphere during the economic crisis of the Russian Federation in recent years are considered. The changing characteristic of the population’s standard of living, real disposable money income, poverty level is presented. The established and current trends in the structure of employment changes in the scale of the Russian Federation, federal districts and constituent entities of the Russian Federation are revealed. The socio-economic consequences of the situation around employment are analyzed. The characteristic of the number of employed poor people is given. The expert estimates of the shadow economy increasing are given. The estimations of the informal sector of the economy volumes are presented. The estimation of the achieving the goals degree of the authorized state employment agencies is provided. The causes of a systemic crisis of state employment of the population are identified. The necessity of more complete participation of the state government employment in the development and implementation of the socio-economic development policy of the Russian Federation has been substantiated. The proposals for the strategies establishment for the future development of employment services in the regions of the Russian Federation and their inclusion in the system of strategic planning documents are presented.
One of the key tasks within the organization of the election campaign is to determine its strategy. Election strategy is the main tool for organizing and conducting an election campaign. This is a system of coordinated actions aimed at changing the behavior of voters and rivals in accordance with the goals of the candidate. A characteristic feature of the election campaigns of 2019 and 2010, according to the sociologists of Ukraine, is that they take place in an atmosphere of very serious and constantly growing people’s distrust of the political system and political leaders, who personify it (in particular, race leader Y. Tymoshenko ). In the context of the introduction of martial law in 10 regions of Ukraine, a sociological survey of Ukrainians living near the combat zone is of particular value for understanding the outcome of the 2019 presidential race.
A model and method for the formation of optimal calendar plans for the organization of logistics processes for the functioning of enterprises of the agro-industrial complex have been developed. The model is based on the presentation of the procedure for the formation of an optimal calendar plan in the form of a discrete programming problem. The optimization method is based on the procedure of branches and boundaries. The proposed model and method are the basis for creating specific methods for the formation of optimal calendar plans for the organization of logistical processes of the functioning of the agro industrial complex.
Purpose. National and international strategic capital is looking for favorable conditions for preservation and enhancement, respectively, institutional factors of investment attractiveness of Russia’s regions are crucial for ensuring sustained economic growth and prosperity. Gradually, there is a tendency to avoid formal financial assessments of investment projects in favor of a deeper institutional and economic analysis. In this regard, the role of information and analytical agencies specializing in determining the level of investment attractiveness of countries and regions is growing. The article analyzes the factors of the investment attractiveness of the regions of the Russian Federation in order to identify the reasons for the insufficiency of capital investments. The main goal, therefore, is to assess the dynamics of institutional factors of the investment attractiveness of Russian regions and develop recommendations for improving the situation.
Methods. The ratings, developed by Expert RA as the most authoritative organization in this area of Russian jurisdiction, were taken as a basis for the analysis. When writing a work, we use data analysis methods, a logical method, an aggregation method.
Results. As a result of the study, it was found that the problem under investigation is that in the Russian economy there is a significant gap in the regions in terms of investment activity, which contradicts the principle of the single economic space of the country. At the same time, for all components of investment risk, the ratings of the regions are fairly stable by the location of the subjects of the federation. A feature of the ratings, fixed for a long time of observations, is stability with the presence of explicit regions-leaders. This situation reflects the low dynamic mobility of the country’s investment space. Also traditional for both donor regions and recipient regions is the operation of previously created investment conditions for conducting economic activities. In this way, the efforts of the regional authorities to attract investors are often inadequate or ineffective.
Conclusions. In the paper the possible reasons for the investment regional gap are analyzed on the basis of the analysis of institutional factors are determined. Recommendations are given on the areas of work in order to improve the investment climate in the regions of the Russian Federation from the point of view of institutionalization.
SOCIETY AND REFORMS
Small mobile commerce businesses, due to their flexibility and mobility, are able to adapt to the changing environmental conditions and form new lines of business in accordance with the challenges of the time. Mobile commerce is a continuation of e-commerce, the translation of e-commerce into mobile forms. Forms of realization of the essence of mobile commerce are diverse. Mobile commerce allows people to transfer the entire information flow to users’ mobile phones, giving users complete freedom of movement. The article describes the objects and carried out the classification of the subjects of mobile commerce. National peculiarities of entrepreneurship in the Russian mobile commerce market are revealed.
In the article, problems of activity of the referees courts on the example of Ancient Rome and its current state are considered. For our country the referees courts — rather new system of solving of economic disputes. Now activity of the referees courts is subject to criticism from business community and demands further improvement. One of the main advantages of transfer to the referees court of the arisen dispute is its faster consideration. Nevertheless, now the number of appeals to the referees courts are not enough. The low authority of institute of the referees courts and low awareness of citizens on advantages of referees trial is the main reason of this circumstance. Transformation of the referees court into full-fledged institute of protection of the rights and legitimate interests of representatives of a business community is a priority task for society and the state.
The revolution proclaimed, inter alia, to transfer the ownership of land to those who worked on it for their own benefit. Still, even in theory, it was yet to be defined what kind of ownership was needed to meet its primary objective.
It is always troublesome, when a capitalizable object is transformed into a public asset because in the context of the surplus product situation, no mechanism of such transformation has ever been developed. Nevertheless, soviet socialism achieved some progress in a more specific issue of transforming land into a public asset via socialized land rent, in particular, via a differential land rent. In the socialist time, an absolute land rent was challenged by the non-match between socialist monopoly and monopoly in terms of classical political economy as a source of absolute rent; lack of clear distinction between rent and profit on capital where there are no restrictions on capital overflow between economy sectors thus, rendering absolute rent literally non-existent in Pareto terms.
Since the end of socialism, the egalitarian process has lost its gain of a socialized differential land rent and had to look for other options, this time in the new situation of private land ownership. This brings us to the works of Henry Georges where he suggests replacing taxes by land rent. Thereby socialization of a land rent from the instrument of elimination of social inequality will be transformed to the tool of economic efficiency.
The article analyzes the shortcomings of the pension reform developed and proposed by the Government of the Russian Federation in July 2018, which does not take into account regional specifics, including the asymmetric development (economic, social and demographic) of the national republics and regions of the Russian Federation.
The paper examines the impact of the development of large urban agglomerations on the welfare and quality of life. The attractiveness of megacities from the standpoint of increasing urbanization, the concentration of investment resources and the accumulation of industrial, financial and business centers in them today do not unequivocally affect the well-being and comfort of human living. Converting the wealth accumulated by the megalopolis into an attractive living environment becomes an elusive problem that requires research into the main factors and parameters of comfortable urban living. The method for evaluating megacities presented in the paper on the basis of the comfort parameters of the urban environment that we form allows us to identify areas of the necessary improvement, or the conversion of wealth into the quality of life.
A LINEA
The author considers the main reasons for the failure of good neighborly relations between Ukraine and Russia, which invalidated their Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership. Analyzing the historical events since 1991, the author comes to the conclusion that in spite of many points being at issue between the states, the sorest of them is the Crimea controversy, not so much in terms of the territory as in those of the circumstances under which the issue emerged and has been developing. These can be qualified as breach of trust committed by Ukraine regarding the destiny of Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet.
SCIENTIFIC LIFE
The study of the problem of extremism in the modern world requires close attention to the norms of international law ensuring sustainable development, global peace and security. In the monograph, prepared under the general editorship of A. I. Bastrykin, V. P. Kirilenko and V. A. Shamakhov there is the study of criminal law mechanisms of counteraction to radical ideology and the international legal framework for countering violent extremism.
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