The paper deals with the problems of ensuring the quality of expert’s activities which results are used in public administration. As a case, one type of expert evaluation is examined. This type has appeared about six years ago, according to the Federal Law No. 436-FZ On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development, with the purpose to assess the age rating of media content in difficult or disputable cases. The research focuses on two topics: what errors and abuses happen in the practice of expert evaluations; how the procedures of quality ensuring work. Empirical data for analysis include the texts of expert evaluations over the period 2013-2017 years (N 105) and semi-structured interviews with accredited experts (N 10). It was revealed that the quality of expert evaluations is diverse and in some cases is far from satisfactory. Some evaluations can be questioned because of their noncompliance with the law and formal criteria of academic papers. Meanwhile, obvious procedures to ensure quality are not designed in the law or exist but do not actually work. The results of evaluations of similar products differ from each other because of the absence of common methods, common theoretical ground, and unified format of evaluation. The government control of the experts’ work quality and the self-regulation of expert community are very weak. Those circumstances create conditions for distorted attitude of stakeholders to expert evaluation: not as a supplement tool for enforcement of the law on children media safety but as self-sufficient instrument of private interest protection and influence on media.

This article focuses on the actual issues of attracting investment in the development of innovative electricity supply infrastructure through public-private partnership mechanisms. Based on a study of theoretical and statistical material, the main advantages of renewable energy and intelligent electricity transmission and distribution systems are shown. The effective forms of creditors' funds attraction to “green” projects within the framework of a partnership of public and private structures are defined. The approaches of the socio-environmental effects assessment of public-private partnership implementation in the electricity supply industry are identified. It is shown that by changing the format of projects execution in the analyzing industry, from the transmission of electricity to the general network to operation towards specific consumers, the partnership of government and business becomes more attractive and stimulates the development of potentially high-yield, environmentally friendly and socially expedient projects in the electricity supply sector.

Studying of social and economic processes in the former Soviet Union has not only the academic value. Estimation of transformation results in economy and policy of Russia is possible only in comparison with the states anyway moving in the same direction. The transformational model of Republic of Belarus as the instruction on other model of development, under the same starting conditions, is of considerable interest to us. Practice of social and economic development of the Baltic Countries has however not smaller value for us: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Their progress during 1991-2007 and even more obvious modern problems is for us a peculiar anti-index of reforming, a compass which arrow is directed to the south. Having proclaimed democracy and the free market how the Baltic Countries lost both the first, and the second? Why it occurred? The answer is offered in this article.

The article is devoted to the information confrontation of states in modern conditions. The approaches of various countries to the information impact on the internal political situation of other states and measures taken at the technical and legislative level in order to counter this threat are described. The concept of «information capacity of the state» is introduced and its components are described. It is concluded that the scale of the information confrontation of states depends on factors that correlate with the components of the information capacity of the state. The use of the introduced conceptual apparatus «information capacity of the state» is a necessary condition for the success of the state policy in matters of information confrontation.

This article analyzes the role of the institution of leadership in the formation of a new political culture in conditions of sovereignty. It should be noted that experience shows that the institution of leadership has really had a decisive influence on the whole further course of development of social and political processes in society. As a result, an activist type of political culture based on democratic principles emerged and affirmed in society.

The culture of participation as the main element of human culture in general was characterized by rationality, awareness and expediency. At the same time, it is necessary to know that the level of perception of new cultural values depends on the level of political culture of the political leader itself, since any leader is a reflection of the cultural environment in which it was formed.

Entrepreneurship in the mobile commerce market provides the opportunity to search for new opportunities for companies in the mobile environment. Taking into account the innovative nature of entrepreneurship in the mobile commerce market, it is necessary to form an infrastructure support system, the main tasks of which are: activating business processes in the mobile commerce system by creating the necessary conditions and turning business activities in this area into a real factor of economic growth by adapting the economy to advanced technologies. The article discusses the system of infrastructure support for entrepreneurship in the mobile commerce market as a complex of institutional entities that provide the conditions for implementing the processes of organizing and managing the development of entrepreneurial activities in the mobile commerce market in Russia. Thus, the infrastructure support of small business in the mobile commerce market is a combination of conditions, institutions and mechanisms that ensure the sustainable development and competitiveness of Internet companies in the Internet environment.

This study reflects a retrospective trend-oriented analysis of Uzbekistan’s experience in designing national and regional development strategies.

It is shown that due to the impact of objective factors, it took Uzbekistan, like most of the postsoviet era states, several years after receiving independence in 1991 before developing long-term national and regional plans, programs, projects and strategies. Since 1997 annual economic programs have been developed in accordance with the proclaimed by the country’s leadership priorities of the national, sectoral or regional concentration of resources. However, the country’s long-term strategy was for the first time substantiated and developed only in 2016–2017. Global trends that exert considerable influence on the economy of Uzbekistan, new innovative technological capabilities, the country’s participation in the international division of labor and other factors were taken into consideration. The leadership of the country revealed those new opportunities that could accelerate the improvement of the quality of life of the population of Uzbekistan. It is these national interests that were taken into consideration in the elaboration and implementation of the “Strategy of Actions in five priority areas of development of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017–2021”. This Strategy defines the main goal, targets, perspective directions and priorities of further modernization of the country.

As for regional strategies, until 2000 Uzbekistan had no experience in developing them; there was no strategic vision for the long-term territorial development. Still, certain attempts were made to propose regional long-term development concepts, but due to the lack of professionals on strategizing and insufficient involvement of trained specialists and scholars in this activity, outdated methods of developing these programs and plans were used. As a result, in most cases they remained unviable.

Nevertheless, the accumulated experience shows that long-term national and regional development strategies are indispensable in enhancing the quality of life of the population and ensuring the development of the relevant priority sectors of the economy more sustainable and targeted. This experience has undoubtedly confirmed that effective management of the socio-economic development of Uzbekistan and its regions can be achieved if national and regional strategies for medium-term and long-term development are designed in such a  way that they are based on uniform methodological approaches, correlate well among themselves according to their goals and tasks, and are provided with necessary labor, material and financial resources and, ultimately, allow to improve the quality of life of the people of Uzbekistan.

In article the problem of reconsideration of the known formula “public consciousness reflects social being” is solved for what revision of all three categories which are this statement is offered. Is shown inaccuracy of aspiration to exclude consciousness from the sphere of being. In particular, the point of view according to which ignorance by people of regularities of the activity which is carried out by them, gives the grounds for an exception of their consciousness of the sphere of life critically is considered.

In article the thought that it is necessary to distinguish concepts of social being and social reality is carried out. The social reality is always referred to a certain collective subject and, on the one hand, it is necessary its practical and spiritual activity, and with another is a reflection subject. Being considered as a reflection subject, the social reality acts as life. The last in this case is not reduced to the economic relations — it includes all circle of the relations (political, ideological and so forth), subject reality, culture, traditions with which it should interact and which it defines for itself(himself) as some reality. Life of the subject can be defined by degree of development of ability to a reflection inherent in his consciousness. Not reflective life, reflective not conceptual life and conceptual and reflective life are allocated.

The offered paradigm allows to define sense of the social and reformative activity directed to formation of unity of society as mutual interpretation of various realities which carriers are various social subjects. This mutual interpretation is carried out in the difficult and continuously made process of spiritual life, in the works of art, theological texts, philosophical treatises correlating various types of social reality and developing a reflection over them.

The article examines the actors in the global educational process on the example of the European Union, the UN, the World Bank and the OECD. We consider the tools of their influence on education, work efficiency, areas of responsibility. The article examines political forces (unions, associations) that have a real impact/influence on the processes in global educational policy, thus, are, above all, its active actors, capable, due to their political and/or economic importance, to the situation.

During the period of “trade wars” relevant import substitution of different consumer goods. In this aspect, as well as to improve the competitiveness of the goods of Russian origin in the article the question of assessing the quality of hair care products (shampoo). Turnover are analyzed, the category of shampoo and the geography of deliveries, commodity expert examination results. To the challenges of commodity expert examination for customs purposes include not only establishment of fingerprinting research objects, but also an assessment of the goods from the point of view of safety for man and the environment Wednesday. The work shows the systematization of data on the quality of domestic and imported shampoos. The result of the work is for the possibility of generalized conclusions of import substitution of shampoos in the Russian market.

The paper deals with the problems of ensuring the quality of expert’s activities which results are used in public administration. As a case, one type of expert evaluation is examined. This type has appeared about six years ago, according to the Federal Law N 436-FZ On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development, with the purpose to assess the age rating of media content in difficult or disputable cases. The research focuses on two topics: what errors and abuses happen in the practice of expert evaluations; how the procedures of quality ensuring work. Empirical data for analysis include the texts of expert evaluations over the period 2013–2017 years (N 105) and semi-structured interviews with accredited experts (N 10). It was revealed that the quality of expert evaluations is diverse and in some cases is far from satisfactory. Some evaluations can be questioned because of their noncompliance with the law and formal criteria of academic papers. Meanwhile, obvious procedures to ensure quality are not designed in the law or exist but do not actually work. The results of evaluations of similar products differ from each other because of the absence of common methods, common theoretical ground, and unified format of evaluation. The government control of the experts’ work quality and the self-regulation of expert community are very weak. Those circumstances create conditions for distorted attitude of stakeholders to expert evaluation: not as a supplement tool for enforcement of the law on children media safety but as self-sufficient instrument of private interest protection and influence on media.

The purpose of this study is to study the impact of possible types of relationships between users, which are represented in the social network “VKontakte”, on the probability of the spread of a social engineering attack.

Methods. To achieve this goal, a survey was developed and a web page was created, which is used to collect responses from respondents. After receiving the data, the obtained results were analyzed using the tools available in Microsoft Excel. In addition, for more in-depth analysis of the results, a C program was developed, which calculates the necessary characteristics and outputs the results to an Excel document.

Results. In analyzing the results of the survey, the types of relationships between users were identified, in which they are more likely to respond to the request. It was also revealed that the answers are most often found in which several or even all categories in groups of relationship types between users were assigned the same assessments of the degree of readiness to respond to a request. In addition, it is worth noting that there are often answers in which respondents identified only one of the presented communication options.

Conclusion. According to the study, it was hypothesized that the assessments of the degree of readiness to respond to a request to join the community for different groups of relationships are different, but the intragroup assessments differ little. The results obtained, demonstrating the lack of differentiation of values within groups of types of relationships, are significant, but at the same time, a deeper study of the orders that can be traced in the responses of a number of respondents is required.

The article examines a number of current phenomena characteristic of the processes of human capital development in the framework of international education and internships. In particular, an analysis was made of the distribution of the number of people leaving for study in host countries for students from such Asian-Pacific countries as Vietnam and China; motives and incentives are grouped into two large groups that influence the decision of a particular student’s parents to send them to foreign studies; analyzed the modern form of combining higher education with internships in well-known and attractive for students from abroad companies of the “host” country, which is an effective functional and image reception in the arsenal of marketing tools of universities that are highly competitive in the global higher education market for solvent customers. The key elements of improving the quality of “human capital” during the training of Vietnamese students in universities of St. Petersburg are identified.

The study concluded that Russian universities, in particular those connected with the training of specialists for the forestry complex, should more actively promote their educational services in Vietnam, pointing to the presence of modern technological and educational base, actual use of knowledge and technologies that are used in leading companies in the forest industry of Canada, Scandinavia, USA, Russia.

This article focuses on the actual issues of attracting investment in the development of innovative electricity supply infrastructure through public-private partnership mechanisms. Based on a study of theoretical and statistical material, the main advantages of renewable energy and intelligent electricity transmission and distribution systems are shown. The effective forms of creditors’ funds attraction to “green” projects within the framework of a partnership of public and private structures are defined. The approaches of the socio-environmental effects assessment of public-private partnership implementation in the electricity supply industry are identified. It is shown that by changing the format of projects execution in the analyzing industry, from the transmission of electricity to the general network to operation towards specific consumers, the partnership of government and business becomes more attractive and stimulates the development of potentially high-yield, environmentally friendly and socially expedient projects in the electricity supply sector.

The article deals with the main features of the management of an international organization in the virtual space. In the course of the study on the basis of the analysis of various sources concluded the main causes and factors that contributed to the emergence of the phenomenon of virtual organization. The key factors that determine the speed and direction of development vector are economic and technical factors. The study concluded that they can be both locomotives for the development of the phenomenon and deter development for various reasons. The author conducted a comparative analysis of the properties of a virtual company and a traditional company, which allowed to identify a number of advantages, based on current trends. At the same time, the aspect of the volatility of virtual organizations, as one of the most significant negative phenomena, will be touched upon. The author considers a number of problematic issues, in particular, recruitment, excessive economic dependence on partners, etc., which require informed decisions and the development of individual approaches to ensure the activities of the virtual organization. The emphasis in decision-making should be on the opinion of each member of the virtual organization, which, one way or another will contribute to their self-motivation. On the basis of the collected opinions it is concluded about the prospects of the phenomenon under consideration. In the place with that, the lack of a full theoretical base necessitates additional research, including empirical nature. The article can be used as a scientific and theoretical basis for further research, in particular to eliminate gaps and problematic issues in the activities of virtual international companies.