This article examines the reasons for the adoption of the Education Act, the stages of its development, the public response, as well as its implications. The author identifies the issues of specific legally-bound technicalities in providing the definition of the Act. The paper highlights the possibility of an extensive interpretation of the law as well as the bylaws adopted for its implementation. Conclusions are drawn on the formation of barriers in the spheres of information dissemination and international cooperation.
The article discusses the problem of movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in terms of classification according to the Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union in order to apply measures of customs and tariff regulation, prohibitions and restrictions in relation to devices for playing airsoft (softball), in terms of their specification almost completely replicate the samples of firearms, with the exception of the firing mechanism, as well as the function: not to hit manpower or other targets, but to fire with plastic balls. The article considers possible classification options, provides interpretations and points of view on this problem, analyzes the legal acts regulating the movement of devices for playing airsoft across the customs border of the EAEU, and formulates proposals according to which the classification code of airsoft weapons can be determined more accurately.
The digitalization of society leads to significant changes in advertising and public relations. Traditional spheres of culture, such as theater, nowadays have to rethink the features of interaction with the audience and find innovative ways of communication techniques. The article considers the tools of image formation in the Internet on the example of St. Petersburg theaters. The official site and social networks are considered as fundamental communication channels of theater. The relevance of maintaining Internet pages on specific examples is analyzed.
The research is aimed at studying the mechanisms that limit the career opportunities of women is relevant due to persistent gender gap in the economy and in career opportunities sphere. The article presents the description of the structural gender barriers in organizations, known as “glass” phenomena. The author outlines the process of development as well as the results of the approbation of the methodology focused on perceptions of structural gender barriers. All the scales of the methodology have shown perfect internal consistency. The differences in the perceptions of men and women of gender barriers in the organization have been revealed: men rate them lower.
The relevance of the subject consists in the fact that nowadays everything produced in Asia, especially in Japan and Korea, tends to become very popular. The purpose of the article is to analyze several commercials to highlight the specifics of the visual images of Japanese advertising, in order to understand what makes it different from advertising in other countries. Results: Based on the analysis, several features of visual images used by Japanese advertising companies have been identified: elements of the past (samurai, geisha, ukiyo-e) and the visual kawaii part of Japanese popular culture (anime, manga). The paper has shown how the past and traditions affect advertising, culture and life of the Japanese, and most importantly, how it affects visual images, for example, the use of elements of the past in commercials — engravings, katanas, samurai, etc.
The article deals with the issue of regulation of the right to abortion in the context of modern democratic values. In the course of the study, the norms of international law were analyzed and correlated with the norms of abortion legislation in Poland and Russia, taking into account their common socialist past, the influence of the Christian Church on the reproductive policy, as well as the conservative political course of both states. A retrospective analysis was carried out, revealing the opinions of representatives of various social institutions on the problem of limiting the right to abortion.As a result of the study, the authors have come to the conclusion that prohibition (restriction of the right) of abortion contradicts the concept of democratic values in modern world. The hypothesis is put forward that the conservative policy of the state leads to “biopolitics”, which is expressed in an increased control over the female body and the restriction of democratic rights.
The objective of the article is to consider the notion of a legal representative of a minor, to determine her role in the criminal process, to identify and to analyze some issues of a legal representative’s participation in the pre-trial stage of criminal proceedings, as well as in the trial itself. The article analyzes the specific features of involving a person as a legal representative of a minor, his procedural status, the participation of a legal representative of a minor in the performance of individual investigative actions.
The article analyzes the formation and development prospects of the Institute of urban agglomeration in the modern Russian state. Agglomeration is an integral element of this phenomenon. Urban agglomerations are present an inevitable process of development of the territories of any state. The effective development of the entire country depends on their effective development.
This article discusses the need for digital transformation of the financial sector on the example of PJSC “Sberbank”. The main technologies used by the bank, as well as the results of their implementation, are presented. The analysis of the economic efficiency of digitalization of the banking sector is carried out, and possible ways of further development are identified.
The objective of the article is to analyze disciplinary penalties in the public administration. The paper considers the types of disciplinary sanctions in the civil service as well as their classification. The author has studied the overseas experience in applying disciplinary sanctions in the civil service, and has also examined the judicial practices of disciplinary sanctions in the disciplinary penalties in the public civil service. The author puts forward some recommendations for improving legislation in the field of penalties in the public civil service.
The objective of the article is to determine the level of reflection of mobbing in the legislation of countries, the attitude of the international community to this problem. Materials from legal acts, documents, and reports have been collected and summarized, which in turn has confirmed that on the world scene the issue of psychological violence in the workplace is important and has increasingly been on the agenda. Mobbing is a phenomenon occurring inside a company staff which requires special attention because it represents a threat to human values and rights recognized by society at large. In the text of the publication it is mentioned that there is a tendency to legalize the process of mobbing in the world in order to be able to legally protect the dignity of an employee, his / her professional safety and health.
The article considers the principal acts regulating the protection against mobbing on a worldwide level. Russian legislation has also been reviewed in terms of anti-mobbing provisions. As it has been found out, some countries have already taken the first steps to establish and protect the employee’s right to a psychological terror-free working environment, namely installation of a legal mechanism and development of judicial practice. However, Russia has not been included in the list of such countries. This problem requires the adoption of legal measures, as legal intervention would reduce the number of cases of arbitrary treatment of a particular person (or group) through psychological terror by the participants of labor relations such as: management, colleagues, subordinates.
Currently, the fight against international organized crime is based on the provisions of international and national legal instruments. However, the above documents give rise to a number of problems pertaining to the terms of reference, which reduces the effectiveness of international cooperation and requires academic and practical solutions to these controversies. The author of the article suggests his own vision of this issue and the way it could be settled.
The article is devoted to the Middle East region, which is of strategic importance in international relations. The author analyzes the Syrian conflict in the context of the geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the United States. The paper considers the changes in the foreign policy strategies of the two countries, influenced by other states, in particular Turkey and Iran, interested in their own developments in the region and focused on their national interests. The author has investigated the main goals and objectives of Russia and the United States aimed at resolving the conflict in Syria. The author has carried out the analysis of the crisis situation in Syria with the participation of external actors. From the theoretical perspective it is important that the geopolitical confrontation presented is an example of the growing role of state-organized communities and the new role of the state in the modern world. Based on the data received, it was concluded that it was necessary to find a solution to the Syrian conflict, related to the factors contributing to uniting the nations, and those separating them.
The subject of this article consists in outlining the prospects for applying nadging in public
administration in the Russian Federation in the comparative analysis of successful cases of the European Union and the United States. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate some examples of its practical application in solving some problems of modern Russia and to develop the rules for effective extrapolation of foreign experience in the field of state and municipal administration in the Russian Federation. The study sums up and provides the analysis collected and analysed of the cases of its application in the United States and Western Europe mentioned by the authors of nagging considering both successful and erroneous cases. The article is based on the research by the developers of this method from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s, which featuring the theoretical aspects of nagging and some cases of its application, e. g. Cass Sunstayn, David Kahneman and Richard Thaler, as well as other researchers who have developed the theory of soft nudging in various areas of public administration. On their basis, the universal rules for its application have been developed, and the possibilities of its application in practical politics in the Russian Federation have been suggested. The study the author draws the conclusion that the employment of nadging in Russia, in contrast to the United States and Western European countries, is of situational nature, and is limited in both practical policy and theoretical both in terms of relation to practical policy and theoretical developments, but has great prospects for could be extremely instrumental in implementing various reforms at various levels of government, has more complex aspects of its application and helps to solve larger to address more large-scale tasks of public administration.
