The article attempts to identify the socio-political root causes of the recent intensifcation of the Scottish nationalist movement and the patterns determining the high potential of Scottish independence discourse in the formation of internal social confrontation in Scotland and the UK. The paper additionally focuses on formulating the key socio-political manifestations and “anti-elite” patterns of the Scottish nationalistic idea. To achieve that, the key features of Scottish nationalism and the demands made by the separatist forces on the eve of the 2014 referendum are outlined followed by the assessment of the impact of Brexit on the state and the intensity of the separatist movement in Scotland as well as the results of recent Holyrood elections. Finally, the relevance of the article stems from the complex evaluation of the probability of a new referendum on Scottish independence provided by the author, formulating such predictions based on the study of the current socio-political and economic context existing in Scotland and the amalgam of factors elucidated in the paper.
The relevance can be accounted for he imperfection of the legal regulation of collection activities in the Russian Federation and the lack of development of the law enforcement mechanism, which entails the need for a comprehensive academic substantiation of the trends in the development and improvement of legal regulation of collection activities in Russia.
The article presents the comparative analysis of the legal regulation of legal relations arising in the course of collection activities in Russia and overseas in order to identify legal gaps in domestic legislation governing debt collection activities. The author examines the background information on the origin and development of collection activities in Russia and abroad. The paper reveals some signifcant differences in the regulation of the institution of interaction of collectors with third parties, as well as in approaches to determining the boundaries of psychological pressure on the debtor. The author analyzes the practice of transferring authority to collect debt from the original creditor to collection agencies. On the basis of the analysis presented, possible ways for improving the domestic legislation governing debt collection activities are suggested, considering the positive and negative aspects of foreign legal experience.
The article examines the features of the assessment and formation of a risk management strategy for marketing projects. Marketing, as one of the main areas of activity of the organization, has a strong infuence on the growth of profts, strengthening the role of the organization in the market and other indicators that affect the proftability of the enterprise. For this reason, the relevance and importance of developing a risk management strategy for marketing projects is growing. However, today Russian companies do not pay due attention to this area.
Particular attention in the article is paid to the dependence of the organization’s proft growth on the correctness of work with marketing projects, from which it follows that it is especially important to study the assessment and form a risk management strategy for these projects.
The specifcity of the risks of marketing projects is due to various factors that are discussed in the article.
The purpose of this work is to identify the dependence of the effciency of the project team of marketing projects on the importance of assessing and forming a risk management strategy. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to solve such problems as identifying the relationship between marketing and risk management, as well as considering the main types of risks inherent in marketing projects, and the specifcs of forming a strategy for their management.
This paper identifes some of the problems that exist in the institution of settlements between business entities. The academic paper is the result of the author’s work on identifying the problems of legal regulation of the institution of settlements: it raises both signifcant problems of civil and banking law, and the problems of technical and legal defnition of concepts. The article defnes the directions in which it is necessary to carry out work to improve the legislation to eliminate the problems raised by the author.
The article examines the general issues of the implementation of project management technology in the system of state strategic management. Project management, which originated in the 50s of the XX century in developed countries in the feld of business, today is a scientifcally and methodologically sound concept of strategic management, used both in the private and public sectors. Back in the 2000s, in Russia, fully realizing the need to change the paradigm of public management, the highest echelons of power began talking about project management as a priority tool for the strategic development of the country. The implementation of project management required the development of a specifc regulatory framework, a special architecture of management bodies. Thus, project management as an innovative approach in the system of state strategic management is of signifcant interest both for the scientifc community and for practitioners.
This article discusses the process of the economic penetration of the Russians into Manchuria at the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries. The relevance of the subject consists in the fact that Russian emigrants laid the foundation for the further development of industry, infrastructure and trade in this region. Since the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the signing of the Convention for the lease of the Liaotung Peninsula Manchuria attracted workers, merchants, industrialists, traders and agricultural specialists. Russians began to establish industrial enterprises and factories. The Russian administration created the infrastructure in the cities, turning them into global trade markets. However, at the end of the frst decade of the XX century Russian entrepreneurship faced with crisis trends, the increased competition from foreign industrialists and the losing the The Russo-Japanese War hit the Russian economic interests in Manchuria hard.
The article discusses teal management as a modern management concept. The postulates (wholeness, self-management, deeper sense of purpose), the basic elements (organization odel, decision making methods, confict resolutions, information fows, HR-processes, strategy and marketing, cost-effectiveness assessment, planning and budgeting) of teal management are described. The analysis of Russian experience of creation and development teal-organizations has been carried out.
The article examines the judicial practice of challenging decisions of customs authorities arising from the classifcation of both food and non-food products in accordance with the Unifed Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter — the EAEU FEA).
Disputes arising as a result of the classifcation of goods arise between customs authorities and participants in foreign economic activity, i.e. declarants and other persons with full powers in relation to the declared goods. In the feld of customs regulation, the classifcation of goods in accordance with the Customs Code of the EAEU is the most diffcult task, while one of the most important. It is worth noting that the Customs Code of the EAEU, on the basis of which the Unifed Customs Tariff is built, is mainly aimed at the competent classifcation of goods and, as a consequence, at the correct de-termination of the customs duty rate. It is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that determining the correct classifcation code of the goods allows you to comply with prohibitions and restrictions, which ultimately is one of the main functions of customs authorities. For this reason, the analysis of judicial practice contributes to the resolution of emerging issues between participants in foreign economic activity and customs authorities in the further classifcation of similar declared goods.
This article examines the social phenomenon of “narcosis” at the present stage of the society’s development, its impact on the state of crime in the feld of illicit traffcking, the dynamics of its development, as well as the problems of countering crime in the feld of illicit traffcking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors.
These problems are caused by the development of new methods of sale, which are carried out on the Internet. According to the author, the pandemic was one of the reasons that contributing to the development of illegal sales in a non-contact mode, as well as via the employment of IT technologies.
The article comprehensively considers the issues of applying coercive measures of educational infuence on minors in the Russian Federation. The author analyzes the legal nature of coercive measures of educational infuence, as well as the conditions of their application. Besides, the article provides the detailed analysis of the content of each coercive measure of educational infuence, as well as the conditions and procedure for their cancellation. Building on the research fndings the author draws the conclusion about the necessity and expediency of perfection of the criminal law in this part.
