Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)

The article examines the specifics of the social requests of Russian society and directions and nature of the transformation of regional political and administrative elites. In particular, the correspondence of the main parameters of the functioning of the political and administrative elite to the ideas presented to it by the population is considered. The study of the structure and scale of social request to the policy-administrative elites and the specifics of its activities is carried out taking into account modern system challenges. The article was prepared on the basis of empirical information of interregional sociological research.

Using the methods of content analysis and data classification, the authors of the article implemented a linguistic and sociological study, which involves the study of administrative and political discourse. Video materials of the annual event held on the platform of the Russian Academy of national economy and public administration under the President of the Russian Federation "Gaidar forum 2019"were used as empirical material. According to the authors, public speeches of the speakers in the framework of panel and expert discussions of the political and economic forum demonstrate modern communication trends and social contexts. The hypothesis of the presented work is the idea of the existence of a speech and cultural standard or sample, formed by the speech of the intellectual elite, and is a reference point for all citizens of the Russian Federation. Positive and negative communicative tendencies characterizing administrative and political discourse of the XXI century were formulated as the main conclusions.

In article factors of ensuring steady functioning and development of regions of the North Caucasian Federal District reveal. The research is directed to development of the directions of improvement of the mechanism of management of sustainable development of regions subjects of the North Caucasian Federal District on the basis of assessment of the selected key parameters of efficiency of their development. During the research the concept of stability of regional development is specified, the principles of sustainable development are defined. Authors carried out the analysis of development of regions of the North Caucasian Federal District in a section of major factors of stability of a regional social and economic system. In article indicators of economic and social blocks of assessment of stability of development of the federal district are calculated and analysed, conclusions are drawn. Monitoring is carried out from 2005 for 2016. As a result of a research the unevenness of development of regions of the North Caucasian Federal District is shown. In work as authors the following methods of analytical processing of statistical materials are used: comparative, method of groups, method of mark assessment and ranging, method of average sizes tabular with elements of graphic illustration of data, system, structurally functional and statistical analysis and so forth. The main idea of research is that development of a complex of recommendations about improvement of management of sustainable development of regions needs to be carried out taking into account the available resource capacity of territories and coordination with the federal purposes. Transition to sustainable development of regions of the Russian Federation is possible only on condition of ensuring sustainable social and economic development of all its subjects.

The article is devoted to the analysis of science-based approaches to the study of the mechanism of formation of criteria of efficiency of the state financial social security of the population. Formation of criteria of efficiency of public management of social development is considered. Based on the analysis revealed that the tools of interaction between citizens of society and the state through the creation of a system of control over the state of the value system. The effectiveness of the public administration of social development depends on the degree of control coverage.

The article considers the specifics of the influence of business entities on the adoption by public authorities of management decisions, determined the basic conditions and principles of their interaction. The essence of the regulatory impact assessment procedure is disclosed to identify in the draft legal acts conditions that establish excessive duties, prohibitions and restrictions for business entities, as well as conditions that lead to unreasonable expenses of entrepreneurs and the budget. The main priorities for the development of business influence on the process of management decisions made by public authorities are formulated: approval of measures blocking the use of the monopolistic advantages of specific organizations by influencing the development and adoption of state (municipal) management decisions; improving the interaction of business and government in the modern economy in the framework of state support for business; development of feedback mechanisms and public monitoring of state (municipal) management decisions in the field of business development.

It is postulated that in developing (evolution) of socio-economic and natural self-organizing systems, a natural mechanism for assessing the states of increasing their entropy and complexity is applicable. In the conditions of an exit from crisis social and economic situations, the curves of entropy change and the complexity of socio-economic systems are similar to changes in a substance during its transition to different states. The concept of the unity of the World confirms the conclusion that the social (social) laws follow from the natural conservation laws and cannot appear to be special as part of the deployment of the complexity of Nature itself, which translates its self-organization into any systems arising during the evolution of the material world.

The state of the regional infrastructure is considered as an important condition for the socio-economic development of the regions. The article identifies problems hindering the development of various branches of infrastructure. A mechanism has been proposed for managing the development of a market infrastructure in which a special role is assigned to the state. Emphasis is placed on the need to comply with the principles of comprehensiveness and consistency as a condition for ensuring balanced and sustainable development of all subsystems of the market infrastructure. The methods, principles, instruments of state regulation of the process of formation and development of market infrastructure are defined.

The need for strategic planning of the socio-economic development of municipalities is acutely recognized by local governments. However, the lack of experience in an integrated approach to defining goals and priorities for future development leads to the fact that the developed concepts and strategic plans are declarative in nature. The article discusses various aspects of the formation of plans for strategic development at the level of municipalities, identifies current tasks that need to be implemented.

The article reveals the development trends of strategic enterprises in the Russian Federation and in the Rostov region. Considerable attention is paid to the peculiarities of the functioning of strategic enterprises, which often exist outside the market environment. The main directions of improving management and state support of strategic enterprises at the present stage are shown. The authors considered possible options for the further development of strategic enterprises.

The article is based on the concept of innovative marketing proposed innovative methodology for innovative product-services based on a neo-information. The estimation of the development prospects of new economy on practical examples. The necessity of scientific and innovative approach to the innovative development of the new Russian economy with the socio-environmental aspect. Offers a scientific understanding of the importance and the need for innovative marketing to all management levels of the economy.

The article identifies modern approaches to managing the recruitment process using digital technologies. Based on the analysis of key trends in recruiting in the digital era, an analytical review of digital technologies used in the field of search and selection of candidates for vacant positions was carried out.

The article examines the foreign experience of state management of fiscal relations in modern economic conditions. The importance of the conceptual framework in public administration is based on, the importance of the exchange of tax information between jurisdictions of different levels. The world practice of the tax administration system is learned and the experience of rationalization of tax relations is shown in the context of the implementation of the “single window single declaration single payment” concept. The tax burden figures for some countries of the world are proposed and the main directions for improving and harmonizing relations between regulatory bodies and taxpayers are formulated.

The article provides an overview of the main conceptual and methodological problems of determining an economic security of the region arising from the intensification of geo-economic processes, the complexity and deepening of the territorial division of labor and the overall increase in the risk of external and internal environment of regional entities. The authors propose the concept of economic security to be a set of adaptive properties of a regional economy, determining its ability to maintain the stability of the oscillatory mechanism within the regional reproductive cycle and progressive development in the conditions of dynamic reality. This approach takes into account the nonlinear causal relationships between emerging opportunities and threats, as well as the inevitable lag effects that takes place because of institutional structures’ inertia.

This article is carried out in the socio-legal analysis of financial control in health care. The author considers control as a power category that allows to evaluate the actions of the controlled object and to determine the degree of achievement of goals. Particular attention is paid to the substantiation of the goals and objectives of the state financial control in health care, its types are classified according to various criteria: forms of implementation, levels of management, subjects and objects of control and information base of control, the principles of financial control and the functions of various financial control bodies at the levels of management.

The relevance of this article is due to the fact that all over the world the role and treasure of tourism in the country's economy is constantly increasing, but in Russia, which has significant tourist potential, its development is limited by the low level of infrastructure development. The analysis of statistical data made it possible to identify the main shortcomings in the functioning of the tourism industry, as well as to formulate key areas for improving the infrastructure of tourism in Russia.

The article deals with the main results of sociological research conducted among universities of the Rostov region in the framework of the priority project «Development of export potential of the Russian educational system». The main problems faced by universities in the process of attracting foreign students, as well as in the implementation of educational programs for foreign citizens. Features of construction of strategy of recruiting at the regional level are revealed.

The issues of forming a single regulatory mechanism for territorial development in the general system of state macroeconomic policy become important in modern conditions, helping to overcome the disproportion of socio-economic growth characteristic of the modern geo-economic development of the North Caucasus regions. The measures implemented in the framework of the modern economic policy of territorial development, have positive results and have had a significant impact on improving the socio-economic level of development of Russian regions. However, many Russian regions (especially the regions of the North Caucasus) retain the position of highly subsidized territories, which hinders the achievement of sustainable economic and social growth rates in the Russian macroeconomy. In these circumstances, it is necessary to take into account geo-economic and geostrategic development factors in the formation and implementation of a territorial development policy.

The existing typology of transformational processes is considered, namely: the model of state-market reform of the early “real socialism”, “criminal-oligarchic”, liberal-corporate and state-corporate transformation models. The fiscal policy and the state entrepreneurship are investigated as determinants of institutional transformation. The concept of institutional modernization of transformational economic systems based on the methods of fiscal policy and the mechanism of state entrepreneurship has been developed.

In the article the methodological approaches to ensure the spatial development of the border territory on the basis of program and strategic methods are discusses. A competent and skillful settlement of the processes of socio-economic development, through the implementation of targeted development programs on the part of the state, can lead to an increase in socio-economic well-being. Fore ensure the spatial development of the territory, it is recommended to use two levels of strategy: capital investment in the region and the development of the spiritual, moral and humanitarian spheres. Also, it is necessary to have a good regulatory and methodological framework that allows you to implement the strategy of socio-economic development of territories.

The economy of the modern Russian region is a rather complex and multifaceted object of regulation. The complex and diverse system of the regional economy in modern conditions cannot be regulated by a single set of instruments. Despite the fact that the system of public administration should be stable, which entails the problem of static and mobility, modern global trends urgently require the introduction of new methods, methods and tools of regulation.

This article contains a socio-economic analysis of the specific features of the globalization of the world economy. The authors consider the general features of the globalization of the world economic system as a multifactorial and multidimensional phenomenon that interacts dialectically with such concepts as internationalization and transnationalization. The paper outlines nine specific features of the globalization of the world economy and identifies some of the factors of the world economy, which result in an increase in growth rates in various countries that are actively involved in the processes of economic globalization. The article concludes that globalization is an objective process and the inevitable process expands and accelerates global interconnections and interdependencies of the socioeconomic economic system.

The analysis of potential opportunities and directions of use of blockchain technology both in the corporate sector, and in public services is presented in article. Special attention is paid to aspects of blockchain technology introduction in the financial sector and to the prospects of blockchain business’ development.

This article considers the concept of internal control, which is an integral element of each stage of management and "separate" stage, providing information transparency for the quality of the process. Its purpose is effective use of budgetary funds, safety of financial and non-financial assets of the institution, compliance with legal requirements and submission of reliable reports. The system may include other activities and matters subject to internal control in the institution. Understanding the importance of the internal control system assessment during the audit, we concluded that the internal control system is the current system of prevention, detection and correction of errors and inaccuracies in accounting entries and budget financial statements; the internal control system is created to improve the activities of the institution, and is the basis for audit planning. Evaluation of the internal control system is an essential stage of the audit and affects the choice of methods of collecting audit evidence. An effective system of internal control, in turn, also reduces the audit risk during the external and internal audit.

During many centuries the development of the Arctic region is of considerable interest both for private companies and national states. Although 5 countries have direct access to the Arctic: Russia, Norway, Canada, USA (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland), other countries also demonstrate their interest toward the Arctic zone: Japan, China, countries of Scandinavia and Western Europe. Given the importance of the Arctic natural environment and ecosystem, transport length and reserves of various raw materials, a number of countries impose on the Russian Federation the requirement of access to the Arctic due to its global impact. At the same time, the Northern Sea Route and the Russian-Chinese cooperation project within the framework of the Ice Silk Road reflect Russia's readiness to defend its interests on the State territory, including the Arctic shelf. The article discusses the main problems and factors of integration in the framework of the development of the Arctic zone, primarily from the standpoint of economic and management approaches to the modernization of infrastructure in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. The article also discusses the factors related to the search for resources for technical modernization and equipping of such a specific region, the interpenetration of effects in the Arctic ecosystem and the globe, globalization and the interests of countries and private corporations. As a result, the article explains the necessity of finding and selecting the forms of integration in the development of the Arctic, taking into account the profitability of investment projects and the preservation of the natural environment and ecological diversity, maintaining stable equilibrium and ensure the programs of development of regions in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

The article is aimed at the consideration of the problems of ensuring the security of the country and, above all, its political component, to identify threats, strategic opponents of Russia and to propose some approaches to ensure its national security. The author used both traditional and modern methods of research used in the analysis of modern political processes, and also took into account the opinions of experts on this topic. Strategic opponents of Russia among including transnational financial oligarchy and China are defined. To counter the threats posed by strategic opponents of Russia, the author gives some recommendations and suggests the formation of the Russian society's "defense consciousness", which is the basis of the political security of the state. The article is addressed to political sociologists, theorists and practitioners dealing with the problems of political security of the Russian Federation.

In article the possibility of introduction in activity of authorities and local self-government of the information system KPI allowing to create algorithms of realization, monitoring and also efficiency of execution is considered: target values of the Presidential decree about the national purposes and strategic problems of development of the country until 2024 at regional and local level; target values of national projects at the regional and local levels; the actions included in federal, regional and municipal programs, program documents and control instructions; strategies of development for the region, municipal units and also the plans of measures on their realization; budgetary plans and forecasts of level of tax revenues and debt; the key tasks demanding priority execution.

The article presents an attempt to understand the journalistic heritage of A.I. Solzhenitsyn in the context of the formation and development of tools to strengthen the viability of the state and society. The authors analyzed the problems raised in A.I. Solzhenitsyn, including the search for ways to save the people of Russia, the spiritual and axiological aspects of public policy, the role of local government in the development of democracy, the institution of the family as a necessary component of the recovery system of Russian society. The authors come to the conclusion that the research and analysis of the scientific and journalistic heritage of A.I. Solzhenitsyn is relevant and relevant in the context of a reflexive-axiological understanding and design aspects of cultural, educational, national policy.

This article is devoted to the consideration of the formation of terrorist installations by radical groups through the spread of destructive ideology through media channels leads to an increase in social tension in society. Using new media, especially the Internet, which is focused mainly on the people of the younger generation, members of terrorist groups are actively recruiting, teaching, and disseminating radical information. Moreover, with the help of social networks and instant messengers they are looking for sources of funding. The result of such a widespread activity of radical structures in the media space was the steady growth of illegal materials and, as a result, an increase in supporters of terrorist ideology among young people, at any time prone to radicalism in solving problems of a local and global nature. It can be argued that the work of terrorists in the media space is transformed under the influence and demand of certain media. This encourages representatives of destructive groups to create new approaches and tools to promote the destructive ideology and recruit new supporters into their ranks.

The article deals with the separation of a special type of deviation addiction as a sociology of dependent behavior. Also, new sociological knowledge uses a structural and functional approach to the study of both deviant behavior in general and addictive behavior in particular. Addiction stands out as a special type of deviant behavior that society and social groups need to stop with the help of legal and preventive actions. However, a detailed consideration of the prevention of addictive behavior in the study of deviantology leads to the conclusion about the ineffectiveness of this theory in terms of correction and prevention of modern types of addiction.

The relevance of the study of the political culture of civil servants and municipal employees due to the fact that the latter are implementers of public policy. In sociology, the study of political culture of civil servants and municipal employees is possible from the standpoint of different approaches. The author raises the question of the place of research of political culture of this socio-professional group and considers them as one of the research areas in sociology sociology of political culture of civil and municipal employees.

This work is an experience of a socio-psychological study of career ambitions of young people in the South of Russia. On a representative sample of young people (with disabilities or without disabilities), significant functional dependencies were established between the psychological components of career ambitions. A two-factor model is proposed to assess the nature of the career of young people in the South of Russia.

Transformation of traditional youth values and patterns of behavior is a result, first of all, of changes in a Russian society. The main aim of the article (and our study on the whole) is to see correlation between social health and identity of Russian youth with society security and to prove that social health and identity of youth are among major determinators of society security. Obtained results show that traditional practice of masculinity and feminity phenomena among youth are interconnected; however, female youth images are transformed more quickly than those of men. Female representations about men and representations of men about themselves often do not coincide, which provoke misunderstandings and gender conflicts, determining divorce and “marriage-family distance” of young people. These deteriorates demographical sphere of the society and negatively influences society security and stable development. The state of health (physical and social) of Russian youth is determined by a number of factors, including psycho-physical, socio-historical, cultural, etc. Health and identity of youth is considered to be a factor of social security and society stability, which requires an essential increase of social potential of people as the basic strategic resource of the society.

In the article the authors study the role and influence of sports and sporting events on the level of national security. Various concepts of sports influence on state development are noted, sports are analyzed as a tool of political influence and a means of overcoming modern conflicts. As a practical example, the sphere of national security during the 2018 FIFA world Cup is analyzed, as well as various examples of international cooperation in the framework of sports events are considered.

The development of physical culture and sports (PCK&S) in our country is of particular importance. This significance is determined by the fact that they determine the quality of life of Russians and serve as the main social resource of economic and social development of society. This requires a measured and effective state policy for the development of the sphere of PC&S. The existing mechanism for the implementation of this policy, although it solves the main tasks of the development of this sphere, needs to be adjusted, especially to enhance the mass and regular physical education and sports among the population. Recommendations on the adjustment of the mechanism for the implementation of the state policy in the sphere of development of PC&S are given.

The article is devoted to understanding sports as a sociocultural phenomenon, covering all levels of modern society. The goal of big sport is fundamentally different from the goal of mass sports: it is the achievement of the highest possible sports results or victories in the framework of the largest sports competitions. The current shift in the priorities of the “health preservation” paradigm to the “health formation” paradigm puts the value of sport (both in the sphere of higher achievements and mass scale) to the position of the most promising way of overcoming the social and spiritual crisis of modern society.

This article analyzes the ratio of regional and municipal levels in the innovation management of mass youth sports. Innovative development of physical culture and sports in the youth environment is not possible without the creation of an innovative environment in the vertical structure "federal regional municipal authorities". The authors pay attention to innovation in the management of physical culture and mass sports among the youth of the Rostov region, and conclude that the state investment activity affects almost all levels and spheres of youth sports management.

The article considers the global networking as the factor of influence of the formation of life projects of modern Russian youth. The author emphasize that social networks currently influence on the development of sports and on the involvement of representatives of various groups and especially youth on the systematic physical culture and sports activities. Global network Internet contains the information, which could cause harm to health and physical development of youth, what causes the need for revitalization of the state and local authorities, aimed to providing information support to the population of physical culture and sports activities, taking advantage of opportunities of the Internet of the propaganda of effective sports and recreation systems.

This article discusses the use of the mechanism of public-private partnership in order to attract investment in the country's economy, develop regions, reduce the burden on the budget when implementing infrastructure projects, by creating territories of advanced socio-economic development. It is the creation and development of infrastructure in the territory of advanced socio-economic development that is the main moment of public-private partnership within the framework of advanced socio-economic development territories.

The article is devoted to the problem of personnel business development and its’ influence onto the provision of labor resources of agrarian sphere. It is proved that development of potential market of qualified competitive labor force has positive influence. The principles of personnel business operation are described for development of qualified labor force in agrarian sphere.

The article deals with theoretical and applied issues covering the effects of the digitalization of the world economy on the banking system, manifested, in particular, in expanding the scope of money laundering of illegally obtained income and used to finance terrorism. As shown in the article, the growth of e-banking contributes to the formation of global cash flows obtained by illegal means. For this reason, the fight against money laundering is identified by the governments of most countries of the world, international organizations and the world financial community as the third global world problem included in the structure of the system of measures to combat crime. Many governments have come together to develop a system of measures to combat money laundering, to counteract the attempts of criminal communities to undermine financial secrecy by increasing the transparency of monetary transactions. The article on the basis of a comparative analysis of standard practices of money laundering, obtained by criminal means, revealed the features and marks of using such a channel as offshore banks. Based on the analysis of criminal terrorism financing practices, it was concluded that the private sector, banks and other commercial financial organizations should take more responsibility to eliminate the practice of encouraging crime and terrorism, undermining financial stability in the world.

Yerevan’s transportation system has stagnated for years. Due to outdated routes, and poor route planning in general, many vehicles go from one end of the city to the other across the congested city centre, where traffic during peak hours comes to a standstill. The roads are constantly overloaded, and the current transportation system aggravates the problem by packing the streets with minibuses, which, considering their capacity and other parameters, are the least efficient means of transportation. Therefore, it would hardly be an exaggeration to state that public transit in Yerevan is in a chaotic condition. This article reviews the current situation with Yerevan’s urban transit and discusses the possibilities to improve the situation. Various sections present the current situation and its origins; the challenges facing the transport system, and the possibilities for its development; and officials’ plans to address these problems.

The article discusses the main directions of influence of Russian “soft power” through the use of technologies of humanitarian influence in foreign policy, with the help of which the image of our state is formed. The author emphasizes that today the role and importance of the toolbox of "soft power" is increasing. The article deals with such tools of “soft power” as public diplomacy, the media and education. In addition, the author notes that the effectiveness of the influence of "soft power" abroad can grow due to foreign young people, who get acquainted with the national identity of our country through international events and academic exchanges.

The article deals with theoretical and methodological issues related to the effective functioning of the innovation infrastructure of research universities, which in general have adapted to existence in a global educational environment and developed competition. To get into international rankings, the university needs to have high marks for the level of development of the innovation potential and the quality of research; in this connection, the issues of management and modernization of the research and innovation infrastructure have become noticeably relevant. The paper considers the directions of its modernization based on the concept of increasing service orientation, when consumers of innovation become not just subjects whose needs the university is trying to satisfy in the framework of innovation, but full participants in the process of innovation production. World experience in the development of the best universities demonstrates the need to ensure the development of internal and external cooperation between the subjects of research activities and the innovation process, including within the framework of territorial innovation clusters.

In this work, the author as the main methodological aspects to marginalization studying as social process uses synthesis neoinstitutional, system and cross-disciplinary approaches. The similar choice of methodological ways is caused by the fact that marginalization in this article is considered from the sociological point of view as social process which executes functions of the tool of a disgarmonization of the public relations which is especially shown at youth in modern Russia.

The base of this article is an idea about research necessity of the ideology of the past influence on contemporary political processes. Ideological dimension of attitude toward historical past for substantiation of the political order in Russia is revealed with articulation to ideological past. The matter is manifestation of the ideological past in contemporary political discourse. The author makes a definition of the ideological past, based on the ideology, historical past and collective memory synthesis. The novelty is a relevance ideological past concept with the research of society ideologization using the cognitive-discourse analysis. The main inference is statement about the historical past influence on view, cultural-sociologic individual view and contemporary political order.

The article is devoted to the study of the features of the interaction of religion and power as a strategic and tactical mechanism of social normalization in the historical process of Christian civilization. In the process of research, details, prerequisites and prospects of partnership between the state system and the church on the path of development and stabilization of social relations are examined in detail. Special attention is paid to the influence of Christian civilization on these processes, its advantages and decisive role in the humanization and development of the world society as a whole are indicated.