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Development of the Northern and Arctic regions requires innovative approaches to support high quality of living in terms of business processes and everyday life. On the whole, these regions are most hard to support financially and require high costs. Standard of living is closely connected with regional infrastructure development, energy saving playing most import role. In Northern and Arctic regions energy saving has specifics compared to other RF regions as energy resources make up to 30% share of total costs, i...

The paper considers the first stage of Finland's Russification. The period from 1899 to 1917 is often characterized in the national historiography as a long period of forced russification and oppression. The main methods of research were: review, classification of historical documents and scientific articles on this subject, statistical data analysis, generalization methods. The policy of the Russian Empire towards the Grand Duchy of Finland in late XIX – early XX centuries was named Russification of Finland. It w...

Currently there are no specific studies dedicated to the administrative and legal transformation in the management of protected and protection of democratic values such as the constitutional system, security and welfare of the population. We are talking about protection, and public evaluation of the effectiveness of legal means of managing large complex relationships in the context of the inadmissibility of weakening national security. In consideration of the reader is presented the most difficult legal and admini...

The research paper focuses on assessing the impact of the tools of the fiscal policy of the country for the resource regions and municipalities development in the context of the current budget federalism and inter-budget relations. Krasnoyarsk Krai – the largest in its area and the availability of natural resources region of Russia is considered as a model resource region. The Krai’s role in the Russian economy as well as its financial and social well-being are largely determined by the resource model of the econo...

Lobbying is a common phenomenon in absolutely any legal and political system. The Soviet system was not an exception. Lobbying in the Soviet Union had its own specific traits associated with the peculiarities of the political system and, consequently, with the special aspects of the political decision-making process. Besides, lobbying was not legally established in the Soviet Union. The article is focused on lobbying role in the business/government interaction. The author analyzes the history of lobbying developme...

The nature of the threats the residents in the Slovak Republic are facing at present has changed after joining the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance. The cooperation and coordination of all these institutions has to work. The financial support of security and rescue forces has to be taken into consideration not only in the case of emergency but also during the problem solving preparatory period. Thanks to adequate financial support it was possible to create a good quality information system between se...

This paper provides a brief review of literature and evidence on the relationship between capital structure and ownership structure. The study also provides empirical support to the determinants which affects the firm capital structure. This paperwork tests proposed hypotheses of relationship between leverage ratio and traditional determinants of financial leverage of Russian firms, operating in the petrochemical complex of the Republic of Tatarstan, using dynamic panel data methodology. To analyze the impact of f...

Inequalities and disparities are essential parts of each society. However, the evolution in the first thirty years after WWII finally seemed optimistic in most spatial and social aspects. The last forty years of social evolution have been connected with vast developing polarization. The social dimension of current society is significantly changing not only in our country but also in whole Europe and other parts of the developed world. We live in the era when the demand for social and other securities is increasing...

The primary goal of the study is, on the basis of theoretical and empirical analyses, to describe the level of theoretical processing the verifying testimony on the spot in criminalistics. The secondary goal is to find out lacks and trouble spots in practical applying the verifying testimony on the spot in the process of clearing up crimes. To achieve describing the objective conditions realized research were in the study used processing methods of historical and literary analysis. Achieved partial results are pre...

The disparity of economic development between regions of Russia is still under discussion. To date, a range of methods and models for evaluation of regional inequality exist. Russian researchers use statistical indicators (Gini and variation coefficients, Atkinson and Tail indexes) to measure the level of difference between GRP, population income, salary, investment allocation, tax incomes, budget incomes and others. The authors associate the disparity of regional development with the natural and artificial compet...

The paper deals with the methods used by Czech companies for the evaluation of company performance. The evaluation of company performance remains a crucial topic for company’s management. The development of business environment is influenced by globalization, which increases competition between companies around the world. This creates new obstacles as well as opportunities in the area of measuring company performance. Companies are constantly forced to increase their performance to retain their market shares and s...

Changes in the socio-economic and political environment after 1989, started the process of reform and decentralization of administration. This had a significant impact on the change in the approach to the urban policy formulation. Urban policy in Poland is growing in importance in the implementation of further steps in the process of reforming public administration in Poland. This is widely reflected in the assumptions of strategic documents mainly at the central level of public administration. The hypothesis is b...

The conceptuality of the term socialism as a very broad and definitely not closed issue in modern political philosophy. The content perspective of our work will therefore be split into three basic parts: introduction of the issue and historical overview of theories, opinions and directions of socialism in the past, presented by the most prominent authors - qualified specialists; in the second part we will focus our attention on many controversial, but also immanent terms closely related to the development of socia...

The article focuses on the issues of formation of the competitive environment in public procurement. The basic principles of public procurement bodies, the need for an effective policy of public spending and competition between suppliers of goods and services. The basic reasons for competition are two fundamental principles of a market economy: freedom of choice for the consumer (which product to purchase) and freedom of choice for the manufacturer (which product to produce).The effectively built up mechanism of t...

The following research consists of introduction, three chapters, with subsequent parts,and the conclusion. The aim of the research is to analyze the transformation process of Spanish banking sector after the financial crisis in 2008. Author examines a hypothesis that Spanish banking sector plays a significant role in Spanish national economic advancement. Banking sector had been substantially transforming during the economic recession, and now it serves as the prerequisite for State economic advancement in post cr...

Economic and social issues were together with migration crisis in Europe top issues of parliamentary election campaign in the Slovak Republic in 2015/2016. Relevant political parties performed their proposals for future social and economic orientation of the country. Ruling social democrats (DIRECTION-SD) called for fixing their social program and present new initiative in that area (in sense of deepening of current social program). On the other hand, small right (opposition) political parties emphasized the neces...

Objective: To describe the dynamics of the joined currency and stock markets system in Russia and study the behavior of significant unobservable components of system state, in particular the dollar investment in the Russian currency. System structural model is proposed in which the main short-term control variable is the price of oil and when investing in currency rubles mass is taken from the stock market and vice versa. We use logarithms to obtain a linear relationship between due output vector and state vector....

The objective of a country’s economic diplomacy is to gather all foreign policy instruments and to consequently implement them successfully, in order to advance the economic interests of the country itself. Therefore, economic diplomacy must be ensured by an efficient framework for institutional cooperation which is aimed at furthering a country’s economic interests abroad. The cooperation with international organizations, mainly economic organizations such as World Trade Organization and Organization for Economic...

The importance of accounting profession in modern capital markets is unquestioned as owners, managers and potential investors make decisions based on the products of accounting system. The correctness of these decisions undoubtedly depends on the quality of work performed by accounting professionals. An analytical study design was implemented in order to formulate the results of the study and to test the hypothesis that in the presence of free service provision idea, the accounting profession is not regulated in a...

In 2016 the European Union (EU) became centrally supervised regarding a unified regulation of the so-called Banking union, making also the area of the euro currency a monetary union with a common approach to integrated policy implementation in a non-federalized union. Since modern fiat, i.e., non-backed money creation within the EU banking system has not been affected by any legal reforms, the author has done legal research on its meaning for property rights of EU residents, especially in light of recent events su...

Border delimitation processes in the past decade have been characterized by involvement of interdisciplinary professionals such as: Legal experts, land surveyors, geographers, political scientists, historians, security experts, along with border practitioners engaged in the real aspects of border demarcation, delimitation and management. Frontier disputes caused various challenges to new countries of former SFR Yugoslavia. This article provides an overview of the dispute and debates on border demarcation process b...

Modern society is characterized by a common desire to pursue higher education after school. This is defined as a measure of democracy. Is it truly so? Do all school graduates must pursue higher education? Perhaps this universal movement determines the life plans of a school graduate and pushes him\her to choose what is approved and give up on what is interesting and where he or she could achieve certain success. In this article, we would like to focus on the overall concept, which was adopted by society and has ch...

In this article, the autors wanted to expose that the Internet has become very important tool of political communication between citizens and political representatives in modern world and that its importance is increasing. In recent years the advent of new tools and social networks demonstrates true strenght of medium such as the Internet. The Internet, as a new medium, appeared quite recently, at the end of the 20th century. This medium creates new opportunities in political communication. Besides direct access t...

The article analyzes the trend in the balance of forces between the Western countries and a group of rapidly developing countries of the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRICS demonstrate the very different path of development, but all of them are intensively the processes of modernization and technological renovation of production areas. The analysis on several fronts: features BRICS as an international organization; modernization of the economy; trade relations between the BRICS coun...

The article substantiates the role of education, proposes and confirms the hypothesis about the importance and necessity of social partnerships for financing and development of education in knowledge- driven economy. To confirm the advanced hypotheses we studied the evolution of concepts of social interaction and social responsibility to justify patterns of social partnerships in the knowledge-driven economy that allowed us, using the model of "triple helix", to show the necessity of the collaboration of governmen...

Nowadays, with the rapid development of international relations, sharply increases the intensity of migration processes, and as a consequence - the number of migrants. From the Russian Federation adopted obligations to respect human rights implies the need to ensure individual rights to free choice of residence and freedom of movement. There is a process of formation of the renewed worldview in which every human disorder encourages the search for a better life. One of the consequences of such a disorder are migrat...

At European Union level is the regular adaptation of the principles laying down the basic standards dealing with the area of migration and asylum policy. European Union external migration and asylum cooperation has increased as the result of the integration and the current refugee crisis resulting in a new instruments of cooperation with the third partner countries. This article reflects on an overview of forms of European Union external actions with a pointing out the current situation in Slovak republic. The stu...

The article deals with the structure of the civil society forming in Russia. A lot of attention has been given to this phenomenon recently both in theory and in practical terms. Over the last years, major changes have taken place in the social and political life of Russia. New institutions have appeared. According to their formal features they can be assigned to the elements of civil society. However, there are some opinions that civil society in Russia is still in its infancy. The article analyses the reasons why...