Interaction of business with the divisions of the Agency for economic safety and corruption counteraction of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (opinion of the small businesses of Nizhniy Novgorod region).

Objective: based on a sociological research, to analyze, study and disclose the types, forms and quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses of the Nizhny Novgorod region with the economic security and anti- corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.Methods: general scientific (analysis, systemic-structural approach to the analysis of the research object, comparative legal method), as well as logical and specific scientific methods (survey – questioning of the business community of the Nizhny Novgorod region).Results: the methods and features of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses and departments of economic security and anti-corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the course of entrepreneurial activity are identified and classified; the problems in the interaction of representatives of small and medium-sized businesses and departments of economic security and anti-corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Nizhny Novgorod region are analyzed.Scientific novelty: based on the opinions of representatives of small and medium-sized businesses of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the article identifies and systematizes the main characteristics, including problematic ones, of the level and quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses with economic security and anti-corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Based on the empirical research data obtained, the types and forms of interaction, ways of their implementation, and a mechanism for assessing the quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses of the Nizhny Novgorod region with economic security and anti-corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the future are proposed. Among them, the obligation to voluntarily report cases of corruption and economic offenses; to support their employees who informed about the preparation or commission of an economic or corruption offense; to provide legal information to employees on the prevention of corruption and economic offenses; to assist authorized representatives of the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in conducting inspections of the organization’s activities; to support the identification and investigation of corruption, economic crimes and by the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and to involve specialists in the relevant field of law when preparing responses to requests from law enforcement agencies.Practical significance: the study results can be used to improve the quality of interaction between representatives of small and medium-sized businesses with the divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in particular, by entrepreneurs assuming public obligations to report cases of corruption and economic offenses to law enforcement agencies, which the organization (employees of the organization) became aware of, as well as the implementation of measures to support the employees who reported to law enforcement agencies about information that became known to them during the performance of their work duties about the preparation or commission of an economic or corruption offense

Features of organization and functioning of web-sites on AUE , their role in developing sociopathic and unlawful attitudes in adolescents and youth

Objective: to identify and describe the main topics discussed by moderators and visitors of sites dedicated to the topic of AUE1 in “VKontakte” social network, to classify the techniques used by moderators to reduce the level of critical perception of the information offered to adolescents. Methods: dialectical approach to the cognition of social phenomena, allowing to analyze them in the historical development and functioning in the context of a set of objective and subjective factors, which determined the choice of the following research methods: formal-logical, comparative-legal, sociological methods.Results: using intent-analysis of more than six thousand extracts from the sites dedicated to AUE in “VKontakte” social network, the author identified five main methods used by the moderators: 1) substitution of traditional values with the criminal world ideology; 2) promotion of sociopathic attitudes; 3) forcing the user to register on the site; 4) promotion of aggressive behavior; 5) development of persistent ironic, negative attitude towards representatives of the law-enforcement system. With the help of content analysis, ten main themes (plots) presented on AUE sites are identified: 1) the value of wealth and health (one’s own and relatives’); 2) promotion of a healthy lifestyle; 3) gratitude to parents, God, people around; 4) life path, fate, forgiveness; 5) love, loyalty and hatred; 6) honor and dignity; 7) combating, struggling for the first place in life and one’s values; 8) relationship between sexual behavior, love and money; 9) life choices and mistakes;10) criminal customs.Scientific novelty: for the first time, the article considers the role of moderators of groups and sites devoted to the subject of AUE, describes the main methods of their work, allowing to form clear sociopathic, anti-legal attitudes among visitors of sites, to change the system of values; the main topics are listed and analyzed that are repeated in almost all groups and sites with stable correlations.Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific, pedagogical and law- enforcement activities when considering and studying the issues related to the improvement of the crime prevention system

ASSESSMENT BY CITIZENS OF THE LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE OF POLICEAND PROTECTION FROM CRIMINAL ENTRY

Objective: on the basis of sociological research, to determine the level of confidence in police among the population of Nizhny Novgorod region and to measure the subjective assessment by citizens of the degree of protection from criminal attacks. Methods: general scientific (analysis, systemic-structural approach to the analysis of research object, comparative-legal), as well as logical methods and the special scientific method (questionnaire method - questioning of residents of Nizhny Novgorod region).Results: the characteristics of the process of actual interaction between citizens and police are identified and classified; the attitude to police and the level of trust in police in general and in certain areas of their work in various categories of the population are identified; the typology of population groups depending on their concepts about police functioning is carried out. Scientific novelty: for the first time, the article discusses public opinion of the Nizhny Novgorod region residents about police officers; the actual characteristics and interaction between citizens and police are revealed; proposals and practical recommendations were formulated for adjustment of the work of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Interior with the aim of increasing the level of their credibility with the population. Among them are: a) to improve the efficiency of propaganda of the police work results in mass media, including the work with citizens’ claims, disclosure and investigation of crimes, especially those which caused a broad public resonance; b) to inform citizens and police officers about the social importance of the activities of Internal Affairs bodies and internal troops for ensuring public order, prevention, suppression, disclosure of crimes and offences; c) to expand the number of journalists specializing in law-enforcement issues; d) to simplify the procedure for receiving claims from citizens about small and medium crimes with the use of modern technologies (the possibility of electronic claims through specialized portals or applications); d) to continue explaining to citizens the advantages and possibilities of use the “Safe city” application for crime prevention in public places and increasing the effectiveness of police officers for suppression, disclosure and investigation of crimes in hot pursuit.Practical significance: the results of the study reveal the essential characteristics of public opinion about the police officers’ image. These characteristics can be used as a tool for shaping the image of law-enforcement officers. The guidelines are developed for improving the analytical support of activity of divisions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod region and territorial bodies of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs deployed in the region, to increase the level of credibility among the population

Columbine as a type of youth destructivism

Objective: to analyze the reasons for senior schoolchildren’s interest to destructive social groups dedicated to challenges, criminal culture, weapons, erotic and sex, dangerous leisure, death and suicide, mass killings and violence, and drugs; to describe the hierarchy of interests and life values of adolescents based on the research results (questionnaire survey of schoolchildren and multidimensional content analysis of VKontakte social network).Methods: general scientific (analysis, system-structural approach to the analysis of the research object, comparative-legal method) and specific scientific methods (questionnaire survey of schoolchildren, N = 589, conducted in April 2021, and multidimensional content analysis of VKontakte social network, 314,708 fragments).Results: the interests of schoolchildren to various groups in social networks were analyzed. The determinants of joining groups are factors such as the degree of trust in relationships with parents, plans for the future, the amount of time spent daily on the Internet, the tendency to hedonism in everyday life. The methods of involving adolescents in the destructive ideology of the Columbine movement were revealed.Scientific novelty: two groups of users of sites propagating the destructive ideology of Columbine movement were identified: the core (characterized by the abundance of negative moods, these social network users are potentially capable of committing terrorist acts) and the periphery (characterized by an increased general interest in extreme leisure activities). The hierarchy of interests and life values of representatives of the core and the periphery is described; assumptions are made about the ways and reasons for the flow of users from the core to the periphery and back. The study showed that the breeding ground for Columbine and other destructive youth network movements are the adolescents who do not have trust relationships with their parents, are aimed at enjoying life here and now, do not have clear plans for the future, and prefer virtual communication to real one.Practical significance: the materials of the article can be useful to federal and regional authorities in implementing various aspects of youth policy, preventing sociopathic behavior of the youth, ensuring the safety of educational institutions, as well as to scientists researching destructive youth network movements

Destructive social movements “Maniacs. Killing cult” and the “World of maniacs and serial killers”: forming a criminal ideology

Objective: analysis of the semantic field of Internet publics of destructive social groups “Maniacs. The cult of murder” and “The world of maniacs and serial killers”, the reasons for the interest of teenagers and young people in these groups, the techniques used by moderators of social network pages to attract supporters and form a cult of violence among them and stimulate the commission of murders based on the research results (multidimensional content analysis of the social network pages content).Methods: general scientific (analysis, system-structural, comparative-legal) and specific scientific methods (multidimensional content analysis of the social network pages content).Results: based on the analysis of more than 17 thousand fragments of correspondence of participants of the movement “Maniacs. The cult of murder” and more than 34 thousand fragments of correspondence of participants of the movement “The world of maniacs and serial killers”, a semantic field was constructed, including the main topics discussed on the pages of the above-mentioned destructive social groups, methods of involving teenagers in a destructive total ideology modeling the most important spheres of life of the movements’ supporters, leveling the value of human life and turning someone else’s death into an ordinary phenomenon. It is concluded that within the framework of the destructive radical nationalist social movement “Maniacs. The cult of murder” an ideology was formed that has the following features: teleology, scientific appearance, wide audience coverage, presence of symbols and attributes, discussion of topics that have a socially negative character, using the language means that are understandable only to the community members.Scientific novelty: the main topics discussed by participants of destructive social movements “Maniacs. The cult of murder” and “The world of maniacs and serial killers” are described and analyzed. It is proved that as a result of immersion into such content, violence and murder cease to cause natural negative emotions, feelings of disgust and empathy for the victim in teenagers. The study showed that the formation and distribution of content in publics currently takes place on behalf of the users, which, on the one hand, allows removing part of the responsibility from the moderators, and on the other hand, turns the pages of movements into a so-called self-reproducing (by terminology of Niklas Luhmann – autopoietic) system capable of self-production, i.e. its existence is ensured by the activity of the users.Practical significance: the article materials can be useful to federal and regional authorities in implementing various aspects of youth policy, preventing sociopathic behavior of young people, ensuring the safety of educational institutions; to parents and family members of problem adolescents; and to scientists researching destructive youth network movements

Perception of anticorruption security by businesspersons of Nizhniy Novgorod region

Objective: to identify and disclose the characteristics of corruption crime and its impact on the business community of theNizhny Novgorod region based on the data of an empirical sociological study.Methods: the study is based on the questionnaire survey “Perception of anti-corruption security by businesspeople of the Nizhniy Novgorod region” (N = 408), conducted using scales developed by the authors. The system of indirect questions (projection method) allows revealing the attitude of entrepreneurs (small and middle business) to corruption situations and causes that generate them.Results: the perception of corruption by representatives of small and middle businesses working in the Nizhny Novgorod region was analyzed. The overall level of tolerance for everyday manifestations of corruption in this group of respondents was determined, and correlations of gender, age, education, size of the enterprise and field of activity of respondents with their attitude to corruption were revealed. The authors formulated a number of recommendations for law enforcers engaged in implementing preventive measures against corruption crime (providing socially significant state and municipal services through multifunctional centers (MFC), excluding or minimizing direct contact between an entrepreneur and an official who makes a decision on a particular issue, developing civil society institutions to protect the rights of entrepreneurs, etc.). Scientific novelty: the results obtained are of both theoretical and practical significance and can be used to improve the work of police regional divisions engaged in the field of anti-corruption. In addition, the scales developed by the authors (with a minimal variable part) have already been used in surveys of Nizhny Novgorod residents and police officers, allowing a comparative analysis of attitudes to corruption among different groups of the population.Practical significance: based on the study, methodological recommendations were developed to improve the work of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in order to optimize the prevention of corruption crime in various groups and segments of the population

The budgeting mechanism in development companies

Relevance of the researched problem is caused by the fact that today there is a requirement for a unique, generalized, theoretically and methodically elaborated budgeting mechanism disaggregating the aims of strategic level to the level of structural units of the company. The aim of article is to develop methodical provisions and practical recommendations to harmonize a budgeting mechanism of development companies on the basis of direct interrelation of current budgeting and strategic objectives of company development. The leading approach to a research of this problem is the classical approach allowing revealing sources and directions of financial resources application of commercial organizations and also ensuring their balance. The main results of a research are the expansion of a budgeting concept as a type of financial planning, the author’s technique of budgeting is suggested that is based on the indicators of assets turnover ratio, sales profitability and return on assets as the main characteristics of activity efficiency of a development company. Materials of the article can be useful in financial management enhancement and forming an effective budgeting mechanism in development companies. © 2016 Kovaleva et al

IСP-MS ANALYSIS OF HONEY AND BEE PRODUCTS

The microelement composition and isotopic ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of bee tissues and apicultural products from the Perm Krai, Republic of Bashkortostan, and Krasnodar Krai have been investigated. The obtained statistical data allowed the meads to be classified

Organolanthanide complexes supported by thiazole-containing amidopyridinate ligands: Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic activity in isoprene polymerization

© 2014 American Chemical Society. Neutral bis(alkyl)-organolanthanide complexes supported by tridentate {N-,N,N} monoanionic 5-methylthiazole- or benzothiazole-amidopyridinate ligands have been prepared and completely characterized: (LThiaMe2)Ln(CH2SiMe3)2 [Ln = Lu3+ (3), Er3+ (7), Yb3+ (8)] and (LBnThMe2)Lu(CH2SiMe3)2 (5). Similarly to related Y3+ systems, the nature of the thiazole unit controls the ultimate catalyst stability in solution. In the diamagnetic Lu3+ complex 5, a progressive and complete rearrangement of its metal coordination sphere takes place through a metal-to-ligand alkyl migration with subsequent benzothiazole ring-opening and generation of the Lu3+ mono(alkyl)-arylthiolate species stabilized by a tetradentate {N-,N,N,S-} dianionic ligand. On the other hand, the 5-methylthiazole-containing complexes 3, 7, and 8 showed no evidence of any ligand rearrangement. Complexes 3-8 have been tested as homogeneous catalysts in isoprene (IP) polymerization, after activation with selected organoborates. Binary systems 3/TB and 7/TB [TB = tritylium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate] show the highest activity and living character toward IP polymerization, affording polymers with relatively high trans-1,4-selectivity (up to 76.4%), moderate molecular weights (Mn up to 146′000 g/mol), and narrow polydispersities (Mw/Mn). Depending on the rare-earth ion of choice, a prevalent trans-1,4 (Lu3+, Er3+, Yb3+; up to 76.4%) or a dominant 3,4 (Y3+; 92.7%) polymer structure is observed. The influence of the ligand type, metal ion, and activator(s) on the ultimate catalyst activity and selectivity is discussed

Methods in Mammary Gland Development and Cancer: the second ENDBC meeting - intravital imaging, genomics, modeling and metastasis

The second meeting of the European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) on 'Methods in Mammary Gland Development and Cancer' was held in April 2010 in Weggis, Switzerland. The focus was on genomics and bioinformatics, extracellular matrix and stroma-epithelial cell interactions, intravital imaging, the search for metastasis founder cells and mouse models of breast cancer