Review: The goal of this article lies in examination of the national project “Ecology” within the framework of national security of the Russian Federation. The subject of this work is the system of relations associated with implementation of the national project “Ecology” in the context of ensuring national security of Russia. The research is focused on the federal projects in the fields of waste management, improvement of air and water quality, preservation of biological diversity, and development of technologies. Attention is turned to funding arrangement of the national project elements, as well as its role in ensuring national economic interests of the Russian Federation. The SWOT analysis became the principle research method. The author also applied the general methods of scientific cognition such as analysis, synthesis, and comparison. The novelty of this work consists in determination of the strong and weak aspects, capabilities and risks of the national project, and formulation of recommendations on enhancing its effects with regards to improvement of the environment. The conclusion is made that implementation of the national project “Ecology” may significantly contribute to ensuring of national security of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: pollution cleanup, waste management, federal projects, SWOT-analysis, environmental protection, national project, environmental security, economic security, BAT, national security

Review: This article substantiates the need for digitalization of the Russian economy and society, which would contribute to strengthening of national security due to increase of global competitiveness of the country on the international markets. The author explores the qualitative (changes within the system of industrial relations) and quantitative (development indicators of “digital” sector of the economy) parameters of transformations taking place in modern Russian society influenced by widespread of digital technologies. The conducted analysis allowed determining limitations in the application of digital technologies and potential “growth milestones”, as well as identifying the strategic priorities of digital development in modern Russia. The main conclusion consists in the proof that the current public production continues to retain market content, as it functions on the basis of market interactions, mediated by the use of digital technologies. However, the application of digital technologies significantly affects the economic growth rates and social progress in the country. Therefore, the analysis of digital parameters of the Russian economy allows ascertaining the priorities of social development, as well as appropriately coordinate state policy measures aimed at ensuring national security of the Russian Federation via implementation of digital technologies.

Keywords: digital growth points, digitalization limitations, quantitative parameters of digitalization, quality parameters of digitalization, digitalization of Russian society, national security factor, digital technologies, strategic priorities, digital development, global competitiveness

Review: The entrepreneurial activity in the market economy is accompanied by many risks. The subjects of this research is the entrepreneurial risks, nature and scale of which need to be probed, in order to be managed efficiently. The goal of this work is to develop methodology for compiling risk maps that would allow not only quick identification and classification of entrepreneurial risks, but also efficiently manage them. A version for structuring a risk map consists in a “likelihood-loss” matrix, where the magnitude and likelihood of loss is scored and marked in the appropriate line or column within the matrix. The scientific novelty of this research consists in development of a risk management algorithm in entrepreneurial activity based on identification and formation of risk maps that allow undertaking efficient measures to mitigate the consequences of a particular risk. The proposed methodological recommendations, as well as the algorithm for classification, identification and management of risk in production entrepreneurship is approved by the materials of OOO “Prok”, and demonstrated its actuality and effectiveness.  

Keywords: acceptable risk, risk management methods, risk classification, risk, enterprise, entrepreneurship, risk identification, risk rating, risk maps, risk mapping

Review: This research concentrates on the methodological aspects of research on transportation security and its components within legal studies. The author analyzes security as a scientific problem, and explores the questions of scientific research on the problems of security in various branches of science, describing the process of establishment of security science in Russian and some foreign countries (on the example of Poland). Special attention is given to the security research issues in various legal studies. Specific methods of research of the legal insurance of transportation security is analyzed with consideration of its multifaceted nature. The scientific novelty consists in the analysis of specific peculiarities of research on legal insurance of transportation security and description of the corresponding peculiarities of the methodology of such research. A conclusion is made that using specific methodology of conducting legal research on ensuring transportation security will affect the quality and the scientific level of the acquired results.

Keywords: national security, law, legal sciences, methodology, scientific research, transport security, security, science, method, transport

Review: The studies of human capital do not lose their relevance due to its continued contribution to national wealth and its role in socioeconomic development. Affecting the formation and realization of human capital, the scientific and technological progress imposes new demands on its content, which gives an impetus for studying its transformations. One of such trends is digitalization, in the context of which successfulness depends on the skills in using respective technologies in work and everyday life. The research is based on the analysis of individual statistical indicators of development of the digital economy in the Russian Federation, as well as studies dedicated to transformation of the content and forms of human capital. The data analysis testifies to the development of information and communication infrastructure, as well as the personal and business use of opportunities offered by the Internet. Changes in the content of human capital include the emergence of new elements in form of digital competencies, development of its online presence, virtualization of social capital that meets the demands of current socioeconomic development.

Keywords: virtual social capital, information and communication technologies, network form of human capital, social capital, digitalization, human capital, digital competencies, specific human capital, employment, communication

Review: The object of this research is the verbal symbolic structures of official national security discourse in Russia, constructed in the national security strategies of 2009 and 2015, as well as in Russian presidential addresses to the Federal Council during 2009-2019. The subject of this research is the transformation of the semantic content and semiotic ties of the basic concepts determined in the Strategies in the context of presidential addresses as part of the discourse. Special attention is paid to the changes of the key concept of “security”. The goal of this research is to determine the level of correspondence of the verbal symbolic structure of the official presidential security discourse with the ones mentioned earlier in the Strategies, as well as determine the possibilities of conjuncture transformation of the verbal security symbols. The main result of the research consists in the confirmed fact of conjuncture transformation of the discourse of national security in presidential addresses to the Federal Council. A claim is made that during 2009-2012 the discourse of authority regarding security corresponded with the verbal symbolic structure stated in the National Security Strategy of 2009. From 2012, there is a visible transformation of interpretation of security, expressed in endowing it with geopolitical sense instead of social and economic.

Keywords: Russia, presidential messages, discourse of security, verbal-symbolic structure, verbal political symbol, national security strategy, national security, transformation, content analysis, political conjuncture

Keywords: External economic security, oil and gas market, cluster analysis, integrated factors, security, Russia, World Bank, international energy, world economy, economy

Keywords: special economic zone, Free Port of Vladivostok, entrepreneurial activities, economic growth, Primorsky Region, China, GRP, opportunities of development, trade preferences, Russia

Keywords: mass media, terrorism, cyber terrorism, the Internet, Christchurch appeal, legislative regulation, security, world politics, international conflicts, regional security

Keywords: state, youth policy, political activity, the youth, youth parliamentarism, civil society, youth participation, legal education, youth association, human capital

Keywords: Censorship, political censorship, cognitive political censorship, Ukraine, Election of the President of Ukraine, P. Poroshenko, V. Zelensky, manipulation of public opinion, propaganda, disinformation