Vol. 18 No. 6 (2016)

1 декабря 2016 года В.В. Путин обратился к Федеральному Собранию с ежегодным Посланием. Оглашение Послания по традиции состоялось в Георгиевском зале Большого Кремлёвского дворца. Публикуем выдержки из документа.

The concept of the team management style has been applied in our country comparatively recently. However, it has already demonstrated the ability to provide the leading position in the socio-economic development of the regions and industries in which it is used. The team management is demonstrating sustained efficacy conditioning its careful study. The effectiveness issues of the regional management teams' activities are investigated on the methodological level with the application of the systematic, formal-legal and factor analysis. The genesis of the various evaluation concepts is studied. The economic-oriented, managerial and combined concepts of the evaluation in terms of their applicability to the phenomenon of the regional management teams in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are isolated and analyzed. The multilevel nature of the criteria of the assessment system is identified and examined. The system of the principles and the three-tier model of assessment of the efficiency of the regional management teams of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are formulated.

The article deals with the corporatist approach that largely determines the formation of the Russian political elite. The author introduces the concept of corporatism implying a narrow group of people. The common interests, values and program objectives are the base for this union. It is shown through the prism of historical analysis that for a long time the concept of corporatism has had a negative semantic-notional meaning being a part of the doctrine of authoritarian regimes. The author adheres to the diametrically opposite views of the Western and Russian interpretations of the political corporatism. The relevant representation institutions in the Russian Federation that are characteristic of the corporate governance model are considered by the author. This issue is the most vulnerable to the country as not all the institutions are fully represented. This is especially true of institutions such as small businesses, non-governmental associations, non-governmental non-profit unions. Thus, at the stage of transformation the Russian corporatism is in contradiction with the real needs of civil society. Particular emphasis is placed upon the retrospective analysis of the corporative past of Russia since the 1990-s. In addition, there are several reasons for the formation of Russian corporate relations: social class, social-ethnic, professional, affined-compatriot. It was revealed that in contrast to the Western model of recruitment into the higher echelons of power, where the determining factor is the social background and personal achievements - the primary importance in the Russian reality is the establishment past. Corporate communication were considered on the basis of the fundamental work on the Russian elitologist O.V. Kryschtanovskaya. The dynamics of changes in corporate bonds from the point of view of the patron-client positions and the regency regime of the beginning of the 1990-s, oligarchism of the late 1990-s before Putin's personnel reforms of the early 2000-s is demonstrated. As for the modern historical stage, the Russian corporatism is characterized as a mega-corporation in a positive notional connotation, the basic values are determined as: political pluralism, free competition, social efficiency, etc. The state and political agents interact on the basis of partnership, mutual responsibility and cooperation. State there with is entitled a central place, since it is committed to meet the interests of its «shareholders» and to improve the management technologies. The appraisals of the article by D.A. Medvedev «Russia: the acquisition of a new dynamics» are presented in the paper, where the author distinguishes the general stages of the reform of public administration mechanisms. The concept of the public-private partnership and its peculiarities at the present stage are discussed within the framework of political corporatism.

The results of the author's research of the mineral resources sector conditions in Russia are presented in the article. On the basis of the analysis of the different documents (regulatory, statistical, expert estimations, works of other researchers, proceedings of scientific conferences, production reports) modern issues of concern in the subsurface resources management are inventoried and generalized. As a result, these issues are formed into separate groups and after an additional research inside each of these groups there can be suggested solutions for them. The author revealed the common variant of the solution for all the groups: cardinal reforms of the legal regulation of the relations in the subsurface resource management and the industry management system in general.

The article is devoted to the review of the international research and practice conference "Internationalization of education and science: role and potential of the Russian language” that took place on November 15, 2016 in France, Paris, on the quay Branly, 1 in the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Center in the framework of measures implementation of the 5^th special-purpose program "Russian language” for 2016-2020 years. The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, the France-Russia Resource Center for Cooperation in Education, Russian-French Center for Education and Consulting of the Institute of Public Administration and Management RANEPA were the organizers of this conference. The conference was held with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; the Embassy of France in Russia; the Embassy of Russia in France; the representatives of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) in France; the French League of Education.

The role of patriotism in the modern tax policy is discussed in the article. The relation between the tax efficiency and the sense of patriotism as a factor that has a positive impact on revenues is considered in the article. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the background to detect this relationship and try to justify theoretically the influence of patriotism on the fulfillment of tax obligations. The paper deals with the previously developed in the scientific theory the definition of «tax patriotism» as an economic phenomenon and analyzes its relationship with the tax morality and tax culture in the context of the selection of the optimal tax policy. The authors note that the concept of «patriotism tax» has almost sesquicentennial roots present in different cultures and examines the public administrations of the developed countries as a powerful argument in favor of civil behavior for the aim of the country development. However, there is a definite correlation between the tax behavior of citizens and transparency of government's actions: the obvious benefit to the population is regarded as the stimulating component of tax behaviour, and vice versa, the opinion of citizens about the government, as corrupt, leads to tax evasion and forcing people to leave to «the shadow».

The issue of the publication and use of the official's image without his/her consent in cases where it is required by law and any circumstances is considered in the article. The examples of the situations where under the legislation there is no need to obtain the consent of the official with respect to the fate of his/her image are presented in the paper. The conclusions are made about the importance of making a distinction between the private and public life of officials in order to legitimate the coverage of their professional official activities and protect their personal information; as well as about the necessity of obtaining the consent from the employee in writing specifying the conditions for the disclosure and use of his image.

В настоящей статье освещаются вопросы бюджетирования как одного из основных инструментов управления компанией, раскрываются понятия «бюджет», «бюджетирование»; определяются основные функции бюджетирования, виды бюджетов, основные стадии бюджетного процесса; затрагиваются вопросы организации системы бюджетирования на предприятии.

Peculiarities of the transition to the strategic planning in the context of the economic security are considered in the article; the institutional base, the innovations of the budget process in the program budget, the specifics of its implementation in modern conditions are summarized. It is noted that, in general, the legal framework has been established in accordance with which the strategic planning will be developed. The management of the budget process has received the necessary logic ensuring the unity of the budgetary system, furthermore, the budgetary funds managers get tools for their effective use provision. The authors emphasize that the transition to the strategic planning requires development of new approaches from the state. The groups of risks for the public management system and provision of the economic security of the country are emphasized. Such risks are generated both by the transition to the program-target methods of management and long-term strategic planning and by the influence of factors of financial and economic uncertainty. On this basis, the areas of risk mitigation and adjustments of the goal-setting budget policy of providing fiscal stability are identified with the clear definition of prospects of development of the society. The creation of the system center dealing with the goal-setting coordination of the process participants and considering all strategic planning mechanisms is proposed.

The article presents the analysis of correlation between demographic processes and consumption of socially important services. The authors examine some trends of the population change in Russia and its impact on the consumption of socially important services.

Today, the issue of food security is particularly important, as in changed regulatory conditions on the back of the WTO accession, the competitiveness of agricultural producers in domestic and foreign markets depends on the effectiveness of policies. The article deals with the problems and peculiarities of food security of Russia under conditions of realization of the strategy of import substitution and food sanctions. The authors specify the scope of the optimum modern agricultural policy in today's conditions of substitution of import. Food security in terms of agricultural self-sufficiency, economic and social efficiency of agricultural policy is considered as a basic criterion for defining the optimum agricultural policy. The objectives were to determine the grades of effectiveness of agricultural policy for food security, which has allowed to identify, to characterize and to develop the existing methodologies in assessment of agricultural policy effectiveness. The authors provide the characteristics of industry-specific and resource-potential approaches, which allow determining absolute and relative effectiveness of agricultural policy in relation to food security. It has been discovered, that planning measures and instruments of agricultural policy at regional level imply disparity in living standards, income, agricultural development and the achieved level of agricultural self-sufficiency in different regions of Russia. Consideration of food security as criterion for defining the optimum agricultural policy under current economic conditions has allowed to substantiate the perspective lines of agricultural policy, the implementation of which should promote agricultural self-sufficiency and maintain physical, social and economic availability of food.

The economic approach to the study of the crime as one of the modern trends in the development of the neo-institutional economics is considered in the article. Despite some similarities the authors reveal the differences between the criminal and civil law that allow you to show the limitations of the traditional theory of the criminal law and the necessity of considering the crime from the point of view of the economic theory. However, in situations when the absolute compensation of the harm is impossible the criminal law supplements the civil one. In the economic theory the behavior of the criminal is seen as rational, implying that if costs of the threatening punishment are higher than the expected benefits from the crime, the crime won't be committed. The economic models are applicable with the greatest validity to the situations of planned, premeditated and prepared crimes. The main feature of the economic approach to the study of the crime allows you to find the tools for suppression of certain crimes, and thus to minimize the social costs of crime.

Summary The article presents the basic conceptual statements of a research project under grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF): “New approaches and methods of ethnopolitical relations regulation on the territory of the largest urban agglomerations of Russia”. The paper has justified the necessity to adjust national policy and the emergence of the new paradigm of such policy called “Cultural diversity management”. The new paradigm has a number of advantages in comparison with the traditional one.

Dealing with the topic of the ethno-cultural diversity in the large cities of Russia and using the data of longitudinal surveys of the «Public Opinion» Foundation, the author analyzes the specificity of Perm, Ufa and Rostov-on-Don. The paper emphasizes that both the anonymous character and individuality of urban life in a city with one - million population predetermine the limitation of integrative values that allow to speculate about the urban communities. Under these circumstances the key factor maintaining the mutual consent is the cultural plurality being characteristic of the large cities. This pluralism represented with different forms ensures the balance of interests of various groups of citizens.

The comparative analysis of urban unrests that took place in Russia, France and the USA at the beginning of this century is offered in this article. Along with the discussion of the structural similarities and differences of these conflicts, the role of the authorities in resolving them is assessed in the article. Finally, the factors and mechanisms of institutionalizing the conflicts in urban areas and preventing them from escalating into violence are discussed in the paper.

This article continues the last year study on the establishment of methods of diagnosis and prognosis of ethno-political conflicts in the large metropolitan areas. The local internet communities in the social network «VKontakte» are in the center of attention. Their research allows continuous monitoring, prediction and prevention of conflicts involving Russian nationalists. This monitoring may be useful in public administration. The cases of the Moscow district Biriulevo and Rostov-on-Don are considered in this article.

The book by R.G. Abdulatipov and V.A. Mikhailov «Russia in the XXI century: a nationwide response to a national issue» is analyzed in the article.

2016 is announced as the year of British language and literature in Russia. Of course, a special place in a series of events of this year is given to the creative works of William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). Though four hundred years have already passed since his death, the greatest English playwright keeps attracting attention far beyond his motherland. The “Shakespeare Lives” festival takes place in Russia, in the framework of the events of this year there is a summer festival in Moscow parks with lectures, concerts, film screenings and decorations in the style of the XVI century, performances of the British theaters during the new season of “TheatreHD”. The video recordings of the performances of the Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the Barbican center with the participation of Stephen Fry, Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch and other famous actors are presented on the big screens. Shakespeare's creative work vividly reflected the spirit of the age. It, like any other outstanding artistic heritage, allows you to select not only the major events of the time of its creation, but also gives a conceptual vision of the pattern of world development for decades and centuries to come. The popularity of his works is enormous. It corresponds to the scope of disputes about the authorship of this literary heritage. Since there are discussions of Shakespeare's adepts, it is impossible sometimes to see that Shakespeare, like any genius, reflected not only the most of the problems of his epoch, but also acted as a liaison of times. His works allow you to discover and comprehend the basic themes of human existence, equally inherent to the past, present and future. Geopolitical issues are naturally presented among these topics.

The President's decree signed on May 7 2012 «On Measures for Realization of Public Social Policy» announced the goal to assure that by 2018 the average salary of culture institution employees will be equal to the average salary in the region. To achieve this goal, the Russian Federation subjects elaborated a plan «Changes Aiming at Increase of Efficiency in the Sphere of Culture» («roadmaps»), that establish, among others, annual target ratio of the average salary of culture institution employees to the average salary in the region of Russia till 2018. The elaboration and implementation of the regional «roadmaps» in the sphere of culture are considered in the article. Their analysis was made in the 85 Russian Federation subjects (as on March 1 2016). The «roadmaps» were analyzed in terms of achievement of the establishing target ratio and creation of funding sources for the salaries of the employees of the sphere of culture. The discrete stages of the elaboration of «roadmaps» due to various adjustments were determined. The analysis of the regional «roadmaps» compared to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) data showed that by the end of 2015, 11 subjects (13%) had not achieved the target ratio. As for the sources of funding for increasing salaries in the sphere of culture, the article reveals that most part of the regions this year (as well as in the last one) plan to assure a growth of the salary fund for the employees of culture institutions mostly with the budget means. In the structure of the means obtained through optimization measures (economy of the budget funds), the income of restructuration of the institutions network constitutes the smallest part. The main source is reduction of the number of employees, but, as our analysis shows, for 40% of the regions, this source is exhausted. In order to increase the culture institutions employees' salaries, a number of subjects plan to rely largely on extra-budget sources. Nonetheless, only 68% of these regions succeeded in achieving the level of these incomes aimed by the «roadmaps» last year. The article concludes that there are serious risks of non-achievement of the goal of increasing the salaries of culture institution employees in the Russian Federation subjects.

This impact of the sphere of culture on the socio-economic development is analyzed in the article. Based on the theoretical works of B. Genkin and analysis of the category of the cultural capital, the working hypothesis that the sphere of the culture contributes to the transformation of the standardized labor into the creative work is put forward by the author. The scheme of its influence on the social and economic development of the country through the increase of the creative work promoting development of innovations is presented. The author makes a conclusion about the necessity of institutional changes in culture financing that are aimed at the development of the institution of the budget allocations and involve the citizens in defining the areas of the budget expenditure. The sphere of culture plays a leading role in preserving the national identity of economic agents and resists the substitution of the traditional cultural values in the context of the «Westernization».

The process of structural and functional transformation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from the perspective of Uzbekistan is analyzed in this article by the author. This organization's functions are to represent and to shape common perspectives of the three regions - Eurasia, Central and South Asia. The features of the membership in the SCO of Uzbekistan, who seeks to use the format of the organization to effectively advance its interests, as well as to ensure the main principle of its foreign policy strategy - equidistance from all the "centers of power” are considered in the article. The author underlines that the expansion of the SCO by India and Pakistan becomes a challenge for Uzbekistan's foreign policy, because it is contrary to one of the principles of the Concept of foreign policy that prioritizes the various bilateral relations in the international activity. With the participation of two new countries, Uzbekistan falls into the center of the multilateral and eclectic policy in the framework of the SCO - a situation that Tashkent is still trying to avoid. The author reveals the main concerns of Uzbekistan with the expansion of the SCO and determines its inefficiency in resolving any conflicts or discrepancies among the existing six members of the organization, received new challenges, connected with the accession of the two nuclear-weapon states that have unresolved bilateral disputes, that can reduce the importance of the problems of the Central Asian region and influence on decision-making, which is achieved by consensus. Uzbekistan expresses concerns that the organization can converse into a military-political alliance. Also in the article, the author examines the issue of expansion of the SCO by Iran, which now has an observer status in the organization and comes to the conclusion that Uzbekistan has shown traditionally restrained reaction to the initiatives on the further expansion of the SCO, fearing that it will make the organization less manageable. The question of accession of Afghanistan to the SCO is considered. Tashkent exhibits vigilance in this regard. With regard to the transformation of the SCO in modern conditions the author comes to the conclusion that for Uzbekistan, that is a key state in the Central Asia and it faces the tense geopolitical environment - the optimal variant is to continue the demonstration of the committal to the expansion and extension of a constant dialogue with all the partners: member-states and observer-states in the SCO both on the inter-governmental and on the regional levels.