Vol. 15 No. 4 (2013)

«Gosudarstvennaya slugba» Journal continues the publication of diary entries of Mikhail Mityukov, which depict the historic days of the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Some of them were already published in a multivolume publication devoted to the first stage in the history of the creation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation [From the history of creation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, 2007-2010]. The author served as the member of the Editorial Council of the above mentioned publication.

В учебном пособии раскрываются вопросы теории и практики внешней политики России, характеризуется ее роль и место в глобализирующемся мире. Показываются региональные приоритеты и основные сферы внешнеполитической деятельности Российской Федерации. В свете обновленной концепции внешней политики Российской Федерации анализируются экономическая, политическая, дипломатическая и другие составляющие деятельности России на международной арене. Издание состоит из четырех крупных разделов, где рассматриваются теоретико-методологические аспекты международных отношений и внешней политики государства, раскрывается роль и место России, характеризуются региональные приоритеты и основные сферы внешнеполитической деятельности страны.

The above material is the overview of the public lecture entitled Russia and Central Asian Region, which was delivered by the Director of the Third department of CIS countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mr. Alexander Sternik and is dedicated to the Russian foreign policy in the Central Asian Region. The speaker has analyzed the economic and socio-political situation in the region, the dynamics and level of the relationships between Russia and Central Asian countries, as well as the activity of the regional integration organizations, including Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Customs Union

Lydia Kornilova spoke to Vladimir Tchernikov, Head of Department of Mass Media and Advertising of the City of Moscow, about the role of mass media in building civil society, about the responsibility of a journalist and the relationtship between the power and the press

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Russian system of official statistical record-keeping and the ways of its improvement with taking into account foreign experience. The article provides a detailed account of statistical factors, which are the cause for various administrative barriers and administrative burden for business, and outlines the methods of their elimination or minimization.

Summaries: The article examines the results of sociological research of professional development and tendencies in personnel processes in public service. The research findings deal with the professionalism assessment of civil servants and with the issues of providing high level of professional and career development for civil servants.

The socio-psychological perspective underlies the implementation strategy of sustainable development of society, reflecting the need to examine the relevance of ecological consciousness of civil servants with respect to nature management and environmental protection. This type of consciousness is considered as their foundation in making ecologically-oriented management decisions. The results of this empirical study are presented. The articles demonstrates that environmental consciousness is the most important subjective factor to overcome consumeristic attitude of man to nature; that high level of ecological consciousness is of crucial importance when making managerial and strategic decisions on environmental issues. The empirical research substantiates the actual indicators of ecological consciousness of public servants of the Moscow region and it provides us with the effective ways of developing ecological consciousness in public servants.

The article presents the findings of the methodological seminar Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis of Knowledge as a Source of Power and leadership for Global and Local "Assembly Points": Challenges to Science and Education. The seminar’s participants focused on increasing the level of social responsibility and ecological efficiency of science and education, on searching for the new directions of their development with the help of approaches devised in the methodology of cross-disciplinary analysis and synthesis.

The material is devoted to the international scientific conference Current Issues of Harmonization of the International Relations at the Municipal Level, which took place in RANEPA on September 27. The participants of the conference and experts from different regions – scientists, public servants, faculty members and post-graduate students – discussed contemporary issues of the international relations, their history, shared the experience and the results of the analysis of various issues related to international, religious and cross-cultural interaction. As a result, various proposals on the solution of the issues were put forward.

The article is devoted to a comparative understanding and interpretation of existing concepts of the so-called new public (state and municipal) administration. We discuss the concept of «good governance», which has steadily integrated into the lexicon of a wide range of members of the international community. The author's interpretations of «good governance» as a multidimensional concept are given. This concept is considered by the author in three notions: 1) the measure of the ideal in public administration, 2) the concept of design, formation, implementation and evaluation of public administration, 3) the control mechanisms. The necessity of a «new» public administration (or public administration, based on a new paradigm) is justified. The author describes the essential features of the «new» public administration, which is coming to replace the well-established, until recently, «traditional» model of public administration.

The article outlines the main subject of the researches in the philosophical domain of elitology as being that in a social and cognitive area and based on the principles and values of social constructivism, which are realized by elite groups in the society, whose significance and effectiveness is historically increasing (social demiurgic through elite social cephalization).

The author of the article deals with the contradictions arising in the process of intellectual resources management. The security of our state depends on the way that we’ll choose to resolve these controversies and on the objectives that we’ll set.

The author examines public awards as a type of incentive, highlights their characteristics and advantages over other types of incentives, and identifies areas of application in the Russian Federation and abroad. Taking religious, academic, institutional, and other types of awards as an example, the author demonstrates the key attributes of this regulator of social relationships regulator and defines its role in the life of private individuals and society as a whole.

This paper briefly show the history of the penetration of tea and coffee into the European continent and the features of formation of coffee culture and tea culture with opposing political, psychological and divergent geopolitical coordinates. Also specifics of coffee and tea mixed culture of Russia is defined.

The article analyzes the current state of the institute of arbitration assessors in Russia, identifying problems accompanying its reorganization. The author summarizes the different points of view of the experts on the effective functioning of this institution and the main problem issues related to his reforms. The short review of foreign and domestic experience in this branch is given. It is concluded that it is worthwhile to attract non-professional judges – arbitration assessors to the implementation of economic justice in Russia and there is a need for further development and optimization of the institute of arbitration assessors.

This article explores the issues related to corruption in the Russian education system. It is noted that corruption is detrimental to both to the state and the society as well as to private individuals. The bribery issues of the Uniform State Examination at the school level are considered in particular. Corruption issues in the system of the higher professional and postgraduate education and in publishing of educational literature and manuals are also reviewed. The author draws a conclusion that the level of corruption in the Russian educational system has approached critical levels.

The article describes the role of the public in combating corruption in education. Based on the data obtained from a sociological survey, the article analyzes the current status of participation of public institutions in combating corruption in the education system at the municipal level and the main directions for improving the efficiency of the public control in the sphere of education as an efficient mechanism of fighting corruption are formulated.

The article considers and addressed the issues dealing with the essence, structure, organization and directions of development of system of providing professional services to state procurement customers, who operate in compliance with principles of the contract system in the field of procurement. Based on the ANSI PMI PMBOOK standard, the compliance between management of the project and management of government procurement was proven. The article outlined the recommendations on improving the scientific and methodical support of implementation of professional requirement introduction system into the project management on the basis of the principles of contract system in purchasing.

The author of the article reflects on the current issues of formation of the institute of state-private partnerships as a tool for development of regional economic policy, which allows to move from direct budget financing of investment projects of strategic and socially important sectors of the economy to the model attracting additional resources under risk-sharing. The article explains that the private as well as the issue of providing quality public services. The expediency of application of state-private partnership in the implementation of such projects requires a quantitative substantiation. Hence, one of the main tasks today is to introduce the mechanism for evaluation of the effectiveness of public-private partnerships. The proposed method allows us to evaluate the level of social, fiscal and economic efficiency of projects of the public-private partnership.

In recent years, bankruptcy of large companies, caused to some extent by fraud committed by the top management of these companies, has led to crisis. In view of this, more and more emphasis is being placed on the importance of submitting accurate reporting and on transparency of economic activities. Improving the reliability and accuracy of accounting information intended for users is the objective set for the market participants. Accordingly, detailed analysis of the current control practices and the cooperation between internal and external auditors of the company are vital. If the external auditor uses specific data of the internal auditors, the external auditor shall include in the audit documentation the conclusions reached regarding the evaluation of the adequacy of the work of the internal auditors, and the audit procedures performed by the external auditor on that work.

The research deals with the correlation between the budgetary policy and the social-economic development of the municipal district and with the ways to improve them. The most important element of strategic planning is the introduction and the development of the program-target method of planning. For the effective planning the local government should clearly realize the goals and objectives that form the basis of "The concept of the strategic social-economic development of the municipal formation" (on the example of the municipal formation "Bryansk district").

The article elaborates on the present issues and prospects of uniform educational space for training civil servants of Russia, Commonwealths of Independent States and European Union.

The article studies the influence of BRICS group on global balance of civilizations. The author outlines an important role of BRICS in «global realignment» process. The researcher analyzes the role of BRICS factor in official foreign policy strategies of the Russian Federation. The article studies Russian policy optimization measures in order to ensure the expansion of positive influence of the group on international affairs.

The author of article addresses the issue of production and consumption waste management. Using the example of the unified legal framework of the united Europe, the author offers ways of reforming the domestic legislation in this field as well as mechanisms of improving legal regulation of production and consumption waste management in the Volgograd region, its municipalities and at the federal level.

Over the last decade global immigration processes in Europe have led to increased xenophobia and intolerance towards “others”. As a result, people are more actively voting for far right politics or even extremist, while dreaming of more authoritarian states and experiencing anti-islamic sentiments. Modern far right politics tend to be more local, more radical and they try to modernize their parties, radical movements and the whole right wing subculture. The authors try to analyze this for both – Western and Eastern European countries (France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary). Special attention is paid to the variety of types of far right politics, as well as to the most effective ways to fight the right wing extremists at all levels of society and various forms of intolerance and discrimination that spread throughout Europe.

The article dwells on the social and economic basis of the demand for personnel potential of the society, on the issues of strengthening of this potential to meet current requirements of socio-economic development of modern Russia. The author analyzes the approaches to understanding the relevance of the category of personnel potential.

The article ponders over the key aspects of research methodology on history of reforming and development of public service in Russia. The main issue is identified as the ambiguous understanding of the essence and the public nature of state service and lack of universal methodology of its historical studying among various researches. The above material presents the author’s concept of historical models of reforming state service and substantiates the approach to a periodization of history of development of civil service through the process of consecutive change of historical models. The carried-out review of various groups of sources of historical information and literature on issues of transformation of the Soviet public service into its modern system allowed to describe tendencies of this development process and to present applied practices on increasing the efficiency of civil service.

The article deals with the issues of the design competitive client strategy of insurance amid increased market competition. Based on the methodology of the systemic analysis, the author conducted research on a status of consumers of insurance services and developed recommendations for insurance companies on customer acquisition. The suggested finding are applied in nature and can be used in the course of improvement of insurance activity of the companies in the Russian Federation.

The author of the article presented mechanisms to attract long-term financial resources for the development of the state economy and to overcome the structural limitations of its growth. One of the most promising sources that the author acknowledges is people’s savings, based primarily on household savings. As a way for utilizing this financial resource the author proposes to introduce into the legislation the so-called "long-term irrevocable bank deposit" that would broaden the basis for the medium-and long-term lending. In addition, the article analyzes various ways of deposit repayment guarantee to ensure peace of mind for the bank customer in times of crisis.

The author of article reviews the process of public service reform of the European Union member states, in particular, France, Germany and the UK, as well as examines the possibility of application of this research data to reform the public service of Ukraine.

The article outlines the issue of socio-spiritual activities of young civil servants. The author specifies such concepts as socialization, gradual socialization, and subculture. The functions of the subculture are characterized, which provides ground for further functional analysis of this phenomenon.