scholarly journals International approaches to hazard assessment and classification of endocrine disruptors

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (12) ◽  
pp. 1372-1376
Author(s):  
Khalidya Kh. Khamidulina ◽  
Elena V. Tarasova ◽  
Irina V. Zamkova ◽  
Ekaterina V. Dorofeeva ◽  
Ilgiz N. Araslanov ◽  
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Introduction. The problems of the impact of endocrine disruptors on human health and the environment are of serious concern today at the international, regional and national levels. Although the first mention about an ability of a substance to harm the endocrine system back in the 60 th of the XX century, the issues of substantiating the criteria for classifying it as endocrine disruptors, identifying potential disruptors of the endocrine system, assessing and classifying their danger to health and the environment with the purpose of further regulation. The aim of the study. To study of world experience in classifying chemical compounds as endocrine disruptors; creating a list of chemicals circulating on the territory of the Russian Federation that can potentially affect the endocrine system; selection of criteria for their classification according to the degree of hazard. The material for the analysis was literature sources from the bibliographic databases Web of Science, MedLine, EMBASE, Global Health, PubMed, Scopus, RSCI. The documents of international organizations, the European Union, the USA, Canada, Japan, India and other states on the hazard assessment, classification and regulation of endocrine disruptors have been studied and analyzed. Considering international experience, the criteria for classifying chemical compounds as endocrine disruptors have been substantiated, including three main components: an adverse effect on the body, an endocrine mechanism of action, and a biological relationship between endocrine activity and an adverse effect. A comparative analysis of the hazard classifications of endocrine disruptors developed by the EU and India showed to be based on the principles of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Hazards of Chemicals and Mixtures. Considering the limited scientific knowledge about substances capable of destroying the endocrine system, it is advisable to introduce class 3 for substances with limited data obtained in “in vitro” experiments in invertebrates tests. Conclusion. International approaches to the selection, assessment and classification of chemicals that have a potential impact on the endocrine system will allow for the first time in the Russian Federation to form a national list of endocrine disruptors, to identify substances that are the priority in terms of hazard and degree of risk for making relevant management decisions.

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-222
Author(s):  
Andrey Medvedev

AbstractIn this article, the author discusses contemporary Russian judicial practice concerning the legality of attorney's conditional fees. He starts with a brief overview of foreign practice and distinguishes various kinds of conditional fees. The author provides a classification of conditional fees, through the prism of which he evaluates judicial practice in Russia. He distinguishes and, in particular, contrasts the contingent (or contingency) fee from (with) the conditional fee per se (the conditional fee in the narrow sense). The main focus is on a landmark 2007 Decision of the RF Constitutional Court in which the Court ruled against conditional fees in Russia. The author provides a detailed analysis of the Decision. He supports a view which is in clear opposition to the Constitutional Court, finding the Decision facile, criticizing its motivation and questioning its feasibility. The author describes the claims submitted to the Court, the findings of the Court, and the conclusions reached by the Court. Furthermore, he considers the impact which the Decision may have on judicial practice. The author concludes by discussing the possible future of conditional fees in the Russian Federation and notes that the Decision of the RF Constitutional Court may not constitute the final word on the issue. He advocates further and more in-depth research on the nature of conditional fees.


2019 ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
E. A. Amiraslanova ◽  
N. Yu. Barkova ◽  
T. O. Shpunt

The non-commodity exports development issues from the Russian Federation to foreign countries have been considered. The main barriers, constraining the development of non-commodity exports have been analyzed. Also the classification of such “barriers of ignorance” has been developed and the measures, allowing to reduce the impact of these barriers have been proposed: creation of an electronic commercial site; creation of multifunctional centers, in which certification and licensing procedures would be carried out, customs and tax сonsultancy to potential exporters, advice and assistance in obtaining the necessary permission documentation in foreign countries; сounselling on the correct execution of foreign economic contracts to avoid double taxation and transfer pricing and other measures.


2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Denisov ◽  
Stanislav M. Logatkin ◽  
Konstantin N. Demchenko ◽  
Artem M. Nosov ◽  
Andrey B. Yudin ◽  
...  

Currently, as part of combat equipment, body armor is the main tool designed for individual protection of a persons torso from bullets, shrapnel and steel arms. Since March 1, 2019, GOST 34286-2017 has been introduced as a national standard of the Russian Federation, in which one of the assessed indicators of the resistance of armored clothing to the effects of means of destruction is the indicator of the reserve effect of the striking element when the protective structure is not penetrated, which should not exceed the value taken as the maximum permissible in the prescribed manner. In this case, the pre-armor effect of a striking element in case of non-penetration of the protective structure is assessed only after the completion of the development of a sample of armored clothing by the corresponding accredited organization. The existing methods for determining the permissibility of the reserve impact indicator when the protective structure is not penetrated can in principle be divided into medical, biological and technical, and technical. In the Russian Federation, the method using large laboratory animals, pigs weighing 8090 kg, is mainly used to determine the level of the reserve impact in terms of the severity of the reserve contusion injury. While in NATO countries, human corpses, individual tissues and organs, as well as parts of carcasses of large animals are used to determine the same parameter. However, at present, both in our country and abroad, there is no single methodological approach to assessing the impact of armor when testing protective products. As a result of targeted research, it is necessary to scientifically substantiate the principles of modeling this effect when the body armor is not penetrated with the subsequent processing of standard methods of state testing of body armor. The tests must be based on a method that allows obtaining parameters expressed in digital values and correlated with the results of experiments on biological objects. It is this numerical parameter that should be taken as a criterion for assessing the permissibility of the level of shock impact when testing promising personal body armor (bibliography: 21 refs).


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
E. V. Zarova ◽  
E. I. Dubravskaya

The topic of quantitative research on informal employment has a consistently high relevance both in the Russian Federation and in other countries due to its high dependence on cyclicality and crisis stages in economic dynamics of countries with any level of economic development. Developing effective government policy measures to overcome the negative impact of informal employment requires special attention in theoretical and applied research to assessing the factors and conditions of informal employment in the Russian Federation including at the regional level. Such effects of informal employment as a shortfall in taxes, potential losses in production efficiency, and negative social consequences are a concern for the authorities of the federal and regional levels. Development of quantitative indicators to determine the level of informal employment in the regions, taking into account their specifics in the general spatial and economic system of Russia are necessary to overcome these negative effects. The article proposes and tests methods for solving the problem of assessing the impact of hierarchical relationships on macroeconomic factors at the regional level of informal employment in constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Majority of the works on the study of informal employment are based on basic statistical methods of spatial-dynamic analysis, as well as on the now «traditional» methods of cluster and correlation-regression analysis. Without diminishing the merits of these methods, it should be noted that they are somewhat limited in identifying hidden structural connections and interdependencies in such a complex multidimensional phenomenon as informal employment. In order to substantiate the possibility of overcoming these limitations, the article proposes indicators of regional statistics that directly and indirectly characterize informal employment and also presents the possibilities of using the «random forest» method to identify groups of constituent entities of the Russian Federation that have similar macroeconomic factors of informal employment. The novelty of this method in terms of research objectives is that it allows one to assess the impact of macroeconomic indicators of regional development on the level of informal employment, taking into account the implicit, not predetermined by the initial hypotheses, hierarchical relationships of factor indicators. Based on the generalization of the studies presented in the literature, as well as the authors’ statistical calculations using Rosstat data, the authors came to the conclusion about the high importance of macroeconomic parameters of regional development and systemic relationships of macroeconomic indicators in substantiating the differentiation of the informal level across the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.


Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
R. V. Tkachenko

The paper is devoted to the examination of issues related to the increasing importance of budgetary regulation for the proper functioning of a modern innovative society. The key role of the budgetary regulation in the financial process of the State is particularly acute in the context of systemic crises that include socio-economic consequences caused by the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in Russia. In the course of the study, the features of changes in the state financial policy caused by the above-mentioned crisis phenomena are highlighted. The paper describes various approaches to the interpretation of the budgetary regulation as a category of financial law, explores various types and legal forms of methods of the budgetary regulation, analyses mechanisms and the impact of the State on the budget system through the existing legal structure of the budgetary regulation. It is determined that the rules of financial law governing the whole complex of public relations concerning the distribution and redistribution of the national product between the levels of the budget system of the Russian Federation constitute the institution of financial law, namely: the budgetary regulation. The author concludes that the approach based on the concentration of basic powers in the financial field at the federal level significantly slows down the dynamics of development of economic activity in the majority of regions of Russia, while the need for breakthrough innovative development of Russian society determinates the expansion of long-term tax sources of income for regional budgets. In this regard, it is proposed to consolidate additional regulation for revenues gained by regional and local budgets in the form of targeted deductions from federal taxes on a long-term basis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Gordienko ◽  

The paper examines the interests of Russia, the United States and China in the regions of the world and identifies the priorities of Russia's activities in Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Asia-Pacific region, the Arctic, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, their comparative assessment with the interests of the United States and China. An approach to assessing the impact of possible consequences of the activities of the United States and China on the realization of Russia's interests is proposed. This makes it possible to identify the priorities of the policy of the Russian Federation in various regions of the world. The results of the analysis can be used to substantiate recommendations to the military-political leadership of our country. It is concluded that the discrepancy between the interests of the United States and China is important for the implementation of the current economic and military policy of the Russian Federation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
E. V. Ryabtseva ◽  

The growing role of the judicial community in reforming the judicial system actualizes the scientific problems of law enforcement associated with understanding the essence of the regulatory impact of the Councils of Judges of the Russian Federation as a body of the judicial community to prevent the emergence of conflicts of legal interests in judicial activity. The purpose of the research is to theoretically substantiate the essence of individual regulation of conflicts of legal interests by the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation, aimed at optimizing its activities to combat corruption. The worldview and methodological basis were the works of theoretical scholars and their methods of integrative understanding of law to substantiate the impact of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation on judicial activity through individual regulation. The conclusion is substantiated that the activities of the Commission of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation on Ethics, related to the drawing up of opinions on the assessment of conflicts of legal interests and other corruption risks for both acting judges and retired judges, is an individual regulation of legal relations through: interpretation of law; overcoming gaps and conflicts in the law; individuali zation of rights, etc. The content of the interpretation of law by the Commission of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation on Ethics is: the application of certain norms of both international and national law in a specific legal relationship when assessing conflicts of legal interests among judges through a systematic interpretation of the norms of law as a system of elements, defining its role in law, identifying other norms, as well as the principles of law; interpretation of the principles and norms of law, through the legal-logical interpretation of a normative act as logically interconnected structural elements of a single, internally agreed and consistent system of principles and norms of law, when deciding on the presence of conflicts of legal interests in the activities of judges, etc. The paper substantiates that in relation to conflicts of legal interests, individualization should be aimed at determining by the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation typical situations of such conflicts for their correct assessment and development of recommendations related to the optimal behavior of judges, when circumstances arise that lead to conflicts of legal interests.


Author(s):  
A.G. Khvostov ◽  
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N.R. Getaova

The article explores the concept, objectives and principle of student’s self-government in the system of modern higher education in the Russian Federation. The paper analyzes the impact of student’s self-government on the development of student’s social activity and the formation of a socially adapted personality among students, also the impact on the training of professional staff.


Author(s):  
Сергей Михайлович Савушкин

Важность определения конкретных, измеримых и объективно необходимых целей деятельности исправительных учреждений уголовно-исполнительной системы объясняется проблемами, с которыми сталкиваются сотрудники при выполнении функций, отдельные из которых не способствуют достижению целей уголовно-исполнительного законодательства РФ. В статье рассматриваются и подвергаются конструктивной критике цели уголовно-исполнительного законодательства, задачи уголовно-исполнительной системы (которые в 2004 г. были исключены из закона), основные задачи ФСИН России, основные цели Концепции развития уголовно-исполнительной системы РФ до 2020 г., цель Концепции федеральной целевой программы «Развитие уголовно-исполнительной системы (2017-2025 годы)». Приводятся цели классификации осужденных, которые предусмотрены Правилами Нельсона Манделы, как положительный опыт закрепления целей отдельного правового института. Высказывается позиция относительно необходимости закрепления целей отдельных институтов, промежуточных целей и важности определения точных критериев оценки достижимости отмеченных целей. Данная работа проводится для выявления имеющихся проблем, связанных с отсутствием конкретных показателей деятельности исправительных учреждений, выполнение которых должно способствовать достижению целей уголовно-исполнительного законодательства РФ. The importance of determining the specific, measurable and objectively necessary goals of the activities of correctional institutions of the penal system is explained by the problems faced by employees in performing functions, some of which do not contribute to the achievement of the goals of the penal legislation of the Russian Federation. The article discusses and criticizes constructively the goals of the penal legislation, the tasks of the penal system (which were excluded from the Law in 2004), the main tasks of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, the main goals of the Development Concept of the Russian penal system until 2020, the goal of the Federal Concept target program "Development of the penal system (2017-2025)". The goals of the classification of convicts, which are provided for by the rules of Nelson Mandela, as a positive experience in fixing goals, a separate legal institution. A position is expressed regarding the need to consolidate the goals of individual institutions, intermediate goals and the importance of determining, exact criteria, assessing the attainability of the stated goals. This work is carried out in order to establish the existing problems associated with the lack of specific indicators of the activity of correctional institutions, the implementation of which should help achieve the goals of the criminal-executive legislation of the Russian Federation.


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