Resolution of XXVIII International Congress of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association of Commonwealth of Independent States 23–24 September 2021

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LEGAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE FIELD OF ENSURING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF TRANSPORT ACTIVITIES IN THE MODEL LEGISLATION AND ACTS OF STATES – PARTICIPANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

The paper examines the essence of legislative support and the main elements of the legal mechanism for environmental protection and environmental safety in the implementation of transport activities in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The author reflects the different approaches of the member States of the integration association to the regulation of this sphere and the general trends of legislation with a view to identifying legal instruments to reduce the harmful effects of transport on the environment. Purpose: to analyze the model legislation of the Commonwealth of Independent States governing environmental protection and ensuring environmental safety and the acts adopted in the member states of the Commonwealth, taking into account the negative impact of transport activities on environmental protection in the context of the development of integration processes. Methods: the author uses the methods of analysis, comparison, systematization, interpretation of legal norms, formal-logical and prognostic, etc. Results: the tasks of ensuring the environmental safety of transport activities are formulated, which make it possible to demonstrate the need for the establishment of legal regulatory instruments in this area and contributing to their identification. The author concludes that there is a need to develop special documents on cooperation in the environmental safety of the Commonwealth member states, which will make it possible to define general guidelines for the creation and implementation of legal instruments to reduce transport harmful effects on the environment. It is argued that there is a need to bring the legal provisions closer together and to deepen positions on legal support in the area under study, taking into account a number of tasks that lead to integrated approaches.

Analysing Association in Environmental Pollution, Tourism and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from the Commonwealth of Independent States

Clean and green environment along with sustainable development is the prime objective of every state. We explore empirically the nexus between tourism, environmental pollution measured by carbon (CO2) emissions, population, trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in six countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States over 1995–2018. Traditional panel estimation technique is employed, where the Hausman test suggests fixed-effects over random effect estimator. We also employed the robust least squares (RLS) estimator to confirm the empirical estimates. Results show that a 1% increase in CO2 will attenuate the economic growth by 0.14% and that 1% raise in the tourism activities can boost growth by 0.04%. Both the fixed-effect and RLS estimates reveal that tourism, population growth and trade contribute significantly to economic growth, whereas CO2 adversely affect growth. The Granger causality test shows a two-way causality between economic growth and CO2 and between growth and trade. Empirical results also indicate a one-way causality between growth and FDI, population and FDI, population and CO2 along with population growth and tourism. These findings suggest that adopting effective policies that can expand trade, enhance FDI and promote the tourism sector with minimum environmental damage will ultimately accelerate sustainable economic development.

Problems of Legal Regulation of the Implementation of Fixed Assets of Legal Entities, Serving Sentences as an Incentive for Law-abiding Behavior of Those Sentenced to Imprisonment, Respect for Individual Rights

The aim of the work is to study criminal-executive relations in the field of application of the basic means of correction to convicts serving a sentence of imprisonment. The analysis of the legal basis for the implementation of fixed assets for the correction of convicts established by the criminal executive legislation of Russia is carried out. There is a deficiency in the legal regulation of certain remedies, including social impact and educational work with prisoners. This circumstance is a significant obstacle to their implementation in practice, which negatively affects the formation of law-abiding behavior of persons serving a prison sentence, as well as the observance of rights. A number of recommendations are made, aimed at improving the criminal-executive policy in this area, including on the basis of the analysis of the legal support of remedies for convicted countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States convicted under the law

International conference “Russian school abroad”

The report provides the information about the International Conference “Russian School Abroad”. The conference was held by the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia on request of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, compatriots living abroad, and International humanitarian cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo). It took place in the Federal Republic of Germany on 30–31 October 2021 at the Russian House in Berlin.