LEGAL MEASURES OF THE STATE PREVENTION OF ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS

The article studies the ethnic and religious conflicts developed over the last years. The author comes to the conclusion that many disputable events of the geopolitical process and the administrative law forms of state activity are the main reasons for all these conflicts. This article finds the ways to solve eth- nic and religious conflicts, as well as it reviews modern means of preventing them. However a wide range of mechanisms to settle this problem isn’t able to resolve it. In this context the author tries to make a unique mechanism suitable for settlement or prevention of all conflicts, or at least the major part of them.

Verbal reduplication as an aspectual marker and manifestation of cultural values in Amondawa (Brazil, Amazon)

In this paper we analyse verbal reduplication in the Amondawa language, focusing on the aspectual function. We argue that verbal reduplication may be linked to Amondawa’s cultural values, such as the counting system and the event-based concept of time. We analysed 100 verbal predicates, considering: (i) transitivity (active and stative intransitive and transitive), (ii) semantic properties (state, activity, achievements and accomplishments); and (iii) morphological structure. The results suggest that, for the Amondawa, verbal reduplication presents notions of pluractionality, notably aspectual, and reflects cultural values related to their ways of counting things in the world and their conception of time. Thus, in this language/culture, it is preferable to say that this phenomenon evidences a decomposition of the event into micro-events, rather than verbal plurality. In this sense, reduplication works as a kind of aspectual marker and not as a plural mark, in the strict sense, whether in nouns or verbs.

Formation and Development Trends of the System of Situation Centers as a Key Factor of The Increase of Effectiveness of Public Administration

The aim of the work is to analyze the process of the emergence and evolution of the information support system for government bodies of the Russian Federation. The article focuses on the systematization of the conditions for increasing the efficiency of the functioning of the Russian system of distributed situational centers of authorities, aimed at analyzing, assessing and forecasting trends in the transformation of realities in various spheres of state activity and providing information support on this basis for making proactive, motivated management decisions. At the end of the work, the problems of implemen­ting the technology of situational centers of government bodies of the Russian Federation.

State activity of the Ukrainian People's Republic Central Council: a comparative analysis against the background of diplomacy in Central-Eastern Europe

The article describes the state activities of the Ukrainian People's Republic against the background of the implementation of its diplomacy in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. At the same time, the process of formation of the executive diplomatic body of the Ukrainian People's Republic - General Secretariat of International Affairs is highlighted. The Ukrainian leadership offered the utopian idea of forming a federation to the regional governments of Kuban, Crimea, the Don, and Siberia. Thus, the article analyzes the main blunders of the Central Rada on the way of formation of statehood and highlights the main vectors of discussion on this issue. The main geopolitical climate, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe, which existed for the diplomatic activity of the Ukrainian state is also investigated. In particular, it is noted that the diplomatic situation in general was not particularly favorable for the state activity of Ukraine.

Forest legislation of Peter the great: traditions and innovations

Russian Tsar Peter Alekseevich, who went down in history as a reformer and the first Russian emperor, in his activities to transform the patriarchal Moscow kingdom into the modern Russian Empire affected almost all spheres of state activity. He did not lose his attention and forest legislation. According to the authors of the article, Peter created the foundations of forest legislation, the main feature of which was the protection of state interest to the detriment of the private. Thus, the authors of the article believe, that Peter’s etatist views were clearly manifested in his forest legislation. At the same time, it should be noted that when developing forest laws, Peter was forced to take into account tradition and apply innovations to established customs. According to the authors, this explains the contradiction of Peter's forest legislation. At the same time, the authors believe that Peter was forced to solve problems that can be called environmental, defending state interest in forest management.

Conceptual-theoretical identifications of the relationship „paradiplomacy - foreign policy”

Although the phenomenon of ,,paradiplomacy” appeared in the 1970s, only at the beginning of the XXI century, this concept has become present in scientific research and in the speeches of politicians. The term was invented to designate the international activities of the non-central institutions of a state: municipalities, regions, private companies, etc. Starting from the reasoning according to which the foreign policy represents the state activity in international affairs or the state activity on the international arena, the phenomenon ,,paradiplomacy” also designates the international activity of transnational regions or regional blocs, private companies, municipalities, etc. The article aims at highlighting the correlation between the concept of “paradiplomacy” and ,,foreign policy”.