СИГУРНОСТТА НА НАЦИЯТА И ДЪРЖАВАТА И КУЛТУРНАТА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТ

The challenges of the contemporary world impose new economic logic and visions, such as the growing need for circular business models, instead of linear ones, which promote the concept of services instead of resources. The world is changing dynamically, but it seems that the national states’ models for resolving crises are relatively outdated. Nowadays, nation states control their economies relatively symbolically. They are dependent on global agreements, transnational capital, foreign investors, etc. The implementation of active policy in times of crisis implies an emphasis on the control, provision and management of strategic resources by the countries, modelling the main global processes. The article discusses specific forms and methods of global rivalry.

Developing an Innovative Economic System for Support for Entrepreneurship

This article reflects existing trends in the development of an innovative economic system to support entrepreneurship in the modern economy. The detailed analysis of the business development component will allow us to consider the situation in Uzbekistan related to the development of conditions for innovative entrepreneurship. In addition, the work contains the planned main legislative initiatives of the Ministry of Innovative Development, which conducts an active policy on the formation of an institutional environment aimed at the systematic creation of the necessary conditions for the functioning of innovative entrepreneurship.

Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Northern European Prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

<p>This thesis examines the collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German, Dutch and Flemish prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Beginning with the donation of Bishop Monrad in 1869, prints from the Northern European schools have been added to the collection either through the generosity of private collectors or the museum's direct purchases which continue to the present day. The lives and collecting practices of these collectors are considered, as well as the artists and prints represented in the collection. An analysis of the history of collecting prints from the Northern European schools demonstrates that their recognition as individual works of art was a rather slow process, whereas a canon of the great printmakers was established almost immediately. The place of Northern printmakers in this canon will be considered, as well as the changing ideas about prints and print collecting from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The most significant collectors for Te Papa's print collection were Bishop Monrad and Sir John Ilott, who together donated more than half of the 164 prints analysed here. While the collecting practices of Monrad and Ilott have been studied individually before, it is worthwhile comparing them and considering their reasons for buying fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern European prints in particular. They emerge as collectors with similar financial means, who both made use of agents and had direct contact with dealers. Other private individuals have also emerged as print collectors, who made significant contributions to the collection, yet they have remained mostly unknown until now. In addition to this, Te Papa still has an active policy of purchasing more prints for the collection. Finally the prints themselves are examined in detail, considering both their physical qualities and art historical significance, in order to highlight the strengths of the collection. Some prints from the collection will be analysed for the first time here, as no extensive research has previously been conducted on this particular part of Te Papa's print collection, and some of the prints were added very recently and have thus not been available for viewing until now.</p>

Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Northern European Prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

<p>This thesis examines the collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German, Dutch and Flemish prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Beginning with the donation of Bishop Monrad in 1869, prints from the Northern European schools have been added to the collection either through the generosity of private collectors or the museum's direct purchases which continue to the present day. The lives and collecting practices of these collectors are considered, as well as the artists and prints represented in the collection. An analysis of the history of collecting prints from the Northern European schools demonstrates that their recognition as individual works of art was a rather slow process, whereas a canon of the great printmakers was established almost immediately. The place of Northern printmakers in this canon will be considered, as well as the changing ideas about prints and print collecting from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The most significant collectors for Te Papa's print collection were Bishop Monrad and Sir John Ilott, who together donated more than half of the 164 prints analysed here. While the collecting practices of Monrad and Ilott have been studied individually before, it is worthwhile comparing them and considering their reasons for buying fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern European prints in particular. They emerge as collectors with similar financial means, who both made use of agents and had direct contact with dealers. Other private individuals have also emerged as print collectors, who made significant contributions to the collection, yet they have remained mostly unknown until now. In addition to this, Te Papa still has an active policy of purchasing more prints for the collection. Finally the prints themselves are examined in detail, considering both their physical qualities and art historical significance, in order to highlight the strengths of the collection. Some prints from the collection will be analysed for the first time here, as no extensive research has previously been conducted on this particular part of Te Papa's print collection, and some of the prints were added very recently and have thus not been available for viewing until now.</p>

Labor market under conditions of Coronavirus infection (based on example of the Volga Federal District)

On the basis of comparative monitoring of the state of the labor market in the republics and regions of the Volga Federal District, the main criteria for employment and unemployment during the period of coronavirus infection COVID-19 are summarized. The general indicators for the regions during this period are the level of economic development, demographic situation, the share of labor migration, the number of labor force, the level of wages, and others. Measures to mitigate the situation on the labor market include: state support for enterprises implementing investment projects, stimulating employers to develop production and create jobs in all spheres of the economy, provision of social assistance to unemployed citizens on the basis of a social contract, assistance in finding a job, development of the national project “Small and Medium Business and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiatives”, vocational training and additional vocational education, decrease in informal employment, widespread use of active policy measures in the labor market and others. This will make it possible to successfully implement, up to the level of 2019, such targets as an increase in the number of employed citizens, a decrease in the number of unemployed citizens and, on this basis, an increase in the number of employed citizens.

The Making of a Marian Geography of Grace for Greek Catholics in the Polish Crownlands of the 17th–18th Centuries

This article explores the ways in which the newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of the Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies of mass mobilization to establish and maintain their position within a contested confessional terrain. The Greek Catholic clerics, above all monks of the Basilian order fostered an active policy of acquiring, founding and promoting Marian places of grace in order to create and invigorate a sense of belonging among their flock. The article argues that folk ideological notions concerning the spatial and physical conditions for the working of miracles were seized upon by the Greek Catholic faithful to establish a mental map of grace of their own. Especially, the Basilian order took particular care to organize mass events (annual pilgrimages, coronation celebrations for miraculous images) and promote Marian devotion through miracle reports and icon songs in an attempt to define what it means to be a Greek Catholic in terms of sacred territoriality.

Management of Energy and Resource - Saving Innovation Projects at Agri-Food Enterprises

The concept of innovative projects and effective management of modern enterprises in the world of agri-food sector requires a comprehensive adaptation of the management system to ensure energy and resource consumption in order to achieve competitiveness of enterprises. Since market economy tendencies encourage the spread of active policy of all resources types saving, one of the directions of which is energy and resource-saving strategy for the development of any socially oriented business entity. In this regard, the purpose of the study is to economically model the process of assessing the dynamics of financing measures for the development and implementation of innovative energy and resourcesaving projects in the agri-food sector. Based on the construction of the above model, the main directions of management of innovative energy and resource-saving projects at agricultural enterprises are formulated.

e-Sport as Leverage for Growth Strategy

While e-Sport today becomes a big business and a highly publicized industry, a big business and a highly-publicized industry, it is still studied from a descriptive perspective rather than from an analytical one. In this paper, the author proposes to analyze the relationship between e-Sport and the growth strategy of the game League of Legends (LoL) developed by Riot Games. How competitive community and casual community evolve together? What are the conditions for a virtuous growth? The author deepens the link between the traditional free-to-play dynamics based on acquisition-retention-monetization of players and the dynamics of e-Sport based on managing audience, pro-gamers, competitive events and broadcasting. The author finds that casual players and pro-gamers have specific roles that, combined with an active policy centered on player's experience developed by Riot Games and with a growing media ecosystem, create externalities on each other.

SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN RUSSIA: MODERN TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

The article examines the main trends and directions of the development of self-employment in Russia, considering the foreign experience of taxation and the provision of social guarantees, in terms of risks for service providers and customers, as well as the impact of new services and state support measures for the self-employed. On the one hand, the number of self-employment taxpayers grows rapidly due to the special tax regime “Self-employment income tax” introduced for the period 2019-2020, on the other hand, there is a tendency towards the erosion of labor relations. The study aims to identify areas of growth in registered self-employment as a result of the development of incentive measures for “getting out of the shadows” and areas of risk caused by cases of illegal tax optimization. These issues require the development of adequate measures to support and regulate self-employment. This was especially evident in the context of the pandemic and isolation, which required additional ways to support people in difficult financial situations. The authors apply methods of statistical analysis, comparative analysis, analysis of the legal framework, and scientific literature. Certain conclusions and provisions may be useful for federal and regional executive authorities to design the active policy measures in the field of employment, to achieve the objectives of federal and national projects, as well as to develop and adjust the main directions and individual measures of employment policy at the macro level.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SUST ALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVEL ABLE DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURE IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC REFORMS

Background. This scientific article examines the theoretical foundations of the policy in agriculture and improvement of its implementation, the composition and trends of agricultural development, the development of agriculture in Uzbekistan, directions for increasing investment and improving the effectiveness of innovative technologies, prospects for the development of agriculture in the regions in the context of globalization. Methods. Although a lot of research has been done in the field of agriculture in our country, the current economic crisis requires a new approach and research on the organization of the economy of the sector. Results. Uzbekistan is pursuing an active policy of agricultural reform. Abandoning cotton exports and focusing on food production, creating clusters instead of scattered farms and ensuring the integration of the agricultural sector with agricultural processing industries are the main directions of state policy in agriculture today.