Relevance.The development of world trade has become the highest priority for each state, so an important task today is to predict and analyze economic downturns and crises. Today, stimulating the economy is a very important task in connection with the beginning of the global pandemic, and because of the emergence of a new economic crisis. The crisis that the world is experiencing now is the largest since the" Great Recession" of 2008, so it is necessary to consider the features of these two economic crises, as well as their consequences.
The purpose is to conduct a comparative analysis of the 2008 crisis and the pandemic crisis.
Objectives: to consider the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis of 2008 and the crisis of 2020; to analyze the main macroeconomic indicators of international trade; to analyze the situation of Russia in the crisis economic conditions.
Methodology.In the study of this theme were used: the method of statistical estimation problems, the method of theoretical analysis of the sources of research problem, graphical method, the comparative method.
Results. A comparative analysis of the two largest crises of the twenty-first century showed that despite the different causes underlying the crises of 2008 and 2020, the consequences that they cause have the same "symptoms", but their scale and speed of spread depend on the speed and rationality of the government measures taken. Thus, in 2020, it was possible to avoid high jumps in the unemployment rate, despite the low decline in world trade.
Conclusion.The prospects for overcoming the global pandemic crisis in 2020 show that the pace at which states around the world are coping with the consequences of the pandemic is quite high. At the same time, the priority tasks in the crisis conditions for the state are the stabilization of domestic demand on the national market and the promotion of world trade. At least two major crises of the XXI century the various measures taken by States in the world, are also quite effective, but it is necessary to optimize budgets and costs to solve the problems that caused the pandemic in the field of health and social services.

The relevance of this study lies in the fact that the modern oil market is characterized by instability and high competition. Depletion of oil fields, deterioration of equipment for oil production, price volatility and political conflicts negatively affect Russia's position in the global energy market.
The new economic conditions in 2021 are associated with a decrease in demand for oil and products from it, high dependence on imports, and the suspension of wells to complete a deal under OPEC ++, which will lead to a market drop by 3-10%
The purpose is to conduct a comparative analysis of Russian oil and gas companies at the regional and global levels in a pandemic.
Objectives: give a general description of the global oil and gas market in a pandemic; to characterize the positions of financial and industrial groups in the oil and gas sector of the economy during the 2020 pandemic; consider the forecasting of analysts and experts in the oil and gas sector for Russia, taking into account global trends.
Methodology. The initial materials were statistical data from the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short- Term Forecasting, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, and world rating reports.
Results. The pandemic and self-isolation of 2020 has led to a decrease in the intensity of global supply chains, affecting Russian VNGs, TNCs and IOCs in the oil and gas sector. The Russian oil and gas sector has lost 50-60% of its proceeds from hydrocarbon exports, more than 50% of its capitalization. The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia will allocate 35 billion rubles to support the industry. until 2024.
Conclusions. Russian VNG, TNK and IOC today operate in conditions of a negative damper, contraction of the domestic market, reduction of crack spreads and restrictions on production growth, so the following is relevant for them: for VNG - search for new sales markets (for example, Asia); for TNK - the use of innovative technologies to maintain the profitability of oil and gas production through the development of Bazhen and Achimovka; for IOCs - development of small deposits and deposits with hard-to-recover reserves.

Relevance. The specifics of the current state of the meat market in China is largely determined, as is the vast majority of production and consumer relations in the global socio-economic processes, by the existing organizational restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the incidence of COVID-19. At the same time, the economic and organizational mechanism of the State Council of the Republic, aimed at ensuring prevention and expanding control over the pandemic, provides for the implementation of a fully chain, closed, tracked, regulated by imported food plan.
The purpose of writing the work is to assess the potential of the domestic meat market of the PRC for the prospect of expanding the export opportunities of the Russian agro-industrial complex.
Objectives. In the article, the following tasks were set and consistently solved: to study the volumes of the Chinese meat market and evaluate forecasts for increasing the export of Russian livestock products to the PRC.
Methodology. This work uses methods of regulatory analysis and assessment of the current situation, methods of graphical and statistical analysis, methods of analogy and logical analysis.
Results. The analysis of the dynamics of the increase in exports to China by international meat producers, carried out in this work, determines new directions for the development of Russian animal husbandry in the light of bilateral agreements on the supply of meat to the PRC market.
Conclusions. The Russian livestock sector of the agro-industrial complex continues to increase its production rates over the past years. Meeting domestic needs for meat products dictates entering international markets and looking for prospects for possible supplies abroad. In this regard, the presence of a sufficiently capacious Chinese market opens up new prospects for domestic manufacturers.

Relevances. The world economy is at a point of bifurcation, and, therefore, the path of further development of the entire civilization is not defined. Many politicians talk about cardinal changes that should replace the existing model of the development of society. We can only say with some certainty that if civilization emerges from a series of intensifying crises, contradictions, and local wars that can develop into global clashes of contradictions between the ruling elites, then as a result of global transformations we will enter a new technological era in which digital technologies will play the main role. This will cause the need for a fundamental revision of many common human values of our civilization and economic systems.
The purpose of the study was the predictive assessment of the control actions' effectiveness in the face of challenges and threats to the development of Russia's national security based on the formation of objective ideas about the possibilities and problems of implementing the digitalization policy in the country.
Objectives: consider the digitalization process in our country; analyze world experience and propose promising ways to solve the existing negative trends.
Metodology. The research used methods of structural and system analysis, methods of statistical analysis, and the foundations of management theory.
Results. The beginning of a new stage in the development of civilization, the digitalization of life, is considered to be from 2015, when Professor K. Schwab, speaking at the Davos Forum, said about the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, which is characterized by the convergence of three technologies: physical, digital, and biological. These are new opportunities for society, but since digitalization requires a completely new approach to learning and a new level of knowledge, this will cause a significant increase in the unemployment rate at the beginning of fundamental changes in the economy, and, therefore, will be a source of social tension.
Conclusions. Information and telecommunication technologies are fundamentally changing our lives and, at the same time, have generated new threats to national security, and the entire system of globalization of the information space. Only competent use of opportunities will allow our state not only to timely implement digital technologies in life, but also to take a worthy place in the modern world.

Relevance. The application of the concept of "smart villages" in regional organizational and economic management of rural areas using digital technologies and local resources, supported by building up social and human capital, developing a network of cooperation and building local innovation systems, will increase the competitiveness of rural areas, economic growth, and improve living conditions and the functioning of the economy through more active development of technical and social innovation and multidirectional, internal and external interregional cooperation.
Purpose - research, formation and substantiation of the concept of "smart villages", as well as goals, implementation mechanisms, development directions and components of regional policy for the development of rural areas.
Objectives: disclosure of the conceptual apparatus, substantiation of the specific features of the concept of "smart villages" as a tool for regional organizational and economic management of rural areas in the context of digitalization of the economy, study of implementation mechanisms and development directions.
Methodology. The study is based on general scientific methods of empirical research (observation, measurement, experiment), analysis and synthesis, analogy, systematization, as well as the development of theoretical and practical recommendations for the introduction of the concept of development of "smart villages" into regional programs for the development of rural areas.
Results. The common goals and means of sustainable development of rural areas in the region can be achieved in different ways. One of the promising forms contributing to the process of sustainable development of rural areas is the concept of "smart village", as well as the introduction of smart specializations of regions and local systems. The idea combines the need to base development on bottom-up endogenous resources with the need to maintain and develop external relationships and capitalize on exogenous innovation potential.
Conclusions. The authors concluded that the development of “smart villages” based on digital technologies and innovations will contribute to improving the quality of life of rural residents, improving the quality of public services, and rational use of resources.

Relevance. The dynamics of economic development presupposes its complex, synergistic nature. In the context of digital transformation, methodological searches in the economy, being the core, are combined with social, psychological, territorial, biological and other scientific searches that reflect network pluralism, which require further research.
The purpose of this scientific work is to justify the rationality of the system approach in the economy, reflecting the general provisions and features of innovation.
Objectives. Consider the category of "methodology of research in economics", based on the provision of innovative activities and relationships with other sciences (philosophy, social scientific disciplines).
Methodology. The problems of economic development, the solution of which entails qualitative and quantitative changes in the social sphere, are the subject of our research. The originality of the author's approach to the methodology of innovative systems is determined by the wide divergence of economic results, when the problems of deviations in economic development are considered from different sides: classical and neoclassical schools.
Results. The analysis of approaches to the methodology of economic research (historically determined forms of organization of research activities, fundamental ideological attitudes that determine systemically organized research programs, and others) is carried out. The features of the development of complex and simple systems in the economy are considered, a system of methodology is proposed, taking into account innovation activities and the features of the development of the digital network economy in the Russian Federation. The authors present a complex system of network structure, taking into account the peculiarities of the methodology of innovation activity as the most valuable results not only in scientific, but also in theoretical activities, using a logical intellectual apparatus that allows various ways of managing to move to practice.
Conclusions. It is proposed to consider the structure of modern economic innovation methodology, based on the science of the evolution of economic analysis, which in turn forms a different instrumental apparatus

Relevance. The system of state, independent financial control bodies serves as a tool for improving efficiency, allowing you to check the effectiveness and efficiency of budget expenditures. At the same time, one of the controversial aspects is a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the control and accounting bodies.
The purpose of this article is to study and systematize the main methodological approaches to the development of indicators for assessing the parameters of financial control at the regional level.
Objectives: to analyze methodological approaches to the development of indicators for assessing the parameters of financial control activities; to develop a quantitative and qualitative assessment of effectiveness.
Methodology. The research is based on general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, systematization, data processing, comparison and generalization.
Results. A score-rating system developed by the authors for evaluating the effectiveness of the activities of control and accounting bodies is proposed. Five criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the activities carried out by the control bodies in accordance with their powers have been developed. The approbation of the proposed methodological approach to the calculation of the efficiency coefficient is presented.
Conclusions. The effectiveness criteria developed by the authors are based on the established powers. Their assessment objectively reflects information about the quality of the implementation of powers and allows you to determine the dynamics of the implementation of powers. Unlike other methods, it sets indicators for evaluating the activities of not only the CSR inspection staff, but also those who provide work within the control body. The proposed method is universal for external financial control bodies and does not require additional financial costs.

Relevance. Currently, the task of increasing the innovative activity of small enterprises in our country is being solved. Innovations include both the production of new or improved products (goods and services) that are significantly different from previously produced products, and the introduction of new or more advanced production processes in enterprises that are significantly different from those that were previously used. One of the main goals of public administration bodies is the development and implementation of measures that ensure effectiveness in the policy of expected field development of innovative activities of enterprises. Therefore, the problem of studying the current level of innovative activity of enterprises is currently relevant.
The purpose is assessment of the levels of innovation use based on accounting for the share of enterprises associated with innovation in the total number of small enterprises operating in the regions of Russia.
Objectives of the study were to construct normal distribution functions that describe the shares of enterprises associated with innovation by region.
Methodology. In the course of the study, economic and mathematical modeling was used based on the construction of functions describing the density of the normal distribution. The simulation was based on official statistics for 2015, 2017 and 2019 for enterprises located in the regions.
Results. Indicators describing the specific weights of the number of enterprises associated with innovation in the total number of small enterprises by region were studied. The average values of indicators, as well as the ranges of changes in indicators for most regions of Russia, are determined.
Conclusions. The findings of the research containing the scientific novelty and originality, are the following: it is proposed to use economic and mathematical models to evaluate the values of indicators that characterize the innovative activity of small enterprises; it is shown that almost every twentieth small enterprise in Russia showed a certain innovative activity during the period under review; it is shown that the values of the specific weights of small innovative enterprises in the total number of small enterprises was significantly differentiated by region; regions with the maximum and minimum values of the specific weights of small innovative enterprises were identified. The obtained research results have a certain theoretical and applied significance.

Relevance. The main goal of the development of the socio-economic system in the country as a whole and at the regional level is to improve the living standards of the population. It should also be noted that the quality of life of the population must be assessed on the basis of objective and reliable information characterizing the socio-economic development of Russia and its regions.
The task of obtaining objective data on the level of the population's quality of life is possible on the basis of an analysis of the main indicators of the socio-economic development of society, which make it possible to conduct a comprehensive diagnosis of the level of the population's quality of life, identify trends and propose reasonable ways to achieve the goal of improving the quality of life of the population both at the regional and federal levels.
The purpose – identification and assessment of factors affecting the indicators characterizing the quality of life of the population in the region.
Objectives: analyze the theoretical foundations of the management of socio-economic systems in order to improve the quality of life of the population; to assess the influence of various factors on indicators characterizing the quality of life of the population; to propose and substantiate measures aimed at ensuring a systematic improvement in the quality of life, taking into account the transformation of the economy and its orientation towards meeting the social and social needs of the population.
Methodology. The study is based on the statistical collection and analysis of information on the quality of life of the population in the Kursk region and the main indicators of the socio-economic development of the region.
Results: the analysis of the main indicators of the quality of life of the population in the Russian Federation and in the regions of the Central Federal District is carried out; the level of the quality of life of the population in the Kursk region and the reserves for its improvement have been determined; the main reasons that do not contribute to improving the quality of life of the population have been established; recommendations for improving the regional system for managing the quality of life of the population have been substantiated.
Conclusion. In the course of the study, it was found that, first of all, it is necessary to create conditions for the preservation, reproduction and attraction of human capital by creating favorable and comfortable living conditions in the region, increasing life expectancy and increasing real incomes of the population, as well as attracting investments in the development of small and medium-sized businesses.

Relevance. Over the past three decades, the entire progressive world has sought to put into practice the concept of sustainable development, which involves a balance of ecological, economic and social aspects. Circular economy (circular economy) can play an important role in the sustainable development and management of an economic entity, which ensures its long-term performance and guarantees environmental and social benefits. It is imperative that business entities realize and implement the principles of circularity as part of their strategic plan.
The current literature treats circular economy as a guide for more sustainable business models, with unclear key implications for key business areas.
The purpose is through a systematic review of the current literature, identify areas of activity affected by the practice of circular economy within an economic entity.
Objectives: to identify the main business areas that are influenced by the practices of the circular economy. Consider the key implications of circular economy practices for business management.
Methodology. Analysis, synthesis, classification, observation, study of various sources of information were used as the main methods of work.
Results. The business areas of strategic planning, cost management, supply chain management, quality management, environmental management, process management, logistics and reverse logistics, service management as well as research and development are identified, which allowed to discuss the main contribution of circular economy in each area.
The results of the study can serve as a basis for achieving sustainable development goals at different levels and areas of economic management with the tools of circular economy: circular business models, markets for secondary raw materials, methods of managing the cyclicality of production and consumption.
Conclusion. In this connection, the adoption of a new concept of thinking can allow the economic entity to obtain more sustainable (economic) results while reducing the impact.

Relevance. The regulatory legal acts governing the definition of economic damage from fires do not take into account losses from the impact of hazardous fire factors on the environment. Also, there are no corresponding calculation algorithms in the methods for determining environmental damage. Thus, in order to assess the ecological risk of fires, it is advisable to determine the ecological and economic damage to the environment.
The purpose is study of the features of the procedure for assessing environmental and economic damage from fires and the development of software to automate this process.
Objectives: analysis of the known methods for determining the ecological and economic damage from fires; development of an algorithm for calculating environmental and economic damage from fires, the corresponding software product and database.
Methodology. The study is based on the application of object-oriented programming methods, LK Isaeva's methodology, based on the determination of air pollution from information on specific emissions of harmful substances per unit of burnt material.
Results. In the course of the research, a software product was developed that automates the process of calculating environmental and economic damage from fires, and an electronic relational database that allows you to store and process information about the housing stock of municipalities. The available information can be used to assess the environmental and economic damage from fires in similar settlements. The database was filled out based on the analysis of a number of dissertation research and research reports. The approbation of the software product was carried out in determining the environmental and economic damage from fires in residential premises in Kursk for 2017.
Conclusions. It is advisable to take into account the ecological and economic damage from the environmental impact of fires in urban development when making decisions on financing measures for fire and environmental safety of the population, economy and territories. It is necessary to identify this damage from environmental pollution, assess and recover it from delinquents.

Relevance. In a modern economy, it is important for the state to have a reserve fund to finance its tasks in unforeseen situations. On the other hand, under normal economic conditions, a sovereign fund can become a tool to increase the country's investment activity. At the moment, Russia has the only sovereign fund, the National Welfare Fund, which is replenished with additional revenues from the oil and gas sector. In the near future, the NWF may become a backbone link in the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation.
The purpose is a new model for filling and managing the funds of the National Wealth Fund in order to maximize the efficiency of using the liquid part of the fund's resources for the comprehensive socio-economic development of Russia and making an economic breakthrough in key sectors of the economy.
Objectives: consider the modern model of management and filling the National Wealth Fund; analyze the world experience in the functioning of sovereign wealth funds; propose promising sources of additional financial resources for the National Welfare Fund; consider promising projects and directions for using the liquid part of the NWF funds.
Methodology. The study used the method of comparing world and domestic practices of the functioning of sovereign funds. The method of statistical analysis of financial indicators of the National Welfare Fund and its promising branches of replenishment was used. The methods of modeling and analysis of the efficiency of using the liquid part of the NWF funds when investing them in the national economy have been used.
Results. The analysis showed that there is a rich world experience in the effective use of sovereign funds as a tool for the country's socio-economic development. An analysis of the domestic practice of the National Welfare Fund's functioning showed that there are broad prospects for both its filling at the expense of export-oriented sectors of the economy, in addition to the oil and gas sector, and areas for investing the liquid part of the NWF.
Conclusion. Revision by the state of the role of the National Welfare Fund in the socio-economic development of the country could solve many social and infrastructural problems of the Russian Federation.

Relevance. The level of technological effectiveness of payment services in Russian banks is constantly growing, which is reflected in the share of non-cash payments and transfers, both by bank cards and by payment systems of instant transfers. In modern conditions, the use of new banking technologies, including in the process of selling other banking services, is a mandatory factor in the competitiveness of a bank. This article analyzes the use of bank payment cards. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that the use of bank payment cards is an important sector of the financial market.
The purpose of the study is to analyze current trends in the development of payment services of Russian banks.
Objectives: to determine the indicators characterizing the development of the Russian payment card market; describe the transactions of payment transfers in the context of various payment instruments; to conduct a comparative analysis of money transfer transactions in the context of different countries; evaluate the efficiency of operations with bank cards of Sberbank.
Methodology. The study used general scientific methods: comparative analysis, generalization, induction.
Results. Based on the study, the following results were obtained: an analysis of indicators characterizing the development of the Russian payment card market was carried out; a comparative analysis of money transfer operations in the context of different countries was carried out; the payment system of Sberbank was assessed as one of the five largest systems used by Russian banks in terms of the volume of money transfers.
Conclusions. The bank card market is actively developing, which is characterized by an increase in the number of bank cards. The aggregate market share of the top five leading banks in the Russian money transfer market is 32,4%, which means an average level of market concentration and a fairly high level of competition in the market. As for the foreign experience of money transfers, most of them are based on the use of international payment systems.

The relevance of the research topic is explained by the fact that human capital is, in our opinion, the most important system-forming category associated with the digitalization of the economic space, the improvement of the field of artificial intelligence, the implementation of advanced innovations, the spread of network forms of interaction between market participants. Each individual is its bearer, forming the levels of human capital development in ascending order from the private to the collective. Therefore, the issue of studying the features of the formation, formation and progressive dynamics of human capital is of extremely high importance in modern conditions.
The purpose of the study is to study conceptual approaches to the content of human capital, as well as to analyze the dynamics of its development in comparison with other countries.
The objectives of the study are as follows: development of a theoretical understanding of the content of the category "human capital"; comparative analysis of the dynamics of human capital development in different countries; identifying trends in the development of human capital in the context of digitalization.
The methodology includes an overview of concepts on human capital development, as well as the interpretation of analytical data on the dynamics of human capital development for different countries of the world.
The results of the study show that over the past five decades, the knowledge economy has played a key role in the domestic and international economic sphere. It has a direct impact on the course of general socio-economic development. The real structure of GDP is undergoing significant changes and is shifting towards an increase in the share of those spheres that make up the knowledge economy and are based on scientific and technological progress. Its explosive growth and progressive dynamics are primarily due to advances in information and communication technologies and the spread of the Internet. As a result of the influence of these factors, the process of formation of the knowledge economy becomes an integral part of the post-industrial development of society.
The conclusions of the study indicate that in modern conditions human capital is a resource that plays an important role in the development of individual states and the world community as a whole. Improving the quality of human capital is necessary to achieve sustainable parameters of economic growth.

Relevance. In accordance with world-spread practice, the formation of a new working class and its separation in the social structure should be associated with both objective socio-economic parameters and subjective symbolic aspects, the most important of which are class identity and solidarity. Today, there remains a gap in the axioms of Russian and foreign sociology in the study of social inequality problems, which necessitates focusing attention on the symbolic aspects of class differentiation in Russian realities.
Purpose. The article is aimed at the conceptualization and empirical analysis of the factors that determine the working-class youth position and boundaries in modern Russia.
Objectives: to analyze the current discourse of class differentiation, to propose the author's definition of the new working class and basic criteria for determining the boundaries of this community, to study the subjective parameters of class formation on the empirical example of young people of the new working class in modern Russia.
Methodology. The empirical basis of the study was a mass survey of 1534 representatives of young people of the new working class and 100 experts from among their leaders and teachers. The research was carried out on the territory of the Ural Federal District.
Results. The new working class includes not only representatives of industrial production, transport, construction and maintenance, but also employees of service industries who perform routine work and do not have managerial functions at the enterprise.
Conclusions. In the course of the polls, it was revealed that the majority of young people are satisfied with relationships in the immediate work environment and see signs of solidarity, support and mutual assistance among their colleagues. However, empirical evidence suggests that working-class youth do not rely on class solidarity to solve problems and defend their interests in labor relations.

Relevance. The transformation of all spheres of social life and, as a result, the modification of the way of life, significantly affects the ideas of young people about social reality and their involvement in socio-cultural, socioeconomic and socio-political processes. The search for positive forms of cooperation between public authorities with different age cohorts and, first of all, with the youth audience is becoming a requirement of the time. At the same time, the study of socio-political activity of young people is becoming particularly important and is becoming one of the priorities of all levels of government.
The purpose of the study is to determine the most constructive ways of cooperation between young people and government institutions.
Objectives: analyze the level of socio-political activity of young people; identify problems and prospects of cooperation between youth and government.
Methodology. Statistical, qualitative and quantitative research methods, secondary data analysis based on the results of sociological surveys,document analysis, and methods of comparison and analogy were used.
Results. The results of the study of socio-political activity of young people in different cities of Russia make it possible to draw the following conclusions. The following contradictions are identified as the main problems associated with increasing socio-political activity: First, the youth audience has formed a strong demand for various forms of interaction with government institutions, there are no effective models and mechanisms to ensure the involvement of young people in the electoral process. Secondly, the desire declared by all levels of government to attract the attention of young people to sociopolitical processes, the lack of effective tools and ways to influence young people on the political process, which is why young people are passive and apolitical.
Conclusions. To ensure support for the authorities among young people, it is necessary to use social networks as much as possible, primarily Vkontakte and Instagram. Forms of interaction with young people should be built in a language that is understandable to them, since the degree of trust in all traditional media is at a low level.

Relevance. The digitalization of the economy of the Russian Federation includes the introduction of information technologies in its various spheres. The education sector, on the one hand, is a service sector, and, on the other hand, it forms not only knowledge, but also professional skills, providing the country's economy with personnel. The pandemic and self-isolation predetermined the relevance of the digitalization of the economy, including the service sector, by making an emergency transition of educational institutions to a distance learning format. This study was carried out to study the urgent transfer of the educational process to an on-line format, which made it possible to develop distance learning in the field of higher education and revealed new problems of digitalization of education.
The purposis identify, on the basis of empirical analysis, the problem of the formation of professional skills in the framework of distance learning in higher education.
Objectives: determine, using the example of South-West State University, resources for organizing distance learning; find out the problems that arise during lectures and practical classes in the on-line format; to identify the problems of obtaining professional skills during the period of distance learning; investigate the attitude of students to conducting practical training in the framework of distance learning.
Methodology. In this study, a descriptive method, methods of questioning, correlation analysis, synthesis, analysis, generalization are used, which make it possible to identify the problems of distance learning, to study the attitude of students to conducting classes and obtaining professional skills. Empirical studies and theoretical generalizations were carried out on the basis of author's works, questionnaires of SWSU students, and official statistics.
Results. When the university transferred the educational process to a distance format, the adaptation of students was successful. Among the most popular resources for organizing distance learning during a pandemic, respondents noted Zoom, the university portal - do.swsu.ru, Vkontakte, WhatsApp, and e-mail. Most of the respondents noted the good quality of the transition to the new training format. Professional skills of students in electronic and distance formats are formed, mainly, theoretical. With regard to their receipt, the difficulty of their formation in a new format was revealed due to a number of reasons, the main of which are the lack of special professional equipment and tools; lack of direct contact with a professional (teacher).
Conclusions. The characteristics proposed in the article make it possible to quantitatively and qualitatively describe the use of distance learning in higher education, and the identified problems of the formation of professional skills in a new format will improve distance learning by expanding the material and technical base capable of providing effective teacher-student feedback, creating specific applied packages , suitable and taking into account the peculiarities of those or other areas of training. This will be facilitated by a critical attitude to the technologies being introduced.

Relevance. The author of the article dwells in sufficient detail on the analysis of ethical evaluation in the study of the Russian market of services for the implementation of educational and scientific works as an actual complex interdisciplinary phenomenon. The institutionalization of this market in the form of functioning and reproduction on the relevant Internet platforms is an important problem, the consequences of which are not fully understood yet. A significant part of students, faced with the task of performing certain educational and scientific works (essays, term papers, tests, practice reports, final qualifying works, dissertations), apply for the appropriate services on specialized sites that offer the performance of these services for a fee. As a result, scientific and educational activities are profaned and discredited, which gradually leads to professional disqualification. This is also an ethical problem.
The рurpose is to determine the reason and the depth of penetration of purchased services into the educational environment of higher education and to analyze the axiological component of this process on the scale of Russian society.
Оbjectives: determine the level of the ethical component in the market of sales of theses; determine copyright infringement from the point of view of ethical evaluation, for example, in the process of forming the percentage of originality during the Anti-Plagiarism procedure; to consider issues related to the moral competence of degrees, qualifications of the owners of acquired (non-independent dissertations and final qualifying works); track and measure the level of approval or disapproval by the society in relation to the services by writing diplomas; to establish and analyze the fine line between tutoring/consulting and the provision of a "turnkey ready-made diploma" service, to consider the ethical side of the issue; to study the main theories and approaches when considering the axiological component of purchased educational services; to formulate the status of the phenomenon of mass education and to characterize it by analyzing the level of demand for graduates in the labor market; consider the category of "trust" as a philosophical phenomenon in the service sector under study and understand how the author of the service is an expert in the field of writing work, since it is he who acts as the designer of the idea of the scientific supervisor; to clarify whether the customers who have chosen the path of buying a diploma (final qualification work, etc.) cause censure from the society, the university management, the scientific supervisor, that is, by what criteria you can evaluate loyalty to the product.
Methodology. Categorical-logical, system-structural, dialectical, and statistical information analysis methods were used as the methodological basis.
Results. As part of our research, we have only partially addressed the complex problem of the development of shadow relations in the educational services market. The result may be a statement that should increase the demands on the quality of training of students in the universities of the country's higher education institutions will be able to maintain themselves as public institutions, with the condition of high professional demand for graduates on the labour market.
Сonclusions. In the field of higher education, especially by the time students graduate from the university, the level of providing them with educational services of the shadow market increases, in particular, as the most common form can be called – writing a final qualification work to order. Here we can draw two main conclusions: 1) the wide spread of such practices, which are informal in nature, indicate that for a graduate, the highest value is the presence of a diploma of higher education in comparison with the value of the acquired professional knowledge; 2) the transition of Universities to a new three-level education and the commercialization of higher education institutions has led to a reduction of the education system in General, when the qualification of "bachelor" is equated in the minds of the layman as an analogue of secondary vocational education (or higher education).

Relevance. The steadily growing interest in the theoretical constructions of K. Schmitt, first of all, is caused by the accuracy of the forecasts of Schmitt's political onto-theology of forecasts, which have become obvious in the last thirty years, built in the future. It is necessary to demonstrate the paradigmatic difference in the representations of the social (political) as the horizon of the meaningfulness of "metaphysical concepts" that connect the real and the actual and bring the knowledge of the social (political) to the truth. Sovereign decision is the foundation of K. Schmitt's political ontotheology; elucidation of its meaning as a radical metaphysical concept is an urgent research task.
The purpose is to establish the significance and significance of K. Schmitt's decisionism in the system of political onto-theology built by him.
Objectives: determine the structure of Schmitt's decisionism; to interpret the content of three cases of a political decision in the horizon of their coherence and necessity; demonstrate the difference in the representation of the political order in the two Western paradigms of the political; the place / absence of a political solution in them and the necessary consequences from this.
Methodology. Philosophical interpretation, that is, placing the sovereign decision in the horizon of meaningfulness and coherence (Hegel's concreteness), presupposes building a perspective on the paradigm of the "concept of the political"; the process of philosophical interpretation ends only in a radical, according to Schmitt, metaphysical concept, in which the real and the actual coincide; in modern European philosophy – in the selfconfidence of the subject and its objective representation (M. Heidegger).
Results. The dominance of "liberal metaphysics" and the necessary representation of the political in the economic paradigm, which follows from it, revealed the meaning of the sovereign decision as a constitutive of the "concept of the political" by K. Schmitt. Endless discussion as a regime of "organizing truth", the rule of law as the exclusion of a sovereign decision, "empty space" as a "missing center" of liberal political ontology, "naked life" (J. Agamben) as the possibility of a "blissful life" and the reality of the camp as a result of biopolitical production of life – essential properties of the political, represented in the economic paradigm. The meaning of the "concept of the political" as a metaphysical concept is revealed as a result of a comparative analysis of the two named paradigms of Western political philosophy: the sovereign / sovereign decision establishes a political order by drawing a border; distinguishes between "friend-enemy"; the decision on the state of emergency limits the "area of anomie" and restores the necessary legal form of political order.
Conclusion. The sovereign constitutes the "external world" and the internal "legal order"; his "double double": homo sacer / terrorist, excludes the possibility of a legal order; tears apart the reality of the (possible) "blissful life" and the reality of the camp and permanent war.

The relevance of the research topic is due to the emergence of serious scientific interest in the problems of transformation of family values under the influence of the media at the present stage. The article is devoted to the current issues of socio-cultural values of the family in the information space. It is noted that the family is the most important social institution of society, the sustainable development of which is directly related to the level of stability in the socio-political sphere of the state At the present time, the mass media actively form the process of creating behavioral stereotypes, forms and models of the modern family. The analysis of the mechanisms of the media influence on the socio-cultural values of the family allows us to identify new trends in the coverage of the problems of the modern Russian family and the formation of its image
The purpose of this article is to identify and study the main mechanisms of media influence on the formation of family values.
Objectives: to study the main forms and characteristics of family values at the present stage; to identify the specifics of the interaction of the media on the modern family; to show the process of transformation of the image of the Russian family in the modern Internet space.
Methodology In the process of writing the article, methods of system, structural and functional analysis were used, methods of comparison and observation were used in the process of studying the socio-cultural values of the family at the present stage.
Results. The practical significance of the article lies in the use of the provisions and conclusions in the process of communication between representatives of different social groups and cultures, as well as in the creation of family information policy of the state, in the formation of socio-cultural values of the family with the active assistance of the mass media.
Conclusions. The socio-cultural values of the family and the traditions of the past are not automatically translated into the present, since the living conditions of the entire society have changed and the modern family faces different challenges than in the times of our ancestors. The creation and functioning of a family-oriented information policy of the state will become a creative task for the formation of a positive image of the modern family.

Relevance. Today, the transition to a digital economy is a strategic vector for the development of Russian regions. Economic growth in modern conditions is possible provided the effective use of digital technologies. The digital transformation of socio-economic activity will ensure the innovative development of the regional economy. At the same time, it simultaneously entails a number of threats, especially with regard to information and economic security, both at the level of the state, a separate region, and at the level of an economic entity. In a dynamically changing environment, the ability to ensure economic security at all levels from the impact of internal and external threats characterizes the competitive potential and the possibility of socio - economic growth. This issue is of particular relevance in the context of the active development of digital transformation processes.
The purpose of the study is to identify areas of digital development of the regional economy based on the digital transformation of business entities.
Objectives: to determine the levels of digitalization of the economy, to identify directions for ensuring the economic security of each level of digitalization; to determine the features of digital transformation of the system for ensuring the economic security of economic entities: competitiveness management, enterprise management system, personnel management, information security.
Methodology. In preparing the article, general logical methods of cognition (observation, analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematic approach), the method of theoretical analysis of the sources of the problem under study, and the illustrative-graphic method were used.
Results. This article examines the levels of digitalization of the economy, economic entities are identified as key participants in the digital transformation of regional economic systems.
The authors identified the features of the digital transformation of the system for ensuring the economic security of business entities in the context of elements: competitiveness management, enterprise management system, personnel management, information security.
Conclusions. The digital transformation of the region is impossible without the active participation of business entities. Digital transformation at the level of economic elements should be implemented in modern conditions based on minimizing threats to economic security.

Relevance. Currently, the investment activity of the regions is becoming an increasingly important factor, both for the development of the region itself and the country as a whole. In the conditions of modern economic development, each region independently determines and adjusts the direction and types of investment activity, depending on individual characteristics, goals set for the short and long-term periods, and the desired results.
The purpose is analysis of the investment activity of the Central Federal District regions for the period 2016- 2018 using the developed integrated indicator of investment activity.
Objectives: the study of investment activity of regions of the Central Federal district; the study of the dynamics of investment activity in the reporting period; selection and justification of initial values to calculate the complex integral index; development of a comprehensive integrated indicator; evaluation of CFD regions using the proposed index during the period under review.
Methodology. In the process of developing this topic, the ranking method, methods of analysis, deduction, calculation of the weighted average and integral indicator were used.
Results. The study made it possible to calculate the average indicator of investment activity on the example of the regions of the Central Federal District, to rank the regions by the degree of investment activity and to clarify the direction of further movement and development.
Conclusions. The overall dynamics of a decrease in investment activity in the regions of the Central Federal District is associated with restrictions on attracting borrowed capital, a decrease in the volume of financing for investment projects, a decrease in support for small and medium-sized businesses, an increase in investment risks, a lack of resources, a difficult economic situation in the regions and the reluctance of enterprises to renovate in a modern market. After studying the data obtained, measures are proposed to increase the level of investment activity of the regions in general and the Kursk region in particular.

Relevance. The article deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of drawing up a profile of threats to the economic security of the region based on the threat systematization map and the threat priority map.
The purpose of the study is to develop tools for assessing threats to the economic security of the territory, considering the relationship with strategic development priorities on the basis of a modernized method that reflects the quantitative assessment of threats, expert assessment of their importance, and diagnostics of economic security challenges.
The objectives of the study are to clarify the conceptual framework in the field of ensuring the economic security of regional economic systems based on basic provisions, as well as to develop the main stages of analytical research of threats to economic security in order to assess the quality and rapid response of authorities to the processes of economic destabilization.
Methodology. The research was based on theoretical studies and practical developments of domestic economists and practitioners on this issue, which allowed us to conduct a comparative analysis of methods for assessing threats to economic security and to propose an author's approach that is characterized by versatility and ease of use. The writing of the article was accompanied using a wide arsenal of research methods: methods of scoring, the method of the profile of the environment, synthesis, coefficient, tabular, the method of expert evaluation, etc.
Results. The interpretation of the category of "Economic security" in relation to regional development is clarified, and the author's formulation of the concept of "threats to the economic security of the region" is presented. The main provisions of the proposed methodological approach to the analysis of threats to regional economic security are outlined, as well as the existing classification of threats is supplemented. Based on the modernized method of the environment profile, the algorithm of drawing up the profile of the threat to the economic security of the region is proposed, considering its importance for strategic development priorities, the probability of its implementation and elimination at the expense of regional reserves.
Conclusions. Currently, due to the lack of a clear tool for identifying, systematizing, and comprehensively assessing threats to the economic security of the region, the presented research materials can be used in the practical activities of the authorities to develop and justify a set of measures aimed at neutralizing them or reducing the consequences for the economic system of the region.

The relevance of the study is determined by the need to constantly improve the methodological tools for identifying key competencies of individual processes, in particular, the public procurement management process. This approach will simultaneously take into account both individual and organizational competencies and is distinguished by the multifaceted use of competence management tools, such as profiles, matrix, models of key competencies, i.e. we propose to use the definition of "core competencies" in relation to the management process in the public procurement system.
The purpose of the study is to develop the author's approach to the formation of methodological tools for identifying key competencies in public procurement management.
Objectives. Achievement of this goal predetermined the solution of the following objectives: development of a scheme for the formation of key competencies based on a system of similar competencies; research of tools for the formation of key competencies and development of technology for identifying key competencies.
Methodology. The research is based on the methods of monographic analysis, methods of analysis and synthesis and the historical-logical approach, as well as other general scientific and specific methods and techniques.
Results. The obtained results should include the system of key competencies developed by the author, which is a complex of elements interconnected and interacting to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and synergistic effect, as well as the proposed methodology for the formation of key competencies in managing the public procurement process, which includes four stages of the research process: identification stage, stage development, assessment stage and stage of deepening (development) of key competencies.
Conclusions. In conclusion, it is concluded that key competencies, as opposed to potential ones, will contribute to the effective implementation of the public procurement management process.

Relevance. The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has made working from home a necessity: physical contact is avoidable and at the same time not limited to physical location. In the context of epidemic prevention, a remote office has a huge advantage. At the same time, telecommuting has exposed many of the challenges associated with home office.
The purpose of the study is to analyze current trends in the development of remote office work in the context of a pandemic using the example of China.
Objectives: to identify the benefits of remote work, existing problems when working at home, information security problems and trust issues in a remote office; to determine the state and future trends of remote work in China; to substantiate the effectiveness of using blockchain technology in the development of a remote office in the future.
Methodology. This article will combine the characteristics of a remote office and the current situation of development when using blockchain technology to solve the main existing problems of a remote office at this stage and remove obstacles to the development of a remote office.
Results. Based on the study, the following results were obtained: the advantages of remote work, existing problems when working at home, information security problems and problems with trust in a remote office were identified, the state and future trends of remote work in China were determined, the effectiveness of using blockchain technology in the development of remote office in the future.
Conclusions. The author concluded that there are broad prospects for the development of a remote office. Blockchain technology is driving the development of the remote office in the future. The remote office security mechanism should be developed based on blockchain technology, since blockchain will help to effectively solve the problem of trust in the remote office.