14 research outputs found
Russian law amended to include a definition of “Torture”
No full textOlga Shepeleva analyses the changes to the Russian Law defining “torture”
What killed Chervyakov? Traditional Culture in A.P. Chekhov’s Story “Death of a Government Clerk”
No full textA.P. Chekhov chooses character’s sneezing as a starting point of the story “Death of a government clerk”. In traditional culture sneezing owns set of stable connotations. A.P. Chekhov, who was born and lived for a long period of time in Taganrog, was well acquainted with traditional culture in its urban and province recension. The writer also studied works on folk medicine, ethnography and folklore. Various superstitions and omens are connected with sneezing. A.P. Chekhov brings sneezing into correlation with human’s social being, so it becomes character’s social function as it later results in Chervyakov’s death. Chervyakov is sick with respect for rank, i.e. social disease. A.P. Chekhov makes physiological state and social status isomorphous, so they equally reflect the character. However, Chervyakov’s sneezing in the story is not physical and social act only, but it is also metaphysical. In national perception concept of sneezing is connected with soul and death. Thus, connection between sneezing (minimal and independent from human action) and death (catastrophic event) becomes obvious and the result is inevitable. There is one more important character in the story – general. Between these two characters peculiar relationships of character’s doubling are set. Both of them are from the system which kills a human in a human-being. Chervyakov died because he “sneezed out” himself. Human is socially and physically lonely in this wrongly organized world. Traditional culture can become a kind of comment on Chekhov’s works, making details clear, helping to form famous Chekhov’s “underlying theme”
Attraction properties of the Ginzburg-Landau manifold
No full textWe consider solutions of weakly unstable PDE on an unbounded spatial domain. It has been shown earlier by the first author that the set of modulated solutions (called "Ginzburg-Landau manifold") is attracting. We seek to understand "how big" is the domain of attraction. Starting with general initial conditions of order " for the Fourier-transformed version of the given PDE we find that on the time-scale T " ; 2 (that is long in the terms of the original "physical" time t, but shorter than the natural time for the Ginzburg-Landau) the corresponding solutions evolve to the scaling of the clustered modes-distribution peaked at the integer multiples of the critical wave number, with the amplitudes sensitively dependent on such that for arbitrary close to zero after the time T " ; 2 solutions get on the Ginzburg-Landau manifold
COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A CRIME IN PRE-TRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES: ISSUES OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
No full textAuthors pay close attention to the problems of compensation for damage caused by a crime in pretrial proceedings in criminal cases. The relevance of the subject, as stressed by the authors, is the presence of these problems in Russian legal doctrine, which requires rethinking of approaches, used when creating uniform models for this activity regulation and also the need for a unified approach to the implementation of activities on compensation of harm caused by the crime, from the practical organs. Taking into account the array of all the circumstances, the authors determined the direction of the study and formulated its main problem – is the pre-trial procedure for compensation for damage caused by a crime, integrated into the procedural activities of investigators, interrogators, a set of regulations that can effectively regulate the issues of ensuring compensation for damage caused by a crime? The purpose of this study is to justify and develop provisions that determine theoretical and legal basis for pre-trial compensation for harm caused as a result of criminal acts, an effective mechanism that regulates activities of officials conducting preliminary investigations to compensate for harm caused, as well as proposals for making conceptual changes and additions to the criminal procedure la
Concession as a state investment policy tool
No full textRussian Federation’s competitiveness is largely interconnected with the state investment policy’s development level. However, the need for investments in high-quality infrastructure, on the one hand, and corresponding budget funds deficit, on the other hand, highlight the problem of the state and business entities’ cooperation by means of concession. At the same time there are many barriers, which hinder the concession’s consecutive development. That is why the research goal includes the elaboration of measures, aimed at the effective application of a concession as a tool of state investment policy. The systematic approach and a set of scientific measures, including observation, expert assessment, statistical data processing, analysis and comparison have been applied in the study. As a result, the research authors define the following growth areas of a concession: legal normative (normative consolidation of the concession’s development strategies and programmes, quality improvement of the methodological and legal concession projects elaboration), production organizational (quality improvement of territorial planning when proposing concessional agreements, the application of a complex approach to concession’s facilities’ modernization and etc.) and economic (broadening the spectrum of budgetary and non-budgetary tools used for financing concessional projects, elaboration of reasonable requirements to guarantee exposure according to the concessional agreement and etc.)
Concession as a state investment policy tool
No full textRussian Federation’s competitiveness is largely interconnected with the state investment policy’s development level. However, the need for investments in high-quality infrastructure, on the one hand, and corresponding budget funds deficit, on the other hand, highlight the problem of the state and business entities’ cooperation by means of concession. At the same time there are many barriers, which hinder the concession’s consecutive development. That is why the research goal includes the elaboration of measures, aimed at the effective application of a concession as a tool of state investment policy. The systematic approach and a set of scientific measures, including observation, expert assessment, statistical data processing, analysis and comparison have been applied in the study. As a result, the research authors define the following growth areas of a concession: legal normative (normative consolidation of the concession’s development strategies and programmes, quality improvement of the methodological and legal concession projects elaboration), production organizational (quality improvement of territorial planning when proposing concessional agreements, the application of a complex approach to concession’s facilities’ modernization and etc.) and economic (broadening the spectrum of budgetary and non-budgetary tools used for financing concessional projects, elaboration of reasonable requirements to guarantee exposure according to the concessional agreement and etc.)
Compensation for Damage Caused by a Crime in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Russian Federation
No full textIn criminal proceedings of Vietnam, in contrast to the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, it is advisable to separate physical, material and moral damage that may be caused by the crime or socially dangerous act prohibited by the criminal law, the rights and legitimate interests of natural or legal persons. The article is devoted to solving the problem of compensation for damage caused by a crime in pre-trial proceedings in criminal cases, based on the study of Russian and Vietnamese criminal procedure legislation, practice, and results of its application. The conclusions are subject to study and implementation in the law.Keywords: Compensation for harm; Investigation; Rights and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings Kompensasi untuk Kerusakan yang Disebabkan oleh Kejahatan di Republik Sosialis Vietnam dan Federasi Rusia Abstrak:Berbeda dengan Kode Acara Pidana Federasi Rusia, lebih baik dalam proses pidana Vietnam untuk memisahkan kerugian fisik, material, dan moral yang disebabkan oleh kejahatan atau tindakan berbahaya secara sosial yang dilarang oleh hukum pidana dari hak dan kepentingan sah orang atau badan hukum. Berdasarkan kajian undang-undang prosedur pidana Rusia dan Vietnam, praktik, dan hasil penerapannya, artikel ini dikhususkan untuk memecahkan masalah kompensasi atas kerusakan yang disebabkan oleh kejahatan dalam proses pra-persidangan dalam kasus pidana. Kesimpulan sedang dipelajari dan akan dimasukkan ke dalam undang-undang.Kata Kunci: Kompensasi untuk kerugian; Penyelidikan; Hak dan kepentingan sah peserta dalam proses pidana Возмещение вреда причиненного преступлением в социалистической республике Вьетнам и Российской Федерации АннотацияСтатья посвящена разрешению проблемы возмещения вреда, причиненного преступлением, в досудебном производстве по уголовным делам, на основе исследования российского и вьетнамского уголовно-процессуального законодательства, практики и результатов его применения. Выводы подлежат изучению и внедрению в законКлючевые Слова: возмещение вреда, расследование, права и законные интересы участников уголовного процесса, следователь, дознавател
Closed formula for options with discrete dividends and its derivatives
No full textWe present a closed pricing formula for European options under the BlackScholes model and formulas for its partial derivatives. The formulas are developed making use of Taylor series expansions and by expressing the spatial derivatives as expectations under special measures, as in Carr, together with an unusual change of measure technique that relies on the replacement of the initial condition. The closed formulas are attained for the case where no dividend payment policy is considered. Despite its small practical relevance, a digital dividend policy case is also considered which yields approximation formulas. The results are readily extensible to time dependent volatility models but no so for local-vol type models. For completeness, we reproduce the numerical results in Vellekoop and Nieuwenhuis using the formulas here obtained. The closed formulas presented here allow a fast calculation of prices or implied volatilities when compared with other valuation procedures that rely on numerical methods. --equity option,discrete dividend,hedging,analytic formula
Качество правового воспитания в России: стереотипы и настоящие проблемы
No full textThe paper explores the three key issues that are often put forward as the main problems contributing to reportedly insufficient quality of legal education in Russia: superfluous number of law schools, lack of practical preparation of students, and lack of teaching of professional ethics. It is based on a research project that the Moscow office of PILnet conducted in 2010–2012, having interviewed over 130 legal professionals in four Russian cities – commercial and non-profit lawyers, government lawyers, law professors, law school administrators and students – to analyze their views and attitudes as to what defined the modern Russian lawyer and how the legal education system responded to the needs of the profession and the society.Данная статья исследует три ключевых вопроса, которые часто называют основными проблемами, которые влияют на низкое качество правового воспитания в России: огромное число юридических школ, отсутствие практической подготовки студентов и отсутствие обучения профессиональной этике. Эти выводы основаны на научно-исследовательской работе, проделанной под руководством московского офиса PILnet в 2010–2012 годах. Более чем у 130 юристов-профессионалов в четырех городах России были взяты интервью – у «коммерческих» и «некоммерческих» юристов, у государственных юристов, у профессоров права, у администраторов и студентов юридических школ и университетов. Это было сделано для того, чтобы проанализировать их взгляды и их отношение к тому, что определяет современного российского юриста и как система правового воспитания отвечает на потребности профессии и общества
COVID-19 Vaccine Education: Is It Effective?
No full textThe article presents experiment findings to verify the educational activities program in the field of COVID-19 vaccine prevention for students. The study was conducted at the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, the analytical sample size is N = 780. Five aspects (as measuring scales) of attitudes towards vaccination against COVID-19 were identified: the benefits of vaccination against coronavirus for a person and society; denial of the coronavirus danger and hope for natural immunity; fear of the side effects of vaccination against coronavirus and distrust of vaccination safety information; confidence in the serious negative consequences of the coronavirus vaccine; disbelief in the proven effectiveness of Russian vaccines at the international level. A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of 4 strategies for influencing student's attitudes to vaccination against COVID-19 was carried out: lectures only (CG), lectures in combination with seminars / webinars in the traditional format (EG1), with discussions of real life cases related to vaccination and its effects (EG2), with holding student's debates (EG3). There are no gender differences between groups. There are differences in age, but the mean difference does not exceed 2 years. At the ascertaining stage, there are no differences on the scales; at the control stage, differences are revealed. On all 5 scales, positive and negative effects in the whole sample are almost equally likely. It was not possible to single out a fundamentally best strategy for educational influence. In general, the effectiveness of educational activities is somewhat greater when conducting lectures in combination with various kinds of seminars compared to lectures alone, but the effectiveness is low everywhere. Cohen's d standard effect sizes do not exceed 0,44. Slightly higher is efficiency when conducting lectures in combination with traditional seminars / webinars or case studies. The student's debates holding strategy did not meet expectations. A number of significant correlations were found between various aspects of attitudes towards vaccination with natural science literacy, logical thinking, verbal intelligence, the degree of fear of COVID-19, personal and situational anxiety. All correlations are weak, but their direction is as expected
