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Implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in the Legal Systems of the EAEU Member States

The Paris Climate Agreement provides for the acceptance by the participating States of obligations, which this treaty enshrines as «nationally determined contributions» (NDC). The goal of these commitments is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep global temperature increases well below 2°C compared to preindustrial levels. This mechanism has a number of legal features: first, each state establishes NDC independently, reports them to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), acting as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and registers them with the Secretariat. From this moment, a new international legal obligation of the state to implement the NDC arises. Secondly, it can be changed only in the direction of greater «ambition», that is, by increasing targets for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Thirdly, the Paris Agreement does not require the coordination of national measures with the rest of the parties to the treaty. Each participant in the Paris Agreement represents an NDC, which determines the scope of its own obligations without the participation of other states, unlike the mechanism provided for in the GATT and GATS, where WTO member states are required to coordinate their national measures with the rest of the participants (Goods schedule / Services schedule). Fourthly, the monitoring mechanism provides for the first stage of summing up in 2023, when an assessment of the progress towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will be given.A comparative analysis of the NDC of the EAEU member states, all of which are parties to the Paris Agreement, allows us to generalize. The Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation announced the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2060, the rest of the states — by 2050. Some states (the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan) have set two targets for the implementation of NDC: conditional (achievement of the indicator with international financial support and access to modern technologies) and unconditional (achievement of the indicator at own expense). The level of development of the legal framework for the implementation of the NDC of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus and the Kyrgyz Republic is inferior to the level of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan in terms of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, turnover of carbon units and taxation of carbon emissions (introduction of a carbon tax). At the EAEU level, the member states have adopted a roadmap on the climate agenda, and much work remains to be done to develop a regulatory framework.

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Comparative analysis of the silver economy capacity in Russia and the EU

The article analyses the prospects of the development of silver economy in Russia. The relevance of the topic is confirmed by the global trend caused by aging of the population. Silver (or longevity) economy is a sector of the economy, which provides well-being of the elderly. The subject of the study is a comparison between the potential of the silver economy in Russia and the European Union. The aim of the study is to analyse the key differences of the silver economy in Russia and the countries of the EU. The article examines the methodology and the results of the assessment of the scale of silver economy and its contribution to the aggregate demand and GDP of the European Union. The authors estimated the scale of the silver economy in Russia at the national and regional levels. Based on the results obtained, the authors compared the volume of the silver economy in Russia and the EU and identified the main factors influencing this sector in Russia. Moreover, the authors identified a high level of interregional differentiation in terms of silver economy development. Therefore, the differentiated measures of regional policy in relation to the citizens of the older generation were proposed in order to eliminate significant regional disparities. The authors propose measures aimed at supporting the demand of senior citizens for regions with an average level of development of the silver economy. The study also proposes to concentrate the state policy efforts on social security for the regions with low potential of the silver economy.

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Qualification of private divorce in private international law of Germany

The private divorce is such a dissolution of marriage that does not require the participation of the state. The examples are the Islamic talaq in its original concept still existing in some Arabic countries, the customary divorces in some countries of Sub-Saharan Africa as well as, according to the prevailing opinion in Germany, the divorce by mutual consent in the Far-East countries (Japan, Thailand, South Korea). The problem of classifying a divorce in the situation when European legal order raises the question of its recognition is generated by the fact that there is a conflict method for assessing the validity of transactions made abroad in classical private international law, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the divorce in the European legal orders is the public instrument which is performed by the state or at least by its active participation so that for the purpose of recognition it is submitted to the special procedure of recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Private international law of Germany is a unique case of dual classification of the foreign private divorce both as a public instrument (on the ground of fiction) and as a legal transaction according to the purpose of classification. To apply the procedure of recognizing foreign private divorce in Germany, such a divorce is equated to the foreign public instrument. To determine the scope of verification, such a divorce is regarded as a legal transaction and submitted to the conflict of laws-approach, not to the approach of procedural recognition.

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Russian Agricultural Exports: Economic and Statistical Analysis

The article presents the results of an economic and statistical analysis of Russian agricultural exports from 2012 to 2021 – a period of intensive growth during which revenue in foreign markets doubled, and the country entered the top twenty leaders in food exports. The in- fluence of the factors of physical volume and price on the dynamics of exports of products from the agricultural sector of Russia is analyzed, and a change in the assessment of the contribution of individual product categories to export growth was revealed when recalculating indica- tors from current prices to comparable prices. It has been established that average prices for Russian agricultural products are half the world pri-ces, which leads to a lack of income from the export of agricultural products for Russia (on average, about 4.9 billion US dollars per year for the last five years). The main reason for this deviation is that a significant share of the structure of Russian food exports is made up of products with a low degree of processing. Additionally, there is a situation with lower prices for some Russian goods of a comparable range, primarily in the food and processing industries.An assessment of the risks to the sustainability of Russian agribusiness in the event of a disruption in export supplies showed that, given the low level of development of intra-industry trade, domestic production remains quite vulnerable to a potential reduction in exports when foreign trade restrictions are introduced. If trade chains are broken, only 20% of exports can be redirected to the domestic market to replace imports.An analysis of the achievement of targets for the development of Russian agricultural exports in 2016–2021 was carried out and indicates that, despite its significant overall growth during the period under study, in some years its dynamics lagged behind the values established in state programs, even considering their repeated adjustments. This is largely due to the dependence of the growth of Russian exports of agricultural products on the increase in the production of grain and oilseeds, which is influenced, among other things, by random weather factors. Thus, based on data for individual years, it is impossible to judge the success or failure in the implementation of Russian agricultural export devel- opment programs, and the methodology for assessing the achievement of target indicators itself requires improvement.

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Russian Economy in 2020–2022: Transition to a New Development Model

The article presents the study results on the changes in the Russian economy related to effects of the specific circumstances of 2020–2022. The authors support the conclusion about the ongoing shift in the economic development model and make several proposals for domestic economic policy. The authors note that the strong negative influence of external factors can, under certain conditions (on the principle of «challenge-and-response» or «shock-and-reaction»), create momentum towards the accelerated structural transformation of the economy and transition to a new national economic cycle adapted to current trends in scientific and technological development.The paper analyses indicators of dynamics and structural changes in the final use of gross domestic product (GDP), in production, and in investment activity. The article describes the differences in the development trends for three major sectors of the economy in which its industries were incorporated: the raw materials and processing sector, the infrastructure sector, and the innovation sector, and also for the aggregate «other industries» (tabular material contains detailed analytical data on enlarged categories).The article presents the results of GDP dynamics factor analysis based on two approaches – using the intersectoral model and the GDP dynamics macroeconomic function. Based on the first approach, the authors obtained the overall estimates of the impact of changes in export volumes and domestic final demand on GDP in 2022, as well as the decrease in the import intensity of production and other estimates. Based on the second approach, the authors obtained the estimate of the potential GDP rate, its gap with the actual rate, and the influence of the main factors on economic dynamics. The features of the new development model (transition to development based mainly on internal sources of funds, resources, etc.) are indicated. The paper outlines authors' views on the conditions that can meet the challenges of developing the country as part of the new development model. The issues of making the investment forecasts and providing investment process with the financial resources are considered. According to the authors, further development of the systematic approach to managerial decision-making and transition to ensuring better coherence between vital economic development directions makes it possible to achieve economic and social objectives more effectively.

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Realization of interests through private and public law

The article reflects a discussion about the meaning of the division of law into private and public. The author agrees with the researchers, who believe that through any legal norm, regardless of its sectoral affiliation, both private and public interests are realized. In this case, we are even talking about the fact that in itself the ordering of social relations by any legal norm is essential for society and does not allow chaos in relations. The civil law regulation itself contains a mechanism that ensures a balance of both various private and public interests. Confirmation of this to a greater or lesser extent can be found in almost any norm of civil law. Public law, like private law, ensures the implementation of both public and private interests. Entering into various public legal relations in many cases is aimed at satisfying the interests of individuals and is based on their will. Public and private legal blocks are characterized by many features. Raising the question of public and private legal blocks, must understand that the regimes (methods) for regulating social relations by them are more than important, since the establishment of a regime that does not correspond to the essence of certain relations can lead to the impossibility of realizing certain kinds of interests. Thus, the realization of interests (especially private ones) through civil legal relations is mainly possible in the regime of free will. In public branches of law, at least one of the parties does not have the freedom to decide whether to enter into a legal relationship. In addition, as a general rule, unlike private legal relations, public legal relations imply a certain control, which is necessary to ensure both public and private interests.

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