Dialectical Approach Research Articles

ACCOUNTING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Purpose. The aim of the article is to substantiate the need for the development of digitalization of modern accounting and financial reporting. Methodology of research. The study was conducted using a dialectical approach to the study of the current state of development of the digital economy. General scientific and special methods were used, in particular: analytical - when reviewing normative sources; monographic - when studying literary sources on issues of digital economy and accounting; system and analytical method - when processing the received information. Findings. It was determined that in the conditions of digitization of business processes, introduction and development of new business concepts, approaches to reporting methodology are changing, the need to create a new accounting concept is increasing. It is substantiated that digitalization contributes to the change in the functioning of management services and their responsibilities in all divisions of the business entity, and in the accounting department, in particular. It was revealed that the result of the development of digital technologies will be the transformation of the organizational structure and management services of the accounting department, including due to the reduction of the staff and the review of the functionality, the introduction of new technologies for processing primary documents and information, the modernization of accounting processes and accounting policy in general; strengthening requirements for professional skills of users. Origination. Directions for the development of digitalization of the organizational structure of the company’s accounting service are proposed in the article. The introduction of a single electronic data exchange format for financial reporting as a strategic tool for accounting harmonization is substantiated. Practical value. The obtained results of the research will contribute to increasing the efficiency of the formation and development of accounting in the conditions of the digital economy and will become the basis for further scientific developments in this field. Key words: digitalization, information technologies, accounting, financial reporting, digital accounting, digital technologies, business process.

Video games in the context of screen technoculture and media education: new rhetorical strategies and educational potential

Video games have become a prominent part of on-screen technoculture today, breaking the purely entertaining social labelling framework. They contribute to the generation of new social activities, and also become an innovative media space for the explication of artistic and aesthetic values, political meanings and educational practices. The aim of the study is the reconstruction and analysis of the cultural constitution of video games, revealing the features of their screen rhetorical capabilities, as well as revealing the educational potential of gamification practices and Digital Game Based Learning strategies. This is intended to form the competence-thematic framework of video games as a platform for modern media education. The methodological basis of the work is the cultural-historical and dialectical approaches, as well as the methods of systemic and structural-functional analysis. The study made it possible to trace the genesis of the cultural formation of video games, which demonstrated many strategies for their integration into the space of mass media culture. The main rhetorical models implemented in video games are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the comprehensive consideration of procedural rhetoric as an original way of convincing the user through gameplay, interactive involvement in virtual practices. The foundations of the practice of gamification and the strategy of Digital Game Based Learning in education are considered. It identifies the possibilities of gamification as an innovative methodology for organizing incentives and rewards, and also identifies the range of difficulties and risks of total gamification of the educational process. Based on the results of the study, it was determined that video games use an original complex of rhetorical techniques that combine both traditional audiovisual formats of narrative, characteristic of other on-screen media, and procedural-interactive techniques. They made it possible to directly integrate the user into virtual narratives, turning them from a passive recipient into an actor. The importance of gamification as a tool for building strategies of internal stimulation with elements of entertaining practices in the dynamics of learning is also revealed, which increases the effectiveness of education. It has been revealed the significant educational potential of video games as a promising media platform in the framework of the implementation of the Digital Game Based Learning strategy. They can act both as carriers of knowledge and as a virtual environment for the formation of competencies in the field of history, economics, literature and social management. Procedural and rhetorical tools allow a person to become a part of an interactive scenario, which greatly increases the likelihood of assimilating information and developing professional skills.

Религиозный терроризм: новые глобальные и региональные вызовы

The article examines the features of religious terrorism at the global, state, national and regional level. The authors use system method, comparative analysis, and dialectical approach as methods of scientific analysis of the problem. The article carries out a comparative analysis of the reasons for the spread of religious terrorism in the world, the Russian Federation and in the North Caucasus Region. As a result of the application of the system approach, the authors propose the definition of the category of religious terrorism.

Criminological problems of countering the distribution of criminal subculture in youth environment

The subject of this research is the criminal subculture, as one of the main elements of modern destructive trends in the youth environment. The authors emphasizes that this phenomenon has been the focus of attention of researchers in various fields of knowledge at different times and has been actively studied not only by domestic scientists. The purpose of this article is to analyze the main modern trends in the spread of the criminal subculture in society, in particular among the youth. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the study of the characteristics of the criminal subculture in modern conditions of information dissemination through social networks, the Internet and other scientific achievements. The practical significance of the article is to familiarize the subjects of prevention of new knowledge in the course of activities to counter the spread of the negative influence of the criminal subculture in society. The study used a dialectical approach in the analysis of the above phenomena, which predetermined a set of scientific methods of cognition: comparative, systemic, historical and legal, documentary, sociological, etс.

RESEARCH ON TRANSNATIONALISATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY INNOVATIVE COMPONENT INFLUENCED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The purpose of this article is to examine the innovative component of the transnationalisation of economic activity under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical and analytical systems analysis methods make it possible to determine the trend of research and development (R&D) expenditures in the world over five years (2017-2021). Methodology. Research methods: theoretical generalization, analysis and synthesis, logical, system-structural analysis of economic processes and relations, statistical, comparative, sectoral and dialectical approaches. Results. In accordance with the theoretical study of the process of investment in innovation by TNCs under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conclude that innovation for multinational corporations is the realization of innovative and creative ideas, which are the basis of progress and profit. The balance of power in the global innovation space before and during the COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrated by examining the dynamics of innovation in countries and regions. Under the COVID-19 pandemic, companies' R&D spending has fluctuated slightly, while global R&D spending has increased. According to the Global R&D Finance Forecast 2021, Asian countries, including China, will act as the engine of innovation in the coming years. Countries in the Americas and Europe will continue to lose their leadership in R&D, even though their spending will rise as the overall global economy recovers. One of the key indicators of innovation development is the quota of expenditure on research and development in GDP in the world. The leaders in this indicator are South Korea, Israel, Japan, Finland, and Sweden. Practical implications. Innovation is recognized as a central factor in economic growth and development. Interest not only in the promotion but also in the evaluation of the results of innovation activities is growing not only in developed but also in developing countries. According to The Future of Post-COVID Innovation Finance GII (Global Innovation Index 2020/2021), the pandemic crisis had a short-term impact on innovation spending. Research and development (R&D) spending in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic has always been high. In contrast to previous fears, the crisis has had only a minor impact on overall investment in innovation, as well as on the main consumers of innovation. At the company level, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the industry distribution of innovation, but costs and access to innovation financing in developing countries and more volatile companies are at risk. Disparities in access to innovation finance are likely to intensify. Value/originality. The main international research units of TNCs are concentrated mainly in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. But according to recent global trends, there is a possibility of creating new research units of transnational corporations in China and India, which will allow these two countries to become part of the "innovation core" of the world economy in the future.

Methodological principles of systematics of recreational goods


 
 
 
 The article presents an overview of modern directions and approaches to systematics of recreational resources (goods). The purpose of our study is to develop methodological principles of systematics of recreational goods, taking into account their subject specificity and modern research approaches to the systematics of natural, historical, cultural and socio-economic conditions and resources. The article has been used development by domestic and foreign scientists, as well as preliminary author’s studies. Working-out of a scheme of recreational goods systematics took place on the basis of a dialectical approach, which requires all phenomena and processes in their development, interconnection, and interdependence. The article presents an overview of modern directions and approaches to the systematics of recreational goods and provides a general methodological scheme of systematics of recreational goods. The proposed scheme includes the division of recreational goods to natural, cultural and historical and socio-economic, as well as directions of use by recreational goods – public, collective and personality. The intersections of these categories are marked by the main methodological approaches to the evaluation of recreational conditions and recreational resources. For each direction of the classification and systematics of recreational goods, it is necessary to develop methodological principles and methodological means of inventory and assessing the corresponding combination of recreational conditions and resourceswith forms of use by recreation goods. Such justification also requires enclosed blocks of recreational conditions and resources and social varieties of use. Recreational conditions and resources of public usage are available for all users without restrictions of property rights; they are considered as global civilization goods as the “property” of the world community; they do not have the content of the goods and do not form appropriate market relations, as a rule, a global or regional spatial scale. Recreational conditions and resources of collective usage form natural and geographical objects and phenomena with different forms of ownership (state, corporate) and collective (group) use. They can be shared by common goods, do not have a form of commodity and not take part in market commodity- money circulation. Recreational conditions and resources of individual usage are private or group property of vacationers. They remain outside the economic assessment, but can also form their market environments with competitive relations and be objects of commodity-money circulation.
 
 
 

Methodological approaches to efficiency evaluation foreign economic activity agricultural enterprises

The article is devoted to topical issues of development of existing and establishment of new approaches to the methodology of assessing the effectiveness of foreign economic activity of agricultural enterprises with the subsequent formation of strategies for its development. Thanks to the successful operation of domestic agricultural enterprises in foreign markets and effective and fruitful cooperation with foreign partners, economic growth of the country as a whole is achieved. Therefore, in modern economic conditions, the increase in foreign economic activity requires a thorough methodological approach to assessing the effectiveness of foreign economic activity of agricultural enterprises. The theoretical and methodological basis of research were the works of leading domestic and foreign economists and the work of leading analysts on the problems and methodology of modeling foreign economic activity, comprehensive approaches based on a combination of economic analysis and methods of economic and mathematical modeling. The following research methods were used in solving the tasks: monographic, analysis and synthesis, expert evaluations, deduction method and abstract-logical. In order to implement the organizational and economic mechanism for determining the foreign economic activity of agricultural enterprises, we propose to use a universal method of foreign economic activity analysis and at the micro level in order to compare the obtained calculations to assess trends in the development of foreign economic activity of agricultural enterprises. If an agricultural enterprise is engaged in both exports and imports, then to assess its performance in the foreign market for a certain period can be calculated integrated indicators of foreign trade, which provide for the comparability of results achieved for the whole set of export-import operations at full cost. The initial methodological basis for assessing and analyzing the foreign economic activity of agricultural enterprises should be a systematic analysis and a comprehensive, dialectical approach, which necessitates the study of individual elements and the system as a whole in constant motion, change, in the process of constant renewal. This is important not only for understanding the essence of economic categories but also for formulating conclusions on their practical application, making management decisions at different levels of the hierarchical management system in the agricultural sector of Ukraine. The practical significance of the results of the study lies in the substantiation of the methodology, which allows to calculate and fully assess the effectiveness of foreign economic activity of any agricultural enterprise.

Plato, Adorno, and the Dialectic

This essay shows substantial connections between Plato’s dialectical approach in The Republic and Adorno’s 1958 lectures in An Introduction to Dialectics. Although the relationship between Adorno and Aristotle has received some attention, little work has been done either demonstrating or making connections between Plato and Adorno, especially on the topic of the dialectic. This is likely because Adorno himself has little to say about Plato’s dialectic, although he does refer often to Plato’s ideas and forms, and sometimes to his aesthetics. This essay reads against the grain to show how Plato and Adorno conceive of dialectical thinking in strikingly similar ways that run parallel with their discontinuities, and concludes with the suggestion that the figure of chiasmus is well-positioned to push the limits of dialectical thinking.

Dialectical Approach to Legal Arguing and Legal Argumentation

The article is devoted to legal argumentation, namely to its research by dialectical approach. The aim of the article is to determine characteristic features of dialectical approach to legal argumentation.
 Dialectical approach to the research of legal argumentation should include philosophical, theoretical, empirical components. Philosophical component of legal argumentation research consists in the critical conception of rationality i.e. the philosophical axiomatic idea about rationality of legal argumentation, which is systematically tested within discourse or critical discussion. Dialectical theoretical model of legal argumentation ensures mutual acceptability of legal argumentation by the parties. Dialectical approach deals with legal argumentation mainly in the “context of justification.” Dialectical approach to legal arguing implies specific standard of soundness of the argumentation – acceptability standard. Empirical component of legal argumentation includes reconstruction of argumentation and its weighting (analytic component) as well as analysis of particular legal reasoning (practical component). Dialectical approach highlights hermeneutical nature of legal reasoning.
 Dialectical approach to legal argumentation lets us assume some ontological issues concerning legal argumentation. Legal argumentation is considered as the form of rational communication of particular persons to reach mutual acceptability of legally important conclusions within the procedure of discussion. Legal argumentation is the result of such impact embodied in acceptability of legally binding issues within the procedure of rational discussion.

Desintegration and Integration as Interrelated Ethnopolitical Processes (Ukrainian case)

The processes of ethnopolitical integration and disintegration in interconnection with modern realities, challenges and processes are studied. Within the framework of the dialectical approach, they are defined as components of a single multilevel integration-disintegration process. Ethnopolitical integration may contain features, characteristics of ethnopolitical disintegration, and the latter may have integration consequences, contributing to the consolidation of the nation and society, the preservation of territorial integrity. The preconditions and factors of ethnopolitical disintegration of Ukraine and the forthcoming reintegration taking into account foreign experience are studied.

Far-Right Extremism’s Threat to Police Safety and the Organizational Legitimacy of Law Enforcement in the United States

Цель: to analyze the far-right extremism’s anti- government ideology as an external threat to law enforcement officers. Methods: dialectical approach to cognition of social phenomena, using the general and specific research methods based on it. Results: The relationship between far-right extremism and law enforcement in the United States has a long and complicated history. In 2020, this relationship was on display as both far-right extremists and law enforcement agencies were brought into the national spotlight for their roles in multiple unprecedented events. This research discusses how far-right extremism’s anti- government ideology represents an external threat to law enforcement officers. This threat is discussed through the presentation of 30-years of data on law enforcement officers killed in the line-of-duty by far-right extremists from the Extremist Crime Database. In addition, the research also examines law enforcement’s implicit and explicit support for far-right extremism, which creates an internal threat against the legitimacy of the profession. Finally, policy initiatives that come from, and build upon, prior research are discussed to reduce these threats.Scientific novelty: for the first time, the work substantiates that far-right extremists threaten the safety of law enforcement officers in the United States. Antigovernment extremists, who do not believe that they are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction where they live, pose the risk of escalating to violent acts when encountering law enforcement when they engage in both ideologically motivated and routine criminal activity. In addition, law enforcement agencies who hire far-right extremists face the very real prospect of becoming illegitimate in the eyes of the communities to whom they are sworn to serve and protect. Decades of criminological research has shown that lack of trust in law enforcement makes the job of policing a community more difficult and more dangerous. Although multiple paths forward were outlined that build on prior research and empirical knowledge, only decisive action by law enforcement and policymakers will result in outcomes that reduce the risk of external violent victimization to police and protect law enforcement agencies from being delegitimized by the presence of far-right extremists within their ranks.Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific, pedagogical and law enforcement activities when considering issues related to the prevention, suppression and investigation of extremist crimes.The article was first published in English language by Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society and The Western Society of Criminology Hosting by Scholastica. For more information please contact: CCJLS@WesternCriminology.org.For original publication: Parkin, W. S., Mills, C. E., Gruenewald, J. (2021). Far-Right Extremism’s Threat to Police Safety and the Organizational Legitimacy of Law Enforcement in the United States, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 2021, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 1–24. Publication URL: https://ccjls.scholasticahq.com/article/26321-far-right-extremism-s-threat-to-police-safety-and-the-organizational-legitimacy-of-law-enforcement-in-the-united-states

Differentiation of population incomes: prospects for reducing inequality in terms of digitalization

This research provides an analytical assessment of the level of income differentiation, outlines the range of threats associated with the problems of fair distribution, and identifies the likelihood of reducing or increasing gender inequality in wages in the context of large-scale digitalization of Ukraine and the world economy. The methodological basis of the study is based on a systematic and dialectical approach, as well as general scientific and fundamental provisions of economics. To achieve the goal of the article, general and special methods of cognition were used. In particular, comparative analysis and synthesis – in the study of trends in the share of labour in GDP, growth or decrease of real wages and productivity in Ukraine, and growth average monthly wages by economic activity. Regression analysis and rank correlation – establishing the relationship between public access to the Internet and the gender pay gap. Using regression analysis, based on statistics on the gender pay gap (Y) and the percentage of the population connected to the Internet (variable x), we hypothesized that digitization still can reduce gender inequality by identifying the dependence of Y from x. This hypothesis was also confirmed by calculating Spearman’s and Kendall’s rank correlation coefficients, which indicate a significant relationship between the level of penetration of the Ukrainian population into the Internet and the gender pay gap. The Pearson test was chosen as a mathematical tool to determine the probability of reducing gender inequality in wages in the future. The research results also suggest that premature deindustrialization leads to a decrease in the share of employment in production. This trend is likely to increase the defeminization of productive labour.

Is ‘co’ in coworking a short for contradictions?

PurposeBuilding on the existing literature and on a series of interviews conducted in very diverse coworking spaces, this article attempts at analyzing coworking by focusing on the historical evolution and heterogeneity of its interpretations, as well as the plurality of its realization in practice and prospective developments.Design/methodology/approachThe theoretical framework adopted is Cultural Historical Activity Theory – a dialectical approach which allows the study of human activities as historically evolving and complex systems which change under the impulse of their inner contradictions. The analysis presented here starts with an overview of the history of the theoretical elaborations and discussions of coworking. The authors then focus on the experiences and interpretations of this phenomenon as conveyed by coworkers and coworking managers in the north of Italy – one of the most active coworking areas in Europe.FindingsCoworking first emerged as a way of promoting forms of work and organization that require simultaneous, multidirectional, and reciprocal work, as understood in contrast to forms that incorporate an established division of labor, demarcated communities, and formal and informal sets of rules. However, with time, coworking has evolved toward novel directions, giving rise to heterogeneous interpretations of it. Inquiry constitutes a deeper investigation of the heterogeneity of coworking. The take-away message here is that the prefix co- in coworking can be interpreted, through a play of words, to evoke multiple positions and views conveying internal contradictions.Originality/valueThe historical overview of coworking shows a strong differentiation and multisided interpretation of this phenomenon along two dimensions of historical development, namely, social and business, and outward and inward. The qualitative analysis of the interviews traces the different lived interpretations and conceptions of coworking. The analysis confirms, on the one hand, the complexity and heterogeneity described in the literature, and on the other hand, it enriches the literature by depicting the contradictory nature of the phenomenon, including how the historical and inner tensions of coworking are dynamically evolving in the concrete experiences reported by the managers and users in the coworking spaces.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL MEANS OF OVERCOMING VIOLATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PARTICIPANTS IN PROCEEDINGS IN CASES WITH PUBLIC RESONANCE

The article presents the results of a study of the problem of overcoming violations of the constitutional rights of participants in legal proceedings in cases with public resonance by criminal procedural means. The research is based on a dialectical approach to the study of social processes and phenomena, it used traditional methods for legal sciences - analysis and synthesis; comparative legal; formal legal; logical. The article is prepared on the basis of the author’s work experience as a criminal lawyer and is devoted to the analysis of the following problem. The sphere of criminal proceedings has always had the greatest law-limiting potential in comparison with other types of process. Legal restrictions can be divided into two types. The first type consists of legitimate and conditioned by the necessity and expediency of obtaining reliable evidence in the case, ensuring the normal implementation of the preliminary investigation, trial, other procedural stages and functions, protecting the security and rights of participants in the proceedings, other persons involved in this process, etc. In this sense, such very strict measures of procedural coercion as detention, house arrest, regulation of detention, search, operational search actions, etc. and related restrictions of rights are fully justified. This follows from the constitutional provision that human and civil rights and freedoms may be restricted by federal law only to the extent necessary in order to protect the foundations of the constitutional order, morality, health, rights and legitimate interests of other persons, to ensure the defense of the country and the security of the State. At the same time, procedural guarantees for the protection of suspects, accused, and defendants of their rights must be observed. The second type of legal restrictions in the field of criminal proceedings has no legal grounds and is associated with abuse and abuse of authority by law enforcement officers, preliminary investigation bodies, prosecutors, courts, etc. Such acts are clearly illegal, but at the same time their qualification can be different - from disciplinary, procedural, administrative to criminal. In the article, the author explores the background of the problem, using the example of criminal cases that have a public resonance, analyzes the system of rights of participants in legal proceedings, their legal regulation, the most common, most typical violations of the rights, first of all, of suspects, accused, defendants, as well as their defenders. Next, the author examines the legal means and mechanisms (methods) of overcoming violations in the criminal process. a number of conclusions and proposals aimed at improving the legal provision of the rights of these procedural subjects. In conclusion, based on the conducted research, the author formulates a number of conclusions and proposals aimed at overcoming the accusatory bias and violations of the rights of participants in court proceedings in cases with public resonance, improving and increasing the effectiveness of overcoming violations of the constitutional rights of participants in court proceedings in cases with public resonance.

ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL ORIGINS OF THE PROSECUTOR's OFFICE OF UDMURTIA: PROSECUTOR'S OFFICES IN VYATKA PROVINCE IN XIX - EARLY XX CENT

The article deals with the problem of the emergence and formation of prosecutor's offices in Glazovsky, Sarapulsky, Yelabuga and Malmyzhsky uyezds of Vyatka province, which later formed the territorial basis of the Udmurt Republic. The relevance of the issue is connected both with its poorly studied nature and with the continuing dubious practice of considering 1922 as the starting point in the history of the Udmurt prosecutor's office. The purpose of the article is an attempt of historical reconstruction of the organizational and legal origins and subsequent development of the prosecutor's offices in these uyezds, and also the justification of the establishment in 1874 of prosecutorial supervision bodies at the district courts in Vyatka and Sarapul as the starting point in the history under consideration. In the process of research, a wide range of general scientific and historical-legal methods were applied, based on a dialectical approach and using pre-revolutionary sources, including archival materials. The author substantiates the idea that the prosecutor's office long before the revolution of 1917 was an important element of the system of regional state-legal management, and the Soviet Prosecutor's Office of the 1920s emerged as an updated institution, restored on the basis of extensive pre-revolutionary experience and with the assistance of old specialists.

Маркетинговий аналіз попиту та пропозиції на ринку праці України

The labor market is a complex socio-economic phenomenon that requires constant monitoring and regulation. There are a significant number of definitions of this concept, which are significantly different and quite harmoniously complement each other. At the same time, scientists use complex, systemic and dialectical approaches. Scientists consider typical models of the labor market: American, Japanese, Swedish and Chinese, which differ in a number of key features and principles of operation. The labor market in the process of formation and functioning performs a number of functions: social division of labor; informational; mediational; professional counseling; regulatory; pricing; proportionality of the distribution of labor in accordance with the structure of social needs and the development of scientific and technological progress; reserve. Herewith, as a separate element of a market economy, it interacts with markets: capital, raw materials, information, educational and scientific services, health care, cultural and spiritual services, household and social services, housing, innovation, etc. The demand and supply of labor, its cost and price are the main elements of the labor market. Labor exists in the labor market as a specific commodity, which is characterized by a number of features different from other products of a market economy. In the process of buying and selling labor, a number of relations arise between the subjects of the labor market, which constitute a certain system. The ratio of supply and demand of labor, in other words conjuncture of market, are formed under the influence of internal and external factors of the labor market, as well as the level of employment and unemployment. There are three types of conjuncture of labor market: equilibrium, redundant labor and insufficient labor. Labor market conditions are changing due to the natural and mechanical movement of labor and jobs. In Ukraine, the labor market situation is characterized by structural disparities between labor supply and demand, which have become a chronic problem of the national economy. PEST-analysis as a marketing tool should be used to determine the importance of the influence of various factors on the formation conjuncture of labor market. It includes political, legal, economic, socio-cultural and technological factors of the external environment. Market instruments and partly means of active and passive state policy of employment regulation should be used to regulate the labor market. The main regulators will be to remain: the country's legislation, economic laws, the trade union movement and the media, national traditions, mentality, climatic and historical conditions of the country.

Три столицы «Русьского» мира

The author studies the probabilistic attractor of postbifurcation movement of Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia. The essence of the attractor is defined as presence in the unified "Rus'skoy" civilization. The purpose of the work is to give argumentation of the need of choosing the given civilization. The research is methodologically completed using dialectic, hermeneutic and historical and logical approaches. The results of the study represent actual conclusions from the dialectic of "egoistic" and "collectivist" in recent history of the three countries; from the long-standing contradiction of leaders and peoples of these states; from actual confrontation "Nazi-Ukraine" and "Russo-Ukraine". The author demonstrates the essence of this confrontation – geopolitical struggle of Western and Russian civilization at the area of Belorussia, Ukraine and Russia. The novelty of the study is implied in understanding the antinomic truth of Rus'skoy civilization – catch-up, as well as advanced; in formulating new definitions of "Nazi-Ukraine" and "Russo-Ukraine" and in explaining their actual contradictions; in clarifying the specific of the opposition between the West and Russia. The author shows the "orthodoxy" of the West's antislavism, the reasons of the Eastern-Slavic space destruction, axiological degradation of the West and potentiality of "empire decline" (USA). The article reveals the orthodoxy of territorial and property claims to Slavic peoples; the Germans' desire to settle new territories and use these areas as colonies. The researcher proves that the attitude towards Ukraine is that of a partner-vassal. The conclusions of the research are grounded on the argumentation of the true attractor of the three countries movement – towards the unified "Rus'skaya" civilization. The essential causes of this process are immanent contradictions of the Western civilization, especially between the American atlanticism and Germanocentric continentalism. Moreover, there is the necessity for common cultural and historical fate connected with the faith to invaluable traditions being trampled and disappearing in the Western civilization. At the same time, the author demonstrates the possibility of maintaining democratic values and specific "bourgeois – non-bourgeois" social and economic projects.

Early Modern Spectatorship: Interpreting English Culture 1500–1780. Ed. Ronald Huebert and David McNeil.

<i>Early Modern Spectatorship: Interpreting English Culture 1500–1780</i>. Ed. Ronald Huebert and David McNeil.

Abandonment in Danger, Resulting in the Death of the Victim: Problems of Theory and Judicial Practice

Problem Statement. The inconsistency of judicial practice in criminal cases of abandonment in danger remains an urgent theoretical, legal and practical problem that needs doctrinal coverage. The second premise of the study is the inconsistency of the established judicial practice in cases of this category with the principles of the criminal law-legality, justice, guilt. Goals and Objectives of the Study, Research Methods. The goal is to provide a theoretical explanation and practical suggestions for optimizing judicial practice in cases of this category. The study is carried out in the tradition of a dialectical approach to the content and essence of any social phenomenon, in the coordinates of which the state of the phenomenon under consideration is determined by the content and the ratio of the factors forming this phenomenon. From this point of view, the current practice of reviewing criminal cases on the most dangerous type of abandonment of an unauthorized person in danger, which resulted in his death, is subjected to research. The research methods are systematic, historical, logical, comparative, and proper – legal. Results and Summary Conclusions. The article presents a picture of the contradictory judicial practice in criminal cases of abandonment in danger, and provides a cross-section of theoretical views on the problem under consideration. The main focus is on the consideration of leaving the victim in danger, resulting in his death. It is argued that the reason for the different qualifications of abandonment in danger, associated with the onset of serious consequences (causing harm to the health or death of the victim), is due to the disregard by law enforcement officers of the understanding of this act as a single mechanism of criminal behavior, including the uniqueness of the objective signs of the act with their reflection in the consciousness of the perpetrator. The conclusion is made about the need for a systematic approach to the legal assessment of the phenomenon of abandonment in danger with the subsequent causing of death. In addition to the stability of judicial practice, the author believes that this would lead to a more precise adherence to the principles of criminal law: legality, justice, and guilt. The same principles would be more consistent with the qualification activities of law enforcement entities as a component of the State’s criminal law policy.

Antinomies of space and nature or an open totality? Neil Smith and Henri Lefebvre on nature and society

The work of Henri Lefebvre has played a pivotal role in human geography in recent decades. At the same time, it has frequently been subject to partial and fragmented appropriations that isolate his insights on the production of space from his broader corpus, leading to confusion and misunderstanding regarding his handling of the dialectical relationships between space, time, society, and nature. In particular, Neil Smith's claim that Lefebvre's conceptualization of nature was both deficient and inconsistent with his dynamic conceptualization of space has tended to dominate geographical engagements with Lefebvre in this area. Following Smith, researchers generally reconstruct the production of space as an epiphenomenon of the production of nature. We critically assess and respond to Smith's criticisms of Lefebvre. Specifically, we contrast Lefebvre's material–dialectical approach to Smith's production-of-nature thesis. While Smith's thesis is helpful in understanding how capital attempts to subsume all of nature under commodity production, Lefebvre's dialectical conceptualization of nature–society as an oppositional unity points both to the impossibility of capital subsuming all of nature and the dangers that its attempts to do so pose to human civilization (even survival). Lefebvre's observations, regarding the growing rupture between natural processes and spatial dynamics, which he incorporates into his own elaboration of Karl Marx's theory of metabolic rift, make his work indispensable to the development of an ecospatial critique within geography and the social sciences more generally.