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The monograph is the second book from the trilogy devoted to the study of the legal aspects ensuring the financial security of the Russian Federation. The presented work is aimed at forming an integrated and systematic approach to the theoretical and legal identification of the financial security risks essence and determining risk modifications. In the monograph, the genesis of the concept of risks (philosophical, theoretical, legal, economical, financial, etc.) is scrutinized with emphasis on the basic concept of financial security risks. A legal mechanism for managing financial security risks is disclosed, including the problems of their identificationand assessment, as well as the features of their prevention, minimization of consequences and liquidation; the system of bodies authorized to manage risks is also studied.

The multilevel analysis of the legal regulation of the most acute issues of financial security risk management, from acts of local self-government bodies, regional and federal Russian legislation to international and foreign acts, makes this study unique. Preserving the scientific continuity laid down in the first book — the Institutes of Financial Security, special attention is paid to the consideration of financial security risks in its separate spheres: budgetary, tax and public banking systems, the system of monetary circulation, the sphere of gold and foreign currency reserves, financial markets, and the monograph supplemented by a study of risks in such areas as compulsory state social insurance, circulation of precious metals and precious stones, anti-money laundering.

For scientific workers, practicing lawyers and economists, officials of state and municipal bodies, teachers, graduate students, students of law schools studying in the legal and economic specialties, with in    depth study of the problems of ensuring financial security and financial and legal support for the state.

The monograph is the second book from the trilogy devoted to the study of the legal aspects ensuring the financial security of the Russian Federation. The presented work is aimed at forming an integrated and systematic approach to the theoretical and legal identification of the financial security risks essence and determining risk modifications. In the monograph, the genesis of the concept of risks (philosophical, theoretical, legal, economical, financial, etc.) is scrutinized with emphasis on the basic concept of financial security risks. A legal mechanism for managing financial security risks is disclosed, including the problems of their identificationand assessment, as well as the features of their prevention, minimization of consequences and liquidation; the system of bodies authorized to manage risks is also studied.

The multilevel analysis of the legal regulation of the most acute issues of financial security risk management, from acts of local self-government bodies, regional and federal Russian legislation to international and foreign acts, makes this study unique. Preserving the scientific continuity laid down in the first book — the Institutes of Financial Security, special attention is paid to the consideration of financial security risks in its separate spheres: budgetary, tax and public banking systems, the system of monetary circulation, the sphere of gold and foreign currency reserves, financial markets, and the monograph supplemented by a study of risks in such areas as compulsory state social insurance, circulation of precious metals and precious stones, anti-money laundering.

For scientific workers, practicing lawyers and economists, officials of state and municipal bodies, teachers, graduate students, students of law schools studying in the legal and economic specialties, with in    depth study of the problems of ensuring financial security and financial and legal support for the state.

Academic mobility is one of the crucial concepts in contemporary education, which demonstrates global processes in education sphere. Internationalisation of education, which is irrevocably linked to the concept of academic mobility, had risen to prominence in the last 30 years along with globalisation processes.

De Groof J. and Willems K., Law and Higher Education in the Flemish Community, in Cheol Shin J. and Nuno Teixeira P. (eds.), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Springer, 2017. (Forthcoming).

The identification and support of talented students is one of the priorities of educational policy in the Russian Federation. There is currently a wide range of regulatory legal acts aimed at organizing work and support for students who have demonstrated outstanding ability. This article considers both direct support for talented students such as scholarships, and indirect measures: improving educators’ professional skills, developing model programs for general education, creating information portals to support talented students, etc.  

The study explores the main methods that are used to identify gifted students at both foreign and Russian schools: academic competitions, earned grades, the administration of special tests, and teacher opinions about the individual academic performance of their students. The authors note that none of the criteria are universally used insofar as it is impossible to provide a perfect formal measure of student talent that can identify students who think outside the box and have unique skills but who do poorly on standardized tests during the educational process. It is argued that to more effectively identify talented youth, we should use all of the methods taken as a whole without preferring any single approach to another one. The article also analyzes the main tools that are used to support talented students: scholarships and grants, preferential admission at universities, enrollment at special schools for gifted children and K–11 schools associated with universities, special classes, extracurricular studies and summer schools, and special centers for gifted children. Particular attention is paid to how special educational programs and methods for working with gifted children should be implemented at schools and to how teachers should work with parents and teacher assistants. The article provides a retrospective analysis of the measures that the Government of the Russian Federation has used since 1999 to identify and support gifted students. The authors conclude that the current laws that regulate this area are fairly contradictory. They frequently fail to specify the mechanisms that should be used to implement the provisions of the program documents.

De Groof J. and Willems K., Systems and Institutions, in Cheol Shin J. and Nuno Teixeira P. (eds.), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Springer, 2017. (Forthcoming).

In the world there are not many countries with the secular nature of education. The Russian legislation establishes secular nature of education in state and municipal schools. Secular nature of education in Russia is visible in the regulation of school uniforms and teaching «The Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics» at school. The article contains the analysis of the regional acts educational organization’s acts on school uniform and jurisprudence.  Also the article contains the results of research on the second aspect of the secular nature of education in Russia – the subject «The Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics» established by Federal State Educational Standards. The authors conclude that the general education in Russia is not completely secular in several aspects. Further development of jurisprudence, legislation or education system can change the situation: religious aspects could be included in school life or more strictly settle the secular nature of school education.

Financial law aspects of school autonomy in Russian are analyzed in this article. The main research question: does the founder have the opportunity to influence on school curriculum. At present, such influence is possible within the framework of the participation of representatives of founders in the work of the governing councils of schools in accordance with the legislation on education. However, as the analysis of a number of normative legal acts of the subjects of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies showed, the influence of the founder is possible during the approval of the state (municipal) assignment. The educational program contains a set of indicators that have a value expression, and in fact is an expanded version of the state (municipal) assignment. In turn, the state (municipal) assignment, and accordingly, budget resources are formed by the subject of the Russian Federation and the municipal bodies on the basis of departmental lists of services. This situation creates a basis for violating the autonomy of schools in Russia in the issue of determining school curricular and is embedded in the internal contradiction between the law on education and budget legislation.

The article discusses the changes in labor relations between the scientific and teaching staff and educational institutions of higher education concerning with the providing of an effective contract. Particular attention is paid to the definition of criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the scientific and teaching staff. The author notes that the system of evaluating the effectiveness of scientific and teaching workers should be based on several groups of clear criteria, including the weight of every criterion in points or other units. Effective contract system should be based solely on the merits of the system, rather than penalties. Irrelevant or subjective criteria, such as the students’ ratings, fellow ratings volume of funds attracted to the university cannot be taken into consideration. We analyze the procedure for determining the remuneration in accordance with the effective contracts. With the introduction of effective contract the structure of rewards of academic staff remains the same and includes guarantied and stimulating parts, where the guarantied part of the remuneration is much smaller. “Stimulus” to comply the effective contract should be created through the indicators established in the relevant local acts of educational organizations of higher education.