DOI: 10.25136/2409-7136.2018.5.26711

Abstract: The subject of the research is the regulations and laws of the Russian Federation that set forth an order of secondary employment at a higher educational organisation as well as researches, legal acts and law enforcement act devoted to the question of prevention and management of conflicts of interests. The authors focus on cases when a conflict of interests may arise because an individual works as a head of an educational organisation (rector or vice principal) and as a professor (department head) at the same time. In their research the authors have used the dialectical research method as well as structured-system, formal law and other methods of research. The results of the research cast light on the drawbacks of the legal regulation and methodological support of prevention and management of a conflict of interests in cases when an individual works as a head of an educational organisation and department head at the same time. The fact that there are no official explanations or recommendations of the federal authorities regarding the problem as well as contradictory judicial practice prove the importance of such analysis of corruption in social relations in cases of internal secondary employment at a higher education institution. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2018.1.25323

Abstract: This article presents the results of work of the third Siberian Anti-Corruption Forum with international participation “Anti-corruption Security of Electoral process: State and Prospect” that was held on December 7, 2017 in the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk). Rich program of the event allowed viewing the key problems of examination and prevention of corruption in electoral process form various perspectives. Among the forum participants were the leading Russian and foreign scholars, heads and employees of the law enforcement agencies, representatives of government authorities, mass media, and civil society institutions. The key topics of the scientific practical dialogue became the general questions of corruption control in the Russian Federation, as well as specific issues of examination and organization of prevention of electoral corruption. The forum participants have discussed the major trends in development of the state anti-corruption policy in the area of protection of electoral rights of the citizens; formulated a number of propositions aimed at increasing efficiency of preventing corruption during the organization and conduct of elections; as well as acknowledged the need for implementation of the extensive anti-corruption awareness and education program for the majority of subjects of the electoral process.