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PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION - THE JOINT INITIATIVES OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF “LAW AND MODERN STATES” JOURNAL AND THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2014.1.1
The UN General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention against corruption on October 31, 2003, as well as it proclaimed December 9 as International Anti-Corruption Day. The Convention was ratified by 168 States. Russia acceded to the Convention on March 8, 2006. International Anti-Corruption Day is celebrated since 2004.
In the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, on December 9, 2013, on International Anti-Corruption Day, a round table was held on «Civil Society in the Fight against Corruption». It was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, RANEPA (the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), and «Consulting and Legal Protection of the Population Foundation - the founder of our journal. At the roundtable our journal was represented by S.V. Boshno, Doctor of Law, Professor, and as well by A.T. Khidzev and T.M. Tatishvili, specialists in information and communication.
It was an interesting rich event, where presentations were made by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the nominations for the awarding of diplomas and certificates of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The participants of the round table showed an exceptional interest in the issues of combating corruption, conflict of interest, the teaching of anticorruption educational programs and publication of anti-corruption documents.
Round table participants summed up the results of execution of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation from March 13, 2012, No 297 On the national anti-corruption plan for 2012-2013 years and amendments to certain acts of the President of the Russian Federation on the issues of corruption. In the
Decree, the Head of the State instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to ensure conduction annually, on the basis of the federal state budget educational institution of higher professional education «Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration», of educational-methodical seminars for up to three days with participation of up to 85 teachers. Interaction of universities and with RANEPA was carried out under the overall supervision and methodical guidance of Ministry of Education of Russia. High-quality organization of the educational process, highly qualified lecturers provided an opportunity to improve the skills of 115 teachers. Members of the Editorial Board of our journal organized conduction of training seminars.
Participants of seminars represented more than half of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation considers prevention through legal education of learning youth as an important direction of anti-corruption work. Implementation of this direction is possible with the introduction of corresponding information blocks into educational content.
We believe a worthwhile activity is inclusion in the content of jurisprudence law textbooks of chapters, paragraphs with an anti-corruption focus. Thus, in the textbook «Jurisprudence: Foundations of the State and Law» by S.V. Boshno, there is chapter 38 «Legal mechanisms for combating corruption». As result of studying the chapter, the student will know the notion of corruption, forms of corruption, regulatory legal acts in the sphere of combating corruption, the main directions of the state policy in the sphere of combating corruption, international anti-corruption cooperation, anti-corruption expertise. The student will acquire the ability to distinguish resistance, and prevention of corruption, and will possess the skills to identify conflicts of interest, to establish corruption defects of legislation, to conduct basic expert action. All of these knowledge, abilities and skills are extremely useful for the formation of the anti-corruption legal consciousness, bringing up impossibility to bargain (a) bribe.
Certificates of Merit of the Ministry of Education and Science for participation in prevention and combating corruption, as well as for the implementation of the National anti-corruption plan for 2012-2013 years, were awarded to Svetlana Vladimirovna Boshno, editor-in-chief of the journal «Law and Modern States», Head of Political Science and Law Department of the International Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
For active participation in the implementation of anti-corruption education programs, Certificate of Merit was awarded to Nailya Akhmetovna Akhmetova, PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Volgograd State University.
In connection with the publication of scientific works of the anti-corruption orientation («Problems and prospects for combating corruption in the sphere of education», in particular (by the example of the Lipetsk Region — Tambov, 2011), and successful participation in training seminars, Gratitude Award of Ministry of
Ilchenko D., Boshno S. Prevention of corruption - the joint initiatives of the editorial board of «Law and...
Education of Russia was given to Dmitriy Victorovich Sokolov, PhD, Associate Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics of the Lipetsk State Technical University. These are authors of our journal.
Different printing and publishing materials in anti-corruption sphere created by the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and “Consulting and Legal Protection of the Population” Foundation were presented at the round table. Of great interest is the annual Almanac «Anticorruption expertise of normative legal acts» (fig. 1), which has been the result of the participation of the Presidential Academy in implementation of the Federal target program «Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Staff of Innovative Russia» for the period 2009-2013. The Almanac implements an idea formulated by Ministry of Education of Russia, i.e. support for research schools, establishment of young scientists in science. Each issue has articles of professors, associate professors, senior lecturers, postgraduates, undergrauates, students and even schoolchildren.
ЭКСПЕРТИЗА НОРМАТИВНЫХ ПРАВОВЫХ АКТОВ
Антикоррупционная экспертиза нормативных актов
Fig. 1. «Anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts» Almanac
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation at the round table supported the publication of the journal «Law and Modern States». There was noted such a merit of our journal as having a heading «Legislation against Corruption». Each issue of the journal contains articles of an anti-corruption focus. Thus, the number 3 for the 2013 year published articles of N.V. Mamitova, Professor of RANEPA, «Anti-corruption legal policy: problems of formation in modern Russia»;
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of T.M. Tatishvili, postgraduate student of RANEPA, «Anti-corruption expertise in the system of measures to counter and prevent corruption»; of A.A. Ivanov, the undergraduate student of RANEPA, «Peculiarities of legal support in the area of entrepreneurship and combating corruption: comparative legal research». This is an example of the activity of the research school, organizing work on the general subject of scholars of different age and scientific expertise. Ministry of Education of Russia recommended to publish articles, including on combating and preventing corruption, in our journal. National scientists in prestigious foreign science-metric systems, Web of Science and Scopus, is a goal overseen by Ministry of Education of Russia — and that that we are committed.
Dmitry Ilchenko, Head of Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,
Svetlana Boshno, Editor-in-Chief
