Abstract: The article provides the study results of the problems regarding security guarantees in railway transportation. The authors view the key groups of risks, threats and structural vulnerabilities of the infrastructure objects for r ailway t ransportation. T he authors t hen provide the results of modeling methods development and analysis of development of emergency situations at the railway transportation infrastructure objects based upon the formation of structural components and interrelated matrixes, as well as prevention models using the indicator approach. The authors provide the methods for setting and solving of the multi-criteria problem for the optimum placement of indicators within the complicated technical system structures, based upon the criteria of accuracy, completeness, timeliness for detecting failures of various types.

Keywords: t echnical sciences, m anagement, r ailway transportation, structural vulnerability, threat, emergency situation, critical emergency, complicated technical system, indicator approach, table of solutions.

Abstract: The processes of political self-organizations, being typical for the modern post-democratic civil society, are first of all expressed via conventional and non-conventional forms of political participation of citizens in the political processes at the local territorial level. The above-mentioned mechanisms of selforganization are present in the political practice of foreign states, showing their transfer to the level of public management as an inalienable part of the modern governance concept.

Keywords: political science, political self-organization, political participation, local community, political process, public government, social organizations, public relations, political institutions, political culture.

Abstract: The article concerns the specific features of the current stage of relations among the EurAsEC Member States, as well as the transitional mechanism towards the next stage of economic union – the Common Economic Space and its specific features. The formation of supranational body has a top priority in the direction towards the further economic cooperation among the Member States. The author studies the causes for the greater cooperation intensity among the EurAsEC Member States in last two years, and provides hypothesis as to the key moving forces behind the greater integration within the EurAsEC.

Keywords: political science, the Customs Union, Russia, the common economic space, supranational body, cooperation, EurAsEC, WTO, OSCE, SCO.

Abstract: At the time of great migration flow, the Italian approach to migration problems has obvious advantages due to the united position, which is based upon the Italian historical experience and European global policy, and which is aimed not only at the use of cheap labor of migrants, but also at understanding of responsibilities towards them. This article includes analysis of the social vector of development in the migration policy of Italy, which is aimed to strengthen the control over the foreigners entering and residing in Italy, their social adaptation and integration. The Italian experience in this sphere and its migration policy mechanisms are worth studying within the framework of the reform of migration legislation in the Russian Federation. Special attention should be paid to the considerable achievements in fighting illegal migration by raising the social responsibility of the migrants themselves, which may be achieved thanks to the policy of involvement of immigrants into the pension funds and social funds system, so that the immigrants are interested in showing their input, etc.

Keywords: political science, migration policy, legislation of Italy, social responsibility, integration of migrants, illegal migrants, medical aid for migrants, pension payments, coordination, integration.

Abstract: The economic development of Tajikistan is an important stability issue for the Central Asia, and it is also important for the regulation of migration flow to Russia. The principle investment basis for the development in Tajikistan includes its primary conditions, which aim to guarantee the functioning of an economic sector. The free labor force, the legislative basis for the cooperative and dekhan farmer agricultural enterprises, and closeness to China make Tajikistan attractive for the investments into the agriculture, while great climatic diversity of the state makes the livestock breeding complex the main investment bloc for Tajikistan.

Keywords: economics, Tajikistan, livestock breeding, development, agriculture, dekhan farms, industrialization of Tajikistan, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CIS, the Customs Union.

Abstract: It is noted in the article that fighting corruption within the municipal service system is one of anticorruption mechanisms which facilitates implementation of principles of open and public character of government bodies activities. One of the ways to fight corruption in the sphere of municipal service, presupposing openness of information on the activities of municipal officials, and allowing to fight corruption crimes, is limitation of rights of municipal servants. The establishment of limitations of rights of persons working in the sphere of state and municipal service guarantees efficient professional activities within the sphere of competence of state bodies, prevents possible abuse of rights by state and municipal servants, and guarantees the civil rights of servants.

Keywords: jurisprudence, municipal self-government, municipal service, corruption, anti-corruption policy, fighting corruption, anti-corruption legislation, municipal servant, limitation of rights, limitation of freedoms.

Abstract: The article includes characteristics of the strategic management models for the development of agricultural enterprises with the provided predictability level for the outer environment changes. The author provides an algorithm for the choice of strategic management of agricultural enterprise development. The author points out the topicality of providing grounds for specific management models, taking into account specific features of activities, abilities and priorities of an agricultural enterprise within the conditions of outer influences. After the study the author comes to a conclusion that the strategic management should be implemented via the system of strategic models. Due to the variety of vectors and characteristics of outer environment and individual specific features of market subjects, there is no such thing as a progressive or an outdated strategic management model. The further development of social relations and management science may produce new models, which shall be applicable for problems solving in different conditions. The statement of inapplicability of some existing strategic management models may be due only to a simplified vision of outer environment parameters, which may change under the influence of the same factors in the same way in all of the economic spheres.

Keywords: strategic development management, development strategy, agricultural enterprise, model, outer environment, strategic decisions, systemic approach, outer factors, characteristics of an organization, changes in the environment.

Abstract: This article is devoted to the comparative analysis of legal regulation of oil and gas extraction in the continental shelf in the Federal Republic of Brazil and in Russia, as well as to the new legislation of Brazil, strengthening the role of the state in this sphere, and guaranteeing national security and protection of state sovereignty.

Keywords: jurisprudence, continental shelf, Brazil, use of subsurface resources, oil, concession agreement, product sharing agreement, offshore.

Abstract: Today in Russia the role of ethnical factor within the conditions of political and administrative reform is aimed to strengthen the regions and governments of the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation, allowing to balance the centralist tendencies of the federal center and to revitalize the development of federalism in Russia.

Keywords: political science, political regional studies, ethnic policy, civil service, federalism, ethnic and regional specific features, recruiting, clans, national specific features of a region, title nation.

Abstract: The article presents characteristic features of energy strategy of the foreign political activities of Russia in the CIS territory. The author notes the key priorities of the energy policy and diplomacy of Russia in the CIS, as well as the key directions and perspectives for the cooperation in the power industry.

Keywords: political science, national security, energy strategy, foreign policy, energy cooperation, international relations, CIS, the Central Asia, transit of hydrocarbons, conflict of interests.

Abstract: The article contains an attempt to define the key directions for a complex study of metropolises within the object field of political science. The author points out the perspectives for the political scientific analysis of metropolises and possible scientific issues in this sphere. The high ratio of population growth has became one of the most important specific features in most states in the world in the second half of XX century. It was the reason for the so-called “city revolution” and the rapid explosive growth of a number of cities and quantity of their inhabitants. This tendency was present in almost all the regions in the world.

Keywords: political science, politics, society, metropolis, Russia, international relations, transportation, values, urbanization, interests.

Abstract: The article concerns entrepreneurial risk as a term. The author analyzes inner and outer nature of entrepreneurial risk and the necessity of protection, as well as entrepreneurial profit as a result of innovative activity and the source for the risk management. The author evaluates the mechanism of introduction (movement) of an innovative idea of an entrepreneur as compared with the transfer of topical information.

Keywords: jur ispr udence, nat ure, ent repreneurial, risk, combination, factor, innovation, need, debtor, profit.