Анализа на последниот предлог за изменување и дополнување на Законот за енергетика од јули 2012

Author(s): Sonja Zuber,Ana Stojilovska / Language(s): Macedonian / Publication Year: 2012

Во Македонија последниве месеци се подготвува ново изменување и дополнување на Законот за енергетика кој беше усвоен во февруари 2011 година. Процесот како таков не е спорен, имено државните институции, секогаш имаат право да предложуваат измени во постоечките норми и регулативи за нивно допрецизирање или подобрување со цел нивна подобра имплементација на терен. Сепак, она што се појавува како континуиран проблем во Република Македонија е хроничниот недостаток на дебата за законски решенија и политики, која дококолку постои најчесто не дава простор за придонес од граѓанското општество, како што во случајов е очигледно со секторот за енергетика. Ова е дел од традицијата во односите помеѓу институциите на државата и останатите сектори во општеството, бидејќи институциите немаат воспоставено јасни канали за соработка со граѓанскиот сектор и неретко гледаат на истиот со недоверба.

Аналітичні моделі політики ґендерної рівності

Author(s): Stepan V. Yankovsky / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 1/2011

Gender politics marked a clear attempt to transform the theoretical achievements of feminism in the real circumstances of political life. In Ukraine, gender politics is one of the main areas of social policy, debates on gender issues covering areas of the State Legislative Activities, the symbolic space of national identity, development of the basis of political community and civil society, international cooperation. Analytical model of gender equality to differentiate value terms, promotes clarity, clarifies constructive substance caused her problems.

Антикорупционни политики срещу завладяването на държавата

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2014

In the tenth Corruption Assessment Report, the Center for the Study of Democracy provides an overview of the state of corruption and anticorruption in Bulgaria in 2013 – 2014. The report is produced within the framework of the Southeast Europe Leadership for Development and Integrity initiative (SELDI), which provides a comparative perspective for nine countries in Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey). The report’s findings are based on the state-of-the-art Corruption Monitoring System, and are complemented with recommendations on anti-corruption policies. The report argues that Bulgaria needs bold institutional anti-corruption reforms and personal commitment at the highest level in the judiciary and the executive to tackle state capture and wide-spread administrative corruption.

АНТИКОРУПЦІЙНІ МАРКЕРИ В ПОЛІТИЧНІЙ СВІДОМОСТІ УКРАЇНЦІВ: СОЦІОЛОГІЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ

Author(s): Olena Vоlоdymyrivna Volianska / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 2/2019

Problem setting. Assessments of perception and attitude towards corruption are the basis of most of the monitoring of anticorruption potential in the world as well as in Ukraine. They are most often the subject of scientific discourse. However, unresolved issues are related not so much to the measurement as to the factors that determine the peculiarities of the perception of corruption.Analysis of actual research. The problem of corruption was widely studied in the works of such prominent Western scholars as G. Broadman, G. Davos, D. Kaufman, P. Mauro, V. Miller, S. Rose-Exerman, V. Dances, E. Tebaldi, J. Helman, M. Horton et al. Among the Russian and Ukrainian researchers, corruption problems should be mentioned by L. Bagryi- Shakhmatov, O. Baranovsky, A. Bovu, Y. Kuzminov, M. Melnyk, T. Koshechkin and others like that. Issues of effective prevention and counteraction of corruption, implementation of anticorruption policy, cooperation between civil society and authorities in combating corruption were investigated by Ukrainian researchers such as V. Martynenko, A. Mikhnenko, E. Makarenko, S. Kravchenko, O. Sosnin, Yu. Kannish, E. Nevmerzhitsky and many others.The purpose of this article is the analysis the factors that determine the peculiarities of perceptions of corruption in Ukraine and thus explain the phenomenon of low anticorruption potential.Presenting the main material. Corruption counteraction requires definite and consistent ideas about the essence and forms of corrupt behavior. In other words, in the course of development and implementation of a national anticorruption policy, it is important to consider existing standards or stereotypes in the understanding of corruption. People rely on such standards in their assessments of various dimensions of corruption, which, sometimes, differ from a legislative vision of the essence and forms of corruption entirely. In the countries where the process of implementation of the international anticorruption conventions containing fundamental or model descriptions of elements of corruption crimes has not been completed, the picture is even more complicated. For instance, prior to June 2009 (the first attempt to pass “the anticorruption package”), only an insignificant number of administrative offences was classified as corruption under the Ukrainian law. At the same time, various types of actions were regarded as corruption both by the public and by politicians.From a legal standpoint, there is presumed knowledge of the law. In other words, for the purposes of law enforcement, it is presumed that every citizen is aware of the types of actions that are considered corruption crimes or administrative corruption offences in a given society. However, social reality considerably deviates from the regulatory model of the anticorruption laws. Besides, the problem in this case is much more complex than a mere knowledge of respective legal provisions.Conclusions. In the public opinion, corruption may take various forms; and a model described in an anticorruption law is not always acceptable for people. Moreover, there are types of actions that look like corruption but are not corruption from a legal perspective; conversely, circumstances that may not look corrupt at first sight are corruption under the law. It is very important to determine how respondents understand corruption and how they distinguish its various forms in specific everyday situations. From a sociocultural perspective, perceived assessments of corruption depend on the public conceptions of corruption.The problem has received essentially no attention in the studies conducted in Ukraine. To an extent, an explanation could be that there were no legal experts in the research groups carrying these surveys out and that the conceptions of sociologists in respect of corruption were, at best, incomplete or superficial, because they covered only most common forms of corrupt conduct, i.e. bribery and abuse of power. Legal subtleties associated with the definition of offenders, elements of crime, types of liability and correlation between moral and legal aspects etc. have been left without attention of the methodology designers.In this case, these findings could be used as «background information» in the interpretation of findings received in respect of the public perceptions of corruption and the extent of involvement in corrupt relations.

АРМІЯ І СУСПІЛЬСТВО: ОСМИСЛЕННЯ ВЗАЄМОДІЇ

Author(s): Mikhail Petrovich Trebin / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 2/2017

Awareness of the complexity of the interaction between the army and society led to the creation of a number of modern concepts of interpretation of this interaction. In the most general logical and epistemological analysis of these concepts can be divided into two major classes: first class – attribute concepts that focus on the army as an attribute of society; second grade – relational concepts that focus on the interaction between the army and society in terms of relations elementary and complex communicative level. The attribute concepts, in turn, can be divided into systemic and structural and functional, synergistic, instrumental power and potential and volitional concept. Systemic and structural and functional concepts are associated with the identification of a complex systemic structure of society, that is, the aggregate of relations between the elements of the whole, preserving their stability under various kinds of transformations and changes and determining the role and place of each element, its functions in the life activity of this system (structure). Synergetic concept focuses on cooperative, coherent and self-consistent processes that occur in complex nonlinear systems, updates the first such aspects as self- organization, non-linearity, openness, fluctuations dissipative structures, structure-attractors and others. Instrumental and power concept focuses on methods of mass society and achieve social outcomes. This approach is instrumental function updates the army and army considers the nature of the interaction of society and in view of the power functions of the army, the need to ensure its normal functioning of society. Potentially and willed concept out of primate volitional component in the analysis of the interaction of the army and society.The relational concepts of interaction between the army and society interpret this process through the prism of social relations. Within the framework of the relational approach, behavioral, integrationist, communicative and poststructuralist concepts are distinguished. Behavioral concepts reduce the whole variety of the process of interaction between the army and society to the relations between them at the macro-, meso- and micro- levels. Interactions concept of considering the whole process of interaction between the army and the society as a special relationship, which act as a way to share resources between the subjects of social action or asymmetric interactions with the change of actors, roles in the distribution of zones of influence, as well as a kind of «stabilizer» in the total system of social relations, which provides a means of conflict management that constantly arise over the distribution and redistribution of material, human and other resources, social harmony and political consensus. Communication concept considering the process of interaction between the military and society as a hierarchic and multiply mediated mechanism of communication between the actors of social reality that is unfolding in the social field and space communications. Poststructuralist conception of the process under consideration army interaction and society, not just as the relationship of subjects, as well as a kind of modality of communication, that is, «long-term relationship», impersonal because his subjects are in every moment to stress the lines and proportions of mutual forces that are constantly changing .These concepts reflect different approaches to the analysis of the interaction between the army and society, identify trends and principles of cooperation, possible ways of harmonization within the dominant pattern of a concept. However, the holistic concept of interaction between the army and society can be created only examined the characteristics of this interaction in all spheres of life (economic, social, political and spiritual).

Асоцијација за демократски инцијативи – АДИ Гостивар. Организација на жени на град Скопје

Author(s): Albert Musliu,Tomka Dilevska / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 3/2009

Although the concept of anti-discrimination is not a substitution of the anomalies in society that are created as a product of long-term discrimination and exclusion of individuals depending on their ethnic, gender, religious and other belongings and specifics, the adoption of a legal framework for combating discrimination should provide the results of former long-term discrimination will not deepen further, as well as to prevent new cases of discrimination in the future.

Аспекти на патернализма и популизма на българския социалистически модел (държавната грижа и закрила в нормативните актове)

Author(s): Ina Pachamanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2018

The article seeks to ascertain whether and to what extent the state policy of “care” and “protection” of the family, woman-mother, children and youth in the period of socialism in Bulgaria is the result of the paternalism and populism typical of the Bulgarian socialist model.

Банален глобализъм vs. електронен национализъм

(Функционирането на националната комуникационна система и интернет медиите)

Author(s): Peter Ayolov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2017

After the introduction of the term "Banal nationalism" by Michael Billig in 1995, other "Banal" ideologies such as "Globalism", "Americanism" and "Europeanism", emerged on a symbolic level in the global mass media and display “banal” ideals and superficial sense of identity in certain groups of people. The "Banal nationalism" acts in the form of "soft" Propaganda and censors all the inconvenient truths of the nation's past, with the help of national mass media repeating the same national myths. With the development of the Internet media, this system is disturbed, and all the facts of the nation's shared history become available and many of the myths have been defeated. The ideology of globalization takes the place of nationalism and speaks about the decline of national states and the emergence of a New Global Order. This change and the imposition of "banal globalism" in the mass media has the opposite effect on the local Internet communities and social networks and brings a revival of nationalism in a new "electronic" form. This article focuses on the role of Internet media and social networks and the functioning of the National system of communication and the emergence of "Electronic nationalism" as a new form of creating and maintaining a national identity in some countries.

Бежанецът – социална траектория през конститутивните фигури на чуждостта

Author(s): Martin Kanoushev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 45/2016

This article is an attempt at a sociological reconstruction of the refugee’s social situation – the radical historical metamorphosis of the fi gure of the ‘stranger’ in the 20th century. The analysis focuses on the fi gure of the refugee аs an absolute form of alienation (as a result of exclusion) from the social world. The first step reproduces the key moments of Georg Simmel’s study on the “sociological form of the stranger as a synthesis between remoteness and closeness”. The second step traces out the constitutive elements in Alfred Schutz’s conception of “the stranger as an adult individual of our time and civilization, who tries to be permanently accepted or at least tolerated by a group which he approaches”. The third step, through the analytical strategies of Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben, represents an endeavor to restore the historical conditions of possibility of the fi gure of the refugee: as a ‘boundary-concept’ which puts in question such fundamental categories as those of the nation-state, the social link between birth and nation as well as between human and citizen. Such a reconstruction promises to liberate an interpretative fi eld for categorical reactivation aiming at consistent politics where the refugee question will not be separated and excluded from the structure of the national state order, or from the logic of human rights. Nor will the refugee be an exile among insoluble ethical problems.

БОЛЕСТТА АЛЦХАЙМЕР – (АНТИ)ИЗКУСТВОТО НА ЗАБРАВАТА. СОЛИДАРНОСТ СЛЕД ИДЕНТИЧНОСТТА

Author(s): Stoyan Stavru / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2016

The article discusses the autobiographical approach to identity in the context of Alzheimer's disease. The author studies various types of memory and how they are affected by the disease. The article questions the philosophical and legal discourse that defines the person in terms of his/her ability to store and arrange memories. Finally, the possibility of solidarity after identity is discussed.

БОЛЕСТТА КАТО НОВ АНТРОПОЛОГИЧЕСКИ ХОРИЗОНТ

КРИТИЧНАТА АНТРОПОЛОГИЯ НА АЙВЪН ИЛИЧ

Author(s): Olga Vlasova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2016

The article discusses the problem of disease in the critical anthropology of Ivan Illich. It examines some of his works, hitherto not translated into Russian, devoted to medicine and the body, disease and health, in which Illich develops a strategy of radical social critique, reassesses the status of medicine in contempo-rary society, and proposes his own view on health and the healthcare system.

Борбата за признание и политиката на гнева (Франсис Фукуяма, Идентичност. Борбата за признание и политиката на гнева, Изток-Запад, 2019)

Author(s): Burian Alexiev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2019

Борбе за ослобођење Нове Вароши 3–5. септембра 1941.

Author(s): Milutin Živković / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2015

The struggle for the liberation of Nova Varoš in early September 1941 stemmed from disaffection of the local Orthodox population, caused by killing, looting, arrests, and mistreatmant by the Croatian regime in the Nova Varoš District. Patriotism was also a factor in this struggle, as well as a desire for liberation, which could been seen in the attack on an shortly after Italians first appeared in this area. Most of the rebel forces were Serbian villagers, who were organized and led by local Communists or Četniks from the Ivanjica and Užice Districts. Only the Orthodox population participated in the uprising. Most of the Muslims remained passive or participated with the occupier in the fighting against the Orthodox. The first attack on Nova Varoš was on 3 September 1941. The action, led by members of the local committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was spontaneous and poorly planned – and failed. Italian army forces, which occupied Nova Varoš without a fight on 4 September, were a part of the elite 5th Alpine Division "Pusteria," whose soldiers had fought in Ethiopia, France, and Albania. The battalion "Bolzano" had about 1,000 well-equipped men, with many officers. That was probably the cause of the defeat of insurgent forces in the second attack on the town on 5 September 1941. Although this attempt to liberate Nova Varoš was better organized then the first one, as can be seen from the stealthy seizure of strategic positions by the Serbs; a synchronized initial assault that surprised the defenders; the six-hour battle and six attacks on the town, during which the Italian troops suffered losses, it eventually failed. Due to Italian unwillingness to join the comprehensive action against the Orthodox in a Nova Varoš District, most of them kept their arms and quickly re-activated. The struggle in the vicinity of the liberated territory around Užice also prevented the Italians from controlling this battle space. They fled Nova Varoš in early December 1941 when it was liberated by partisan units. Italian occupation authorities returned to the city just seven months later, in mid-1942.

Българи и руснаци днес: разминаване на два комплекса

Author(s): Deyan Kiuranov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 47/2017

This is the story of the modification of a hypothesis about the attitudes of Bulgarians towards Russians as a result of an empirical survey. The main tenetis that both groups regard one another through two different complexes. The adequacy of the notion of complex in the context is explained (in the sense of Charcot rather than Freud). The Bulgarian complex is vassality: Bulgaria is/should be a vassal to suzerain Russia, therefore expecting protection for services rendered. The Russian complex is imperialism: Bulgaria is/should be a colony of Russia, therefore Russia is under no obligation to Bulgaria regardless of circumstances. As in reality Bulgaria is a member of the EU and NATO, these complexes create misunderstandings that complicate further a relationship that objectively is complex enough.

БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЗЕМЕДЕЛСКА И КООПЕРАТИВНА БАНКА И БЕЖАНСКИЯТ ВЪПРОС В БЪЛГАРИЯ В КРАЯ НА ВТОРАТА СВЕТОВНА ВОЙНА (СЕПТЕМВРИ 1944 – АПРИЛ 1945 г.)

Author(s): Yordan Mantarliev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2016

The article studies the activities of the Bulgarian Agricultural and Cooperative Bank (BZKB) after World War II, as „the largest banking institution in the economic sphere”, in collecting and reporting statistical data from refugees who in the period 1941–1944, had left for and settled in the so-called „newly liberated lands” in Greek and Yugoslav territory to devote themselves to peaceful and productive economic activities. At the end of World War II, however, when Greece and Yugoslavia re-established their authority in Western Thrace, Vardar Macedonia and the Western Bulgarian Outlands, Bulgaria once again became a refuge for thousands of its citizens full of suffering. The information collected in the branch offices of BZKB about the refugees’ abandoned movable and immovable property was used for the working out of the Bulgarian defence arguments produced at the Paris Peace Conference (July 29 – October 15, 1946) to counter the excessive and absurd Greek financial and territorial claims.

БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ МАЛКИ И СРЕДНИ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ И УЧАСТИЕТО ИМ В УСВОЯВАНЕТО НА СТРУКТУРНИТЕ ФОНДОВЕ НА ЕВРОПЕЙСКИЯ СЪЮЗ. Аналитичен доклад

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2006

After Bulgaria joins the EU in 2007 the country will receive access to the Structural Funds (SF) and the Cohesion Fund of the European Union (EU), which are the main instruments for reducing the economic and social disparities within the Union. The effective management of these proceeds entails good knowledge of the EU Funds’ requirements and thorough preparation at national, regional and local levels both by the public and private sectors, including the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In 2000 in Lisbon, the European Commission and the EU Member States agreed upon the ambitious goal that by 2010 the European Union would have to become the most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world . The instruments and mechanisms to achieve this goal have been outlined in the Lisbon Strategy of the EU. In 2005, an interim review on the progress of the Lisbon Strategy was done, based on which it was concluded that the Union was falling behind in some of its basic parameters, and that the gap between the EU and the leading innovative world economies of the United States and Japan was broadening.

Българските медии и бежанците (2013-2017): интервюта с журналисти за политиките на репрезентация

Author(s): Teodor Spasov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2018

Interviews with randomly selected journalists were conducted within the survey. They all answered the same questions. Here is a list of some of the most important findings: Bulgarian media are more likely to refuse publishing a text on the subject of refugees on the grounds that it is too tolerant to asylum seekers and refugees than on the grounds that it is too intolerant; journalists are much more critical of non-compliance with ethical media principles on“refugees“ in other media than in those outlets they personally occupy; the majority of journalists notice the transformation of refugees into a new image of the enemy in Bulgarian media; according to the journalists,far-right moods concerning refugees are provoked far more by politicians than by journalists; the fears of some journalists to present refugees in a positive light are not related to „standard pressure“ by internal or political intervention, but they are related to people with radical views, friends and families; the journalists’ harassment of their work on „refugees“ is particularly worrying – 1/5 of journalists admit that they have been harassed at least once because they presented refugees in a positive light.

Българските общности в Северна Америка – традиции и съвременност

Author(s): Koyanka Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2016

The article examines the processes of the development of the Bulgarian communities in North America. The main focus is on the history and the current state of the Bulgarian organizations, schools, media contributing to the preservation of the Bulgarian culture and traditions overseas.

Българските общности в Украйна в началото на новото хилядолетие – променящите се погледи

Author(s): Petko Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2016

Българското радио през социализма. Професионалните медийни издания (1944 — 1989)

Author(s): Vyara Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2018

The text presents the results from a research of professional periodicals dedicated to radio and radio journalism during the socialism period in Bulgaria. The research has following aims: to track the topics discussed by the professional community; to search the correlation between ideological and professional content; to ascertain to what extent the foreign experience penetrates into the radio related periodicals.