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The family-friendly university audit (“audit familiengerechte hochschule”) is studied. The audit is available to German universities in order to support a familyfriendly working environment. Practices of an auditor coordinating several workshops for rectorate, HR department and functionaries, as well as representatives of all university groups are considered. The experience of the auditing at the University of Applied Sciences – Public Administration and Finance, Ludwigsburg is analyzed.

Liability measures provided by the legislation and reports of the controlling bodies are analyzed. The conclusion is drawn that it is necessary to strengthen administrative and criminal liability for violations of the law in the course of public procurement. The author proposes tools to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and openness of public procurement.

The instrumentalism of sociology in the system of cultural studies as a scientific method on the example of the development of the culture of reconstructivism is considered. Cultural studies are presented as a direction accumulating the instrumental experience of sociology. Interdisciplinarity as a principle of scientific methodology assimilates the experience of various intellectual movements, problematization of the value content and social functions of culture, its diverse phenomena. The new possibilities of developing the culturological concept of temporalism are revealed.

The authors suggest and substantiate a typology of the state policy of remembrance implemented in post-Soviet States: the policy based on the principles of historicism, mythology domination, hybrid policy. Approaches to scientific state institutions activities in the field of modern history, as well as practices of civil society and state institutions functioning in the educational policy are analyzed.

Current conditions that determine the widespread development of domestic tourism, the search for new tourist products and services within the state are considered. The empirical basis of this article is the results of a sociological study of the main directions of the development of domestic tourism, conducted in April 2021 at the Department of Sociology and Information Technologies. It is summarized that improving the quality of tourist services, as well as complete and accessible information about tourist products will help to increase demand in the region by attracting potential tourists.

Russian Federation constituent entities on the world stage through the implementation of international and foreign economic relations are studied. It is established that political and public law relations to regulate the Russian Federation subjects’ international activity are actively developing in the context of increasing volume of Russian Federation subjects international and foreign economic relations.

Goals and reasons for the creation of federal districts in the Russian Federation and the institution of plenipotentiary representatives of the President of the Russian Federation in federal districts are studied. The problematics of the study is the current normative legal regulation of the federal districts functioning. The author proposes amending legislation on federal districts in order to systematize legal regulation in the sphere of interaction of public authorities located on a federal district territory.

Regulatory and scientific approaches to understanding environmental control (supervision) are investigated. Special attention is paid to the problem of correlation between the categories “environmental control” and “environmental supervision”. The conclusion is made about the need for their differentiation in the legislation.

Russian scholars’ approaches to interpretations of the terms “image” and “representation” are analyzed. Essential differences between the notions in relation to the way regions may be portrayed in the media landscape are emphasized. An authorial definition of a region’s media image is formulated.

The article is a review of the Interuniversity Round Table “Legal System and Personality: In Memory of N.I. Matuzov” which took place in the Sity of Saratov at Povolzhsky Institute of Management named after P.A. Stolypin on June 28, 2021.