In market conditions and alternative decision-making, determining the reasons for changes in results at the company level becomes an integral part of the management process and its audit by the owner. The article considers the tools that allow this to be done. Factor analysis can not only reflect the reasons for changes in the company’s income, but also provide an opportunity to compare them with the average market data. The object of the study is the results that are formed due to controlled factors in a tourism company. The purpose of the work is formulated as the creation of models for assessing the managers’ decisions in the tourism business. The objectives of the study are to determine such factors that are available for measurement within the company and the market and reflect the features of tourism activities (number of tourists, tour packages, number of simultaneously traveling tourists), and are not based on universal approaches to assessing the activities of commercial companies. Methodology and research methods are as follows: abstract logical approach. Generalization of the results is carried out through formalization in the form of a deterministic model. The models proposed for assessing the activities of the tourism business allow measuring the contribution of each factor to the company’s income and comparing this impact with the behavior of other market participants. This allows the manager to adjust strategies for the next planning period. It also provides an opportunity for an objective assessment of the decisions made in the current year for both the manager and the business owner. The use of factor analysis models is demonstrated using the example of an Irkutsk tourism company, data on the Russian and regional markets. For an objective assessment of activities, it is recommended at the federal and regional statistics level to reduce to uniformity the reporting form filled out by tourism organizations and the official data posted by Rosstat.
n the context of the global energy transition and growing climate challenges, Central Asia is acquiring strategic importance within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative as a key region for the development of renewable energy. The object of the study is energy cooperation between China and the Central Asian countries within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, and the subject is the potential, practices and barriers to interaction in the field of new energy, including solar, wind and hydropower. The purpose of this work is to comprehensively analyze cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries in the field of new energy. The objectives include assessing the potential of renewable energy sources in the region, reviewing ongoing projects with China’s participation in solar, wind and hydropower, as well as identifying the main infrastructural, institutional and geopolitical barriers. The methodological basis of the study is a systems approach, which used comparative and case analysis, as well as the study of scientific literature in several languages, which made it possible to comprehensively assess the features of energy cooperation between China and the Central Asian countries. The presented research results confirm that Central Asia has great potential for renewable energy, but the new energy cooperation with China in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has achieved remarkable results, but the overall progress is uneven, facing multiple challenges such as geopolitical competition, aging infrastructure, lack of green finance, shortage of human resources, cross-border water resource disputes and social risks. In conclusion, to achieve sustainable development and unleash the potential of new energy cooperation, Central Asian countries and China need to strengthen policy dialogue, improve green financing mechanisms, promote energy governance and infrastructure modernization, and effectively manage socio-political risks.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the institutional foundations of age-oriented public policy in the context of global demographic aging. Despite the growing recognition of age as a politically significant category, in many countries the fragmented age agenda remains the dominance of paternalistic practices and weak institutional sensitivity to the problems of ageism and age segregation. The object of the research is the age policy of states; the subject is the institutional forms and mechanisms for implementing the policy of age inclusivity. The purpose of the work is to analyze the conceptual and institutional foundations of age mainstreaming as a strategy for integrating the age dimension into public administration processes. The research solves the following tasks: substantiation of the theoretical and methodological foundations of age inclusion; analysis of international and national strategies of age mainstreaming; identification of institutional practices that ensure the involvement of older citizens in public and political life; identification of challenges to the implementation of age-sensitive policies at the state level. The research methodology is based on institutional analysis, normative political science and a comparative approach to the political practices of demographic adaptation. As a result, it is shown that age inclusivity requires rethinking old age as an active stage of life and transforming the architecture of public administration. The barriers to the institutionalization of age mainstreaming are revealed, including weak interagency coordination, insufficient representation of the elderly in government, and limited normative recognition of age as a factor of inequality. The importance of international experience (UN, WHO, EU) is noted, as well as Russian initiatives within the framework of the national Demography project are analyzed. In general, the state policy towards the elderly population is at the stage of formation, and despite some progress, there is no systematic implementation of the principles of age mainstreaming, as well as interdepartmental coordination of actions. This poses risks to sustainable development and increases age inequalities. It is concluded that age inclusion is not only a social necessity, but also a political challenge that requires the systematic integration of the age dimension into the policy of sustainable development, equality and democracy
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of theoretical concepts relevant to modern political science discourse, considering the transformation of national identity in the context of the educational policy influence. The object of the research is educational policy as a specialized political resource, a set of technologies and strategies that influence the change of national identity through its own system of institutions and institutions. The subject of the study is the concentration of attention on one of the indicators of «soft power», which can be considered an objective and reliable criterion. The purpose of the study is to identify specific aspects of the influence of educational policy as a tool of «soft power» on the processes of transformation of national identity in the context of theoretical conceptualization. Research objectives: a preliminary analysis of key theoretical approaches to determining the forms of influence of educational policy as a tool of «soft power» on the transformation of national identity; clarification of criteria for the development of subsequent communication policy strategies and their systematization. The methodology of this research has been largely developed taking into account certain political science vectors, is aimed at solving current problems and includes: analysis of concepts and theories that consider educational policy as a tool of «soft power» and ways of its influence on the formation of the value foundations of national identity developed in foreign political science; comparison and systematization of theoretical approaches used in Russian political science, to study the specified list of issues. The results of the study indicate that the process of national identity formation is a multilevel and multidimensional system that requires an integrated approach and coordination of key vectors in the conceptualization of political science meanings. The authors state that in the context of globalization and cultural heterogeneity, the role of educational policy as a tool of «soft power» is increasing, contributing to the strengthening of national identity, the preservation of cultural heritage and the formation of a sense of belonging to the national community.
The relevance of the work is determined by the importance of solving the problem of processing chromium-containing stored tailings, which represent a promising resource for increasing the production of chromium concentrate and reducing the environmental impact on the environment. The object of this study is the processing of chromium-containing tailings using flotation technology. The subject of the study is samples of stored tails of the Donskoy Mining and Processing Complex. The purpose of the research is to determine the optimal parameters of the flotation enrichment of the chromium-containing tailings. The main objectives of the research are to determine the rational interval of the fraction size of chromium-containing tailings, the processing of which by the flotation method would be effective from the point of view of obtaining a concentrate with acceptable recovery of a valuable component, and to determine the optimal collector consumption, ensuring the required final results of flotation enrichment in plane the recovery and quality of the chromium concentrate. To select rational enrichment modes, a method for optimizing the flotation enrichment of stored chromium-containing tailings has been applied, which is based on the use of a new economically oriented criterion - a function of the cost of non-recoverable metal and losses due to a decrease in the quality of the concentrate obtained (reduced chromium losses).The results of the conducted research are the optimal parameters of flotation enrichment of stored chromium-containing tailings. The optimal collector consumption has been determined, at which the lowest value of the reduced chromium losses is achieved. When using the selected collector flow rate, the Cr2 O3 content is achieved in the range of 47–50 %, which corresponds to the M3 concentrate grade, subject to restrictions on the mass fraction of iron and silicon oxide. It is shown that the range of fineness of the tail fraction chosen for flotation enrichment, despite the different flotation capacity of individual fineness classes, does not require adjustment by additional grinding or additional desliming. The main conclusion from the conducted research is to substantiate the possibility and expediency of using flotation technology for processing stored chromium-containing tailings of a wide range of fineness, which makes it possible to obtain branded M3 concentrate with 72–76 % Cr2 O3 recovery tailings using flotation technology.
