Improving and developing the national payment system is the key to sustainable development of the entire economy of the country. One of the such current areas is implementation of a new financial instrument in the Russian Federation - the Digital Ruble. The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept and legal nature of the digital ruble, as well as the identification of problem areas of domestic legislation regulating the issue and circulation of the digital ruble. The paper examines various doctrinal approaches to the problem of legislative regulation of digital currencies, digital financial assets and the digital ruble. It is concluded that the concept of «Digital ruble as the third form of money» does not correspond to legal reality, and the new financial instrument should be classified as non-cash money. Problem areas of domestic legislation regulating the legal status of the digital ruble are noted.

The end of the Napoleonic Wars brought new additions to the British colonial empire. It was replenished with possessions in Europe, including the Ionian Islands, which had experience of their own statehood: at the end of the 18th – beginning of the 19th centuries, there existed an autonomous Septinsular Republic under the supreme authority of the Ottoman Sultan and a protectorate of Russia. Historians disagree on how to characterize British rule on the islands: in Greece it is often called colonial, while the Anglo-American tradition has softer assessments. This article analyzes the protectorate regime established by Great Britain on the islands (1815–1864) and discusses whether it can be considered colonial. On this purpose, we examine the conditions under which Great Britain obtained a protectorate over the archipelago; study the fundamental documents on which it was founded; give an overview of the policies of the Lords High Commissioners of the island state and its political development; and analyze the attitude of the local population to British rule.

The set of memorable dates is one of the supporting elements in the toolkit of historical policy, implemented. This toolkit is applied in the form of anniversaries - sets of complex measures to update historical memory. The objective of this article is to identify the typological features of the "anniversary" practice in the historical policy of Russia in the twentieth century. The basic research method is to identify anniversary cases, based on those memorable dates that played the most important role in historical policy at different stages of the existence of Russian statehood. The result of the study was the identification of two basic tasks of the "anniversary" practice. The first of them is the formalization of the transformation of public consciousness, following a change in state policy or public reaction to this policy. The second task is to mobilize public consciousness to achieve the goals of either state policy or public activity. In each of the three cases under consideration, these two functions were present, but in different proportions, which influenced the nature and results of each specific anniversary practice.

This article analyzes the forestry business of the Ryabushinsky family in the historical context of changes in the entire commercial enterprise of the dynasty. The changes in strategic management goals in the forestry business are examined as elements of the management system. Only those strategic goals are analyzed which led to the creation of new business ventures. The study focuses on the resource-based approach as a factor influencing the change in the strategic management goals of the Ryabushinsky family's business.

Article 6 of the 1977 Constitution of the USSR assigned the Communist Party a special status as a "guiding force in society." The loss of this status deprived the CPSU of the opportunity to be the exclusive and most numerous force in the USSR. This issue was particularly acute in the Belarusian SSR, in which the elimination of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident and political instability brought the CPB and the Union center closer together. The article aims to identify the dynamics of changes in the relationship between the Union center and the BSSR from 1988 to March 1990, from the XIX party Conference to the III Congress of People's Deputies. To do this, it is necessary to consider the dynamics of political processes in the BSSR and the USSR, analyze the transcripts of Congresses and Plenums at which the issue of repealing Article 6 was discussed and separately analyze the change in the position of the Belarusian side on this issue. The article shows the change in the attitude of representatives of the elite of the Belarusian state towards the Union center, Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika. Initially, the leaders of the BSSR enthusiastically accepted the results of the XIX party conference, but political instability and the activation of nationalist forces forced them to rally even more around the union center. When the Union center initiated the repeal of Article 6, transferring significant powers to the President, the CPB also supported Mikhail Gorbachev for the sake of maintaining stability in the Soviet Union, although it began to criticize the head of the USSR and his political course.