The concept of ‘public order’ reveals how the state and society function as a whole. It illustrates the most important aspects of a legal system: contractual regulation and property relations, together with the political system and economic structure, and the relation between an individual and the state. The history of the concept of public order in Russia is a rather long and unique one. Today’s Russia tries to create the conditions for the normal functioning of market economy institutions. The concept of public order has undergone some serious changes, starting with the pre-revolutionary Tsarist times, followed by the Soviet era and then the perestroika period. This article aims at analysing the legal nature of transactions contravening the principles of public order and morality, in an effort to indicate the difficulties to inherent in grasping this difficult concept.

The article is devoted to the research of factors that must be taken into account in the process of organization and launch of startups in IT business from the point of view of its management. It also covers the analysis of world trends in startup development. The results of a survey of entrepreneurs and innovators, which was aimed at the identification of dependencies and revealing of the most significant factors, are presented and analyzed in this article.

The article is devoted to an effective means of forming analytical competence of future specialists in document management and information activities - case study method. Based on the research of the case-study method theoretical foundations and the analysis of its practical use in educational process, the essence of the method, the history of its development and formation, functional capabilities, requirements for development and construction of cases, prospects of the case study method in the process of developing the professional and personal qualities of future specialists are revealed. It is proved that case study is an effective method of forming analytical competence of future experts in document management and information activities, since the work with a case is analytical work.

The urgency of the problem under investigation is determined by the interest of psychological science in the phenomenon of self-consciousness. At the present stage the necessity of reflecting the problem of self-consciousness within the framework of specific professional activity is especially clearly recognized. This problem is of special importance in connection with the fact that modern society needs a special type of personality - a person who not only adapts to the existing reality, but strives for success, showing activity, initiative and responsibility in his professional activities. The article substantiates the urgency of the problem of the development of professional self-consciousness of students-psychologists, the theoretical analysis of the basic approaches to the concept of "professional self-consciousness" is presented. The author presents the results of an experimental study of the level of the formation of professional self-consciousness of students-psychologists studying at the fourth (final) course. The effectiveness of training technology in the development of professional self-consciousness of students-psychologists as a pledge of their success in the future professional activity is considered. The materials of the article can be used by teachers of practical psychology in the process of training psychologists at the university in order to improve the quality of professionalization and the level of professional self-consciousness of students in the learning process.

The article presents information technology for the detection of emotional and cognitive disorders, which provides a detailed display of the process of their detection, by designing IDEF0 diagrams. The results reflect a structured description of the diagnostic process, which allows identifying emotional and cognitive disorders in patients with discirculatory encephalopathy. This information technology can be used by psychiatrists, psychotherapists and medical psychologists.

Fantasy, "fantastic" is one of the oldest and permanent components in world culture. Fantastic genre today has become an extraordinary phenomenon of public life: the demand for fantastic works is increasing every year, the reader strives every time to gain new impressions, and the writer tries to "see" something still unprecedented, to "dream" about extraordinary. Fantastic fiction does not just grab its readers, but it influences the formation of their philosophical, political, social, psychological principles and guidelines. In addition, fantastic fiction created a certain subculture - "fandom", which also has a unique impact on society as a whole (Sikovskaya, 2015).

The urgency of the research presented in the article on the formation of ideas about mediation among modern students is due to the sensitivity of the student period for the development of communicative competencies that allow to establish and maintain a system of social relations and interpersonal relationships, to resolve situations of conflict interaction optimally. These goals are achieved by the application of the mediative approach in communication, based on the idea of mediation as a procedure and technology. The purpose of the article is to present the basic results of theoretical substantiation of the importance of the optimal formation of the students’ perception of mediation as a phenomenon, the main results of empirical verification of the proposed assumption about the features of students' ideas about mediation and to identify ways of further research and application of the data. Key words: conflict, alternative ways of conflict resolution, mediation, types of mediation, social ideas about mediation

The article considers on practical experience of implementation of controlling in different countries. In the digital economy, the most promising management concept is controlling. Controlling can solve many management problems. Improvement of management based on controlling occurs in the mainstream of all major trends in the transformation of management at the present stage.