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Massive efforts have been dedicated to studying political search engine bias in democratic contexts, and a growing body of literature has scrutinized search engine censorship in authoritarian China. By contrast, very little is known still about political search engine bias within Russia's slightly more open authoritarian media system. In order to fill in this gap, this study asks: How has Russia's leading partially state-controlled search engine Yandex mediated a large-scale anti-regime protest event (anti-corruption protests on 26 March 2017) in the twenty months thereafter? The study analyzes a data set of 30,471 results, retrieved in regular intervals for nine query terms from four platforms:Yandex.ru, News.yandex.ru, Google.ru, and News.google.ru. As the findings demonstrate, both Yandex algorithms (by comparison with their Google counterparts) referred users to significantly fewer websites that contained information about the protest event (reference bias). In a similar vein, both Yandex algorithms forwarded users to fewer websites that regularly featured criticism of Russia's authoritarian leadership (source bias). Moreover, Yandex algorithms tended to be particularly biased in the event's immediate aftermath. In the first week after the protests, for instance, the difference in reference ratios between Google and Yandex Web searches were massive (mean difference: 23% points), while they were less pronounced during the remaining time period studied (mean difference: 7% points). These findings are highly politically relevant because rapid diffusion of information about protest events can be considered of key importance to further protest mobilization.

The article facing attention to the importance of the presence of current assets at the enterprise, as an element of its solvency and profitability. The essence of financial assets is revealed and the importance of their distinguishing from a part of current assets for a more detailed and clear analysis of the enterprise. The dynamics and structure of the main elements of financial assets of enterprises of various branches of the economy of Ukraine and the Odessa region are analyzed. Attention is drawn to the growing role of financial assets in enterprises, since they affect the level of solvency and financial sustainability of the enterprise. During the period of 2015-2019, agricultural and industrial enterprises of Ukraine and the Odessa region suffered significant changes in the structure of assets. Analysis of the structure of assets of CJSC "State Food-Grain Corporation Corporation of Ukraine" and PJSC "Odessa Cable Plant" Odeskabel "for the period 2015-2019 showed that the enterprises there is a logical tendency for the distribution of working capital and non-current assets according to their sectoral affiliation. The analysis showed that in the assets of agricultural enterprises of mobile assets is almost twice as low as in real assets. In industrial enterprises, the distribution in the structure of assets has also been formed with exceeding the share of current assets by 10 percentage points. Financial assets were analyzed as elements of current assets on investigated enterprises in 2015 -2019. Conclusions on the tendency of increasing this element of current assets, as receivables, two terms - cost and its share. In the analysis of financial assets of the state joint-stock company "State Food-Grain Corporation" of Ukraine ", attention was paid to such an element Finance. Once assets as current financial investments. This is an important part of financial assets, but they are not present at each enterprise. It has been analyzed that their share for 2015-2018 was constantly fluctuating. If in 2017, their share was 73% of all oblast assets, then in 2019 at the investigated enterprise they did not have become, but, at the same time, cash and their equivalents have increased. We considered it expedient to pay attention to this process.

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