These days, a lot of crime-related events take place all over the world. Most of them are reported in news portals and social media. Crime-related event extraction from the published texts can allow monitoring, analysis, and comparison of police or criminal activities in different countries or regions. Existing approaches to event extraction mainly suggest processing texts in English, French, Chinese, and some other resource-rich and well-annotated languages. This paper presents a parallel corpus-based approach that follows a closed-domain event extraction methodology to event extraction from web news articles in low-resource languages. To identify the event, its arguments, and the arguments' roles in the sourcelanguage part of the corpus we utilize an enhanced pattern-based method that involves the multilingual synonyms dictionary with knowledge about crime-related concepts and logic-linguistic equations. The event extraction from the target-language part of the corpus uses a cross-lingual crime-related event extraction transfer technique that is based on supplementary knowledge about the semantic similarity patterns of the considered pair of languages. The presented approach does not require a preliminarily annotated corpus for training making it more attractive to low-resource languages and allows extracting TRANSFER, CRIME, and POLICE types of events and their seven subtypes from various topics of news articles simultaneously. Implementation of our approach for the Russian-Kazakh parallel corpus of news portals articles allowed obtaining the F1-measure of crime-related event extraction of over 82% for the source language and 63% for the target language.

The article analyzes the state of the Ukrainian business economy in modern conditions. The importance of business in the development of the national economy is revealed. The authors note that the development of domestic business occurs under the influence of internal and external factors. Since 2013, important organizational changes in the economic and political environment have taken place in Ukraine. In the winter of 2014, the army of the russian federation invaded to the territory of Ukraine, annexing the Crimean Peninsula and capturing territories in the east of the state. Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014–2015 caused an economic crisis. It was small business that played an important role in the development of the national economy at that time. It covered enterprises of all sectors – from production to the provision of services. Government support for small businesses in crisis situations has become important. Individual entrepreneurs and other representatives of small businesses began to actively develop their activities, and budget revenues increased. The restoration of the economic component of the national business began in 2016. 2019 was a successful year for Ukraine, but the SME sector in Ukraine needed to be reformed and changed in structure. A new test for Ukrainian business in 2020 was the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. It has become a serious challenge for the functioning of business both for Ukraine and many countries of the world. Many enterprises had to reduce their activity, and some even cease their activities. The coronavirus has made its own adjustments to the development of the national economy of the world. In 2021, the effects of the economic crisis were fading both in the world and in Ukraine. But in February 2022, the Ukrainian economy suffered a new shock – a full-scale russian invasion of the territory of a sovereign country. As a result, production was reduced, logistics was disrupted, marketing, social and engineering infrastructure was destroyed. Due to the direct threat to life in Ukraine, there is an outflow of the economically active part of the population abroad. The authors note that it is in these difficult times for Ukraine that it is important to maintain and support the national economy at the proper level and bring the main indicators to the pre-war level in the near future.