The purpose of the research is devoted to the criminological description and explanation of the state of illegal influence on the results of official sports competitions in Ukraine. Main  content. An ultra-high level of latency of crimes according to  Art. 369-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is found, which is at least 99% of their actual level. The structure of match-fixing was revealed and analyzed depending on the type of sport, the method of illegal influence on the results of official sports competitions, as well as the subjects of bribery. The characteristic of the corresponding structural units is given. Methodology:  Materials and methods research based on the analysis of documentary sources. the  basis  is  the  dialectical  method  of  cognition  of  the  facts  of  social  reality,  on  which  the  formal legal and comparative legal approaches are largely based. Conclusions. The most intense criminal match-fixing is practiced in such kinds of sports as football, futsal, basketball and volleyball. Among the ways to encourage athletes to commit illegal acts, bribery predominates (75%). Approximately at the same level in terms of prevalence with small fluctuations in specific weight are structurally located such ways of influencing athletes as incitement (10%), conspiracy (8%) and coercion (7%). In general, illegal influence on the results of official sports competitions on bribery is directed directly at athletes. In total, the share of such influence is 78% with a slight predominance of bribery of several athletes (players) of one team (40%) over bribery of an individual player (38%). In second place in terms of ranking - bribery of members of the coaching staff (10%). Then bribery of judges (5%), owners of sports clubs (5%), support staff of clubs (2%).

Contemporary educational discourse is marked by versatility and inconsistency of viewpoints on the post-pandemic future of the higher school. The most widespread are the two approaches to the comprehension of the prospects of its development tentatively outlined in the presented article as radically pessimistic and unjustifiably optimistic. The proponents of the first approach speak of the «demise» of the neoclassical model of university and emergence of the new digital format of lifelong learning based upon mastering the utilitarian knowledge by means of local educational courses; the proponents of the second approach are confident in the utility of the «natural selection» among the universities and further existence of the institution of higher education as a small number of technologically well-equipped and innovation-oriented educational establishments. «Veritas in medio est», - state those who criticize both approaches, implying a post-digital hybrid model of the higher school which would preserve a culture-generating Concept of the university and simultaneously would have fundamentally new institutional characteristics and funding schemes. Fragmentation of society and culture, revolutionary changes in the methods of production and information transfer, acquisition by social networks of a leading role in the formation of the social consciousness - all this combined with the diktat of the developed consumer society and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which proved to be destructive to the world economy, demands a new educational paradigm free of illusions and unreasonable expectations. Whether the institution of the higher education would become an archaism and would depart into oblivion or it will be reborn in a variety of novel forms, including the hybrid ones, of a university «without walls» and time restrictions? The search for an answer to this question has become determinative for the authors of the presented research.

The purpose of the research is devoted to the criminological description and explanation of the state of illegal influence on the results of official sports competitions in Ukraine. A reading of the high level of latency of crimes according to article 369-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, evidence that it is at least 99% of its real level. The structure of match manipulation was revealed and analyzed according to the type of sport, the method of illegal influence on the results of official sports competitions, as well as the subjects of bribery. The characteristic of the corresponding structural units is given. Methodologically, the basis of the research is the dialectical method that serves to interpret social and legal phenomena through documentary sources. It is concluded that the most intense criminal match-fixing is practiced in sports such as football, futsal, basketball, and volleyball. Among the ways to encourage athletes to commit illegal acts, bribery predominates (75%). At about the same level in terms of prevalence with small fluctuations in specific weight are structurally found ways to influence athletes such as incitement (10%) and conspiracy (8%).

Vintsuk V.V., Tsebynoga V.Yu. Actual issues of implementing the law of Ukraine "on operational and scientific activity: theory and practice. In the article research pressing questions of realization of Law of Ukraine "About operational search activity". It is marked that passing an act is sent to perfection of the legal adjusting of operational search activity of operative subdivisions of the National police of Ukraine. Certainly, that changes are in the Criminal code of practice of Ukraine, stipulated making alteration and to the law on operational search activity, as a result in practice there were difficulties during realization of operational search activity operative subdivisions. It is set in the article, that difficulties arose up at inquisitional subdivisions of Ukraine, where the use of materials of operational search activity is impossible without the only understanding of "results of operational search activity". The latest research that or the sake of removal of certain divergences during realization of operational search activity there is an urgent requirement in differentiation of operational search and criminal judicial activity. It touches the questions of realization of operational search, and events, and also realization of secret inquisitional (of criminal investigation) actions. It is marked that not all secret inquisitional (to the search) actions are the form of realization of operational search activity. In the article certainly, category "results of operational search activity" examined by scientists as the information got operative subdivisions in the order set by a law : in relation to the signs of perfect crime or crime that prepares; in relation to persons that did, accomplish or prepare criminal offence, hide from the organs of investigation, court, avoid serving of criminal punishment and persons that disappeared without a new. An author marks that the use of materials of operational search activity helps investigators to define the most expedient direction of criminal investigation activity from crime, search of criminal detection, to define a person that owns corresponding information and able to give her. The conclusion is that the current legislation of Ukraine in the field of operational search activity needs the further perfection. Keywords. Operational search activity, operative subdivisions, investigators, is subdivisions, materials of Operational search activity, secret inquisitional (to the search) actions, results of Operational search activity, police. the search, eliminating gaps in the practice of law enforcement on its issues.

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