The article highlights the main risks faced by construction companies in a pandemic with limited use of transport. At the same time, one of the significant leaps in the development of companies is updating information technologies that require a new approach with limited possible information transfer between employees. So an important factor in the impact of crisis is the work of office workers on remote access. The article presents the testing of proposed recommendations for evaluating workers in terms of reliability and risk tolerance in a construction company. The results of testing recommendations reflect the possibility or need to restrict access to important documents of company’s internal information environment.

Corruption practicies that occure in the field of water bodies utilisation and protection in Russia increase ecological threats and undermine the system of legal regulation of relations on use and protection of the Water Fund. In the proposed article the authors conduct a critical analysis of the legal regulation for water relations (federal laws, regulatory legal acts, judicial practice) for the purpose of identifying the corruption risks and recorded corruption practicies in order to minimize and eliminate them. Basing on the judicial practice and scientific research results, the authors reveal several “painful points” of water legislation in Russia with respect to corruption risks and activities. The authors propose to fill the gaps in the existing law, which will effectively ensure the prevention and suppression of corruption in the utilization and protection of water bodies. The article applies methods of systemic analysis and modeling, and also uses universal scientific methods of induction and deduction, as well as abstraction. The thematic sections addressed by the study include: corruption risks and practicies at the present stage of the Water Act development; small water bodies and corrupt activities; Underground water objects and corruption risks; Monopoly and corruption risks in the field of water relations as well as Possibilities of public control in connection with corruption risks and practicies in Russia.

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The article presents a philosophical and legal study of relationship between the concepts of vice, sin and crime. On the basis of modern criminological analysis, the authors conclude that the main cause of crime lies in the objective existence of human vices associated with the weakness of human nature. As a part of the study of criminal cases, the authors formulated a generalized criminological portrait of a personality of a police officer who commits corruption crimes. The authors argue that criminalization of a personality goes through several successive stages: vice, passion, sin (immoral behavior, administratively punishable act, and the highest degree is a crime). The authors propose to consider corruption from two sides: 1) as an independent personal vice and 2) as a reflection (result) of the vices of society. The corruption crime is examined by using the triangle of Donald Craessy. On the basis of this approach, the authors argue that social causes alone do not trigger corruption behavior. Only vices push an offender to corrupt behavior. As a mean of preventing of official misconduct, the authors propose moral and ethical standards of official conduct.

This article shows the dialectic influence of phenomenon of corruption on the social reality of modern society. The main approaches to assessing the consequences of corruption processes are considered. Through the prism of these approaches, a structural analysis of consequences of corruption in economic, political, social and spiritual spheres of society is carried out. Based on the philosophical principle of reflection, factors of social danger of corruption are identified, main manifestations of corruption affecting the formation of the image of social reality are described. The article provides a critical analysis of the revisionist approach. Its supporters believe that corruption can be viewed as a natural phenomenon that manifests itself in the transitional periods of development of society, with a change in the norms of its functioning and the lack of consensus, as well as a kind of mediator that unites the emerging privileged and excluded strata a changing society. The main function of corruption within this approach is to preserve the unity and maintain the integrity of socio-economic system in certain conditions, after which corruption should disappear. The laws of dialectics are manifested in this area of human interactions. Therefore, we can talk about the socially constructive function of studied social phenomenon. It is shown that the ratio of constructive and destructive consequences of corruption manifestations in various social systems and at different stages of their historical development varies.