Abstract: The subject of this research is the public relations on international cooperation in the context of UN program for disaster risk reduction. The object of this research is the structure of the United nations responsible for implementation of measures on forecasting and response to disasters, as well as liquidation of their consequences. The goal lies in giving characteristics to the activity of UN multidirectional institutional mechanism that maintains international cooperation with regards to protection against various types of disasters. The author analyzes the establishment of this structure, its saturation with diverse functions, realignment and activities. The article presents the opinions of multiple scholars and experts, as well as author’s independent conclusions on the advantages and disadvantages of the structure of the UN. The author underlines presence of the system of structural elements with different legal status in the context of UN, involved, within their competence, in the mechanism for protection against various types of disasters. The conducted analysis reveals flaws in its functionality, however, the system helps reducing consequences of disasters. The scientific novelty consists in the comprehensive analysis of formation of the system, its functionality and cooperation with other international institutions; while other similar works usually consider only one or several structural elements of the system, or provide critical assessment of its current activity.

Keywords: assistance in disaster, the system of UN, international cooperation, disasters, protaction from disasters, UNISDR, OCHA UN, UN, protection against disasters, UNDAC

Abstract: In the present article author analyzes the formation of various international instruments within the framework of the sanctions regimes of the UN Security Council. The author analyzes the legal status and functions of the UN Security Council sanctions. The article also concerns the modification of their activities and the main trends in the implementation of the concept of targeted sanctions.

Keywords: international sanctions, Resolution the UN Security Council, the Sanctions Committees of the Security Council, regime of international sanctions, guiding principles of the committee.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of legal, factual and financial abilities of the UN in the sphere of implementation of the UN Charter. Based on this analysis, the author then comes to a conclusion on insufficient potential of the UN in the sphere of implementation of these norms, as well as of other norms of international public law.

Keywords: Yurisprudentsiya, OON, Pravomochiya OON, Byudzhet OON, Sovet Bezopasnosti, Ustav OON, mezhdunarodnoe pravo, Vozmozhnosti OON, realizatsiya norm Ustava OON

Abstract: In 2001 the Russian Federation addressed the UN Commission on Continental Shelf with the request for broadening of its continental shelf. This request is still being considered. This article is devoted to some topical issues in the sphere of interpretation of the Art. 76 of the UN Convention on Maritime Law of 1982. Much attention is paid to analysis of provisions, which are devoted to establishing the outer borders of the continental shelf beyond the 200 maritime miles.

Keywords: jurisprudence, continental shelf, the UN Convention on Maritime Law of 1982, international maritime law, coastal state, international legal regulation, bordering, application, maritime border, the UN Commission on Continental Shelf.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the topical issue of the peacemaking activities within the framework of the UN convention. Much attention is paid to the role of the so-called „superpower states“ within the structure of this organization, the author provides both the historical retrospective and the analysis of the modern meaning of this term, as well as analysis of the activities of the states, which are permanent part of the Security Council of the UN in the sphere of protection of peace and peacemaking.

Keywords: political science, UN, Security Council, peacemaking, superpower states, politics, peacemaking operations, veto, international organizations, international confl icts and disputes.