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The issues of human well‐being and happiness have been a priority throughout the history of human development. Modern trends in sustainable development define human well‐being issues as one of the most important 17 goals (SDG No. 3 "Good human health and well‐being"). At the business and company level, human orientation and human needs manifested themselves in corporate employee well‐being programs at the beginning of the 20th century. In recent years, corporate employee welfare programs became particularly relevant in connection with the Covid‐19 pandemic and other global challenges and turbulence. Aim. To analyze modern corporate programs for the development of employee well‐being and identify the main trends in their development. Methods. Methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis of scientific publications on human corporate well‐being, as well as the method of case analysis of corporate well‐being programs of leading global and Russian companies. Results. Because of the conducted research, the authors revealed a steady increase in scientific publications on corporate policies in the field of employee well‐being, as well as an increase in the share of interdisciplinary research. An analysis of successful practices of Russian and international companies shown a predominance at the business level of interest in subjective methods for assessing employee well‐being and a high orientation of companies towards practices for the development of social well‐being of employees. Conclusions. Corporate employee well‐being programs are an urgent and actively developing tool for personnel management and the effectiveness of the company. A distinctive feature of modern corporate employee well‐being programs is an individual assessment of the level of employee well‐being with a predominance of subjective assessment methods. The assessment of the employee well‐being index allows companies to increase the efficiency of social spending and investments. The issue requiring further study on the topic of corporate employee welfare programs, in our opinion, is a comprehensive assessment of the impact of corporate employee welfare programs on business economic results and its effectiveness.

The modern development of biological science, medicine and law, accompanied by an interdisciplinary mutual «intrusion» of these sciences into the sphere of technological manipulations with the human genome, has led to the need for adequate legal regulation for these processes. The article proposes to adopt the federal law of the Russian Federation «On the General Principles of Bioethics and Evidence-Based Medicine in the Field of Science, Health Care and Human Welfare». The emergence of this law is dictated by the fact that, according to statistics, from 3 to 5 million people in the Russian Federation can be potential participants in genomic legal relations. Under these conditions, the need for the proposed law is fully felt by society, and the «silence of the legislator» can lead to negative consequences in the field of manipulations with the human genome. The article provides a possible structure of the bill, analyzes its main functions. Purpose: to substantiate the need for the adoption of the law of the Russian Federation «On the General Principles of Bioethics and Evidence-Based Medicine in the Field of Science, Health Care and Human Welfare», to present a possible structure of the draft regulatory act, breaking down the text of the bill into chapters and articles. Methods: method of formal legal analysis, methods of theoretical legal description and interpretation; method of interpretation of legal norms, sociological method. Results: the study makes it possible to propose the draft law of the Russian Federation «On the General Principles of Bioethics and Evidence-Based Medicine in the Field of Science, Health Care and Human Welfare», to identify its complex nature, to reveal its main content and functions, to which the author attributes the regulatory, protective and educative functions, in the aggregate, able to effectively regulate the legal relationship regarding the human genome.

The article presents the concept of ecological consciousness and analyzes main features of its development and implementation in the environmental policy in European practice on the example of Germany. The study of German experience is conditioned by the fact that among the other developed countries of the world Germany is the leading country in its active work carried out at all levels of the environmental policy. It is shown that actions aimed at the development of ecological culture and environmental education of the civil society in Germany are of the same priority as the use of renewable energy, development of green technologies, etc. The article provides an overview of the most important publications devoted to the phenomenon of ecological consciousness and highlights different approaches to this definition. Based on the German experience, it defines the prerequisites, main roots and sources of ecological consciousness creation and the ways in which it can be involved in the regional programs on sustainable development and ecological policy. It analyzes the main practical approaches to the implementation of the principles of ecological consciousness in Germany as well as the role of environmental organizations in the realization of environmentally oriented activities. Therefore, it presents the main results of socio-ecological surveys conducted in Germany and Russia and gives their comparative analysis. It indicates possible ways to transfer the German experience in the Russian context to improve the ecological awareness of the Russian society and to arise its ecological activity in addressing environmental issues.

Problems of economic growth in terms of «market-oriented» and «real» economy are studied. Economic development models are given: the current one, measured by the GDP index and the new model of sustainable development constructed by the use of ESI index

Problems of economic growth in terms of «market-oriented» and «real» economy are studied. Economic development models are given: the current one, measured by the GDP index and the new model of sustainable development constructed by the use of ESI index