Yemen is a Muslim country facing a sharp increase in the consumption of narcotic substances. The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at identifying the attitudes of the country's population towards drugs and drug use, and its determining factors. The attitude of the Yemeni population towards drugs and drug use is largely influenced by cultural, religious and social norms and demonstrates a contradictory picture of the nature of the socio-cultural environment of Yemeni society.

Based on data from a quantitative sociological study (n = 600), the article measures perceptions, prevalence, and factors of involvement in the destructive practice of cyberbullying among students. It is revealed that students are familiar with the practices of cyberbullying, about a third of the respondents have at least once encountered its manifestation in their address, and trolling is the most common type of cyberbullying. It is concluded that among the factors of cyberbullying, one can note the prevalence of aggression on the web and in society as a whole, the desire for self-affirmation at the expense of victims, attracting attention and mental (psychological) disorders.

Understanding creative management is in demand in the social practice of people working in “creative industry” organizations. Today, a new culture of creativity is being created, connecting the practices of non- bureaucratic management and people creating products of artistic, scientific, and technical creativity. Creative management is an element of the culture of creativity, based on the “turquoise” philosophy. Creacracy culture regulates the value-oriented component of creative management, in which concern for the creative staff is primary in relation to the result of the project. The structure of creative management contains a human-centric value core, a set of principles and functions that characterize the strategy of delegation of authority. Creative management operates on the principles of lean management and is concretized in variable management tactics.

Thrifty (understanding) personnel management is manifested in caring for employees, protecting them from professional burnout, and creating favorable conditions for their self-realization. Creative management culture practices are aimed at stimulating the creative ideas of staff and creating conditions for disciplined cooperation while fulfilling the temporal and financial standards of project organization. The empirical material collected by the authors illustrates the conceptual elements of the creative management structure.

The article examines the problems of self-determination of student youth in the system of moral values, namely, in matters of family and marriage, depending on religious beliefs and the degree of faith. The hypothesis of the study is that commitment to faith in young people contributes to the development and strengthening of moral and ethical values of the younger generation. The results of the study indicate that students who consider themselves believers to one degree or another have more holistic and morally significant attitudes and views on creating a family and entering into marriage, in contrast to students without religious ideas and beliefs. The parental family is the source of moral and ethical development of a teenager and his attitude to faith. Family and religion shape the worldview of a young person on family and marriage. The more religiously inclined a young person is, the more he believes in the institution of family and marriage, and considers marriage important for himself. Religious students least of all consider celibacy as a form of existence and life. The more religiously inclined a young person is, the more he honors the institution of parental blessing. The relevance of the study lies in studying the dependence of moral and ethical values of student youth on religious beliefs.

Based on the materials of Rosstat on the last All-Russian Population Census conducted in 2021, the study examines changes in the ethnic composition of the population of the Republic of Tatarstan, distribution of the inhabitants of the region by their native language, language proficiency and their use in everyday life. Similarities and differences are taken into account according to criteria such as ethnicity (Tatars, Russians and other local and allochthonous ethnic groups) and the territory of residence (city/village). The identification of the native language by ethnic groups of Tatarstan and information on language proficiency are considered in dynamics for the period from 2010 to 2021, as well as in comparison with indicators in the neighboring republics of the Volga region in the context of the value of preserving cultural and linguistic diversity of Russia. However, along with the high importance and mastery of the Russian language, there is an increasing tendency to reduce the number of speakers of other ethnic (native) languages of the peoples of the Volga region, accompanied by a poor knowledge of the languages of neighboring peoples.

The article presents an analysis of the essence of the innovative potential of university students as an important resource for the sustainable development of the Russian economy, technological breakthrough and leadership of Russia. A sociological analysis of the development of innovative potential in the higher education system, carried out on the basis of the author's research, which revealed the mechanisms of formation of intellectuals from among university students.

The purpose of this article is to critique the denial of voluntary slavery in Murray Rothbard's philosophy. The main thesis of the article is to argue that Rothbard's argument for the impossibility of voluntary slavery is contradictory. This is done by arguing for the logical possibility as well as the consistency of voluntary slavery based on the notion of full self-ownership. Arguments are made in favour of the fact that voluntary slavery is not inconsistent with individual free will. The article concludes that the denial of voluntary slavery is inconsistent with Rothbard's principle of total self-ownership. Instead, as an outline, it proposes a rejection of full self-ownership in favour of a partial version of it, which in doing so does not violate any of the essential principles of libertarianism.

In modern times, much attention is paid to digitalization and the interaction of technology and life. This article offers a general concept of virtual realities for these areas, since the "virtual" is increasingly thought of as an impending paradigm, a matrix of thinking. The article offers several definitions, the main one of which is "virtualization" as a popular but poorly defined term, which needs to be clarified. The article demonstrates the metaphysical structure of virtual realities, their location in creativity and technology, which are not opposed to each other, but are thought of in a single vein. An outline of the concept claiming universality is presented, examples from literature and computer science are given. Regularities in the virtualization process are derived, it is divided into phases, its heuristics are demonstrated as obtaining a new virtual reality.

The article is devoted to the problem of the novelty in the work of the scientist and popularizer of science R. Dawkins, especially in the criticism of creationism and the concept of the existence of God. It examines how new Dawkins' methods are, as well as his sensitivity to criticism. The article provides a general epistemological assessment of the scientist’s main works. It is proven that there is no fundamental difference in the arguments of the “new atheists” and natural science positivist scientists of the 19th century.

Usually articles devoted to the work of the maestro are written in anticipation. For the author of this article, on the contrary, the anniversary events and thoughts turned out to be a catalyst for rethinking, in the context of contemporary realities and theories, one well-established in aesthetics ‘Kantian’ position on disinterested pleasure as a specificity of aesthetic feeling and man's relation to the world. The problematic application of this position in Kant's aesthetics is revealed. The article raises questions about the semantic connections of the idea of disinterested pleasure both with Kant's epoch and with modernity. The relevance of the analysis is conditioned by the current situation of a possible significant anthropological loss - the risk of irrevocable loss of the aesthetic emotion under the pressure of the dominance of pragmatic sentiments in modern society. The aim of the article is to discover the potential for countering such risks both in aesthetic theory and in the aesthetic worldview of modern man.