The online publication is intended for modern scholars, postgraduates, doctoral candidates, applicants for the academic degree of Candidate of Sciences (PhD), young specialists, teaching staff, and researchers.
The journal publishes problem-oriented and review articles in the fields of pedagogical, sociological, and legal sciences.
The section “Pedagogical Sciences” is devoted to issues of the development of pedagogical science as an integral system of scientific knowledge and scientific activity, research on the contribution of education and pedagogical science to the socio-economic development of the country and the historical development of educational systems, methods, means, forms of teaching and upbringing, the methodology of pedagogical research in the contemporary socio-cultural context, and the substantiation of interdisciplinary connections in pedagogical research on the development of education.
The section “Sociological Sciences” publishes theoretical and methodological studies of social tensions, potential and real conflicts between various social communities, methodological research aimed at improving, developing, and refining traditional, widely used, and new methods, techniques, and procedures for collecting and analyzing empirical data, as well as articles on forecasting social processes in Russian society and in regional social spaces. It examines the theoretical approaches of classical scholars in their contemporary “reading,” that is, their application to studies of modernity, as well as classical and contemporary general sociological and methodological approaches to the study of social systems, communities, social processes, and phenomena.
The section “Legal Sciences” is dedicated to the examination of the theory of state and law, the history of state and law in Russia and foreign countries, the history of doctrines on state and law, as well as research on criminal legislation, its sources and individual institutions; criminal law and criminal-legal relations; criminal lawmaking and the practice of its application, and other related issues.

