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At the very beginning it is important to define the main components that constitute the whole theory and idea as such of the minority rights. The concept of minority expresses how the legal regulation reflects the existence of minority, what is understood by the notion ‘minority’ and what criteria are used in order to identify certain social groups as minorities. Regarding the definition of the concept ‘minority’, until now there is no generally accepted definition, neither at the international level nor at the European one.

The relations of power between the city council and the mayor, and their balancing mechanism are examined. The classification and analysis of the criteria for determining the balance of power, the status and the role of main local self-government bodies in the federal state of Brandenburg, are carried out. The proposals for further improvement of the model of internal relations of local authority in Ukraine are laid down.

A methodological basis for building a decision support system for the promotion of commercial online resources using social media technologies was developed by the authors in the article. An analysis of the features of search engine promotion using social networking technologies and services has been carried out, which revealed that, currently, the implementation of the latter requires the use of new approaches to promotion. An analysis of SMOs and SMMs promoted models was carried out, which allowed us to identify the main factors that are used to promote commercial online resources.

The study focus is given to the initial stage of formation of Greek Catholic Church in the United States. Certain common features, peculiarities, difficulties and conditions of parishes forming process are analysed. New criteria for morecomplete study are suggested in view of the historiography problem of parishes establishment dating. The statistics, geography, dates and dynamics of main parishes, general amount of churches, priests and parishioners are explored in the paper on the basis of historical sources.

The article deals with the activities of the executive bodies and the public in the field of the prevention of administrative offenses. The measures for the prevention of administrative offenses are considered as socially directed activities of the State, officials, public organizations and individual citizens.

The article deals with legal issues of public participation in the exercise of public
authority. Particular attention is paid to the system of “good governance”, as modern forms of
communication and public authorities. Improving certain aspects of governance. Proved that
the governance of a new type provides changing nature of power relations, sets the
accessibility and openness of government, the possibility of controllability, reduces the cost of resources and funds from the state budget establishes affective relationship between