This article contains a piece of scientific and theoretical analysis of social and legal relations in state governance in the sphere of social protection for participants of the Antiterrorist Operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine. In considers specific elements of social protection for ATO participants and their family members as well as the structure of the state governance mechanism hereof. The paper also overviews and characterizes specific types of state governance mechanisms in the sphere of social protection for ATO participants. At the same time, the text demonstrates a scientific investigation into a comprehensive state governance mechanism in the sphere of social protection for participants of the Antiterrorist Operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine and their family members.

The article is devoted to the health and lives losses resulted from the armed conflict in Ukraine. It shows the real and potential consequences for the social health and determination of major (priority) activity directions and tasks for public health menagement, with the aim of their minimisation or prevention.

The influence of lifestyle factors, namely rationality of nutrition, on the health of the population is the strongest relative to other risk factors that may be manifested by the development and complication of diseases of the digestive system. This gain is particularly gaining in people who work in conditions of increased stress, physical and psychological overload. To such a contingent of population are also servicemen of the armed forces of Ukraine. This article describes the results of the analysis of the actual state of nutrition of the Transcarpathian military who participated in the anti-terrorist operation in the eastern region of Ukraine.

As a result of using a multi-modality neurological/mental assessment and a multifaceted rehabilitation program (including group therapy), 108 patients with sequelae of mine blast closed traumatic brain injury (MB CTBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have demonstrated positive trends concerning their neurological and psychological  status. From the standpoint of the pathogenetic concept of neurotic disorders, there are four principal categories of neurotic disorders, namely asthenic, anxiety-depressive, hysteria-like and phobic. A conclusion was made that using the methods of group psychotherapy as a constituent of rehabilitation program was effective.

In the article the problems of implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages are let on. In particular, it admits that during the years of its independence Ukraine didn’t provide any system language policy and became a hostage of the signing of the Charter, as it undertook the responsibility to support and develop regional languages without any enactment of the law about the state language. As a result of political manipulations the provision of the functioning of Ukrainian language by the state was not made on a proper level. The latent language conflicts became a formal reason for the events in the Crimea and on the East of Ukraine and were used to invade the Ukrainian territories.

The article deals with the policy of irredentism, which is viewed as a state policy, aimed at joining the part of the territory of other states under the pretence of protection of the kin-groups from a perspective of rational approach. The author investigates the reasons for emergence of irredentism, emphasizes the decisive role of the “Great Idea”, which justifies the irredentist policy of the state, and draws attention to the influence of nationalism on the formation of the policy of irredentism. It gives a detailed analysis of the content of irredentist project of the Russian Federation because of which the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea was carried out.