Abstract: The article describes the political changes in the Special Administrative District of Siangan since the time of colonial dependency on the UK till the current time. The article touches upon the problems of adaptation of the local population to the political reforms at various periods of development of Syangan. The article also includes analysis of problems regarding legal adaptation of British political reforms, as well as legal aspect of transfer of Siangan to the Chinese jurisdiction.

Keywords: artificial political formation, colonial administration, decolonization, occupied territories, financial autonomy, direct government, liberalization, social groups, transition period, social mobilization.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the positions of all the fractions and deputy groups in the State Duma of the 3rd call on the key issues of transformation of tax legislation, as well as social and labor spheres of social life. The new Tax and Labor Codes of the Russian Federation were met with varying reactions from the representatives of different political forces. In the opinions of pro-Government and liberal parties, the norms in these Codes were progressive and adequate to the social and economic reality of early 2000s. However, the Communists and their allies considered that the concepts of the Codes were aimed to improve the positions of the highly paid persons at the cost of the lowering the rights of workers.

Keywords: political science, the Tax Code, the Labor Code, the State Duma of the 3rd call, “Edinstvo” (“Unity”), “OVR”(All the Russia is Fatherland), the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, LDPR (the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia), SPS, “Yabloko”.

Abstract: The article includes the analysis of the existing practice of involving the road councils in managing the roads. The authors analyze the contents, functions and legal basis for the road councils of the foreign states. The author then systematizes the information on the road councils in different foreign states, shows their functional differences and organizational characteristics. Then the author concludes that the positive practice of the foreign states may also be used in the Russian Federation.

Keywords: jurisprudence, roads, councils, control, users, management, consultative, functional, programs, efficiency.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the ideas, primary landmarks of the uniting strategy in the North America, with the due attention paid to the NAFTA economic block. The factors, which facilitated integration are viewed by the author, taking the relations between the USA and Canada. Much attention is paid to the factors, which influenced the integration at the current time, and the author provides a perspective overview for the future. Attention is paid to the relations between the NAFTA and the EU, the Mercosur, and other results of the uniting strategy in the American continent (such as the ALADI, the ALCA, etc.). The goal of the study is to show the patterns of development of the integration processes in the North America. The author uses comparative legal method, as well as historical, dialectic methods, and specialized scientific methods.

Keywords: jurisprudence, North American, integration, NAFTA, the USA, Mexico, ALCA, Mercosur, the All-American zone, free trade.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of practice of implementation of the right for access to information in the activities of the courts in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation within the Siberian Federal District. The author provides results of the study on such types of rights of access, as presence in an open judicial hearing, or provision of information upon the request of information user in the Siberian Federal District. The article also contains the conclusions of the author on the current situation in the sphere of open information on federal courts of general jurisdiction, arbitration courts and the Department for Administration of Justice in the Siberian Federal Districts. The author also provides suggestions on the improvement of the current legislation and legal practice in the sphere of access to information on the activities of the courts.

Keywords: jurisprudence, information on the activities of the courts, access to information, request for information, official website, refusal to provide information, photographing, video recording, audio recording, the Department for the Administration of Justice, Siberian Federal District, court.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues regarding the UN membership and the status of the UN observer. The author then expresses an idea on the possible provision of membership for the integration formations and other subjects of international law, who possess partial sovereignty. This idea is supported by the example of the EU membership in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. The author offers to amend the Chapter 2 of the UN Charter.

Keywords: jurisprudence, international law, the UN, the FAO, the EU, membership, integration formations, integration organizations, state, the Charter.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the international legal guarantees of the rights of indigenous peoples for the access to lands and territories of their habitual dwelling and to the natural resources. The access to land and resources is of key value for the survival and national identity of the indigenous peoples. The article includes analysis of the international acts, which enshrine this right of indigenous people, as well as of the Russian legislation in the sphere of guarantees of rights of the native minorities of the North, Siberia and the Far East. The author comes to the conclusion that there is need to provide for the guarantees of priority access of the indigenous peoples to the lands and natural resources at the place of their dwelling in order to provide due respect and protection of their rights for subsistence, employment and dignified human existence.

Keywords: jurisprudence, indigenous peoples, native peoples, indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East of the Russian Federation, access to land, access to natural resources, traditional use of nature, environmental rights, environmental protection

Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues of legal regulation as a process of legal influence on the social relations, as well as the reasons for the deviations from legal norms, nature and types of conflict of laws, and the competence of the modern conflict of laws regulation. The author comes to a conclusion that legal collisions are not accidental and they appear continuously during the process of legal regulation. The dynamics of this process is such, that one may mention stages of their development, and accordingly apply legal and other mechanisms of their discovery and removal.

Keywords: jurisprudence, law, legal regulation, deviations, conflict of laws, disagreements, disputes, mediation procedures, legislation, violations of law.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the theoretical bases for the formation of the basic universal political criminological and political anthropological definition “personality of a political criminal”, which may be used for the further studies in the sphere of criminal political anthropology as an interdisciplinary scientific direction. The author offers his own definition for the personality of political criminal as a political and criminological category, which is viewed from the position of the integration approach to the development of the criminological definitions. The article includes analysis of the correlation between the term “political criminal” and other related definitions including scientific, literary and popular categories, such as “political prisoner’, “political emigrant”, “political convict”, “political exiled”, “enemy of the nation”, “enemy of the people”, “enemy of the state”, “opponent of the Perestroika”, “enemy of the democracy”.

Keywords: jurisprudence, criminal, personality of a criminal, political criminal, political motivation, enemy of the people, enemy of the democracy, opponent of the Perestroika”, “political prisoner”, “political convict”.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the need to apply inter-disciplinary approach to the studies of the space policy, since the studies in this sphere require the “participation” of many sciences, which are related to space and cosmonautics, as well as classic understanding of the concept of “policy” in all of its varieties. The author analyzes works of the prominent scientist in the sphere of space and space policy, such as V.I. Vernadsky, V.N. Gushin, B.S. Sokolov, and Payson D. The author singles out certain approaches to the space policy, for example functional, comparative, sociological and political – cultural methodologies. He also notes that inter-disciplinary approach and political science analysis have great perspectives in the sphere of studying the space policy.

Keywords: political science, space policy, inter-disciplinary approach, political science approach, methodological approach, political science paradigm, international relations, relations among the states, geopolitical schools, space activity.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the problem of understanding the principle of personal security and inviolability. The author pays attention to its contents, elements, their relations and the difference between personal security and inviolability and the protection of private life. The author also studies the views of scientists on the nature of these principles. In the opinion of the author, inviolability of private life is part of a more general principle of personal security and inviolability.

Keywords: jurisprudence, law, person, inviolability, freedom, private, interference, Constitution, honor, dignity.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the legal regulation of preliminary investigation by the NKVD RSFSR after the Soviet rule was established in Russia. The author casts light upon the organization of preliminary investigation as an important part of work of the law-enforcement bodies, since there was a number of revolutions in the early XX century, which caused large-scale changes in economic, political, legal and other spheres of Russian state, and they influenced the system of law-enforcement bodies as well. The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs as an executive body with vast competence investigated crimes, and its history is of great interest. Currently the system of measures for the support of law and order in Russia as well as for fighting crimes efficiently requires development of preliminary investigation, and this issue remained topical at various historical stages. The scientific work in this sphere is directed at its further development with due consideration of historical experience and its possible current application. The object of the study is the social relations, based on the implementation of functions of preliminary investigation by the NKVD. The sources include laws, by-laws, decrees, acts of the executive bodies, orders of various services and organizations, etc., which regulated the activities of the preliminary investigation by the NKVD RSFSR in 1917-1930s.

Keywords: jurisprudence, law, legal order, legality, investigation, commissariat, militia, crime, functions.

Abstract: The goal of this publication is to prove that the Russian historical experience is no less developed, when compared to analogous foreign experiences. Rather, it shows greater degree of development. The article includes analysis of the attempts by the state to structure and to institutionalize the system fro the social care, and in particular, of the formation of the vertical of power, division of competences for managing the system, clear subordination, reporting and control over the activities of its subjects. This analysis includes the main chronological periods for the formation of the system of social care for family and children from the X to the early XX centuries. The study is based on the authentic sources, works of the pre-Revolution and modern scientists, statistical data from the periodicals of late XIX and early XX centuries. The author also analyzes the bibliographic sources, which reflect upon the historiography of subject of study during the above-mentioned period.

Keywords: jurisprudence, social care, orders, charity, family, children, youth, Russia, legislation, history.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the tax policy of the Russian state in the first quarter of the XVIII century. The author provides detailed analysis of the system of taxation of merchants before the capitation tax was introduced. The article also includes analysis of the causes for the introduction of the capitation tax, as well as the measures taken to collect the capitation tax from the merchants.

Keywords: jurisprudence, merchantry, trading quarters, tax, levy, custom fee, riflemen tax, tavern tax, chancery tax, capitation tax.

Abstract: This article includes analysis of the possible conflict of laws norms, which apply to the pipeline transportation. Much attention is paid to the pipeline transportation as an object of the property complex, the author also singles out the specific features of its subjects, as well as the options for the possible con- flict of laws regulation of pipeline transportation. Each type of transportation has its own specific features in the international law. As it was correctly noted by M.V. Filimonova, one type of the transportation is only regulated by the unified material norms (air transportation), while the other is best regulated with the unified conflict of laws norms, which allow to retain the connect with the “parent” national legal system (railway and automobile transportation); in some cases the universal unification suits it best (air carriers), in other cases it is more reasonable for the regional unification to apply (pipeline transportation, railway transportation).

Keywords: jurisprudence, conflict of laws, norm, property, complex, pipeline, transportation, transnational, company, regulation.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of the fire inspection of the common property in an apartment building. The author views the requirements of the fire security to the upkeep and repairs of the common property of the owners of the apartments in the apartment building. Then the author offers the possible measures for the solution of legal problems in the sphere of fire inspection of the housing services and utilities.

Keywords: jurisprudence, fire inspection, upkeep of common property, apartment building, organization providing services for the housing, housing and utilities administration, housing fund, fire security requirements, anti-fire protection, anti-fire requirements.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the scientific achievements of N.F. Kuznetsova in the sphere of solving the problem of stages of crimes, their correlation with the incomplete crime. The author shows the value of these achievements for the further development of the teaching on stages of implementation of criminal intent as a new paradigm in the global criminal law. The author establishes the intellectual connection between the stages of implementation of criminal intent (stage of preparation for the implementation of crime and the stage of implementation of crime), and such terms as attack and encroachment, which previously were deemed to be unconnected. The author discusses the key provisions of the teaching and legislative novelties, which are based on it. Then he discusses the issue of the need to introduce this teaching and legislative novelties which are based on it into the teaching process and criminal legislation.

Keywords: N.F. Kuznetsova, scientific achievements, stages of committing crime, crimes depending on the stage of their completion, correlation of committing the crime and crimes depending on the stage of their completion, crimes with direct intent, teaching on the stages of implementing the crime, new paradigm in the global criminal law science, stage of preparation for a crime, stage of implementation of a crime, encroachment, attempt, combination of scientific and legislative novelties.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the ideas of the renowned Russian thinker and legal scholar Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin (1828-1904) on state, civil society and definition of law. Now, when one is to speak of the philosophical heritage of Boris Chicherin, the researchers point out the fact that he was at the very source of the formation of Russian political and legal science. Boris Chicherin wrote a number of works, which were directly or indiretly related to the legal issues, politics, history and theory of state. The cornerstone of his philosophy was the term of human individual as a free person, and his political credo was to combine the liberal state and the strong government, which he regarded as a specific feature of the Russian state. The method of this work was to study a number of little known works of Boris Chicherin, and the author also studied political philosophy and philosophy of law in Russia (the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov) and in Germany (the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Tuebingen State University), which allowed him to understand the ideas of Boris Chicherin better and to evaluate them properly. As the result of the research, the author shows that Chicherin was trying to find a compromise between Slavophiles and pro-Western tendencies in the Russian philosophy of XIX – XX centuries, as well as between the ideas of anarchy and despotism. The philosopher also was trying to find a positive balance between the terms of freedom and equality. All of the above-mentioned matters lead him to the creation of the philosophic and legal concept, which one may now evaluate as liberal-conservative. The sphere of application of results of this study may be its use in the courses on history of political teachings and law, as well as in the scienctific research in the sphere of theory of state and law.

Keywords: political science, state, law, politics, society, freedom, person, history, property, liberalism.