Abstract: The article considers the issues of legal regulation of self-regulation in the sphere of microfinance activities, its purpose, main functions and tasks. The author pays attention to the hierarchy of interrelations between self-regulatory institutions and microfinance institutions determining the specificity of normative regulation in this sphere. The author characterizes basic and internal standards adopted by self-regulatory institutions. The study reveals the main authorities of self-regulatory institutions mediated by public impact measures. The research methodology is based on general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, classification, description, analogy, generalization, induction and deduction) and special methods (formal dogmatic, comparative-legal, system-structural, and the method of legal interpretation). The scientific novelty of the work consists in the complex study of the peculiarities of legal regulation of the activities of self-regulatory microfinance institutions, defines the purpose of self-regulation and its main functions. The author considers the peculiarities of local statutory acts in the sphere of microfinance, defines the status of basic and internal standards adopted by self-regulatory institutions. 

Keywords: microfinance, microfinance institutions, register, administrative relations, measures of coercion, internal standards, basic standards, control, the Bank of Russia, self-regulatory institutions

Abstract: The research subject is the doctrinal provisions characterizing road safety provision patterns. The research object is the range of social relations in the sphere of road safety provision. Based on the analysis of statutory instruments and scientific works, the author studies the concept of road safety provision patterns, focuses on the legal aspects of their detection, and characterizes the essence of patterns, which is revealed on the base of repeated social practice. Special attention is given to distinguishing between the pattern concept and other legal categories. The research methodology is based on the set of general scientific and special methods of cognition (formal-legal, analytical, the method of system analysis, synthesis, modeling, comparison, etc.). The scientific novelty of the study consists in distinguishing the common patterns of road safety provision. The author concludes that the analysis of statutory instruments, scientific works, and legal relationship in the sphere of road safety provision helps detect particular legal problems of patterns distinguishing in this sphere. Inextricable connection between the state policy goals in the sphere of road safety provision and the development patterns of the system under study allows formulating the fundamental scientific provisions of the security theory, which significantly enrich the road safety provision methodology and form a solid base for prognosticating the further transformation of social relations in the considered sphere, the legal base improving and making strategical decisions in the sphere of road safety provision, aimed at the reduction of the number of road accidents and their consequences. 

Keywords: security system, frequency of occurrence of phenomena, facts, patterns, safety provision, road safety, traffic, correlation of patterns, legal relationship, phenomena

Abstract: The research subject includes the concept of administrative coercion in the context of a counterterrorism operation in respect of application of weapons and special equipment; compliance of the real capabilities of the participants of a counterterrorism operation with the practical demands; the requirements to combat and special purpose equipment used in antiterrorist activities. The research object consists of the patterns, being revealed during the development of the legal base for the production and application of combat and special purpose equipment by the units of internal affairs bodies and other federal executive bodies in the context of counterterrorism. The research methods include the method of comparative jurisprudence used for the estimation of the compliance of the capabilities of special purpose equipment with the modern demands. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the analysis of the conceptual framework, the proposals about the improvement of the legal framework of combat and special purpose equipment application, and the special requirements to combat and special purpose equipment. The author comes to the following conclusions: it is necessary to unify the legislation, to eliminate the existing contradictions between statutory instruments, and to form a unified conceptual framework.  

Keywords: armed forces, use of weapons, counterterrorism operation, administrative coercion, counterterrorism, special purpose equipment, police, national security, terrorism, technical equipment

Abstract: The research subject includes legal and organizational problems of administrative regulation of the activities of licensing authorities. The author analyzes the basic statutory instruments in the sphere of licensing, and some problems of their application. The author detects the problems of licensing supervision, including the absence of a precise list of compulsory licensing requirements, and the application of the regulations, adopted in the USSR and the RSFSR as licensing requirements. Besides, the author analyzes the statistical data of licensing authorities about court-ordered revocation of licenses in 2016. The research methodology is based on the modern achievements in epistemology. The author applies general scientific methods (system method, analysis synthesis, analogy, observation, modeling, and comparison), which help distinguish the main development trends and patterns of the subject under study. The scientific novelty consists in the substantiation of the necessity to vest licensing authorities with the powers to revoke the issued licenses according to the administrative procedure in the situations, specified in the Federal Law No 99 “On particular forms of activity licensing” of 4 May, 2011, and the reasonability of working out the draft federal law on permitting activities

Keywords: normative regulation, public administration , licensing authority, control and supervision function, government service, government control, licensing violation, licensing regulation, licensing supervision, licensing

Abstract: The authors study the data obtained in the result of the survey of young employees – the 2013, 2014, 2015 graduates of educational institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation. The survey was being carried out by the researchers of the Research and Development Center of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation in June-August 2016. The purpose of the research was to find out graduates’ opinion about their profession and the peculiarities of service in the penitentiary institutions and bodies. The article considers the problem of adaptation of graduates of educational institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. The authors come to the following conclusions: It is necessary to correct the education program of educational institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation in respect of the education program projecting based on the complex approach, and the need for a close correlation of practical and theoretical educational process. It is necessary to establish the system of assistance to young specialists in psychological, social, and professional adaptation, based on care of colleagues and senior executives. At the same time, it’s necessary to use the help of mentors, which would improve the work of the rest of the personnel, since they will not have to get distracted from their duties. 

Keywords: practice, mentor, senior executive, service, adaptation, graduate, employee, work, profession, specialty