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Reference:
L.A. Sokolskaya. (2010). as a Principal Characteristic of
Law. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 699–706. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59667
Abstract:
The author of the article formulates a conclusion that picture of culture
as opens perspective possibilities the integrated system and in research of legal
reality. A right appears as a structural element of the single organized integrity,
as element of common to all mankind culture. Exactly culture as steady and
natural integrity will transform destructive inclinations of social contradictions
in creative one, as only a culture possesses the strongest negetropiya characteristics.
Right as sociocultur phenomenon to aim to organize the frame of society,
eliminate any contradictions between separate its structural elements. It presents
a certain stable mechanism in which each of its parts instantly reacts on changes
in other part and in the system on the whole. Withholding of integrity of balanced,
relative cociume of different scale and level (family, enterprise, public
association, state), providing of their survival, functioning, and evolutions are
general characteristic right as to one of forms of human culture. It is native characteristic
right we suggest to name cociuocentrizm right. The idea of cociuocentrizm
of right must become foundation of the culture going near a right. Sociumocentrizm
right reveals to him dignities of prominent integrator of life of society.
Due to it a sociuocentrizm right is formed by foundation of human culture;
life of culture, its various forms in space and in time flows in socium, organized
and saved a right.
A right brings in in life of society good organization and order due to
connection in him of specific lines (generality, normativeness, obligatoryness,
formal definiteness) combination of which is not present in other phenomena of
culture. A role is right as the phenomena of culture consists of providing of inheritance
of social forms of vital functions, stability, relative duration of existence
of concrete class associations, each of which is link of historical process.
A right is the unique form of culture which originally, essence, to the
functions of on withholding of integrity of the concretely-historical systems at
inviolability of their cash constants. A right guards the general conditions of life
of society, but only to the that historical moment, when a threat interests is:
dominating class. A right guards interests of dominating class, but only to the that historical moment, when a threat the general conditions of life of human
association is. Such is dialectics right.
In the process of historical development of civilization sociuocentrizm
potential of right will increase and space will attain necessarily, metasociuocentrizm
level of the development.
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sotsiumotsentrizm, pozitivnoe pravo, metapravo
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Reference:
E.V. Polikarpova. (2010). Program of Reforms in the Ideology of Early Populism. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 707–717. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59668
Abstract:
The author gives the definition of the term “populism” in the present article
and studies main ideas of this phenomenon, using points of view of populism
founders – A.I. Herzen, N.P. Ogarev, N.G. Chernyshevsky, whose conclusions
being either very close either complementing each other composed the
whole system of standpoints and general program of state remodeling.
The author investigates populism origin at different stages of historical
development beginning from populism that emerged at the turn of 1850–60s,
during the period of preparation and realization of the peasant reform.
The author pays special attention to the consideration of the idea of the
populism founders’ concern to envisage a peasant as a firm rural master, an active
participant of economic and politics. We may call the populists the ideologists
of “green revolution” in Russia who more than seventy years had successfully
and purposively been protecting peasantry’s interests connecting with them
their expectations to overcome “vicissitudes in our agriculture.”
Hereafter the author describes the situation from the end of 1850s, when
the populists was fighting against “feudal system” i.e. first against serfdom, and
later against half-serf lawlessness that remained in the Russian village after
1861.
The author pays attention to the priorities of the populism founders that
are the following: task of remodeling of state structure, form of government and
political regime and related questions referring to constitutional and municipal
right, constitutional ideas of which were developing in the tideway of the most
significant political achievements of XIX century.
The author points out in the article that the critical target of the populism
was a democratic legal community with socially oriented market economy. According
to the points of view of the populism founders, realization of that target
may open the gate for a higher stage of social development that got the title of
“socialism” in XIX.
A.I. Herzen and N.G. Chernyshevsky were among thinkers of XIX century
who began convergence of liberal and socialist ideas as they saw in socialism
not a destructor but an inheritor of liberal values – a natural addition of freedom
ideas by the ideas of social justice.
Besides, the author points to the occurrence of conditions of free, objective
analysis of populism “inheritance” at the present time.
Keywords:
narodnichestvo
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Reference:
A.P. Ivanov. (2010). Difficult Way to Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation.
From the History of the Foreign Compensating Payments to the Russian
Citizens – Victims of the Nazi Regime. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 718–749. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59669
Abstract:
The author states in his article on the basis of Russian und foreign
sources the history of the German and Austrian compensating payments to the
Russian citizens-victims of the Nazi regime. A short review of the previous
events is given: the mass forced deportation of civil citizens in the occupied soviet
territory and soviet prisoners of war to the Fascist Germany and their enlisting
to forced slave labour; the repatriation of this people after the war to the
home country, where they were badly discriminated; the stubborn unwillingness
of Germany and Austria for a long time to recognize the problem of compensation
and the true reasons which made them to take a decision abort the compensating
payments.
An considerable part in the article is given to the analysis of the Russian
and foreign basic documents for the compensating payments, in particular for
the Acts about the establishment of a German Fund “Memory, Responsibility
and Future” and of an Austrian Fund: “Reconciliation, Freedom and Collaboration”
as well as of the practical activities of the Russian Fund “Mutial Understanding
and Reconciliation” concerning the conducting of the compensating
payments and the realization of international humanitarian programs for the victims
of the Nazi regime in Russia.
The German and Austrian payments were not a real compensation for all
the privations und sufferings, for material and mental demage to the victims of
the Nazi regime, the article says. At the very beginning from the compensation
were excluded many categories of victims: soviet prisoners of war, who suffered
most of all suffers from the war, the persons, who were replaced inside the occupied
soviet territory and many others.
Nevertheless the payments were one of the most remarkable events in
the political relationship of Russia with Germany and Austria in the last century
and nowdays. They permitted many hundred thausends suffers from the Nazi
regime to get a financial and moral help, which they so much needed. An the
some time these payments demonstrate the recognision of injustice of the Nazi
system, flagrant violation of human rights and human dignity.
The article is intended for historians und lawers, for those who are intresting
in the history of the World War II and the afterwarperiod as well as for
the people, whom the article is devoted to: for the living victims of the Nazi regime.
Keywords:
zhertvy natsizma, kompensatsionnye vyplaty, Rossiiskii fond vzaimoponimaniya i primireniya, avstriiskii Fond «Primirenie, mir i sotrudnichestvo»
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Reference:
I. Marino. (2010). The Impeachment of the President of Russian Federation:
Elaborations, Concepts, Positions of the Members of the Constitutional Conference
of 1993. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 750–766. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59670
Abstract:
The Constitutional Conference transcript gives us a possibility to capture
the actual authors of the provisions on the impeachment institution in Russia,
disputes with regard to its establishment, alternative approaches by various authors
of the Constitution and even, not least importantly, the environment, the
“political climate” within which the draft Constitution of the country, including
the article on renunciation of the Presidency, was being developed.
The article is focused only on passive responsibility of the President of
the Russian Federation, more precisely, on developing the Constitutional provision
on renunciation of the Russian Federation Presidency within the framework
of the Constitutional Conference.
The Constitutional Conference transcript demonstrates the multiple attempts
by S.A. Filatov, an author of the Constitution close to the first Russian
President B.N. Yeltsin, not to establish such mechanism in Russia at all.
S.A. Filatov’s position is clear-cut: “We should not be too keen on impeachment.”
The pragmatic “Kotenkov’s concept” aimed at protection from future
legislators prevailed at the Constitutional Conference. The concept provides for
the procedure of renunciation of the Presidency in the Constitution, however, the
procedure itself is extremely complicated and stipulated in much detail. Its
pragmatic purpose is to avoid possible surprises on the part of yet unelected and,
therefore, unclearly disposed towards the President legislators after the Constitution
adoption.
Eventually, A.A. Kotenkov and his “constitutional adherents” got the
expected result: the option more convenient for the President – to provide for the
impeachment institution at the same time stipulating it in the maximum possible
detail “at home,” i.e. at the President’s Constitutional Conference, there and
then, in order to keep the situation “under control.”
It is common knowledge that the procedure of renunciation of the Russian
Federation Presidency established by the Presidential Constitutional Conference
in 1993 is extremely complicated.
In our opinion, this article gives us a real classical example in the Constitution
when the responsibility of the President is formally stipulated and implementable,
however, both the article itself and the Constitution in general contain
multiple effectively functioning mechanisms rendering the practical implementation
of the supreme sanction with regard to the first person of the country
difficult to the maximum extent.
Minor likelihood of renunciation of the Presidency is not only due to a
particularly complicated procedure described above. A number of other factors
should also be mentioned. First of all, it should be reminded that half of the Federation
Council chamber members are representatives of executive authorities of constituent territories of the Federation which, in their turn, are formed with direct
participation of the President of the Russian Federation.
It should also be noted that the President of the Russian Federation takes
part in formation of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts and, as everyone
knows, it is him and only him who nominates judges for approval by the Federation
Council.
So, specifically in order to understand the basic reasons for such an article
in the Constitution, for such a result, we regarded it a priority to try recreating
a really unbiased picture of the way the Constitution authors in 1993 wished
to settle the impeachment institution.
Each article of the 1993 Constitution has a separate story, its own background,
its own “constitutional heroes.”
Kotenkov’s, Mityukov’s Yakovlev’s, Filatov’s supporters and others
have become the history of the Russian constitutional reforms of the 1990s and
we need to asses them as the authors of the constitutional provisions in an impartial
and unbiased manner.
It’s time to find out “who is who?” in the Russian constitutional process.
In our opinion, an attentive analysis of the Constitutional Conference
transcript and of the not less important transcript of the Constitution Committee
giving a significant impetus to the whole constitutional process in 1990s is the
priority direction both for comprehensive research in the story of the Russian
constitutional processes of the 1990s and at the same time for a more adequate
study and understanding of the contents of the Russian Supreme Law.
Proper study of the debates, of all the disputes around each provision of
the Constitution at the time when such provisions were actually being developed
allows more adequate and precise interpretation of each constitutional provision.
Keywords:
Prezident RF, Konstitutsionnoe soveshchanie, impichment
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Reference:
N.A. Gromoshina. (2010). On the Procedural Form and Principles of Simplification
of Civil Procedure. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 767–780. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59671
Abstract:
The article examines one aspect of the differentiation of civil procedure
– its simplification. This trend is developing in theory as well as in judicial practice.
It is important to distinguish the simplification of the process – as the direction
of aspirations of the legislator (as well as of scholars, lawyers, making
the appropriate proposal) and simplified procedure. It is also incorrect to speak
about the simplification for the court, or simplification for the parties.
While developing and suggesting simplified procedures we should take
into account the most important parameter – the principle of simplification. It
means that simplification may be conducted in every way which allows preserving
the essence of the phenomenon itself. This principle follows from the rules
and laws of dialectics and formal logic. In addition, a systematic approach and
compliance of simplified procedures with objectives of civil procedure should be
observed.
While trying to answer these questions the author is addressing the concept
of the civil-procedural form, analyzing it from historical standpoint and
from the perspective of theory of law and procedural branch of legal science as
well.
The main specific idea of the article is that the simplification is regarded
as modification, and the procedural form – as an element of the essence (an attribute)
of civil procedure. It allowed to align the arguments according to the
laws of dialectics and formal logic.
The author does not support the view of some theorists of law on the
loss of importance and the uselessness of the term “procedural form.” Instead of
that relying on refined and updated definition of procedural form, the author puts
forward the principles of simplification of civil procedure. As a result, the author
concludes that the importance of civil-procedural form lies in the fact that it allows
to define the limits of possible changes of procedures of dealing with civil
cases, in particular, the limits of simplification. This is important for the legislator,
and for the researchers.
Keywords:
uproshchenie grazhdanskogo sudoproizvodstva, printsipy uproshcheniya, pravoprimenenie, grazhdanskii i arbitrazhnyi protsess
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Reference:
N.L. Lyutov. (2010). Unformalized Sources of International Labour Law. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 781–807. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59672
Abstract:
Unlike the Soviet law that was based on the idea of legal positivism
meaning that law is limited to a number of legal norms, the system of modern
Russian law rests on the natural law concept, which presumes that there are certain
ideas and principles going beyond and giving ground for existence of written
legal acts. Article 15(4) of the Russian Constitution states that universally
recognized norms of international law is a component of Russian legal system
beside the ordinary legislation and international treaties ratified by the Russian
Federation. Russia is also a party to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties,
1969, providing that an international treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion,
it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law (a jus
cogens norm).
These provisions are very important for Russian labour law taking into
account a big role of international sources in this branch of law. The International
Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at
Work, 1998 names four basic rights and principles of labour law: the freedom of
association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining; the
elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour; the effective abolition
of child labour; and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment
and occupation, as fundamental ones and further states that each ILO member
state is obliged to follow these principles and rights irrespective of the fact of
ratification of any convention concerning these principles. This obligation is
motivated by the statement that member-states have already undertook these obligations
having ratified the ILO Constitution and ILO Declaration of Philadelphia
(Declaration concerning the aims and purposes of the International Labour
Organization, 1944) being an annex to the ILO Constitution. Nevertheless, it is impossible to find a clear statement in the texts of the ILO Constitution and the
Declaration of Philadelphia that all four principles and rights must be respected
by the member-states. This raises several questions: does the difference in contents
of Declaration of 1998 and ILO Constitution and Declaration of Philadelphia
mean that ILO’s position is in fact meaning that these four principles and
rights should be treated as the jus cogens norms? Should any other principles of
labour law be added to the list of jus cogens norms? The interpretation of these
principles is also a very important issue. Should these principles be interpreted
only in the limits of national legislation on their application, or it must be based
on the interpretation by the ILO control bodies that goes far beyond the plain
text of the ILO Conventions? Is it possible to make a statement that such interpretation
is an unformalized source of labour law?
The article is an attempt to give answers to these rather difficult questions,
important both to Russian national and international labour law.
Keywords:
trudovoe pravo, mezhdunarodno-pravovoe regulirovanie truda, mezhdunarodnye trudovye standarty, estestvennoe pravo, pozitivnoe pravo, obshchepriznannye printsipy i normy, normy jus cogens, «myagkoe» pravo, gosudarstvennyi suverenitet, tolkovanie prava
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Reference:
E.L. Sidorenko. (2010). Liability in the Context of Legal and Philosophical
Theories. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 808–819. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59673
Abstract:
The question of the nature of criminal liability in the Russian jurisprudence
neither can be considered well studied nor fully posed. For most researchers
the spectrum of scientific definitions of liability rules out the need for its
thorough study and reduces the analysis to selection of the definition most suitable
for resolution of tasks at hand. The shift of exploratory interests towards
techno-legal and semantic analysis results for the liability concept in the loss of
its ontological and axiological nature, blurs the distinction between liability and
other mechanisms of criminal law regulation, fails to clarify the analysis of the
processes of criminalization of deeds and differentiation of liability.
The ontological guideline was selected as the starting point for the
analysis in order to compensate for the deficit in scientific understanding of philosophical
and legal aspects of criminal liability. It allowed to trace back the
evolution of theory and practice of criminal policy and determine the following
philosophical and legal approaches for defining criminal liability:
philosophical and social school of the classical school considers criminal
liability as an element of social responsibility. The objective-subjective dualism
of liability elements is the basis of the classical theory. The objective element
manifests itself in the demands the society makes to the person’s actions and the
subjective one – in consciousness of guilt (positive liability concept);
whereas the classical approach attributes criminal liability to the ethical
experience of the guilty person, the positivistic school views it as a retribution
and intimidation tool. In the positivistic interpretation criminal liability is a legal
consequence of the crime; limitations to the legal status of the person; limitations
of personal and property nature etc. Not to deny justice to the mentioned
evaluations, it is impossible to ignore that this approach deprives criminal liability of the dynamic nature, fails to define its functional properties and its place in
the system of criminal law regulation;
detailed elaboration of the normative criteria of criminal liability resulted
in formation of the new techno-legal concept within the positivistic
school. Supporters of the school single out material and procedural attributes of
liability and identify it with application of sanctions and privations to the guilty
person;
propositions of the Marburg neoclassical school constituted the basis of
the functional approach. Criminal liability is viewed in the light of the universal
characteristics and interpreted as a legal tool for prevention and resolution of
conflicts, specific method or instrument of pressure on the person guilty of
committing a premeditated crime etc. Functional evaluation of liability allows to
define its dynamic nature but does not display the mechanism of legal pressure;
evolution of philosophical and legal concepts resulted in formation of
eclectic scientific school. It consists of the following areas: 1) identification of
criminal liability and criminal law relations; 2) limitation of liability by the nature
of legal relations; 3) its identification with legal duty; 4) analysis of liability
as a State power.
The concept of criminal liability as an element of regulatory and protective
criminal law relations is at embryonic stage of development. In regulatory
relations the concept arises from the moment the criminal law is enacted and
constitutes a way to enforce criminal law prohibitions, and in protective relations
it constitutes the nature of relations between the State and the offender.
Keywords:
nakazanie, ugolovno-pravovoe regulirovanie, mery prinuzhdeniya, ob'ekt i sub'ekty pravootnoshenii
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Reference:
E.L. Maksimov. (2010). Protection of Agricultural Lands as a Means of Providing
for the Ecological Safety. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 820–824. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59674
Abstract:
The article describes the most urgent problems of state control over the
protection of agricultural lands as a means of providing for the ecological safety
of the Russian Federation. Facts from various sources demonstrate how important
and even necessary its to provide for such state control.These facts also
speak about the unfavourable situation related to the reduction in agricultural
lands, the withdrawal of such lands from the turnover of national economy and
the degradation of the lands (worsening fertility and other aspects).
So according to the statistics of 2008 there was a reduction in agricultural
lands that was 864,1 thousand hectares less than in 2007.
One of the basic laws for the complex control over agriculture is the
Federal Law “On the development of agriculture.” According to that law the
state carries out the state agrarian policy being one of the trends of the state social
and economic policy aimed at steady development of agriculture and rural
areas.
The law and other federal target programmes are aimed preservation and
reproduction of agricultural lands and other natural resources. To achieve the
goals mentioned above it’s urgent to take measures for keeping up soil fertility,
preservation and efficient use of agricultural lands and agrolandscapes. It is also
necessary to provide for the increase in the manufacture of qualitative agricultural
production by using regeneration and enhancement of soil fertility of agricultural
lands.
In conclusion it’s worth mentioning that the realization of those measures
will lead to food and ecological safety of the Russian Federation. However
it’s possible only in case of full-scale funding of all programmes of measures.
Keywords:
povyshenie plodorodiya pochv
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Reference:
S.V. Malikov. (2010). Terms in Conditional Early Release Institute. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 825–836. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59675
Abstract:
The conditional early release institute has originally had a time character.
Time periods which are necessary to serve to get a conditional release are
fixed in Criminal Code (s 79) and they depend on the category of crime.
In spite of a long history of the institute and its detailed regulation there
are a lot of disputable problems in theory and practice connected with correct
operation of terms.
These problems usually arise from uncoordinated or contradictory provisions
of law or judicial practice which are devoted to questions of terms calculating.
There are three Codes which are concerned with matter of handling of time
periods.
There is given an analysis of existing law rules and the author explains
his position on this issue.
The roots of the problem of incorrect terms handling have terminological
grounds: many scientist suppose that an unserved term in conditional early
release institute must have the same characteristics (also including a title) as a
probation period in conditional release institute. That suggestion leads toward
using of analogy with conditional release institute and establishing of time
frames for the unserved term. We suppose that the present law provisions on this
matter more suitable because they reflect that a general probation in conditional
early release institute is fulfilled while a sentence is serving. For the purpose of
establishing an unified attitude to this problem it is supposed to use in theory the
“control term” which could be understood as the unserved term.
The most difficult situation in terms handling is the appointment of an
additional punishment. This question is not regulated by Criminal Code. The
Supreme Court of Russia also does not provide unambiguous rules. The solution
to this problem lies in the sphere of doctrine. There are several proposals on the
definition of the control term, the most appropriate is this: if the person has
served the whole primary punishment, the court may release the convicted person
from serving the additional punishment and the control term will be equal to
the unserved part of the additional punishment. If the court release the convict
from the primary punishment the control period will be equal to the most longest
of two terms.
Keywords:
srok, ischislenie, ispytanie
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Reference:
O.V. Miklyaeva. (2010). Framework of Special Theory of Forensic Examination
of Shot Traces and Circumstances. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 837–847. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59676
Abstract:
The article covers the current problems of shaping the basics of the special
theory of forensic examination of shot traces and circumstances. The author
states that the results of forensic ballistic tests are often one of the most important
source of evidence in investigation and judicial examination of cases concerned
with firearms use. This circumstance determines the necessity of developing
theoretical and methodological grounds for both forensic ballistic examination
on the whole and its types: forensic examination of firearms and its cartridges
and forensic examination of shot traces and circumstances. Ballistics is
the source for shaping theoretical and methodological grounds of the types of
forensic ballistic examination. The author states the importance of forensic ballistics
and traces the development of ballistics from the Archimedes’s works to
our days. It is emphasized that theoretical grounds and methods of shot traces
study were developed simultaneously within the frameworks of forensic medical
examination and criminal investigation technique, namely forensic ballistic examination.
The main milestones of forensic examination general theory development
are covered as they are reflected in the works of A.I. Winberg,
A.P. Shlyakhov, N.T. Malakhova and the criticism of opponents S.P. Mitrichev,
N.A. Selivanov, A.A. Eisman and Ye.R. Rossinskaya. The article is concluded
with the characteristic of contemporary forensic examination general theory
condition as an independent area of scientific knowledge, serving as foundation
for shaping theoretical grounds for various kinds (types) of forensic examination
within the framework of a single science. From this point of view, the relation
between main concepts of the subject and the object of general and special theory
is presented. It is underlined that the process of shaping the special theory of
forensic ballistic examination was based on the basics of the theory of forensic
identification, thus allowing the determination of the basics of the theory and its
methodological grounds, while simultaneous creation of theoretical concepts of
expert identification and diagnostics extended the basics of forensic ballistic examination
theory. It is noted that an important component of the forensic examination
general theory is the doctrine of the “language” i.e. the system of expert
concepts and terms denoting them, with the problems of formalizing and unifying
the expert language. The author’s conclusion is that successful development
of forensic examination general theory will allow rethinking of conceptual basics
of its special theories, including that of forensic examination of shot traces
and circumstances.
Keywords:
teoriya sudebnoi ekspertizy, sudebno-ballisticheskaya ekspertiza, sledy vystrela, ekspertnaya diagnostika, yazyk ekspertizy
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Reference:
D.K. Bekyashev. (2010). The International Law Aspects of Financial Support
of the Seafarers in Cases of Abandonment, Body Injury or Death. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 848–859. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59677
Abstract:
The article notes that according to IMO’s information there are more
than 50 large cases of abandonment of seafarers annually. In national legislation
of states which have largest the tonnage of sea-ships (including Russia), there is
no definition of abandonment. In IMO’s practice this term is understood as
“abandonment without help.”
Abandonment without help takes place when the ship-owner does not
carry out certain basic obligations to the seafarers, concerning timely repatriation
and payment of not paid compensation, granting of the articles of prime necessity,
appropriate food, habitation and health services, and also in those cases,
when masters of ships remain without any financial means intended for operation
of a vessel.
Guarantee of repatriation and the maintenance of seafarers in a case of
abandonment without help, and also compensation payment should be a part of
the rights provided by the work agreement, and-or the rights of seamen established
by the legislation. When the shipowner does not carry out the obligations,
seamen should have a possibility to apply about help to the flag state and, in certain
cases, to the state whose citizen is the seafarer, or to the state in whose port
vessel is found.
The article analyzes the Guidelines on Provision of Financial Security in
Case of Abandonment of Seafarers (Resolution À.930(22)) and the Guidelines
on Shipowners’ Responsibilities in Respect of Contractual Claims for Personal
Injury to or Death of Seafarers (Resolution À.931(22)). Both Guidelines were
accepted by IMO Assembly at 22 Session on November 29, 2001 and came in
force since January 1, 2002.
In connection with acceptance of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
the author carries out comparative legal analysis of a balance of provisions of the
Convention and Guidelines concerning abandonment of seafarers. In conclusion
recommendations are given about improving the international legal regulation of
this problem.
Keywords:
IMO, MOT, moryaki, abandon, repatriatsiya, telesnye povrezhdeniya, strakhovanie moryakov
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Reference:
A.O. Chetverikov. (2010). Citizenship of the European Union as a Legal Form
for Liberalizing Cross-Border Relations between the EU Member States. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 860–872. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59678
Abstract:
The citizenship of the European Union (also known as a “European citizenship”)
is a relatively new and unique phenomenon in the modern legal history.
It was established at the same time as the European Union itself (by the
Treaty on European Union of 1992).
Since then the European citizenship has become subject of intense discussions
between academic lawyers and political scientists as to its “nature” and
‘content”. Whether it is a real citizenship while the EU is not a State? Practically, what it means for the citizens (nationals) or the EU Member States who
are automatically recognized nowadays as a “owners” of this citizenship (“Union
citizens”)? In other words, what is the raison d’être of this legal construction?
Basing on the new version of the EU constitutive Treaties (as amended
by the Treaty of Lisbon of 2007, in force from the 1 December 2009) and on the
EU Court of Justice case law, the article proposes a new concept of the European
citizenship.
On the one hand, the European citizenship is an attempt to strengthen direct
political ties between the peoples of the EU and the EU itself as a public
entity endowed with legislative and administrative powers. The Treaty of Lisbon
especially reflects this in the new title II introduced into the Treaty on European
Union (title II “Provisions on Democratic Principles”).
On the other hand, the European citizenship initially was and still rests
first and foremost the particular legal form (or mechanism) to liberalize to the
greatest possible extent the relations between the EU Member States at the level
of their civil society. This is proved by the list of the EU citizens’ rights enshrined
in the EU Treaties and Charter of fundamental rights before and after the
Treaty of Lisbon.
The core right in the abovementioned list included into the second part
“Non-discrimination and Citizenship of the Union” of the Treaty on the Functioning
of the European Union (ex Treaty establishing the European Community
of 1957 amended and renamed by the Lisbon Treaty of 2007) is the right to
move and reside freely on the territory of all EU Member States.
Furthermore, the migrant EU citizen (i.e. EU citizen residing in Member
State of which he is not a national, for example a French citizen living in Germany)
is authorized to exercise electoral rights in cross-border context such as a
right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament as
well as municipal elections.
Most other rights in the abovementioned list are also granted to other
natural and legal persons residing or having their registered office in the EU
(such as right to complain to European Ombudsman). Henceforth they cannot be
considered as EU citizens’ rights in the proper sense of the term.
The article also attracts attention to the fact that after entry into force of
the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union the number of economic
freedoms proclaimed in 1957 as part of common market of former European
Economic Community has acquired a new stature as fundamental rights in
constitutional law sense (for example, free movement of workers or freedom of
establishment for self-employed persons).
Keywords:
pravo Evropeiskogo Soyuza, Lissabonskii dogovor, grazhdanstvo, demokratiya, osnovnye prava, liberalizatsiya, transgranichnye pravootnoosheniya
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Reference:
Ya.V. Komissarova. (2010). On the Specifics of Professional Development of
the Expert. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 873–887. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59679
Abstract:
By adjusting the order of integration of people with expertise in litigation,
as well as the use of the results of their work during the investigation, consideration and resolution of criminal cases, criminal procedure law (designed to
achieve the goals that lead to the need for the criminal procedure law) does not
regulate the activities of the expert in the study and draw conclusions from the
study. At the same time, and criminal procedure and other branches of law, contain
provisions that provide the opportunity and conditions for the production of
certain actions, called “expertise,” uniformly determine its nature: regardless of
the type used by special knowledge and variety of applications, examination of
how work on the study of a particular object carried out by expert in order to
obtain information of interest to the initiator of production involves the study
and giving opinion on the request authorized by the agency, entity or person.
The foregoing suggests that we are dealing with an independent social
phenomenon. Public relations, arising from the need for some people to get interested
in them information on issues whose resolution requires the use of
knowledge, which they themselves (or at all to the necessary extent) do not possess
and the possibility of other to grant such information on the results of the
research.
Since the judicial review could be requested to any person possessing
special knowledge, we must recognize that the components of forensic work are
equally as the work of government and non-expert agencies and the activities of
persons designated by the experts from among those in their facilities is not
working. Study of domestic legislation (criminal procedure, in the first place)
shows that the production of examinations by any person designated by an expert
in labor law is perceived as a payable. However, postulating that an expert
can only be one who has the special knowledge, criminal procedure law, by virtue
of their nature, considering the expert solely as a subject of criminal procedure,
legal, granting the appropriate rights and responsibilities, the fact that his
procedural functions are derived from the professional, proper attention is not
paid – the question of how individuals appointed experts acquire “expertise” in
demand in the proceedings, and to what degree at the time of their own, remains
out of sight of the legislator.
Meanwhile, an expert in the new millennium in 99% of cases – a professional
who has chosen this type of activity motivation, as appropriate to his personal
interests and preferences. The expert – a subjective, occasionally \"distraction
from normal activities (including studying the problems of “big science”)
the will of officials bearing the burden of proof on the wane. Today, therefore,
issues related to improving the training of forensic experts in dire need of adequate
modern legal realities of the settlement.
Keywords:
sudebnaya ekspertiza
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Reference:
(2010). Inevitable Reality of Power: Review of Scientifical Meeting. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 888–904. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59680
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Reference:
(2010). Luneev V.V. Kurs mirovoi i rossiiskoi kriminologii. I.M. Matskevich, D.K. Nechevin. LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law), 4, 905–910. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59681