Abstract: The article concerns technical issues of the status of modern Russian political forensic science as an independent branch of forensic studies. The author provides a brief review of the studies in this sphere of humanitarian knowledge in Russia and abroad. He also supports his position on the object field of the Russian political forensic science, topical issues and possible solutions for the nearest perspective. The author also formulates the key goals, on which the modern Russian political forensic scholars should concentrate in the future.

Keywords: jurisprudence, political crime, political forensic science, foreign political forensic science, political criminal, criminal conspiracy theory, criminal anthropology, criminal political aetiology, political terrorism, electoral forensic science.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the key approaches to the nature of the state and civil society, as well as to the process of their institutionalization. The author views the issue of possible correlation of these two institutions in modern social and political conditions and in the historical perspective.

Keywords: jurisprudence, civil society, human rights, democracy, interest, political system, Protestantism, state, self-organization of persons, general human ideals.

Abstract: The article is devoted to one of the topical problems of the Russian testament law, that is to the acceptability of the joint testament in the Russian civil law. The analysis of the object of studies allows to widen the scope of understanding on the form of testaments. The institution of joint testament in Russia has some perspectives for the development. The scientific disputes of the civilists do not provide an unified response to this issue. Most legal scholars refer to the positive experience of foreign states, which allow more space for the implementation of the last will of the testator. Much attention is paid to the case when a regular testament would not correspond to the will of the spouses. Comparative studies allow to single out legal approaches and legislative regulation, which should be carefully worked through. It is important to provide due consideration to the balance of interests of late and surviving spouses. The author comes to a conclusion on the need to amend the current legislation on testaments.

Keywords: joint testament, testament, inheritance, making testament, heritor, testator, testament of spouses, invalidity of testament, testament law.

Abstract: Formation of a rule-of-law state is aimed at protection of the rights of society and individuals in all spheres of life. The strife to achieve this goal should be a defining factor in economics. The shortcomings of antimonopoly legislation previously did not allow to adapt competition regulation to the Russian economic reality. The article contains an opinion that in order to fight economic crime, humanization of criminal legislation should be aimed upon prevention of bad-faith competition of economic subjects, abusing their dominant positions. Since state plays an important role in Russian economy (unlike many Western states), many markets are monopolized by state or municipal enterprises, or the privatized economic subjects. Based on the analysis of the shortcomings of anti-monopoly legislation, the author proposes a way to lower the level of economic crime.

Keywords: human rights, civil society, monopolism, competition protection, economic subject, dominating position, criminal deal, cartel, privatization, politics.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the theoretical bases of the formation of state policy of the Russian Federation in the Far East. The author comes to a conclusion that strategic priority of the state government include, firstly, preservation of the state and modernization; secondly, a transfer to the intensive strategy of historical development, following the strategy of equidistance from the global leaders with an accent on manipulative use of contradictions between the force centers.

Keywords: political science, systemic approach, national state interests, threats, bordering region, levels of coordination, state policy, strategy, equidistance.

Abstract: The author studies topical issues regarding the interactions among the Plenipotentiary Representatives of the President of the Russian Federation with the lawenforcement bodies under the Russian legislation, and makes conclusions. The mechanisms of interaction in the public law can be regarded as a combination of organizational elements, allowing to implement the state powers based on mutual cooperation of two or more empowered subjects, holding equal position within the system of public power. This issue has been an object of scientific studies for the last decade. The authors pay much attention to the issues of functioning of the Plenipotentiary Representatives of the President of the Russian Federation in the federal districts, supporting the thesis on the need to strengthen their role. Since the provisions of various normative acts vary, the organs tend to stand apart from each other, each of them following its own normative basis. This is hardly an acceptable, sufficient or sustainable position. Due to the absence of detailed legislative regulation the study of interactions between the Plenipotentiary Representatives of the President of the Russian Federation in the federal districts and the executive bodies could facilitate the studies of the mechanisms of their interaction with the police, investigation and prosecution bodies.

Keywords: Russian legislation, President, the Russian Federation, Plenipotentiary Representative, federal district, law-enforcement bodies, interaction, public law, plenipotentiary, power.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the studies of specific features of the modern criminal law policy of the Russian Federation and the key directions for its improvement. It is noted in the article, that the criminal law policy of the state should be formed with due consideration for the scientific recommendation, and it should be based upon the theoretical positions of scientists, especially those specializing in forensic studies. The modern condition of the Russian criminal law policy has many specific features, which are not typical for the previous stages of development of the Russian science of criminal law. One of such specific features is a complicated multi-faceted character of the state anti-criminal policy, which was formed as a reaction to the evolution of crime. The strengthening of the social element of the modern legal policy, development of sciences (both humanitarian and technical), which allow to uncover the traces of crime may provide due response to the modern crime. The article includes the conclusion that the modern criminal law policy is a complex multi-aspect activity of the state bodies, which is aimed upon solution of the criminal law goals on protection of individuals, society and state from the criminal encroachments.

Keywords: jurisprudence, politics, legislation, reforms, development, principles, guarantees, categories, crimes, legal order.

Abstract: The general guarantees of criminal process provide for the complex of conditions, facilitating the comprehensive and objective procedure on criminal cases. The further development of the guarantees may be found in the measures regarding support of rights and freedoms of person and citizen in the criminal judicial procedure. The problem of implementation of the principle of protection of rights of persons and citizens is related to the guarantees of subjective rights and lawful interests of an individual. One of the key guarantees for the witness and victim on criminal case is a guarantee of security throughout the process on criminal case, including the judicial stages. This security guarantee should include protection and psychological support.

Keywords: jurisprudence, witness, victim, interrogation, security, visual, observation, choleric, melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic.

Abstract: The article concerns itself with the issues of formation of the state power in the democratic rule-of-law state. Much attention is paid to the aspects of interaction of the state power and civil society through the prism of social and legal culture. The interaction of social culture and state power in the conditions of modern transformations is pointed out. The author supports the position on the key role of historical mental peculiarities of the people and social culture of the society in the process of formation of the legitimate state power.

Keywords: jurisprudence, state, power, culture, mentality, civil society, democracy, transformation, legitimacy, law.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of legislative guarantees of innovative economic development as a whole, and nanotechnologies in particular, within the frameworks of regional integration unions, developing general legal norms and unified rules for its members. Intensifying of the harmonization and unification processes in the economic law of the EU may be characterized by a new generation of directly applicable legal norms, guaranteeing the unified transformation of the EU Member State from the post-industrial economy to the innovation economy. In order to guarantee orderly and secure development of the innovative infrastructure the united Europe actively develops program documents, and financial treaties for the nano-technologies, provides for the allocation of financing of high-risk projects among the states and private investors, holds specialized studies on copyright regulation, social health guarantee, consumer protection, security of workers and environmental protection.

Keywords: jurisprudence, innovative economics, nanotechnologies, regional integration unions, common economic and legal territory, general legal norms, framework programs, the European Union, integration law, innovative economic activities.

Abstract: The article establishes a list of activities, which are prohibited or limited to the persons, holding status of a Russian advocate. The author singles out the principles, which lead to the appearance of such limitations.

Keywords: jurisprudence, advocate, business advocate, status, commerce, independence, nominal, worker, semiboyarshina, novel.

Abstract: The review on the book by A.A. Rer icht “Theoretical Bases for Medical Law. Problems of formation and development. (M. INION RAN, 2011, 214 p.) provides for importance and topicality of this book. The monograph is one of rare works in the Russian legal studies, which is devoted to the theoretical issues of medical law, such as definition of the medical law, object and methods of legal regulation, principles of medical law, independence and system of medical law, correlation of medical law with other branches of law. The author of the book aims to develop the theory of medical law, in order to facilitate its formation as a whole, developed and efficient legal branch, which would meet the needs of modern Russian health service. The structure of the book, which includes a preface and three chapters, allows the author to express a position on the theory of medical law in detail. The narrative logic moves from the social basis for the medical law through the theoretical categories, providing for its independence, to the legal institutions within a branch of law. The book clearly expresses the position of an author on all of the topical issues, regarding definition of medical law, object of its regulation and its place in the legal system. It is quite fair, that the central category of medical law, defining its social purpose, includes medical activities in combination with other guaranteeing activities. The book is based upon analysis of a number of Russian and foreign legal sources, Russian and foreign legislation and judicial practice. The book clearly shows that development of theory of medical law, which would duly ref lect its nature, goals and social functions, is no less important for the modern health service, than formation of the legal basis.

Keywords: health service, legislation on health, medical activity, medical law, object of regulation, methods of legal regulation, principles of medical law, system of medical law, theory of medical law, institutions of medical law.

Abstract: This article was written due to great interest to the institution of simplified judicial arbitration procedure and the amendments in the Chapter 29 of the Arbitration Procedural Code of the Russian Federation. Such attention should facilitate the future application of the novel legal norms, as well as touch upon the past of the institition of simplified procedure, which for the first time appeared in the Russian legislation in 1891. Analysis shows similarities in the norms in the past and present. Some elements can also be found within the system of Soviet State Arbitration.

Keywords: jurisprudence, justice, history, simplified procedure, speed up, c ategory, order, decision, state arbitration, reform.

Abstract: The institution of incompleted attempt of crime in the criminal law of the ancient Russian state is hardly well studied and quite topical. The surviving legal texts of that time do not include references or definitions of the stages of crime, which was natural for the legal techniques of that time. Various fragments of stages of completion of crime are provided for on case by case basis in accordance with the legal practice, and sometimes they lack clear formulae. The opinions of the scholars on the presence/absence of the legislatively provided stages of crime (mostly on attempt) in the ancient Russian crimnal law are divided and both sides have their own arguments. The scholars suporting the position of presence of provisions on attempt of crime in the ancient Russian law insist that it should be interpreted literally and refer to the terminology. Those in opposition of this view point out that the institution of incompleted attempt of crime could not have existed in the ancient Russian law, due to the lack of development of the subjective elements of crime. Probably the truth lies in between these two points. The ancient Russian law did not fully ref lect the institution of incompleted attempt of crime, which in fact existed in legal practice. This position of the author is based upon the comparative analysis of some similar norms of legislation of other Slavic states and the Western European states of the same historical period.

Keywords: jurisprudence, preparation, incomplete attempt of crime, malicious intent, offence, intention, temptation, law, court, ancient Russian.