Abstract: The article concerns the main problems in the sphere of anti-corruption policy in economic relations of government purchases.  The author proves the necessity of providing for a complex of special tools minimizing the practices of involving interested (affiliated) parties into the public purchase procedures, as well as lobbying of commercial interests of certain enterprises by highest officials when a state purchase is being considered. The author provides specific suggestions regarding the improvement of legislation in this area in Russia and Ukraine from both theoretical and practical standpoints.

Keywords: corruption, economic relations, public purchases, buyers, participants of purchases, associated enterpises, holdings, interest, officials, auction commission

Abstract: The article deals with the legal aspects of the reward work in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the legal heterogeneity of the reward work. Informal awards releases serve as reflections of constitutional freedom of conscience and speech of individuals, and the official awards reflect public authority. The reward work includes the basic unit of public relations regarding establishment of awards and rewarding and another unit concerns guarantees for rewarding and honored persons. The establishment of formal awards and rewarding are governed by award law. It is characterized by the unity of the subject, the method and the principles of legal regulation, and it is regarded as a part of the administrative law. Administrative nature of reward law is determined by the benefit features of awards.

Keywords: award, award work, award law, official award, legal institution, public admiinistration, principles of law, legal limitations

Abstract: The author examines the search for more effective legal forms and methods of regulating social relations and the formation of the new scientific and legal ideas under the influence of global challenges and processes. Formation of world politics is closely linked to global processes and, in fact, may be viewed as a phenomenon of the global world. The same kind of processes of globalization characterized area of the law (as in real life, and in science), which is also in a sense, already "detached" from the state, generating a law that even in an international perspective is beginning to take on a global dimension. This global law movement is not "fairly exists a" current state of international law, and requires more and more global expansion, which, however, has its limits and features. Therefore, we will not go easy on the globalization of law as a linear expansion process, and its high-quality non-linear transformation in conjunction with the processes of globalization and the emergence of global governance.Given the author's vision of legal globalistics (global law), exploring the interrelated processes of globalization and become law-set of global rules. It is shown that the formation of a global law as a form of scientific knowledge re-lated to globalization as worldwide processes, however, it began to develop a much earlier understanding of the process of globalization. From the point of view of law as a specific set of special author prefers the name of global law, not legal globalistics. Discuss possible ideas about global law, and the alleged global transformations in law associated with the transition to a sustainable de-velopment of the world community as a global process. Particular attention is given to the establishment of the principles of global law, in particular the prin-ciples of globality and anticipation.

Keywords: globalization, legal globalization, globalistics, global law, global processes, space law, legal globalistics, sustainable law, sustainable development

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the problem of participation of the civil society institutions in the legal policy of a state as a form of expression of government by the people. The concept of law-making legal relations is introduced the into scientific circulation. The author also determins the scope of legal capacity of civil society subjects, them taking part in the law-making. A basis is founded for forms of participation in processes of actual law formation by both persons and public organizations. It is stated that more of responsible participation of civil society in legal development of the state should take place.

Keywords: civil society, government by the people, law-forming relations, law-making, legislative draft, law-making initiative, democratic elections, referendum, public hearings, public discussion

Abstract: The author of the article describes formation and development of the law on lottery in the Russian State. The author divides the formation of the law on lottery in Russia into the three historical periods, each of them having its special features and patterns: pre-revolutionary period, Soviet period and modern Russian period. The author describes each historical period in detail and analyzes regulations and standards of legal regulation of lottery activities in our country. The author also makes certain conclusions that characterize legal regulation of lottery in Russia at eah period of its development. 

Keywords: lottery, game, gambling, risk, history, legal regulation, legislation, Russia, state, aleatory

Abstract: Psychodermatographic method of age determination allows to narrow the circle of suspects. This method is based on the patterns of evolution and involution processes ongoing at the cell level and reflected on papillary pictures: the crests are 'worned out' and fingerprints lose their identification features. It has been established that in the first place the ageing processes are reflected in dermatoglyphics of the first finger on the right and left hands. It is the dermatoglyphics of the first finger which is the genetic marker not only of the brain activities, but also of significant diagnostic criteria of ageing. 

Keywords: personality, age, behavior, dactylography, dermatoglyphics, morphology, diagnostics, research, expert, detection

Abstract: The author of the article describes the grounds for formation of a new inter-disciplinary criminological trend - criminological political victimology that studies victims of political crime and abuse of political power. The author describes its contents and inner structure and offers particular criminological definitions of its subject as well as the most popular trends of researches for the nearest future. 

Keywords: victim, victimology, victimity, victimogenic factors, political criminology, political victimology, victomological prevention, victomological rehabilitation, victomological defense, victimological security