Abstract: Review: the article is devoted to a complicated role of power in the state and society. In particular, the author talked about distributive processes in the sphere of power relationships, mainly about distribution of power authorities and the legal measures used in such processes.

Keywords: power relationships, power, politics, political sociology, law, legislation, legal state, federal state, social structures, hyper-centralization, decentralization, control

Abstract: Review: this article is a brief review of the main concepts of modernization, it also contains etymological definition and typology of that phenomenon. Much attention is given to one of the specific modernization processes, — modernization of the civil society. According to the author, modernization of the civil society lies at the center of all processes in a democratic state. It is especially important for the countries implementing democracy reforms. Among such countries stands out Uzbekistan, state-by-stage modernizing all spheres of public and state activities and fully realizing the principle ‘from a strong state to a strong civil society’. Besides studying the general theory of modernization, the author of the article also reviewed Uzbekistan’s experience in modernization of the civil society. The author analyzed the peculiarities of that process at a modern stage and defined the main reasons slowing down the effective realization of planned reforms in that sphere.

Keywords: political science, modernization, civil society, Westernization, Euro centrism, ‘Japanese miracle’, ‘Uzbek model’, typology of modernization, modernization processes, institutes of civil society

Abstract: Review: the article is an attempt to understand how a regional parliamentarian control functions in the Russian Federation. The author analyzed cases of legislative regulation and law enforcement in this sphere from the point of view of ‘checks and balances’ functioning in a constituent of the Russian Federation. Conclusions and suggestions are based on the study of the Russian and foreign experience of regulation and enforcement of a regional parliamentarian control.

Keywords: studies of law, law, control, function, parliament, body, powers, parliamentarian, constituent

Abstract: Review: the article is devoted to the question of creation a patent court in Russia. The author described both the economic and legal premises of formation of that specialized type of court. The author evidently showed that creation of the patent court would provide additional guarantees of fair justice and solve the problem of a full consideration of specific debated related to the topic, including the debates with the participation of experts from various spheres of science and engineering. The author pointed out what changes were necessary to be made in legislation and defined peculiarities of the patent court related to a specific legal nature of debates on intellectual property protection.

Keywords: studies of law, patent, court, copyright, intellectual, reformation, right, administrative, arbitrage, juridical service

Abstract: Review: Crossing tendencies of intensifying relations between the government and business in the sphere of security, on one hand, and growing expenses of security (protection and etc.) are important social and political phenomena creating premises for a completely new security subject, ‘State Corporation’. Special features of that security subject is a less traditional differentiation between the ‘powers’ of state and business in the sphere of national (social and political) security, on one hand, and in the sphere of private (social and economical) security, on the other hand. It is also quite possible that a very specific ‘ideology of violence’ would occur and settle in as an immanent feature of social and political activity. The phenomenon of ‘non-violent opposition’ in so called ‘color revolutions’ is the opposite side of that ideology since it is related to the idea of using violence by the government in the first place.

Keywords: political sciences, politics, society, violence, privatization, security, state, trans national, local, ideology

Abstract: Review: Based on the examples from the history of autonomy of Germans in Volga region, the author described the main trends of state national and religious policy in Russian Soviet Federated Socialistic Republic as well as the results of the Komsomol struggle against the religious influence among Western colonizers in the first half of the 1920th.

Keywords: political sciences, sciences of law, youth, government, Komsomol, religion, cult followers, Germans, colonizers, autonomy

Abstract: Review: the article is devoted to the value of traditions of local self-government in conditions of building a law-based and democratic state. The author compared the positive and negative traditions in the system of municipal power. The author also defined the role of self-government traditions as a social norm in conditions of distribution of power among the levels of power in federative relations.

Keywords: studies of law, self-government, tradition, custom, law, right, municipal power, legal state, society, legal regulation

Abstract: Review: the article is devoted to the period of formation of local self-government within an independent state, the Republic of Tuva, which later became one of the constituents of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: studies of law, Tuvan People’s Republic, local self-government, formation of statehood, local self-government authorities, independent state, structure of management bodies, administrative arrangement, Russian self-governing labour colony

Abstract: Review: the author of the article analyzed the provisions of the Russian law on granting properties for allocation of industrial facilities. The author evidently proved how the principle of priority in using property as an industrial facility influences the general rules of granting properties for allocation of industrial enterprises. The author also studied how the special features of industrial facilities influenced the rules of granting properties for their allocation.

Keywords: studies of law, property, industry, allocation, granting, property, transfer, category, sanitary, enterprise