Abstract: The authors of this research focus on oustanding issues of the Russian Federation laws on administrative offences in the field of counterfeit alcohol turnover. They analyze the main contradictions between federal and regional laws on administrative offences and offer recommendations to eliminate these. The authors analyze recent changes and amendments to federal and regional laws that regulate the procedure for bringing to administrative responsibility in the field of alcohol turnover as well as activity of regional authorities and local authorities aimed at elimination of administrative responsibility. The make recommendations on how to improve administrative laws of the Russian Federation constituents. The methodology of the research implies a combination of the most commonly used research methods and techniques including analysis and synthesis, formal law method, structured logic representation of the material, and comparative law analysis. The main conclusion of the research is that there are administrative laws of the Russian Federation constituents that contradict to federal laws and regulations. Despite detailed analysis of laws before issuing them, the problem of illegitimate regional laws remains. The authors provide particular examples when regional administrative laws were adopted exceeding the limits of the Russian Federation constituent's authority. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the authors evaluate the current state of law and implementation practice. The authors' special contribution to the topic is their description of areas of improvement and development prospects of the process of regional administrative laws adoption. The practical importance of the research is caused by the fact that the authors provide scientifically proved recommendations regarding development of the regional administrative law. 

Keywords: administrative penalty, regional legislation, internal Affairs bodies, the distribution of alcohol, administrative Code, local laws, police, the authorized bodies, administrative responsibility, the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation

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Opredelenie Verkhovnogo Suda RF ot 07.10.2015 N 46-APG15-39 O chastichnoy otmene resheniya Samarskogo oblastnogo suda ot 20.05.2015 i priznanii nedeystvuyushchey stat'i 2.8 Zakona Samarskoy oblasti ot 01.11.2007 N 115-GD "Ob administrativnykh pravonarusheniyakh na territorii Samarskoy oblasti" // SPS «Konsul'tant-Plyus».
Proekt Zakona "O vnesenii izmeneniy v Zakon Kaluzhskoy oblasti "Ob administrativnykh pravonarusheniyakh v Kaluzhskoy oblasti" // URL: http://www.zskaluga.ru/
Zakon Kaluzhskoy oblasti ot 28.02.2011 N 122-OZ "Ob administrativnykh pravonarusheniyakh v Kaluzhskoy oblasti". // SPS «Konsul'tant-Plyus».
Kostennikov M.V., Kurakin A.V. K voprosu ob osnovanii administrativnoy otvetstvennosti v rossiyskom prave // NB: Administrativnoe pravo i praktika administrirovaniya.-2013.-10.-C. 75-88. DOI: 10.7256/

Abstract: The research subject is the relations arising in the process of inter-budget transfers application. The author analyzes one of the problems of this sphere, which hasn’t been solved so far, - the problem of incomplete application of inter-budget transfers. At the present time, a large amount of uncommitted funds remains on the accounts of recipients – public-private entities of different levels – at the end of financial year, granted to them as subsidies, subventions and other inter-budgetary transfers. The author attempts to detect the reasons of incomplete application of funds and to offer the complex solution to this problem. The author applies general scientific methods (dialectics, the system and historical methods, analysis, synthesis, observation and modeling) and traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal logical, generalization of scientific concepts and normative material). The author generalizes the key factors causing incomplete application of budgetary funds and divides the balances into “positive” and “negative”. The author studies the new mechanism of “budgetary letter of credit” used since 2013 to avoid balances. The author offers the ways to improve legal regulation of inter-budget relations. The conclusions of the study can be used in pedagogical and practical activities and for the modification of the current budgetary legislation. 

Keywords: subventions, inter-budget transfers, inter-budget relations, budgetary federalism, budgetary letter of credit, Budget code of the Russian Federation, subsidies, inter-budget transfer balance, balance, budget

References:
Reshenie Kollegii Schetnoy palaty RF ot 17.06.2013g. № 28K (919) «O rezul'tatakh kontrol'nogo meropriyatiya «Proverka zakonnosti i effektivnosti raskhodovaniya v 2010-2011 godakh sredstv subventsii, napravlennykh na obespechenie zhil'em otdel'nykh kategoriy grazhdan, ustanovlennykh Federal'nym zakonom ot 12 yanvarya 1995 goda № 5-FZ «O veteranakh», v sootvetstvii s Ukazom Prezidenta RF ot 7 maya 2008 goda № 714 «Ob obespechenii zhil'em veteranov Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny 1941-1945 godov», v Moskovskoy oblasti (sovmestno s Kontrol'no-schetnoy palatoy Moskovskoy oblasti)». // Ofitsial'nyy sayt Schetnoy palaty RF. http://www.ach.gov.ru/activities/bulleten/645/16661/?sphrase_id=237728. Data obrashcheniya 3.08.2016g.
Zaklyuchenie Komiteta po byudzhetu i nalogam Gosudarstvennoy Dumy RF «Na proekt Federal'nogo zakona № 312571-6 «Ob ispolnenii federal'nogo byudzheta za 2012 god». // Ofitsial'nyy sayt Gosudarstvennoy Dumy RF. http://www.duma.gov.ru.
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Abstract: The author analyzes the implementation of the concepts of the state cultural policy of the Russian Federation concerning the protection of cultural heritage objects for the past period, demonstrates the existing contradictions between the federal center and the regions of the Russian Federation in relation to forming independent authorized agencies in this sphere, and shows these contradictions using the example of the current Russian legislation and bills, shares his ideas about the issue under consideration. The research methodology consists of general scientific philosophical methods, particularly, the materialistic method, specific scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, modeling, induction, deduction, and abstraction), and special methods, including the statistical method, the formal-logical method, the method of law interpreting, and the method of comparative jurisprudence. To solve the research tasks, the author also applies the analysis of statistical data and legal documents. The author demonstrates the practical realization of the concepts of cultural policy in Russia by the federal center and the regions, the appearing contradictions, caused by the regions’ independence, which is provided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and the possible variants of further developments in this sphere. 

Keywords: cultural heritage object, competence, independence, federalism, executive bodies, government protection, bill, contradictions, federal center, regions of the Russian Federation

References:
Ob utverzhdenii Osnov gosudarstvennoy kul'turnoy politiki : Ukaz Prezidenta RF ot 24 dekabrya 2014 goda № 808 // Sobr. zakonodatel'stva Ros. Federatsii. – 2014.-№ 52 (chast' I). – St. 7753.
O vnesenii izmeneniy v Federal'nyy zakon «Ob ob'ektakh kul'turnogo naslediya (pamyatnikakh istorii i kul'tury) narodov Rossiyskoy Federatsii» i otdel'nye zakonodatel'nye akty Rossiyskoy Federatsii : Federal'nyy zakon ot 22 oktyabrya 2014 goda № 315-FZ // Sobr. zakonodatel'stva Ros. Federatsii. – 2014.-№ 43. – St. 5779.
Ob ob'ektakh kul'turnogo naslediya (pamyatnikakh istorii i kul'tury) narodov Rossiyskoy Federatsii : Federal'nyy zakon ot 25 iyunya 2002 g. № 73-FZ (v red. ot 08 marta 2015 g. № 50-FZ) // Sobr. zakonodatel'stva Ros. Federatsii. – 2002. – № 26. – St. 2519; 2015. – № 10. – St. 1420.
Voprosy Ministerstva kul'tury Rossiyskoy Federatsii : Ukaz Prezidenta RF ot 8 fevralya 2011 g. № 155 // Rossiyskaya gazeta. – 2011. – № 32.
Ob utverzhdenii polozheniya o ministerstve kul'tury Rostovskoy oblasti : po

Abstract: The subject of the research includes the legal and organizational problems of implementation of the principle of equality of regions of the Russian Federation. The object of the article is a range of social relations connected with the development of Russian federalism. The author considers such issues as determination of the competence of regions of the Russian Federation; peculiarities of territorial administration; problems of regional separatism and extremism prevention. Special attention is paid to the constitutional and administrative-legal regulation of the alignment of the organizational-legal status of regions of the Russian Federation. The author uses general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods and the methods used in special sociological research (statistics, expert assessments, and others).The author concludes that at present Russian federalism has moved to a new level of development, all the necessary constitutional, legal and administrative means of its strengthening and formation have been created. The specific contribution of the author consists in the formulated amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation concerning the strengthening of constitutional and legal foundations of Russian federalism. In particular, it is proposed to change a number of complex regions of the Russian Federation. The novelty of the research lies in the proposals aimed at the improvement of legal and institutional framework of Russian federalism in connection with the introduction of two new regions of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: administration, district, capital, equality, status, region, Constitution, federalism, republic, oblast

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Leksin V.M., Shvetsov A.N. Gosudarstvo i regiony. Teoriya i praktika gosudarstvennogo regulirovaniya territorial'nogo razvitiya. – M., 1997. – S. 9.
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Chirkin V.E. Sovremennoe federativnoe gosudarstvo. – M., 1997. – S. 22.
Lysenko V. Chto stroim my v Rossii: simmetrichnuyu ili asimmetrichn

Abstract: The subject of the study contains the financial and legal rules regulating the public relations which develop mainly during the organization of the state financial security. Among the various objects of financial security of the state the area of monetary relations can be outlined, and its security gains a particular importance at the present day. The current organization of the state monetary circulation is impossible without the mechanisms such as the state financial security and national security because they serve as a guarantee of the constitutional rights, freedoms, adequate quality of life and living standards of citizens, sovereignty, territorial integrity and sustainable development of the state and its defense and security.The methodology is based on the dialectical method of scientific cognition of social, economic and legal phenomena in their interrelationship and interdependence. Reliability and validity of the results are achieved through the application of the integrated system-structural, comparative legal, formal legal and logical-theoretical methods, as well as the method of describing the concepts, analysis, synthesis, and other methods. The author concludes that the safety of the state is a monetary element of the national security. This is the condition of safety of the state from the internal or external threats which allows provision of sustainable and progressive development of its financial system in the process of money circulation, which in turn provides the constitutional rights, freedoms, adequate quality of life and living standards of citizens, sovereignty, territorial integrity and sustainable development of the Russian Federation, the defense and security of the state. Since it is impossible to consider money circulation in general as an object of the financial security of the state, the author proposes to use the category of "monetary security of the state" along with the category of "financial security of the state."

Keywords: emission, activity, function, system, state, circulation, finance, security, money, economy

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Ob utverzhdenii Kontseptsii razvitiya rynka tsennykh bumag v Rossiyskoy Federatsii: Ukaz Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 01 iyulya 1996 g. № 1008 (v red. ot 16 oktyabrya 2000 g. № 1756) // Rossiyskaya gazeta. 1996. № 125.
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Petrosyan O. Sh. Finansovaya bezopasnost' Rossiyskogo gosudarstva v kontekste natsional'noy bezopasnosti // Gosudarstvennaya vlast' i mestnoe samoupravlenie. 2011. № 2. S. 32 – 34.
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Kondrat E. N. Me

Abstract: This article notes that governance of the social and political processes and tendencies characteristic of our country in its today’s condition is impossible without identifying the specific features of the structure of the Russian Federation. The Russian Constitution adopted in 1993, while establishing the principle of federalism as one of the fundamental qualities of the constitutional system of Russia, confirmed the federative nature of our country. Being a multi-ethnic country with a vast territory, various natural and geographic condition, the Russian Federation has its own specific features in the establishment and development of the federative relations. An expression of the unique nature of the Russian federal model is the fact that it is based on a combination of two principles – national and territorial. This article is based on the general scientific research method and the historical, comparative legal, politological, institutional methods. The systematic approach was of large importance to the adequate description of the subject, under this approach, the Russian federal constituents were viewed as elements of an integral complex system of a federative state. The systematic approach makes it possible to demonstrate the genesis, legal status and problems of the creation and development of the Russian federal constituents as a result of the changing system of social relations as a whole, the conflict of various trends and political forces in the Russian society. The work presents the jurisprudential analysis and considers, first of all, the institutional and legal aspects of improving the state structure through the lens of the constitutional and legal status of the Russian federal constituents. Before signing the Federal Agreement in 1992, the federation was built on the basis of the national principle, afterwards the territorial principle was added. The territories which were previously administrative territorial entities (regions, cities of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg) were given the status of the Russian federal constituents. Today, as a result of all the transformations, the Russian Federation is composed of over 80 constituents. No other federation in the world has known so many constituents. Their number and differences between them bring certain difficulties to the system of public administration and formation of federative relations.

Keywords: federation, federalism, constituent, Russia, competence, delineation, power, status, autonomy.

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Isaev I.A. Istoriya gosudarstva i prava Rossii. M., 1996.
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Ebzeev B.S., Karapetyan L.M. Rossiyskiy federalizm: ravnopravie i asimmetriya konstitutsionnogo statusa sub'ektov // Gosudarstvo i pravo. 1995. № 3.
N. M. Dobrynin, M. V. Gligich-Zolotareva Upravlenie razvitiem federatsii: prikladnoy
sistemnyy analiz v sfere gosudarstvenno-
territorial'nogo ustro

Abstract: The article is devoted to peculiarities of the legal position of autonomous entities and its enforcement in constitutional legislation of the Russian Federation and foreign states. The author of the article defines establishment of autonomous sub-national entities as a form of protection and creation conditions to contribute to ethnic, cultural, language and religious identity of certain national minorities.

Keywords: autonomy, federative form of government, unitary state, national minorities, control, religion, identity, sovereignty.

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Knyaginin K.N. Razvitie konstitutsionnogo statusa avtonomnykh (natsional'nykh) okrugov v sostave kraya ili oblasti: tsep' resheniy «kak luchshe» // Konstitutsionnoe i munitsipal'noe pravo. — 2009. — № 21.
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Etnicheskie men'shinstva v sovremennoy Evrope. — M., 1997

Abstract: The article views the main trends of influence of the federal form of government on the system of executive authorities. The study is based on the experience of the Russian Federation and federative nations of Europe – Austria, Belgium, FRG and Switzerland.

Keywords: executive branch, federalism, form of government, differentiation between competence and authority, responsibility.

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Abstract: The problem of inconsistencies between the regional and federal legislation on administrative offences have been a topical subject of discussion of legal scholars for a number of years. This article by V.A. Marinina includes analysis of correlation between the federal and regional legislation, as well as of the current judicial practice.

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Abstract: The broad approach to the change of the number and structure of the constituents of the Russian Federation calls for not only for accepting of the new constituents into the Russian Federation, but also the change of the constitutional statuses of particular constituents (for example, making a region a republic or vice versa). The change of status of the constituents, in turn, changes the overall structure of the Russian Federation. This article by A.N. Chertkov is devoted to the study of various means of changing of the structure of the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation.

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