Abstract: This article is devoted to the topical problems of implementation of election legislation of the Russian Federation and its constituent subject – the Republic of Bashkortostan. The author points out the existing gaps in the current election legislation. The author analyzes the experience of the elections of 2011-2012 and the judicial practice in the sphere of disputes related to the implementation of election law, then the author offers a number of practical recommendations.

Keywords: jurisprudence, election legislation, Federal Law, application of law, implementation of law, quota, guarantees, municipal institution, imperative, norm.

Abstract: The existing legislation in the sphere of education causes a number of problems related to the need to define legal status of educational institutions, and it makes their classification complicated. The exiting “hierarchy” of higher education institutions is novel for the Russian educational reality, and while previously the typology reflected upon the nature and depth of education programs, currently type and kind of educational institution defines mostly normative and legal specific features as well as an economic form of functioning of an institution.

Keywords: jurisprudence, education, institution, legal status, University, legislation, politics, system, legal relations, norm.

Abstract: This article is devoted to the topical issue of historical development of the institutions of legal expertise. The article is based upon the studies of the renown legal scholars and classic legal thinkers, such as: Montesquieu, Bentham, Bacon, Ihering, and a number of Russian legal thinkers of the pre-Revolution period, such as M.M. Speransky, N.M. Korkunov, etc. The author studies the evolution of the institution of legal expertise based on evolution of its constituent elements. Then the author gives detailed analysis of problems, which arise in the history of development and studies of this institution. Then the author provides some conclusions according to which the legal expertise walked hand in hand with the law throughout the history of its development, while the nature of legal expertise was formed at the time of the formation of the legal system itself. Legal expertise can be viewed as a legal construction, which includes three key elements: legal technique, interpretation of law, systematization of law. Through studying these elements one may see the evolution of the institution of legal expertise at the current stage of its development.

Keywords: jurisprudence, legal, expertise, systematization, evolution, technique, interpretation, genesis, codification, law.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the mechanism of production of information risks of the mass media, as a result of the formation of myth. Information risks of mass media often appear as consequences of rather positive processes. There is an objective contradiction between the goal to provide the people with the balanced information on one hand, and the movement for the access to the mass media. The instruments for the formation of myth include such risks.

Keywords: political studies, information risks, mass media, myth, social opinion, lies, falsification, slander, violence, citizens.

Abstract: The center of the attention for the authors of the article is the regional dimension of the civil society. The modern social and humanitarian knowledge possesses a dynamical discourse on civil society, and scientists in the sphere of law, political science, social studies, and psychology provide their own accents in these studies. In the authors’ point of view the regional level of civil initiative development is important. Use of the methods of applied sociological studies allowed to form a picture for the evaluation of civil society by the people of Altay region of the Russian Federation. It is stressed out that for the most people in the region the civil society is an abstract term, which is hardly present at the practical level.

Keywords: jurisprudence, society, region, Altay, values, norms, democracy, rule of the people, politics, law.

Abstract: In this article based on the analysis of the opinions of scientists and the current legislation the author views the problems of differentiation of forms of preliminary investigation: inquiry, investigation and mixed forms. The author analyzes the powers of an inquirer, investigator, and prosecutor. Then the author provides grounds for the position that there is more perspective for the formation of the preliminary investigation, rather than abolishing inquiry, since it would not duly provide for the procedural economy.

Keywords: jurisprudence, investigation, inquiry, form, investigator, inquirer, differentiation, mixed form, reform.

Abstract: Use of knowledge of knowledgeable persons is an inalienable part of an efficient process of investigation of crimes, which are related to the use of unlawfully produced firearms. The article is devoted to the specific features and criteria for the work of specialists when the investigator examines the crime scene, holds questioning, search or assigns expertise. Participation of a specialist allows one to gain information in order to initiate a criminal case, to form a tactic for the investigative actions, and to define whether an expertise is needed.

Keywords: jurisprudence, arms, investigator, specialist, expert, knowledge, examination, questioning, search, expertise.

Abstract: The author considers the reasons of collision and competition of legal norms in criminal law in criminal law. Based on the nature of collision and competition legal norms, the author proves the different nature of their origin, explains the reasons for their occurrence. Problematic issues are considered from the standpoint of general philosophical notions of cause and effect phenomena.

Keywords: jurisprudence, conflict of laws, collision, competition, cause, objective, subjective, legal, norm, criminal, law.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the definition and types of the defects of legal regulation. The author offers a new definition of a term “defect” in a narrow sense. Types of defects are classified based on several grounds, such as character of their negative influence on the contents of legal regulation (content-related quality); the degree of their influence on the system of law, and the mechanism of their formation and development.

Keywords: jurisprudence, defect, law, regulation, gap, collision, lack of definition, double-reference, fictitious character, inefficiency.

Abstract: The article provides grounds for the independence of legal (including civil law) activity. Civil law activity is defined as a legal activity of empowered bodies and private persons, which is aimed on the formation of legal conditions in order to guarantee the implementation of proprietary and personal interests of the subjects of social relations. It includes the following: goal, object, means, actions and operation, subjects of activity, source, will.

Keywords: jurisprudence, civil law, goal, object, means, actions and operation, subjects of activity, source, will.

Abstract: The article is devoted to one of the most colorful sources of law of the pre-revolution Dagestan – the Shariat. The phenomenon of the Shariat law as a system of norms of the Muslim law has always been the object of much attention among the researchers, both historians and lawyers, both before the Revolution and currently. And the influence of Shariat on the legal system of law in the Muslim regions of Russia is still potent.

Keywords: jurisprudence, law, the Shariat, the Islam, religion, the Koran, fiqh, adat, the Muslim, maslagat.

Abstract: The authors show the variety of approaches among the Russian emigrants towards the solution of problem of preservation and formation of national and cultural identity of the Russian youth abroad. The authors provide analysis of organizational measures, which were taken by the society of Russians abroad (First Wave) in order to form and support functioning of the emigrant youth movements. The authors show conditions and means which allowed to successfully keep the national and cultural enclave away from the Motherland.

Keywords: political science, history, denationalization, emigration, foreign lands, authentic character, young people, Sokolstvo, scouting, nation.