Discussion and problem questions of criminal-legal
struggle with terrorism are considered. Terrorism as a
phenomenon of our society was analyzed. The
assessment of criminal legislation and the bill on
property and criminal responsibility of relatives of
terrorists is given
Improving methods of investigation of terrorism is the
leading task of modern criminalistics. Different aspects
of criminal law and criminology connected with the
fight against terrorism were under focus in juridical
literature. At the same time criminalistic characteristic
of terrorism as a system of generalized notion of
significant features of crime under discussion and its
interconnections are not analyzed properly. There is a
need for further analysis of terrorism, suggestions for
its prevention and control. The article deals with
exploration of the subject of criminal encroachment,
the method of commission and concealment of this
crime, the mechanism of formation of traces, the
circumstances of the offence, the personality
characteristics of the offender and the victim, under
circumstances of changing crime situation and
significant increase in offences of a terrorist threat
This article focuses on actualization of mainstreaming
of research the problems of development of native
civil society within the conservative direction, based
on historical civilizational identity of Russia.
Comparing main postulates of russian and west
civilizations their historically formed priorities in
spiritual, political and economic spheres are showed.
Based on them and on critical assessment of attempts
to adapt the western model to Russian reality, authors
consider that the nature of the problem of similarity
between Russian reality and model civil society is in
only west orientation of civil society theory, which
does not suit to stable features of Russia as specific
civilization. Trying to find an optimal model of civil
society, authors refer to an idea of core values of
native civilization. A number of historical issues,
which influence on positive development of civil
society in Russia, is showed. In order to solve them it
is suggested to take measures, the realization of which
depends on implementation some functions by civil
society together with the state. It is concluded, that
Russian society during its history can be reviewed as a
civil society within its traditional value
The article examines the process of secularization of
Church property in the history of the world. Special
attention is paid to the assumptions of the preparation
of secularizing reforms in the Russian state since the
policy of Joann III. We address the relationship
between Church and state in the field of Church lands
and ecclesiastical jurisdiction authorized in Stoglav in
1551, and in the judgment of the Council estates in
1581 and 1584. The article studies the reasons, under
which it became necessary, in conditions of the
emerging absolutism, to limit the Church's estates; the
ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this connection, there was
issued the national Code – “Sobornoye ulozheniye” of
1649. The study discusses the limitation of economic
and administrative privileges of the Church in
accordance with the Council code of Tsar Alexei
Mikhailovich. The article focuses on the
administrative and financial functions of the Monastic
Order. We have also made a distinction, and there are
differences in the powers between the Monastic
Orders 1649 and between recreated Monastic Order in
1701. The article discusses the mission of the Church
reform of Peter I the Great and the results of this
reform, which prepared the legislative framework for
the secularizing reforms of Catherine II the Great
The article discusses the "Symphony of authorities" in
Byzantium and Russia. It reveals the nature, origins
and objectives of the State and the Church. Since
ancient times, the Church played an important role in
the life of society and state. In Byzantium, the
authority of the Emperor played a major role in
strengthening the Orthodox Church. The Church,
particularly, has developed and highlighted the
official doctrine of the divine origin of the Imperial
power. In the Byzantine Empire a perfect model of
Church-state relations – "Symphony of authorities"
was formed. The article takes into account the
Byzantine edicts, which regulated the relationship
between the Church and the state. We considered the
legislative acts of Ancient Russia, confirming the
existence of that "Symphony" in the Kiev period. The
basis of the ancient law was based on the Byzantine
collection of ecclesiastical rules and Imperial edicts,
called Nomocanon. The article focuses on the models
of the interaction of the Church and the state. Special
attention was paid to the concept of "Moscow is the
third Rome", due to the continuity of the Byzantine
Empire Russia as an Orthodox center. We discuss the
result of Ferrara-Florence Union as the main reason
for the awareness and acceptance of the concept of
Philotheus by Russian people. Taking into
consideration the concept of "Moscow is the Third
Rome", we consider models of the interaction
between the state and the Church in the era before
Peter I the Great
The article deals with the causes of decline in the
quality of training of future lawyers, the need to apply
and implement in the learning process of innovative,
practice-oriented technology related to the study and
use of law enforcement practice while writing diploma
and other scientific papers by law students of criminal
law specialization. Some ways of search and receiving
the materials of investigative and judicial practice are
proposed in the article
The article deals with the issues related to the
organizational and legal aspects of investigative
group formation. The author has analyzed scientific
and technical literature, materials of judicial and
investigative practice, criminal procedural law,
different views of scientists, as well as his own
judgments on the proposed changes and additions to
the content of the article 163 of Criminal Procedure
Code. The analysis allows the author to declare the
need to invite the heads of the investigative bodies of
the various departments and units to carry out more
in-depth additional analysis of the performance of
the investigative and the operational and
investigative teams and the work of their leaders, to
consider the establishment of investigative and
operational investigative groups in criminal cases,
which are of great public and political importance
and are under control of inter-agency working groups
on combating organized forms of criminal activities.
According to the author, it is necessary to raise the
level of responsibility of the leaders of the
investigative and operational investigative groups,
which are aimed on the investigation of crimes
committed by an organized group, gang or a criminal
association, as well as by persons, classified as
representatives of the organized crime. Together with
the management of bodies engaged in operational
investigative activities, a uniform algorithm for the
establishment and functioning of investigative and
operational investigative groups should be worked
out and introduced to the junior agencies staff and
subordinate units
The authors of the article consider legal
organizational and tactical issues of operational
investigative activities in the course of search. The
authors compare some items and norms of Russian
Constitution, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure
Law, Federal Laws governing the operational-search
activity, in particular search activity, some sources of
information, such as confidential. In particular, the
authors examine the legal basis of the internal affairs
agencies in the fight against crime as a science-based
system of legal norms contained in the laws and bylaws
that create the legal preconditions, as well as
the conditions and procedure for carrying out
operative search actions, either directly regulating
the legal organizational and tactical questions of
application of operational investigative forces,
means, methods and forms in the fight against crime.
Thus, the authors believe that the search activities of
the units engaged in operational investigative
activities of the police, as an organizational and
tactical form (or part of) the operational-search
activity of law enforcement bodies as a whole, it has
a single legal framework that operational search
activity in general
The article is devoted to the problems of legal
regulation of electronic voting an e-democracy in
foreign countries. The possibility of informationalcommunication
technologies introduction into the
voting process is studied. In the absence of a unified
approach to the understanding of the legal nature of edemocratic
processes, the authors give the special
attention to the analysis of state policy in the sphere of
the e-democracy improvement. There were considered
the systems of electronic voting system which were
used in elections in Estonia, Germany, Austria, UK,
Switzerland and Finland. There were analyzed the
practice of Internet-voting as a prototype of electronic
democracy and problems of identification of voters,
calculation of votes, ensuring of secrecy of the ballot.
There were marked means the use of electronic voting
as positive sides and considerable risks connected with
the possibility of interference into the system of
electors’ votes and complexity of securing of control
of procedure of electronic voting. Authors make
conclusions on possibility of the use of positive
foreign experience of distant voting during the
elections in Russia and on the necessity of working out
of legal claims to informational space and given
information to increase its quality and credibility
In the article, legal norms of barter agreement are
exposed to the detailed analysis. They were fixed
earlier in the Civil Codes of RSFSR 1922 and 1964.
The authors analyze the modern legal adjusting of
barter agreement in the operating Civil Code of the
Russian Federation. Characterizing signs of barter
agreements are investigated and they allow distinguishing
it from a bargain and sale. It is marked that
the barter agreement got the detailed regulation of
relations only in the operating Civil Code of the
Russian Federation. The purview of norms about the
agreement of barter broadened in course of time.
That was taken into account by a legislator. A modern
legislation regulates the features of relations
arising up in connection with execution and conclusion
of treaty of barter. Earlier operating legislative
acts did not take into consideration many questions,
related to the relations of barter, arising up in practice.
Soviet scientists examined some questions that
were and remain now without adjusting or require a
specification from a legislator. For example, concerning
Civil Codes of RSFSR 1922 and 1964, the
imperfection of legal determination of agreement of
barter was marked. This decision did not take into
account that commodities were passed in property of
another side. Modern legislator names it a "commodity
the object of the barter agreements. In the
same time in practice there is a lot of questions
about possibility of applying property rights to the
object of the barter agreement. Other critical remarks
about the rules of the barter agreement in the
civil legislation of RSFSR and the Russian Federation
were done by the author in the article