Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article examines the historical conditions and the legal regulation of the Crimean Khanate territory joining to the Russian Empire in 1783 and formation of Taurian District as a new specific administrative and territorial unit. Specific characteristics of Taurian District are highlighted, as well as tasks that region faced due to its geographical position and constant wars between Russian empire and Ottoman Porte. Attention is paid to the factors that led to the creation of the district but not the viceroyalty, in contrast to other areas joined in the same time. The different examples of understanding of the term "distrist" – "oblast" – in science and language are given. The author clarifies certain features of the district, which were not taken into account in deriving the scientific definition of the district by Dambaeva O.P. Decrees and their background issued by the legislator are characterized. The problems of an administrative nature encountered by the legislator in the face of Empress Catherine II and her representative governor Grigory Potemkin-Tavricheski, and then by Platon Zubov are highlighted. Among these problems there were emphasized the transfer of ownership of the Tatars property who left the territory, as well as the creation of an accurate map of newly joined territory

This article is devoted to the study of peculiarities of legal regulation of the employment of athletes. Sport has become an important part of the vital activity of the entire human society long ago, and, problems of legal regulation of the employment of athletes attached great importance both in Russia and abroad. In addition to international acts, the Constitution of the RF and the Labour code, labour relations and other directly related to them between athletes and their employers are governed by many various acts, regulations – federal laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, statutes of sport organizations, sport regulations. Therefore in practice exist a lot of problems and may will be more in the application of labour laws and other normative legal acts on labour rights and guarantees of professional athletes and coaches. We must take into account not only all sources but also, primarily, the specificity of the scope of their regulatory relationships. The authors consider that the normative legal basis, as well as the ratio of labour and special sports legislation studied explicitly is not sufficient and require further research, that indicates the relevance of the topic. The authors not only analyzed modern legislation, researched statistics, scientific literature on the topic, but also revealed the gaps and problems in the regulation and suggested measures for the improvement and further development of the Russian labour legislation in the sphere of sport. Special attention is given to the term "sudden death of an athlete," and so, the procedure of compulsory insurance of professional athletes must be resolved. It is proposed to introduce the terms " sport season", "sports" Athlete Passport, complement and greatly extend guarantees and compensations to athletes and coaches of pay, working hours, termination of employment, labour and social protection

The article discusses the concept of species, the essential terms and the grounds of the pledge in Indian law, and especially the pledge agreement in the legal practice of India

The authors of the article examine the relationship between the criminal process and investigative activity taking into consideration the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Law and the Law on Investigative Activities in the Russian Federation. Such important issues as main tasks and principles of the criminal process and investigative activity are considered in the article. The authors analyze interrelations of some investigative actions and operational search as well as the order of introduction and usage of the results of the investigative activities at the stage of criminal case initializing and in the course of investigative activities. The authors also pay attention to the data which must be submitted in the report or memorandum on the prepared or being committed crime giving grounds for criminal case initializing

The article presents the concept of group methods of investigation of crimes against a family and minors. There was briefly investigated the concept of criminal – legal characteristics of specific offences against the family, which are common. The general positions for the questions about criminalistic characteristics were reviewed. We have justified the conclusion about the essence of a group technique of investigation of crimes against a family and minors

The article analyses the criminal and budgetary legislation in the field of non-targeted spending of budgetary funds. Research of the official statistics provided by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation from 2003 to 2014 showed a decrease in the facts of nontargeted spending of budgetary funds, that, according to the authors, is a sign of high level of latency, because law enforcement and financial control authorities are facing difficulties at a stage of identification of this crime and proof of data obtained during the investigative measures. The authors of the article paid special attention to the analysis of the elements of the non-targeted spending of budgetary funds. The different points of view of the object of this crime are considered. At disclosure of objective features, the authors point to the terminological differences between the Criminal code of the Russian Federation and the Budgetary code of the Russian Federation that, undoubtedly, in practice disturb the correct qualification of the actions. By consideration the subject of non-targeted spending of budgetary funds, materials of criminal cases have been studied which allowed to reveal obvious gaps of the criminal law in this sphere. The authors formulated the proposals for improving the legislation by inclusion of the qualifying features and addition the third part of article that, certainly, has to be reflected in differentiation of criminal responsibility

The article “Contents of the main elements of the criminalistic characteristic of fraud” written by the group of authors is of great importance today as the new points of the Federal Act №207 of the Criminal Code of Russia which provide for the criminal proceedings for fraud in lending; while getting payments; while using bank cards; in business sphere; in the sphere of insurance, introduced on November 29, 2012, still need to be developed and lack the methods of the investigation of such crimes. Consequently, the methods of preparation, committing and concealing of a crime, track formation mechanism are not determined and analyzed upon the materials of the forensic and investigative activities. The authors of the article have attempted to study the cases of the mentioned crime types and determine the ways of preparation, committing and concealing of a crime and track formation mechanism of the above-mentioned types of crime

The authors analyze the issues of the legal and economic problems of social security governmental regulation in the Russian Federation. In order to identify and subsequently find theoretical and practical resolution of conflicts and flaws in the domestic social security law, the authors propose to analyze the social institutions of the Russia and to match them with the existing social institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany in view of their historical closeness, belonging to one family of law, and the similarity of the legal foundations of the constitutional system. Comparative analysis of various aspects of life quality according to Russian and German data, which was examined above, leads to the conclusion that the primary task in this country is to restore revenues and stimulate the population’s solvency. The study of the social security issues led to the conclusion that the state social insurance is intended to replace the income lost due to certain events such as unemployment, illness, disability, old age, accident-at-work insurance. The authors conclude that there is need to improve the current Russian pension legislation, social security and social legal guarantees

As a part of the investigation carried out in the course of the investigation of crimes, a confrontation is very important. This article reveals the essence of the scientific production of the confrontation, the object and purpose of which is to establish the truth in the case. The investigator, in accordance with the Article 192 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation has the right to decide on proceeding a confrontation, in cases when previously there were significant differences. In conducting confrontation, there are confirmed correct versions and the versions denied by others, it turns out the real facts of the case and eliminates significant contradictions in the testimony of previously interrogated persons. By making the decision to produce a confrontation, the investigator must be confident in the ability of the participant, who gave truthful testimony, to withstand the psychological pressure. This party should be prepared to create his "immunity" against future attempts to influence the other party to persuade to change readings, etc. Before the production of a confrontation, the investigator must draw up a plan in which the questions are formulated. Then prioritize questioning of participants of confrontation and identify tactics that can be applied in the course of its production. The investigator prepares a space for the production of confrontation, and audio, photo and video equipment. Different violations, errors during the confrontation, have the ultimate impact on the overall result of the preliminary investigation of a specific criminal case. In this regard, clarification of the nature of the confrontation has not only theoretical but also practical importance

The article analyses the existing legal mechanism of limitation of distribution of information in the Internet and the variants of development of law-making in this sphere. The conclusions made by the author might be used in scientific activity