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In this article, I analyse a concept proposed within German legal science, namely that of the responsibility of legal positivism for promoting National Socialism in the 20th century. An analysis of relevant works by German and Russian legal scholars has shown that the concept rests on false premises and the ideas of positivism had no influence on the criminal National Socialist regime. 1. Дельфинов А. В МВД ФРГ и ГДР было больше бывших ...

... businesses using linear equations. The medium-term econometric model of economic forecasting is based on the application of a set of dominating factors, which were previously selected. The authors present a medium-term trend of SMEs turnover in modern Russian conditions. 1. Абдуллаев Г. Ш. Математическое моделирование развития малого бизнеса в регионах России. Махачкала, 2004. 2. Дуброва Т. А., Агекян ...

... mechanisms has not yet led to the achievement of the main goal of the SEZ-based accelerated socio-economic development of the region. The study is of interest for those interested in investment problems in the Kaliningrad Special Economic Zone and other Russian special economic territories. 1. Анализ инвестиционной привлекательности организации / под ред. Д. А. Ендовицкого. М., 2010. 2. Боди З., Кейн А., Маркус А. Принципы ...

The article analyzes the administrative control over the elections to the State Duma of the third convocation of the Russian Empire in the Northwestern provinces. The local and central administration employed a wide variety of methods. The electoral legislation was radically changed (the provision on elections to the State Duma of June 3, 1907); the government removed ...

This article discusses the features of criminal policy in the economic sphere and analyses the recent changes to Chapter 22 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis, general trends in the relevant legislative activity are identified and recommendations to overcome the existing deficiencies made. 1. Иванчин А. И. Финансово-экономические перемены ...

... in thematic excursions for residents and guests of the region. In their excursions, tourist guides of that period paid a particular attention to the victorious military operations of the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. During their tourist trips to Russian cities and the Baltic republics, Kaliningraders learned the history of the revolutionary movement there, the history of Second World War, and visited landmarks of different epochs. 1. Государственный архив Калининградской ...

This article examines the nature of the presumption of innocence in simplified criminal prosecution procedures. The contentious issues of criminal prosecution mechanism are analysed. Recommendations to improve the current Russian criminal procedural law are made. 1. Кудрявцев В. Н. Стратегии борьбы с преступностью. М., 2003. 2. Международный пакт о гражданских и политических правах ...

The article considers the environmental aspect of the current Arctic Strategy of Sweden. Despite the general predominant environmental vector, objective results of the Swedish Arctic Strategy remain quite frugal. As the leading environmental European power, Sweden was not able to present a comprehensive environmental part of its Arctic strategy and did not try to update the environmental agenda in the Arctic. Sweden’s Arctic Strategy is aimed at maintaining a policy of sustainable and balanced development...

This article discusses legal aspects of self-defence based on the Russian legislation and judicial practice data. The author proposes ways to optimise the legislation governing the citizens' right to self-defence against socially dangerous assaults. 1. Уголовный кодекс Российской Федерации ...

... specific image of the past in Lithuanian society during late Stalinism. Based on newspaper articles, the author demonstrates the coexistence of various figures of memory, which were earlier described in historiography: from the Soviet (Socialist) to Russian and Lithuanian national as well as local ones. 1. Зубкова Е. Ю. Прибалтика и Кремль. 1940—1953. М., 2008. 2. Лаукайтите Р. Советские и национальные ценности в послевоенной ...

The article evaluates the achievements of Russia’s pre-revolutionary civil law as the basis for the civil law of today. The basic elements of the Russian system of civil law are unique in their character. The authors argue that there is a certain correlation between the legal position of the state in the prerevolutionary Russia and Russia of today. The article ends with a conclusion It is necessary ...

This article focuses on the theoretical ideas of criminal penalties of material nature in pre-revolutionary Russia of the second half of XIX — early XX century. The author provides an analysis of N. Sergeevsky’s treatise on criminal financial sanctions in the XVII century Russia. Special attention is paid to the research works of N. Tagantsev, I. Foynitsky and others. The author analyses the views of the time concerning expropriation and fines, and identifies reasons for the prevailing attitude to...

The article describes the current state of agriculture of the Kaliningrad region. The authors compare the production volume of certain types of agricultural products in the Kaliningrad region with those of other Russian regions. Special attention is paid to the livestock and crop production. 1. Об Особой экономической зоне в Калининградской области [Электронный ресурс] : федеральный ...

... guilt. The authors analyses relevant practices in different states with established institutions of corporate criminal liability. Perspectives of international researchers are considered and the prospects for the development of this institution in the Russian Federation examined. 1. Козлова Н. …С конфискацией // Российская газета. 2014. 21 янв. 2. Козлова Н. Приступить к ликвидации // Российская газета. 2015. 24 ...

... author explores mutual alimentary obligations of children and parents. There are different forms of financial support including alimony. Alimentary obligation is the most important concept of the Family Code. However, neither the Family Code of the Russian Federation, nor other normative acts contains any legal definition of alimentary obligation. The author defines the concept of alimentary obligation and analyses the difference between the concepts of ‘support’ and ‘alimony’. The article ...

... Slavic iconostasis as a reflection of the major social and political ideas of their creators in terms of cultural and confessional affinity. The author emphasizes the role of mutual influences during periods of ideological crises. The role of Western Russian innovations in the development of the appearance of Moscow iconostases of the late 17th century is demonstrated. 1. Архив Юго-Западной России. Киев, 1859. Ч. 1. 2. Бусева-Давыдова И. Л. Русский ...

The article considers N. O. Lossky’s methodology for interpreting the Russian national character. It is noted that N. O. Lossky identified and analyzed stable sociocultural images and their variants. Fiction, philosophical essays, and epistolary heritage are used as sources for the study. 1. Ильин И. А. Путь ...

This article analyses human capital of young public and political figures in modern Russian society. Based on the methodology of resource approach and the methods of modern statistics, the author identifies three groups of young public and political figures: political leaders, political activists, and social activists, which makes it ...

This article considers the system and structure of sources of Russian corporate law. Research approaches to the notion and legal nature of sources of corporate law and their place in the system of civil law sources are analysed. The authors address the legal nature of corporate regulations, including the rules and ...

This article focuses on the problem of the nature of gmina courts in the Kingdom of Poland, which is of fundamental significance for identifying their role in the judicial system of the Russian Empire. Based on an analysis of historical and legal facts and documents, it is concluded that, from the 15th through the 19th centuries, the nature gmina courts gradually evolved from social (as part of the emerging local governments) to public ...

... considers the transferability of highways in the system of objects of civil rights. Based on a differentiated approach, the author examines the transferability of highways in view of their purpose and permitted use in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. Avenues of improvement of current highways legislation are suggested. 1. Андреев В. К. Вещь как объект гражданских прав // Гражданское право. 2014. № 1. С. 26—29. 2. Рожкова ...

This article considers the correlation between the definitions of the concept of ‘official’ given by the civil law and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The author analyses relevant academic views and judicial practice and formulates proposals on the legislative foirmalisation of the characteristics of a public officer in view of the Supreme Court’s position 1. Бриллиантов ...

This article focuses on the increasing popularity of beards in Western Europe and Russia in the 1830s—1880s. The main hypotheses explaining this phenomenon in Western Europe are analysed and the Western and Russian practices compared. It is concluded that, from the mid-19th century, the beard was a symbol of national unity – the unity of peasants and the educated class in Russia, whereas it emphasised gender inequality and the exceptional status of men ...

... economic situation focusing on Russia’s entry to WTO. The authors analyse the positive and negative effects of WTO membership on Russia’s economy at the present stage and consider the economic situation in the condition of Western sanctions and Russian anti-sanctions. 1. РИА Новости. URL: http://ria.ru (дата обращения: 10.08.2015). 2. Присоединение России к ВТО: целесообразность, проблемы, риски. URL: http://www.webeconomy....

... alongside the interpretation of the statute, which requires serious professional and academic training, especially, if it involves the use of constitutional norms, analogy of law, and the principles of law. The authors stress that the courts of the Russian Federation do not create sources of law, but merely interpret them in the framework of their powers with the exception of the Constitutional Court, which has consistently emphasized over the years that the legal positions contained in its decisions ...

... responsibility of public authorities. The shortcomings of certain legal constructions associated with public enforcement measures against public authorities are identified. The article addresses the issues for improving the related legislation of the Russian Federation. 1. Карташов В. Н. Теория правовой системы общества. Ярославль, 2005. Т. 1. 2. Об оценке эффективности деятельности органов местного ...

... the development of customer loyalty programmes and describes companies’ approaches to creating and implementing them. The authors identify the challenges facing companies that modify customer loyalty programmes in accordance with the features of the Russian institutional environment. 1. Гордон Я. Х. Маркетинг партнерских отношений. СПб., 2001. 2. Плотникова Е. А., Куликова З. В. Программа лояльности — дань моде ...

... ethical and anthropological component of double discourse in V. Nabokov’s novel Despair. The author considers the problem of comparison between a person and a thing addressed by Nabokov. Parallels to the doppelganger discussion and ethical criticism in Russian philosophy and literature abroad are drawn. 1. Яновский В. Поля Елисейские: книга памяти // Яновский В. Соч. : в 2 т. М., 2000. Т. 2. 2. Мулярчик А. С. Русская проза Владимира ...

This article considers the main provisions of philosophology — the system developed by Grigory Landau, a Russian philosopher abroad. The author identifies the grounds on which the philosopher distinguishes between philosophology and philosophy, as well as the correlation between the notions. The basic elements of the system developed – the motive of thinking ...

This paper analyses the risks and expected benefits associated with the transformation of the Russian economy in line with the WTO requirements and provides a theoretical framework for the adaptation of the Kaliningrad region’s economy to Russia’s membership in the WTO. 1. Об Особой экономической зоне в Калининградской ...

This article considers the amalgamation of N. Bugaev’s arrythmology and G. Leibnitz’s monadology supplemented by G. Cantor’s set theory as the methodological basis of P. A. Florensky’s teaching on future state, which made it possible for the Russian philosopher to create a holistic social and philosophical project – the quintessence of development of a new culture, where the fate of a person and the state are indivisible. In the future state, people are units, Pythagorean numbers, or monads ...

... characteristic of the states in question in certain discourses. A. J. Greimas's model of narrative syntactics is used to demonstrate how syntactic descriptions of images of states can be built in the case of Kosovo and South Ossetia as presented in official Russian political discourse. 1. Берендеев М. В. «Образ» как эпистемологическая категория в дискурсивных практиках // МЕТОД : Московский ежегодник трудов ...

... as a science and academic discipline in the Baltic area in the second half of 19th/early 20th centuries. The author emphasizes the role of the Tartu University in the organizational development of ecclesiastical law in legal education system of the Russian Empire. The article describes the general religious situation in the Baltic area and explores the role of the personality of a scientist in the development of a research area. 1. Библиотека Российского государственного ...

This article analyses the ethnonymy and other ethnocultural markers (denomination, language) of the residents of Belarusian lands during the partitions of Poland on the basis of works by S. Plescheev, H. F. Hackmann, L. M. Maksimovich, V. M. Severgin, and other scholars. The urban population was ethnically identified as Polish, whereas the rural peasant one as predominantly Lithuanian. 1. Вуглік І. Р. Этнаніміка беларусаў XVII—XVIII ст.: экзаэтнонімы // Весці БДПУ. 2009. Сер. 2. Гісторыя. Філасофія...

This article addresses the issues of rational resource management as the priority areas of modern Russian public policy. The study focuses on vital resources and the identification and optimization of losses associated with such resources. The authors propose a system of indicators for assessing loss management designed to facilitate the solution ...

... 1976. № 17. Ст. 291. 26. Замечания общего порядка № 29 от 24 июля 2001 г. «Отступление от прав в связи с чрезвычайным положением». URL: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/russian/gencomm/Rhrcom29.html (дата обращения: 15.06.2013). 27. СЗ РФ. 1996. № 7. Ст. 701. 28. Urteil des Zweiten Senats vom 10. April 1997, 2 BvF 1/95 [Überhangmandate II] // BVerfGE. Bd 95. S. 335 (349). URL: http://www.servat....

This article suggests forecasting socioeconomic and marketing processes in the Russian market conditions of a transitional period with the help of cluster modelling, which would significantly increase the objectivity of assessing the identified processes and the impact of research. 1. Воробьев Д. Н. Регулирование ...

This article considers the introduced and planned changes to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation relating to the construction of a system of legal entities. It is concluded that there is a deviation from earlier doctrinal statements about the directions of system development. The changes do not take into account the existing interconnections ...

... development are analyzed. The article presents the author’s method of assessing regional asymmetry of small enterprise innovation development and the mechanism of its diagnostics tested in the case of the regions of the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation. The most meaningful factors affecting innovation activities of small enterprises are identified. 1. Беликов М. Ю. Северный Кавказ, асимметрия социально-экономической сферы ...

This article considers the problems of analysing will and will expression of citizens when performing legally significant actions. The author stresses the importance of analysing citizens’ will in view of the changes to the provisions of the law on the limitation of legal capacity of natural persons. The article stresses the need to extend the role of notaries in documenting the will and will expression of civil circulation participants. 1. Токарева М. В. Взаимная ответственность государства и личности...

The introduction of the contract system in the field of procurement in the Russian Federation entails significant changes in the established practices. The scope of legal relations governed by the rules of regulation of public and municipal procurement is increasing. The expansion of methods for procurement centralization contributes ...

This article examines the origin of the term ‘investigative mindset’ and different opinions on the term’s meaning. In particular, the article focuses on the scientific approaches to the investigative mindset in Russia and the United States of America. The authors analyse the prospects for the development of an investigative mindset theory. 1. Яблоков Н. П. Криминалистическое мышление и его роль в повышении эффективности раскрытия и расследования преступлений. URL: www.law.msu.ru/file/22808/download/22812...

The relatively rapid – however slower than forecasted — development o retail chains is characteristic of Russia in general, nevertheless it exhibits significant territorial differences. An attempt to identify the factors behind these differences through calculating the correlation coefficient made it possible to detect only one factor, whose value is close to essential: the geographical remoteness from Moscow. However, many regions of central Russia have a low share of retail chains. One cannot exclude...

This article is devoted to the Department of Awareness of the Don Government and its activities during the Russian Civil War. The author describes in detail the structure of the organization, it principal activities, and the reasons behind its closure. The author pays special attention to the political situation in Russia in 1919 and the importance of agitation ...

This article analyses the historical prerequisites for the development of the legal framework for local self-governance in the last years of the USSR and RSFSR and the first years of the Russian Federation, as well as its role in the political system and the social life of modern Russia. The author identifies the key contradictions in power relations between public and local authorities. 1. Конституция Рос. Федерации ...

... интеллектуальной биографии. М., 2009. 22. Ярославский народный фронт. URL: http://www.agitclub.ru/front/frontsov/frontjaroslavl. htm (дата обращения: 11.01.2013). 23. Douglas R. W. A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachеv. Los Angeles, 1999. 24. Keller B. Lithuanians rally for Stalin victims // New York Times. 1987. 24 Aug. 25. Taagepera R. A note on the March elections in Estonia // Soviet studies. 1990. Vol. 42,...

... in depreciation expense and growth in the expected revenue from an opportune technological upgrade. Special attention is paid to the integration of the innovative mechanism of depreciation charges and savings in regulating the depreciation policy in Russian enterprises 1. Гражданский кодекс Российской Федерации от 30.11.1994 № 51-ФЗ (действующая редакция от 14.11.2013). М., 2013. 2. Налоговый кодекс от 26.07.2000 ...

... the typology of regions based on competitiveness as an integral index of socioeconomic development. The author justifies the key criteria of systematization – the level and dynamics of competitiveness.The regions of three federal districts of the Russian Federation were grouped and competitive and problem regions were identified on the basis of earlier (2002-2011) calculated data on competitiveness. 1. Чернова Т. В. Экономическая статистика : учебное пособие....

... development and introduction of innovation policy at the mesolevel, which serves as an integral part of the innovation policy of a state and the driving force of regional competitiveness. The author presents the results of innovative activity ranking of Russian regions, pays attention to the innovative potential of the Kaliningrad region, and considers the decisions of public authorities and the recent developments in the field of innovations in Russia. 1. Литвинова А. Рейтинг: инновации ...