Crime situation as an object of criminal law and criminological impact
The article investigates the crime situation as an object of focus of criminological and criminal justice measures of crime prevention. The methodology of the research relied on both general scientific methods (logical and systemic methods, method of analysis) and the method of ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
Digital transformation of socio-economic processes is the basis for sustainable development of regions in the digital age. The foundation for such a transformation is the information and communication infrastructure and, first of all, the mobile Internet. The technological growth of mobile networks has provided a rapid increase in the number of users around the world, contributing to further digitalization. With the development of digital technologies, research in the field of human geography has...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
The article explores the impact of geopolitical processes on the spatial organisation of society, a matter that has gained increasing importance in Russia. It focuses on the utilization of the World Ocean and its coastlines for resource extraction, logistics, military-strategic purposes, and settlement. Methodologically, this study combines modern socio-geographical approaches emphasising the role of the maritime factor in spatial development with classical geopolitical ideologemes drawing a line...
Organized crime in the Soviet Russia: the paradox of institutionalization. Part One.
The aim of the study is to define the role of organized crime in Russia over a major period in the 20th century, and analyze transformation that this criminal activity underwent. The article opens with the analysis of the development processes of the organized crime typical for the Soviet society. It is shown ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... Commission has prepared a package consisting of three draft laws to implement the proposed mechanism.
The first bill within this package was Council Decision № 2022/2332,<13> which included sanctions violations amongst the most serious transnational crimes, often referred to in Western legal terminology as Eurocrimes [7, р. 507], [8].
According to this decision, violation of Union restrictive measures constitutes a crime in compliance with the second subparagraph of Article 83(1) of the Treaty on ...
Geographical structure and dynamics of foreign trade relations of the Republic of Crimea with the border countries and economic security issues
The status of the Republic of Crimea as a new border region of Russia prioritizes the study of the region's foreign economic relations. The article focuses on general and particular foreign trade indicators of the Republic of Crimea while ensuring economic security of the region. The author analyzes the features of the post-Soviet export-import operations dynamics in the Crimean border region considering the changes in the scale of foreign trade after the reunification of the Crimea with the...
Factors and features of innovative development of the Republic of Crimea
The innovative development of a region is the essential condition for increasing its competitiveness. The reintegration of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation requires considerable efforts aimed at overcoming external geo-economic barriers in socio-economic development, as well as at revitalizing the economic activities of enterprises, including production highly demanded innovative items. Given the new information concept of the Republic of Crimea the paper attempts to analyze...
On the situation of crimes related to drug trafficking in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Crimes related to drug trafficking present a serious problem to modern society. Since 1986, comprehensive reforms have been carried out in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) in all spheres of life, including politics, economy, culture, etc., to ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... regional development, social and gender inequalities, unemployment, poverty, manifestations of intolerance, religious and political extremism, separatism, large-scale migration, climate change, natural and man-made catastrophes, transnational organized crime and cybercrime, international terrorism, so-called hybrid threats, disharmony between education systems, etc. In 2017, Russia and other Baltic countries agreed that the Council of the Baltic Sea States would be the regional institution to implement ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
Current geoeconomic and geopolitical transformations project on Russian society and its spatial organisation, highlighting the problems of spatial socioeconomic development and its governmental regulation. This article examines the theoretical and applied aspects of the incorporation into the national regional policy of the sea factor, understood as a combination of location and resources, which is determined by a country’s jurisdiction over coasts and waters, its maritime activities and coastalisation...
Organized crime in Soviet Russia: the paradox of institutionalization. Part two
This article follows the previous publication, which showed the growth of the organized crime in the Soviet period of Russian social history. This part of the article reveals the features of organized criminal activity during the so-called "stagnation period." At the same time, the author emphasizes that the 1980s were the most ...
Kaliningrad and Crimea as Russian exclaves: similarities, differences, and interconnections
The article examines the emergence and development of Crimea (including Sevastopol) as Russia’s fourth exclave. Using the typology of the world’s enclave areas as objects of political geography, the author identifies distinctive characteristics of the Kaliningrad region and Crimea (the Crimean federal district) and compares them to other national and international enclaves. Another focus is the evolution of both territories from the national exclaves within the USSR into external ones. The author...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... immigrant families who have reached the age of three. Failure to attend public educational institutions by children has become a legal basis for non-payment of family benefits and the imposition of an administrative fine on their parents. Measures to reduce crime among youth involved state guardianship of juvenile offenders or those who have problems with social adaptation.<17> It is important to note that the measures are not just recommendations, but they must be implemented by the police.
New government’s ...
Information support for crime investigation
This article considers several basic approaches to information support for a preliminary crime investigation. The author analyses the role of mass media, the use of the biosphere resources and the Internet during preliminary crime investigation. The author proposes a selection of tools and methods that can be used in crime investigation.
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The EU Vs. Russia: Legal Nature and Implementation of the Union’s Restrictive Measures
The author proposes his take on the EU sanctions against Russia. He aims to understand the legal nature of the EU restrictions, the exact procedure of their implementation, revision, and repeal, as well as their judicial review. To this end, he proposes a system of sanction classification, analyses current EU legislation on the imposition and implementation of sanctions, as well as the case law on the sanction policy. The author also examines EU sanctions imposed on other countries and compares them...
Feodosia as a city and a visual text (Aivazovsky Project)
The article describes the personality of Ivan K. Aivazovsky, a man of 'frontiers' who lived in a polyphonic city where Russian, Armenian and Turkic were spoken. The message of the article is the following: Aivazovsky was not only a gifted artist but also a diplomat, a responsible and upstanding citizen who appreciated the values of the city and was concerned about its problems, Armenian community and people. Aivazovsky changed the social space of the city, the (infra)structure and the image of Feodosia...
The specificities of healthcare corruption offences during the Covid-19 pandemic
... to medical care and related services, reducing the effectiveness of medical institutions, leading to waste and embezzlement of budgetary funds. The subject of this research is the study of factors of negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on corruption crimes committed in the field of health care. Examples given in the article allow us to identify circumstances that require special attention during the investigation of criminal cases of the relevant direction, because with their help we can not only ...
Сoastal exclaves among enclosed territories of the world
The article studies coastal exclaves as a special type of enclave territories of the world. They are understood as territories separated from the territory of the mother country by a foreign state (states) but having access to the sea. A complete list of coastal exclaves in the world as well as their main comparative characteristics is given. Coastal exclaves are compared to other ones in Russian typologies of enclave regions. The author has classified coastal exclaves according to several parameters...
The tactical features of interrogating witnesses to crimes against public officials
This article considers the application of witness personality doctrine when investigating crimes against public officials. The cases of crimes against employees of correctional facilities help describe the features of different categories of witnesses and propose tactics of interrogating witnesses of each type.
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The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
This paper aims to study how geopolitical shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their cores. A changed environment may slow down the development of some industries (and even cause them to decline) and give a boost to others, with these two processes...
Institution of criminal proceedings for economic offences
At present, provisions of the law about an institution of criminal proceedings in the economic sphere are controversial. The order of criminal prosecution of such crimes also is not defined clearly. The purpose of the research is to develop the optimal scenario for initiating these criminal cases and determining the most appropriate procedure for their investigation. This study relied on the methods of comparative ...
Revisiting harm caused by illegal entrepreneurial activities
... with ample opportunities to accomplish their intentions, unfortunately, not only gave rise to such a phenomenon as illegal entrepreneurship, which is a deterrent to the further development of market relations, but also promoted the growth of economic crimes. The analysis of law enforcement practice indicates that the preliminary investigation bodies are experiencing significant difficulties in determining the amount of damage caused by the crime in question. The dialectical-materialistic method of ...
. The course and outcomes of testimony verification at the crime scene with the involvement of a minor
The process of testimony verification at the crime scene is often challenging due to its complex and dynamic nature. Moreover, there are certain peculiarities when performing this work during the investigation with the participation of a minor. The purpose of this study is to highlight the main ...
Legal aspects of the EU policy on irregular immigration
... transnacional'noj organizovannoj prestupnosti, prinjat rezoljuciej 55/25 General'noj Assamblei ot 15 nojabrja 2000 goda [The Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000], 2000, available at: http://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl_conv/conventions/protocol2.shtml (accessed 25.08.2015).
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Problems of classifying tax crimes by actus reus
... calculation of large and especially large amounts of unpaid taxes. It is noted that the Plenum of the Supreme Court is expected to amend current Decision No. 64 of 28.12.2006 ‘On the practices of courts applying criminal legislation on liability for tax crimes’. It is also stressed that, despite the existing obligation to pay insurance premiums, there is no rule on criminal liability of persons evading such payments. In this regard, it is proposed to include liability for failing to pay insurance premiums ...
Liability of legal entities for tax crimes according to the Russian and US legislations
This article considers the topical issue of introduction of criminal liability of legal entities for tax crimes in Russia. The authors analyse criminal liability of legal entities for tax evasion according to the US legislation.
1. Успенский А. В. Уголовная ответственность за уклонение от уплаты налогов ...
The dramaturgy of F.M. Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment as interpreted by Józef Tischner
This article considers the features of literary and interpretative analysis of the dramaturgy of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and punishment by the Polish philosopher Józef Tischner.
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The supervisory duties of governors general in felony crime procedures in the first third of the 19th century: law and practice
This article describes the mechanism of fulfilling supervisory duties in felony crime proceedings by using the example of Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Olonets governors general A. F. Klokachev and S. I. Minitsky. The author also attempts to assess the efficiency of such supervision.
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The combat against organised crime and corruption in Russia: reality and prospects
This article considers the determinants of organised and corruption crime, its extent, and associated public danger, as well as the economic, organisational and legal measures of its prevention.
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Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
The article discusses a theoretical framework for investigating regionalisation and geopolitical regionalisation, employing the activity-geospatial approach. The main theoretical foci of this study are system-forming, or region-building, socio-geo-adaptation and geopolitical relations. The article examines various types of transboundary and transnational geopolitical regionalisation as manifestos of geopolitical relations. These types are categorised based on scale, functional area, historical and...
Criminalistic characteristics of organized credit fraudster groups
Due to the rapid criminalization of credit relations and the widespread theft of bank loans, committed mainly by groups of fraudsters, the forensic science faces a serious problem of developing an effective method for investigating crimes of this nature. The method must include recommendations for identifying signs of complicity, defining the group of people involved in the theft, their arrest and proof of guilt. At the same time, the research of this kind is impossible without ...
The concept of extreme necessity in the crime qualified by Article 199.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
In this article, the author examines the actual issue of applying provisions of an extreme necessity to actions containing signs of a crime under Article 199.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on such a circumstance that excludes the criminality of the act. The author analyses a variety of views on the problem under consideration. Methodologically, the study relies on ...
Expanding opportunities for obtaining testimony from witnesses in criminal proceedings
Improving the quality of crime investigation is tightly linked with improving the quality of evidence gathering. The nature of the witness testimony requires further improvement of the forensic support to the process of evidence obtaining. The purpose of the study was determined ...
Problems of legislative regulation of investigation activity on the Internet in countering extremism
... measures on the Internet is justified.
The research used formal-logical, logical-legal and comparative-legal methodology to study legal norms and to work out the proposals on improving the investigation measures on the Internet when dealing with extremist crimes.
Particular attention is paid to the differences in investigation in telecommunication networks and the Internet as their certain kind, as well as the relevant legal regulation in countering extremist crimes. To eliminate possible contradictions ...
Investigation of Criminal Cases Done in the Field of Circulation of Digital Financial Assets
... article focuses on the evidence aspect related to the collection, analysis and fixing of evidence obtained at the pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings. The main result of scientific research is the development of a methodology for investigating crimes in which crypto assets are the subject of a criminal attack.
1. Борисов М. Б., Заводцев И. В. Проблемы совершенствования допуска и доступа субъектов в информационные ...
The image of a ‘good Frenchman’ in Russian press between the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars
The author examines the image of the Frenchman in Russian quality journals published between the Napoleonic and Crimean wars. In many Russian journals, the emphasis was laid on creating a positive image of some social strata of French society. The author identifies the reasons for this phenomenon. The image of a ‘good Frenchman’ reveals the attitude of Russian press towards acute political and social issues of the time.
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The Development of a Criminalistics Theory in Russia and the United States: A Comparative Analysis
... framework for criminalistics, I focus on the thought experiment (event reconstruction) technique and the situational approach, which is used both in Russia and in the US. I describe the concept, essence, and capabilities of the situation approach to crime investigation. Today, the situational approach is central to forensic thinking. I demonstrate the role of the approach in the training of lawyers and in investigative practices. I describe the use of forensic thinking in the US in the advanced training ...
Simplified methodology for investigating crimes
The article describes the system of methods of investigating crimes as a well-established form in the history of criminalistics. The success of the investigation of crimes depends on a comprehensive, objective examination of the circumstances of crimes, and on the correct choice of the mechanisms for proving the ...
Implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code and amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS 74/78) for ship-building
... Prinzipien und Instrumente zur Terrorismusbekämpfung: Vortrag am Symposium “Terrorismus. Rechtsfragen der äußeren und inneren Sicherheit”. 31. Mai 2002 // Europa-Kolleg, Hamburg.
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The improvement of law enforcement activities in the field of environmental security in Russia
... impact on the environment is a result of gross violations of environmental laws. The law enforcement measures introduced in the field of environmental pollution often prove to be ineffective. The complications associated with identifying environmental crimes and concrete offenders result in increasing latency of environmental crimes. There is a need to decrease their latency in Russia through improving legal regulation and control in the field of environmental protection.
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Problems of qualifying tax-related crimes based on the characteristics of the perpetrator
... the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court should clarify these issues through introducing amendments to the existing Resolution No. 64 of December 28, 2006 "On the practice of court application of criminal legislation concerning liability for tax crimes".
1. Статистические сведения о состоянии преступности по субъектам Российской Федерации за январь — февраль 2014 // МВД РФ, ФКУ «Главный ...
Tactics of particular investigating actions relating to crimes against public officers
This article considers the tactics of examining the victim, suspect, and witnesses and the on-site verification of testimony in cases related to crimes against public officers based on the criminal cases studied by the author.
1. Волчецкая Т. С., Осипова Е. В., Киселев Д. Г. Структура и особенности криминалистической характеристики ...
Urgent issues of creating a system of legal regulation of Russian economy’s deoffshorisation
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Regional features in the forensic characteristics of traffic accidents (based on the cases of the Kaliningrad Inspection for Traffic Security)
... forensic characteristics. Moreover, they do not take into account regional characteristics. However, an analysis of relevant judicial and investigative processes made it possible to establish that the investigator’s awareness of the information model of crime increases their efficiency in investigating certain traffic accidents.
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The modern problems of using the Internet in investigating crimes
This article considers the basic approaches to the use of Internet resources in the detection and investigation of crimes. It is stressed that the Internet affects ways the crime is committed, the features of criminal traces, and the choice of means and methods used in the process of detection and investigation of crimes.
1. Эффективные меры борьбы ...
Преступность и ее предупреждение: реальность и фикция
... институт предупреждения преступности в нынешних условиях развития общества не эффективен.
This article focuses on the most dangerous and long-lasting determinants of modern crime. The author arrives at a conclusion that the institution of crime prevention is inefficient in the current condition of society development.
1. Конституция Российской Федерации. Государственный гимн ...
The criminal procedure aspects of the absolution from the suspicion of committing a crime
The article analyses the procedural consequences of unconfirmation of the suspicion in committing a crime during the preliminary inquisition. The main points of the article are the problems of keeping a status of the suspect after release him from custody or cancellation a measure of restriction. Also there are arguments in favour of necessity of making ...
The concept and features of voluntary renunciation of criminal purpose
... concept of voluntary renunciation of criminal purpose. Through analysing criminal statutes and
criminal law literature, the author identifies and examines the features of voluntary renunciation of criminal purpose: objective termination of intended crime, voluntariness, finality, and timeliness. The article offers a definition of voluntary renunciation of criminal purpose
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Добровольный отказ от доведения преступления ...
The application of dermatoglyphical research for investigative purposes in detecting hate crimes
... analyses the capacity of forensic dermatoglyphics as a means to combat extremism. The author considers the possibility of dermatogliphical forensic examination and proves the need to apply dermatogliphical research in the course of investigation of hate crimes
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Особенности составления заключения эксперта при выполнении ...
The Baltic Sea region and increasing international tension
For many years, the Baltic Sea region stood out for its remarkable stability. The dramatic changes following the end of the Cold War did not have a profound effect on the territory. However, Russia's cooperation with other states in the Baltic Sea region began to lose momentum. This paper discusses the negative effects of the Ukrainian and Syrian crises and the increasing tension between Russia and other countries in the Baltic Sea region. In the short term, these trends are unlikely to re¬verse...