2021 Issue №4

The article analyzes the preventive function of the notary, defines the concept and place of the notary in the Russian legal system and among the bodies of civil jurisdiction, reveals the issues of notarial mediation, makes some proposals for improving the legislation. The notary, as an institution of preventive justice, carries out pre-trial resolution of conflicts, ensures the rule of law and plays a huge role in the successful resolution of disputes without going to court, thereby facilitating their work, protecting their rights and interests, and also establishing mutual understanding between the subjects of civil circulation. Taking into account the main preventive function of the notaries, some additions should be made to the legislation on notaries, namely, Art. 1 of the Fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the notary, the provision that the main purpose of the notary is to prevent offenses by performing notarial acts, provided for in Art. 35 Fundamentals.

The article provides an overview of information technologies used by courts in criminal proceedings at the present time. The authors analyze the current technical innovations used in the criminal process which acquired increased relevance during the fight on COVID-19. Special attention is paid to court videoconferencing. The authors analyze positive and negative aspects of online court sessions, which allow determining the further vector of information technology development in modern criminal proceedings. The research considers the possibility of holding court sessions using public messengers, and possible risks of this method of communication in the framework of legal proceedings are shown. Taking into account the existing specifics of modern videoconferencing, which causes not only the impossibility of personal presence in the courtroom, but also the ineffectiveness of some rhetoric and psychological techniques, the question is raised about the feasibility of developing forensic psychology and rhetoric for online meetings.

A distinctive feature of the legal regulation of entrepreneurship in the Kaliningrad region is the possibility for investors to use specific business regimes in the region using the legal preferences of the Special Economic Zone and the Special Administrative Region. The article examines the features of the applied special business regimes and periodization of their development. The author describes the tax benefits used by investors, subsidies for the deve­lopment of the labor market, indicates the existing shortcomings and problems in the legal regulation of entrepreneurship. Proposals for developing the in­vest­ment attractiveness of a special legal regime for entrepreneurship and to improving legislation have been formulated.