Vol 15, No 1 (2020)

The article considers peculiarities of the emergence and development of justices of the Samara province in the second half of the XIX century, analyzes the reasons for their liquidation in 1889.

This article is about possible temporary limits of criminal legal proceedings in which the prejudicial cooperation agreement may be concluded. The special focus is on qualification of a crime as the factor which is directly influencing cooperation prospects for the suspect (accused) and the moment of its conclusion. The research objective is the identification of interrelation between degree of accuracy of qualification of a crime at some stage of criminal procedure and security of observance of legitimate interests of the cooperating person.

In the article are analyzed domestic, and also foreign basic models of differentiation of the pre-judicial criminal legal proceedings, a result the author comes to a conclusion that the most successful basis for differentiation of pre-judicial production is police inquiry on the basis of which the issue of an investigation form choice has to be resolved.

The article examines the problems of administrative prejudice in the criminal law on the example of the operation of regulations stipulated in the Article 1581 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. A legal and technical analysis of the composition of petty theft of other people’s property, committed by a person subjected to administrative punishment. Some controversial issues of qualification of the analyzed criminal offense are considered. Attention is focused on the moment of the end of petty theft of other people’s property, committed by a person subjected to administrative punishment. The issue of necessity and expediency of increasing the cost threshold of petty theft of other people’s property is considered. The article also suggests other ways to improve the criminal legislation of Russia and the practice of its application, aimed at reducing the level of mercenary property crime in the country. It is shown that despite the fact that the appearance of Article 158.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is connected with the introduction of administrative prejudice and, as a result, the criminalization of acts provided for by this Code, the latest law enforcement practice shows an insufficiently high level of effectiveness of this criminal law institution.

In the paper the problems of illegal receipt of unemployment benefit are analyzed. The author analyzes the main reasons of illegal receipt of unemployment benefit, gaps in legislation as well as proposed solutions to this problem. It raises issues of law enforcement practice to return the illegally obtained unemployment benefits.

The article presents comparative analysis of state of Social Security in some foreign countries and in the Russian Federation, main problems of Russian Social Security Law reforming, also the article contains propositions for enhancement of Russian Social Security to international standards.

In the paper legislation of Chile that is concerned with election law, it¢s history and modern state is analyzed, evaluation of plus and minus sides of this state legislative provisions is given.

This articles looks into the principle of voluntariness as the basic grounds for international sports arbitration. Analysis of existing regulatory legal acts in sports field indicates that this principle is not observed. The author point out the general recognition of this principle around the world and draws the conclusion that without wilful consent of the parties to appeal to the international sports court of arbitration, the case cannot be reviewed in this court. Violation of this principle should be the undisputed basis for refusal in its enforcement.