Abstract: The 1920s faced the ideological pressure on the rural crime studying methodology as the peasant policy tightened. During the period of narrowing economic independence of peasants, all researches were marked as 'Marxist understanding of crime factors'. Collectivisation resulted in recognition of the 'anti-scientific nature' of the factors theory and reduction of rural crime researches. The object of this research is the social relations that relate to the existence of crime in the country-side and measures undertaken to prevent it during the first years of the Soviet regime. The purpose of the research is to discover criminological features of rural crime during the first years of the Soviet regime. The subject of the research includes the criminological features of rural crime; measures of overall social and special legal prevention of rural crime; and results of multi-year researches carried out by the authors. The research methods used by the authors included general research methods and special research methods such as logical, historical, comparative law, structured system and statistical methods. The methodological basis of the research implied the founding categories of the dialectical materialism such as negation of the negation, transition from quantity to quality, and others. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that for the first time in the academic literature the authors describe criminological features of rural crime and specific measures of prevention of this kind of crime as a result of their analysis of rural crime during the first years of the Soviet regime. The main conclusion of the research is that not only rural living conditions influenced the crime factors but so did repression and prohibition of crime studies in the USSR. 

Abstract: The article contains criminological characteristics of the crimes of foreign migrants, and specific features of its territorial spread.  One should evaluate crimes committed by foreigners objectively without overestimating its public danger. Criminal activities level of foreigners is not above the criminal activities level of the Russian Federation according to the calculations by the authors.  However, there is a number of other important parameters, showing high level of its public danger. Crimes by foreigners are closely connected with illegal migration.  The threat to national security from illegal migration is strongly connected with the crimes of illegal migrants.  The public danger of crimes by illegal migrants should not be underestimated. Illegal migrants constitute up to 90% among migrant criminals.  There is also a connection between migrant crimes and citizenship of migrants. There is also a connection between migrant crimes and emigration directions from the neighboring states, and existence of old and new diasporas of people from these states in the Russian Federation. The new diasporas are formed by the migrant from the Central Asia. Their crime level grew abruptly in last five years (2007 to 2011). The older diasporas are formed by the citizens of other neighboring states, and the crime level among them is lowering.