Abstract: The research subject is the planning of higher vocational education specialists training. The overabundance of specialists causes socio-economic problems, such as unemployment in some sectors and personnel deficiency in others. The study of the historical experience of planning in the sphere of higher education personnel training is of great importance. The calculations are defined by the Methodology Guidelines to the development of government plans of economic and social development of the USSR endorsed by the decree of the State Planning Committee of the USSR of 31 March 1980 No 631. The research is based on a comparative analysis of higher education specialists training in the Soviet period and at the present day. The author studies the data in relation to the sectors of the economics, professions and regions, which had served as a basis for the formation of plan tasks for higher education institutions in personnel training. The author concludes that government tasks for personnel training had been formed and are still formed and endorsed in the form of admission quotas in higher education institutions. 

Abstract: The research subject is the system of administrative-legal provisions in the mechanism of legal ensuring of the activities of internal affairs bodies. The research object is social relations. The author considers the issues of juvenile delinquency prevention using the example of internal affairs bodies since the early 20th century. The theoretical importance of the considered problems consists in the specification of certain notions of administrative-legal science which helps to reveal the new elements of organization and legal provision of internal affairs bodies which haven’t been taken into account so far. The author defines the peculiarity of the police’s activities in the mechanism of juvenile delinquency prevention. The research methodology is based on the system, structural-functional and formal-logical methods. The author applies the logical-legal method. The novelty of the study lies in the author’s approach to the study of the means, forms, and limits of administrative-legal characteristic of the internal affairs bodies’ activity aimed at juvenile delinquency prevention. The author proposes a new conclusion about the character of legal prevention of juvenile delinquency by internal affairs bodies, and the impossibility to reduce it to a mere law enforcement meaning. 

Abstract: The subject of the research is the practical application of the provisions of the Federal Law No. 15-FZ dated February 23, 2013 'On Protection of Public Health from Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Consequences of Tobacco Use' by police officers. The object of the research is the provisions of federal laws, laws of the Russian Federation constituents and relevant provisions of the federal regulations regulating the implementation of administrative measures by police officers in order to prevent and/or impose administrative sanctions for violating the requirements of the Law No. 15-FZ. The researcher has used such research methods as the dialectical research method, logical and sociological methods. The researcher has also applied a set of theoretical (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and empirical (observation, description and comparison) methods. The main conclusions of the research are the guidelines that will guarantee the legality of law-enforcing activities performed by police officers of the regional offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in particular, their observation of the human and civil rights and freedoms when implementing administrative measures in order to prevent violations and impose administrative sanctions for committing administrative offences in a public place.