Abstract: The object of the study is the relations on the legal regulation of the powers of senior officials (heads of the highest executive bodies of state power) of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of anti-corruption. The purpose of the study is to systematize the powers of senior officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of combating corruption, provided for by regional anti-corruption and other legislation.
Objectives of the conducted research:
- analysis of regional legislation and search for norms in it that consolidate the powers of senior officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of anti-corruption;
- description of the content of the powers of senior officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of anti-corruption reflected in regional legislation;
- development of proposals for improving regional legislation in in order to concretize the powers of senior officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of anti-corruption.The methodological basis of the conducted research is dialectical materialism and general scientific methods of cognition based on it – analysis, synthesis, comparison, extrapolation and others used in the legal sciences. The scientific novelty of the conducted research lies in the fact that for the first time in Russian legal science, based on the analysis of Russian regional legislation, the main powers of senior officials (heads of the highest executive bodies of state power) of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of combating corruption are identified and described.

Abstract: The research subject is legal regulation of the control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies. The purpose of the research is to systematize the control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies, to analyze their essence and to develop the proposals about the improvement of legal regulation of their activities. The study solves the following tasks:
-         To reveal the essence of the control function of regional anti-corruption agencies;
-         To detect, describe and systematize the main forms of control in the sphere of anti-corruption activities of these agencies;
-         To define the main forms of public control, applied by regional anti-corruption agencies;
-         To analyze legal regulation of control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies;
-         To develop recommendations about the improvement of legal regulation and organization of anti-corruption control activities of regional anti-corruption agencies.
The research methodology is based on dialectical materialism and the relevant general scientific research methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison and other methods, used in the legal sciences. The scientific novelty consists in the analysis and explanation of the control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies, description of their main forms, essence and main directions of their control activities. 

Abstract: The research subject is criminal victimity of disabled people. The purpose of the research is to detect the structure of criminal victimity of disabled people based on the official statistical data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for 2014 – 2015. The tasks of the research are: a) to define the scope of disabled people among the victims of criminal offences; b) to define the types and groups of crimes which more often involve disabled people as victims. The research methodology is based on dialectics and the related methods of scientific cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that so far the Russian criminological science hasn’t carried out a study of disabled people as the victims of criminal offences on the base of the official statistics so. For the first time in the criminological science the author defines the main types and groups of crimes in which disabled people become the victims. 

Abstract: The research subject is anti-corruption education as an instrument of combating corruption in the territorial units of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the research is the assessment of the condition of anti-corruption education in the territorial units of the Russian Federation and the development of proposals (recommendations) for the improvement of application of this instrument in anti-corruption activities of local authorities. The main tasks of the study are: a) the analysis of regional anti-corruption legislation and subordinate statutory instruments regulating the issues of organization and implementation of anti-corruption education; b) the assessment of regional statutory instruments regulating the issues of organization and implementation of anti-corruption education; c) the development of proposals for the improvement of legal regulation of the issues of organization and implementation of anti-corruption education and its practices. The research methodology includes dialectical materialism and general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, grouping, comparison, and other methods used in legal sciences. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that it is the first study in Russian legal science which considers the issues of legal regulation of anti-corruption education as an instrument of corruption prevention on the local level. The author detects the drawbacks of its legal regulation and organization of anti-corruption education and proposes the measures for the further development of the anti-corruption education institution. 

Abstract: The research subject is the legal status and the activities of the Chief Federal Inspector in the Region of the Russian Federation of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Apparat in the work of Anti-Corruption Commission of the Russian Federation. The research object is the set of statutory instruments regulating the Chief Inspector’s activities. The research methodology is based on the dialectical materialism and the related general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison, and other methods. The scientific novelty of the study is explained by the fact that it is the first study in Russian legal science describing the main responsibilities of the Chief Federal Inspector in the Region of the Russian Federation of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Apparat in the work of Anti-Corruption Commission of the Russian Federation. 

Abstract: The subject of the analysis is the monographic research by Pavel Aleksandrovich Kabanov, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor of the department of criminology of Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, devoted to the problem of “Anti-corruption monitoring in Russian regions: issues of theory and practice of legal regulation” and published at Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the MIA of Russia. The purpose of the research is the assessment of the quality of the scientific work devoted to the scientifically and practically important problem. The tasks of the research are: a) searching for, detecting and describing the merits of the work; b) searching for, detecting and describing the issues requiring further development by the author or other scholars. The research methodology is based on the dialectical materialism and the related methods of system and structural analysis. The scientific novelty consists in the authors’ assessment of a significant innovative monographic research by professor Kabanov devoted to the issues of organization and realization of anti-corruption monitoring in the Russian Federation on regional and municipal level. The authors’ conclusions have a significant scientific importance for the development of anti-corruption monitoring as an independent measuring tool of anti-corruption practice. 

Abstract: The purpose of the research is to form the general idea of anti-corruption awareness, its content, the conditions of formation, and the measures of improvement. The research tasks are: the analysis of statutory acts of various levels (federal, regional, municipal, local) regulating the issues of formation of anti-corruption awareness of the population and various social groups; the development of scientific (doctrinal) legal definition of anti-corruption awareness; the disclosure of the legal essence of anti-corruption awareness as a form of anti-corruption activity; the detection of the main conditions of anti-corruption awareness formation; the disclosure of obstacles to the formation of anti-corruption awareness; the formulation of measures of anti-corruption awareness provision. The research methodology is based on dialectical materialism and the related general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison, and other methods used in the contemporary legal science. The author formulates the legal definition of anti-corruption awareness, defines its forms and the conditions of its formation, reveals the main obstacles to its formation, and offers the particular methods of anti-corruption awareness provision in the contemporary Russian society. 

Abstract: The research subject covers the statutory instruments of the Russian Federation regulating the problems of organization and realization of anti-corruption monitoring. The research purpose is the characteristics and the analysis of anti-corruption monitoring as an anti-corruption instrument. The research tasks are: to analyze the maximum number of regional statutory instruments containing the description of the anti-corruption monitoring idea; to reveal the similar wordings; to develop the proposals about formulating a legal definition of anti-corruption monitoring as a universal legal category. The research methodology is based on the universal dialectical approach to the study of social phenomena and processes, and the related general scientific methods – analysis and comparison, widely applied in the Russian legal science. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the analysis of legal regulation of anti-corruption monitoring in the regions of the Russian Federation. The author defines institutional subjects involved in anti-corruption monitoring realization. The author formulates the characteristics and carries out the analysis of legal approaches to the concept of “anti-corruption monitoring” in the current anti-corruption legislation of the regions of the Russian Federation, leading to the understanding and interpretation of the role of anti-corruption monitoring, which is reasonable, since anti-corruption monitoring is considered from various positions on the base of different aims, directions, features, forms, and types. 

Abstract: The subject of the research is criminal mortality of women as a negative social phenomenon and a consequence of the modern Russian criminality. The purpose of the research is the revelation of tendencies of criminal mortality of women in Russia against a background of increase of crime rates and victimity of the Russian population. The tasks of the research are: a) to analyze the departmental victimological statistics devoted to the consequences of criminality; b) to reveal and describe the tendencies of criminal mortality of women in the context of the changing criminality; c) to reveal the existing and to offer new directions in the research of criminal mortality of women through criminological means. The methodology of the research is based on dialectical materialism and the general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison and others. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time in the Russian criminological science on the base of the data of official departmental criminological statistics the author measures criminal mortality of women as a negative consequence of the modern Russian criminality and reveals the tendencies denoting the unfavourable changes in the consequences of criminal behavior. 

Abstract: The research focuses on the essential characteristics of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education as two interconnected and interdependent forms of anti-corruption activity, and their correlation. The study aims at: a) revelation of essential characteristics of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education; b) assessment of their correlation as the forms of anti-corruption activity; c) outlining of the common and the specific features of both notions; d) the analysis of normative legal acts regulating the sphere of anti-corruption enlightenment and education. The methodology is based on dialectical materialism; the main research method is structural analysis which helped to define the correlation of anti-corruption enlightenment and education. The main conclusions of the study are: a) anti-corruption education and anti-corruption enlightenment are different means of combating corruption with a significant anti-corruption potential, though having some similarities; b) they differ in all structural elements: goals and tasks, subjects and objects, means of implementation, legal regulation and legal consequences. 

Abstract: The object of the research is anti-corruption education. The subject of the research is a range of quantitative indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education as an instrument of corruption combating, contained in federal, regional and municipal normative legal acts. The aim of the study is to develop the system of indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education. The main tasks of the research are: 1) to analyze and assess the main indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education, contained in the existing Russian normative legal acts; 2) to systematize the existing indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education; 3) to develop and suggest the author’s indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education and to reveal their essence. The author uses the comparative-legal method, the structural and the systems methods of analysis of legal documents and other methods of the modern Russian jurisprudence. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the analysis of quantitative indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education, contained in federal, regional and municipal normative legal acts.  The described system of anti-corruption education effectiveness assessment can be used for the monitoring of efficiency of this instrument of corruption combating. 

Abstract: The subject of the research is anti-corruption audit as a special instrument of combating corruption and a form of control over realization of the government anti-corruption policy. The main tasks of the research are: a) to analyze the Russian normative legal acts in the sphere of organization and realization of anti-corruption audit; b) to develop the author’s scientific legal definition of anti-corruption audit; c) to reveal the essence of anti-corruption audit as an instrument of combating corruption and a form of control over realization of the government anti-corruption policy. The methodology of the research is based on dialectical materialism and the general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison and others. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the development of the scientific legal category of “anti-corruption audit”, the revelation of the content of anti-corruption audit as an instrument of combating corruption and a form of control over realization of the government anti-corruption policy, and the analysis of the legal base of anti-corruption audit organization and realization.

Abstract: The object of the research is anti-corruption consultation as a form of anti-corruption education. The aim of the research is to develop a scientific legal category of “anti-corruption consultation” and to reveal its content. The tasks of the study are: a) to analyze normative legal acts referring to anti-corruption consultation; b) to evaluate the specificity of anti-corruption consultation legal  regulation; c) to understand and to reveal the content of anti-corruption consultation as a form of anti-corruption education; d) to analyze normative legal acts and scientific literature devoted to the problems of anti-corruption consultation. The methodology of the research is based on dialectical materialism and the correlating methods of comparative jurisprudence, structural and system analysis. The scientific novelty and the importance of the research lie in the fact that on the base of analysis of federal, regional and municipal normative legal acts for the first time in Russian legal science it reveals the content of anti-corruption consultation as a form of anti-corruption education and offers its scientific legal category. 

Abstract: The research subject is the annual reports on the results of anti-corruption activities in Russian regions. The research object is the content of annual reports on the results of anti-corruption activities in the regions of the Russian Federation, and the statutory instruments of Russian regions regulating their preparation and promulgation. The research is aimed at defining the legal content of annual reports on the results of anti-corruption activities in Russian regions. The research tasks are:
-          To analyze the statutory instruments regulating the preparation of annual reports on the results of anti-corruption activities in the regions of the Russian Federation.
-          To develop the legal definition of an annual report on the results of anti-corruption activities in the Russian region and the related definitions
The research methodology is based on the dialectical materialism and the related general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison, and others. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the content and legal regulation of preparation and promulgation of annual reports on the results of anti-corruption activities in Russian regions, and the development of scientific categories of “an annual report on anti-corruption activities of the region of the Russian Federation” and “official anti-corruption informing about the results of fight against corruption”.

Abstract:  
This research focuses on determining tendencies and the current state of crime in Russia based on the data of victimological statistics for the period from 2009 to 2013. The purpose of this research is to find and assess the trends of the criminality in Russia taking into account the data from the official victimological statistics. This work focuses on the following tasks: a) assessing the dynamic indexes of modern criminality in Russia; b) describing and explaining the structure of modern criminality in Russia; c) determining the nature of danger of obvious negative indexes within the modern criminality in Russia. Based on the official statistical data the author determines the evident positive trends within Russia's criminality - drop in its level, but also the negative trends that demonstrating an increase in the child and female death rate and bodily injuries as a result of a crime. The data acquired provides a glimpse at the current state of criminality in Russia.
 

Abstract: The research focuses on elderly people who became victims of offences of different types, committed against them. The aim of the study is to assess the share and the structure of aged victims in the whole amount of registered victims of crimes according to the official victimological statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The tasks of the research are: a) to define the share of aged victims as a negative consequence of criminality; b) to the define the structure of aged victims in this category according to the sex. The methodology is based on dialectical materialism and the general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and comparison. For the first time in modern criminology the author reveals the share of aged victims in the whole amount of victims of crimes on the base of official departmental statistical data, and defines the structure of aged victims of Russian criminality and the main types of crimes aged people suffer from. 

Abstract:  
This research focuses on determining tendencies and the current state of crime in Russia based on the data of victimological statistics for the period from 2009 to 2013. The purpose of this research is to find and assess the trends of the criminality in Russia taking into account the data from the official victimological statistics. This work focuses on the following tasks: a) assessing the dynamic indexes of modern criminality in Russia; b) describing and explaining the structure of modern criminality in Russia; c) determining the nature of danger of obvious negative indexes within the modern criminality in Russia. Based on the official statistical data the author determines the evident positive trends within Russia's criminality - drop in its level, but also the negative trends that demonstrating an increase in the child and female death rate and bodily injuries as a result of a crime. The data acquired provides a glimpse at the current state of criminality in Russia.
 

Abstract: The object of the research are corporate victims (legal entities).The aim of the research is to identify the trends within Russian criminality which characterize its negative consequences for legal persons during the period from 2009 to 2013 on the basis of official victimological statistics.The research objectives are: a) description of the general trends characterizing quantitative changes in crimes committed by legal entities; b) description of trends within particular types of crimes related to damnification to legal entities; C) predicting the changes in corporate victimization in the nearest future.The methodology of the study is based on dialectical materialism and the general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, and others. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that for the first time in Russian forensic science the author investigates the phenomenon of corporate victims using the official statistics and describes the main trends of negative consequences for legal entities caused by different types of crime. This study allows launching the formation of Russian corporate victimology as a particular victimological theory.

Abstract: The subject of the research is anti-corruption education as a means of prevention of corruption used in modern Russian anti-corruption legislation, subordinate legislation, scientific and educational literature. The objective is to develop and offer a theoretically grounded definition of anti-corruption education as a scholarly legal category and reveal its contents. The research objectives are: a) on the base of the analysis of regional anti-corruption legislation and normative acts to identify the main features of anti-corruption education as a means of prevention of corruption; b) on the base of the identified characteristics to give a working definition of anti-corruption education as a means of prevention of corruption; b) to disclose the content of anti-corruption education as a means of preventing corruption. Methodological basis of the study is dialectical materialism based on scientific methods of knowledge: analysis, synthesis, comparison, and other used in legal Sciences. Scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author based on the structural analysis of the legal and scientific definitions of anti-corruption education, formulated in the regional legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as in the scientific, educational and reference books, proposed a new definition of anti-corruption education. It differs significantly from the previous definitions and reveals its contents.Practical significance of the research: scientific category of anti-corruption education allows to reveal the content of this activity and may contribute to further research.

Abstract: The subject of the research is criminal traumatism as a negative social phenomenon caused by criminality in modern Russian society. The research is aimed at the revelation of tendencies of changes of criminal traumatism in modern Russian society. The tasks of the research: a) to define the state, structure and dynamics of criminal traumatism in modern Russia; b) to evaluate the condition of criminal traumatism of socially vulnerable groups of the Russian population with a high level of victimity - women and children. The chronology of the research covers the period of 2009 - 2013. The methodology of the research is based on dialectical materialism and the methods of analysis, synthesis, and comparison. The scientific originality lies in the fact that for the first time in Russian scientific literature the author carried out the victimological analysis of criminal traumatism as a negative result of Russial criminality on the base of official statistical data. The author revealed the tendencies of criminal traumatism and carried out its structural analysis. In future it can give the opportunity to study this phenomenon on another level. 

Abstract: The subject of the reseacrh is criminal mortality as a form of negative socially dangerous consequences of modern criminality in the Republic of Tatarstan. The aim of the study is to identify the key indicators of criminal deaths of victims in the Republic of Tatarstan, characterizing its dynamics and structure. As a result of the study of criminal mortality in the Republic of Tatarstan the author comes to the following conclusions. Firstly, the decrease in the criminal activity rate and in criminal victimization in the Republic of Tatarstan has not had a significant effect on the state of criminal deaths of victims of crime, which continues to grow, increasing the level of social danger of criminality in this region. Secondly, in the structure of criminal mortality can be noticed a negative trend - its constant growth. While the growth rates of criminal deaths from crimes against life and health of the population is much higher than the growth rate of criminal deaths from crimes against traffic safety and operation of transport. Thirdly, taking into account the negative trends associated with the rapid growth of criminal mortality in the Republic of Tatarstan, in the short term (within the next 5 years) we should expect a significant growth of quantitative and qualitative indicators of criminality in this region of the Russian Federation.The methodology of the study is based on dialectical materialism. As the main methods of cognition of criminal mortality in the Republic of Tatarstan the author uses the statistical methods: summary, grouping and statistical and structural analysis used by domestic experts in the study of criminal phenomena and processes. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that on the base of official statistical data and using his own indicators (the rate of criminal mortality caused by crimes and the rate of criminal mortality among the victims of crimes) the author for the first time in Russian forensic science reveals the tendencies of criminal mortality as a consequence of one of the species the consequences of crime, using the developed by the author of indicators.

Abstract: The object of the studies involves public control in the sphere of fighting corruption as a scientific legal category and its contents. The goal of the studies is to develop a scientific legal category of "public control in the sphere of fighting corruption" and discussing its contents. The main purposes of the studies involve: a) search, revealing and description of the key structural elements of public control as a legal category in the Russian federal and regional legislation and by-laws; b) development of the scientific legal category of public control in the sphere of fighting corruption based upon normative legal acts and scientific literature; c) reveling contents of the public control in the sphere of fighting corruption as a legal category. The methodological basis for the studies involves dialectic materialism and the general scientific methods, which are based upon it, such as: analysis, synthesis, comparison, extrapolating, as well as  other methods applied in legal studies.  The scientific novelty of the study is due to the fact that the author offers a new legal category "public control in the sphere of fighting corruption" with regard to the recently adopted (summer of 2014) federal Russian legislation on public control, and the author reveals the contents of this category.  This category may be used in the further legal studies in the sphere of fighting corruption and studies of the phenomenon of public control.

Abstract: The object of studies involves legal means of formation and guarantees of the implementation of the state policy in the sphere of fighting corruption in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation. The goal of studies is finding optimum legal means for the formation and implementation of the state policy in the sphere of fighting corruption in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation. The targets of the study involve analysis of the practice of legal regulation of the instruments in the sphere of fighting corruption in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation, development of recommendations for the legal regulation of the instruments against corruption at the regional level and organization of this type of activities. The methodological basis involves an universal dialectic methodology of cognition, as well as some general and specific scientific cognition methods (comparative legal studies, analysis, synthesis). Scientific novelty is due to the fact that for the first time in the Russian legal science the author evaluates  legal means for the formation and guarantees of implementation of the state policy in the sphere of fighting corruption at the regional level. The practical value of the study is due to the development of proposals for the legal regulation of the main instruments against corruption in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation and the main organizational legal means for the improvement of efficiency of such means.

Abstract: The object of studies involves compromises in the implementation of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the sphere of fighting corruption as means of resolving legal contradictions. The goals of study include the following: analysis of the normative legal acts of the Russian Federation allowing for the use of compromises in the implementation of the state policy in the sphere of fighting corruption; analysis of the practice of using compromises when implementing state policy of the Russian Federation in the sphere of fighting corruption; development of proposals for the further studies of compromises  in the implementation of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the sphere of fighting corruption.  The methodological basis for the studies involves dialectic method of cognition of social matters and processes taking place in the society and general scientific methods of scientific cognition:  analysis, synthesis, extrapolation and other methods used in social sciences. For the first time in the Russian legal science the author analyzes the possibility and substantiates the need for compromises in the sphere of fighting corruption, paying attention to the overly radical approach to fighting corruption in the modern Russian federal anti-corruption legislation and related legislation on the state service.

Abstract: The object of studies concerns the organizational issues of implementation of departmental control over the implementation of the anti-corruption policy in the regions of the Russian Federation. The goal of the studies is to evaluate the current mechanisms for the departmental control over the implementation of the anti-corruption policy in the regions of the Russian Federation. The goals of study involve description of the main models of departmental control over the implementation of the anti-corruption policy in the regions of the Russian Federation, evaluation of efficiency of departmental control over the implementation of the state policy in the sphere of fighting corruption, propositions for the improvement of the system of departmental control over the implementation of state policy against corruption in the Russian regions. The methodology of studies involves dialectic method for the scientific cognition of the social events and processes, as well as the general scientific methods, which are based upon it (analysis, synthesis, comparison), as well as some other methods employed in the humanities. Scientific novelty of the research is due to the fact that the author for the first time evaluates the phenomenon of departmental counteraction to corruption in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation.  The author describes the main types of such control (internal and external anti-corruption audit, anti-corruption audit of the personnel). The author proposes the measures for the improvement of the departmental control over the implementation of the state policy against corruption in the Russian regions.

Abstract: Subject of the conducted research are regulations of subjects of the Russian Federation regulating preparation, the organization and development of regional anti-corruption programs (programs of counteraction of corruption).As research objective acts - the description and the analysis of the contents of regional anti-corruption programs and development to the offer on their improvement.Research problems:the analysis of the maximum quantity regional the antikolrruptsionnykh of programs and other regulations connected with their development and acceptance;identification in regional anti-corruption the program of typical shortcomings;development of suggestions for improvement of regional anti-corruption programs.Chronological framework of research covers the period from 2006 to 2013. Methodological basis of the executed research is universal dialectic approach to research of the social phenomena and processes and the general scientific methods based on it - the analysis, the comparison which is widely applied in modern Russian jurisprudence. Scientific novelty of the research conducted by us is that for the first time in the Russian jurisprudence the analysis of legal regulation of anti-corruption planning and programming of 83 subjects of the Russian Federation is carried out, the typical mistakes meeting in these legal documents are revealed and the measures directed on further improvement of these regulations are offered.

Abstract: The subject of the research is evaluation of legal regulation of the activities of a special federal anti-corruption body - the Expert Council under the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate. The main tasks of the research are:
a) evaluation of legal regulation of the activities of a special federal anti-corruption body - the Expert Council under the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate;
b) elaboration of recommendations on the enhancement of legal regulation of the activities of a special federal anti-corruption body - the Expert Council under the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate. The methodology of the research is based on the universal dialectical method of social reality cognition, and some general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, etc.). The scientific originality consists of the fact that the author is the first who considers legal regulation of the activities of a special federal anti-corruption body - the Expert Council under the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate, and offers the ways of its development. Particularly, the author suggests amending the Statute of the Expert Council under the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate with the norms about the grounds for the Council reorganization and abolition, and exclusion of its members, about the status of external experts, and about the legal status of the Council’s decisions. 

Abstract: The object of the scientific research is legal linguistic uncertainty as a corruption-generating factor, while also being an an object for the anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and drafts of normative legal acts according to the current Russian anti-corruption legislation. The subject field of studies includes certain types of legal linguistic uncertainty, such as semantic linguistic uncertainty, hidden linguistic uncertainty, other types of uncertainty, which need to be terminated within the other types of expertise, such as linguistic and legal expertise.  The main methodological approach within the studies is dialectic materialism and the general and specific scientific methods of legal reality cognition. The article for the first time in the Russian legal literature regards the phenomenon of legal linguistic uncertainty as a comprehensive legal, philological and anti-corruption problem, the author establishes and describes types of its manifestations  (semantic, latent). The author defines legal fundamentals for the neutralization of this corruption-generating factor in the modern Russian lawmaking, and he also supports the proposal of Russian scholars on the formation of the novel scientific direction and expert practice in the sphere of anti-corruption legal linguistic expertise.

Abstract: The object of studies includes official quantitative statistical data characterizing the situation with the corruption crime in the Republic of Belarus for the period from 2007 to 2012; official statistical data characterizing victims of corruption crime in the Republic of Belarus for the period between 2007 and 2012.; official statistical data reflecting social and demographic characteristics of victims of corruption crimes in the Republic of Belarus for the period of 2007 and 2012; tendencies characterizing the victimological element of corruption crime in the Republic of Belarus; social consequences, characterizing the situation in the sphere of corruption crime in the Republic of Belarus. The author used the issues of victimologic characteristics of the corruption crime in the Republic of Belarus for the period of 2007 to 2012 based upon  the data provided by the official statistics of the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. As a result of the study it was found out that in the Republic of Belarus they organized reporting, which characterizes quantity characteristics of registered crimes and data on the persons who have committed these crime, and the amount of damage from their acts, and also data on their victims is being reported, which allows to provide statistical analysis of corruption crime, its negative social consequences and the victimologic characteristics of the victims.  The statistical analysis showed that the most of victims of corruption crimes concerns corruption theft, abuse of public position, a large number of natural persons suffer from abuse of competence and bribery, while there is a small number of victims of failure of the officials to take necessary actions. Mostly the victims of the corruption crimes are citizens of Belarus, and a number of foreigners among the victims is insignificant.  The typical "portrait" of a victim of corruption crime in Belarus is as follows: it is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, male, age 18 to 49, worker or a person with no permanent source of income.

Abstract: Review: For the first time in Russian law the author provides analysis of the issues of prosecutor supervision over formation and work of the  Commission on Compliance to the Requirements to Staff Behavior of State Civil (Municipal) Staff and Conflict of Interests Regulation. The author of the article provides a list of issues requiring prosecutor supervision and actions. It is noted in the article which issues should be paid attention in the course of prosecutor examination of the Commission activities.  The author also provides the grounds for the hearing at the Commission, which should be directly referred to in the Provisions on the Commission. The hearing of the Commission should be regarded as lawful, if it took place in accordance with the requirements to quorum for the hearing and (or) for voting according to the Provisions on the Commission. The Provisions on the Commission and other normative legal acts provide for procedural periods for dealing with the materials brought to the Commission, and usually this is the period of 7 days,  because it takes 7 days to prepare for the Commission hearing.

Abstract: The article concerns technical issues of the status of modern Russian political forensic science as an independent branch of forensic studies. The author provides a brief review of the studies in this sphere of humanitarian knowledge in Russia and abroad. He also supports his position on the object field of the Russian political forensic science, topical issues and possible solutions for the nearest perspective. The author also formulates the key goals, on which the modern Russian political forensic scholars should concentrate in the future.

Abstract: The article concerns technical issues of the status of modern Russian political forensic science as an independent branch of forensic studies. The author provides a brief review of the studies in this sphere of humanitarian knowledge in Russia and abroad. He also supports his position on the object field of the Russian political forensic science, topical issues and possible solutions for the nearest perspective. The author also formulates the key goals, on which the modern Russian political forensic scholars should concentrate in the future.

Abstract: The author employs comparative legal method in order to study the topical issues of legal regulation, organization and implementation (performance) of anti-corruption monitoring in municipal units of the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation. As a result of the study it was established that in most of the municipal units there are no fundamentals for the legal regulation of anti-corruption monitoring at a municipal level, providing for clear descriptions of objects, subjects, methods, procedures and other issues regarding its performance.  Moreover, the existing municipal normative legal acts on organization and implementation of municipal anti-corruption monitoring have no unified title and structure of a final document, formed as a result of the anti-corruption monitoring in a municipal unit by the competent municipal bodies.  As a result the author draws a conclusion that it is necessary to form a prototype (model) municipal normative legal act regulating the issues of organization and performance of anti-corruption monitoring in a municipal unit based on which municipal normative acts in this sphere of anti-corruption activities could be adopted.

Abstract: The article concerns administrative legal, administrative procedural and organizational legal grounds for termination of proceedings on the materials brought to the  Commissions on compliance with the requirements to service behavior and conflict of interests regulation in public service. Based upon the studies of current normative legal acts on the activities of  the Commissions on compliance with the requirements to service behavior and conflict of interests regulation in public service: issues of administrative procedural law and publications of legal scholars specializing in this field, the author offers to take measures in order to improve the legal regulation on the activities of such commission in part of termination of proceedings on materials brought to such Commissions. For the first time in the theory of Russian administrative law the author offers to recognize withdrawal of the claim or address of a state (municipal) official and changes in the circumstances as grounds for  termination of proceedings on the materials brought to the Commissions on compliance with the requirements to service behavior and conflict of interests regulation in public service: issues of administrative procedural law.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the theoretical bases for the formation of the basic universal political criminological and political anthropological definition “personality of a political criminal”, which may be used for the further studies in the sphere of criminal political anthropology as an interdisciplinary scientific direction in modern political anthropology, Russian political criminology, and criminal anthropology.  The author  provides correlation of a political and criminological term “political criminal” with other related definitions including scientific, literary and popular categories, such as “political prisoner’, “political emigrant”, “political convict”, “political exiled”, “enemy of the nation”, “enemy of the people”, “enemy of the state”, “opponent of the Perestroika”, “enemy of the democracy”. The author also offers further developments of criminal political anthropology with the use of criminological grouping (typology and classification) of political criminals.

Abstract: The article formulates general and specific qualification requirements to the members of the Commissions on compliance with the requirements to service behavior of state (municipal) servants and conflict of interests regulation for those not holding state (municipal) service positions on professional competence disputes. Among such criteria the author singles out professional education of the relevant level, relevant position in educational or scientific research institution, working experience in state (municipal) service, impeccable reputation. The author also offers classification of the members of the Commissions on compliance with the requirements to service behavior of state (municipal) servants and conflict of interests regulation for those not holding state (municipal) service positions depending on legislative prescriptions on municipal (state) service - into those who are obligated to be included into such commissions, and those who may be included into such commission upon discretion of the head of the state or municipal body.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the legal nature of auxiliary operative bodies (Presidium, groups and Committee) of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation as the highest federal specialized anti-corruption authorities that develop the national anti-corruption policy and provide guarantees for enforcing this policy.
The author of the present article defines contradictions of legal regulation and arrangment of activities performed by the Presidium of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation and auxiliary operative bodies (Committe for Coordination of Activities Performed by Federal Executive Authorities, other state authorities executing international agreements of the Russian Federation in the sphere of corruption management, groups interacting with civil society, business community and state authorities on the matter of mutual participation in corruption management). The author of the article makes suggestions on how to improve existing regulatory acts in this sphere.

Abstract: Based on the system analysis of the current national and international laws, regulations and theoretical opnions of Russian and foreign experts (lawyers, social and political analysts), the author of the article describes the main approaches to explaining the phenomenon of political crime in a modern society. The author offers the following classification of approaches to studying criminology and defining its contents: legal, instrumental, motivational (psychological), objective, judgemental and complex. Based on the author of the article, complex approach is the best one for our modern Russian political criminology. As a result of analyzing definitions of the complex approach in Russian science, the author shares his own definition of political crime as a criminological term and stresses out that this definition is not the only true one (i.e. not universal). It can be used only in political criminology researches of political crime as a negative social and legal phenomenon causing irreparable physical, material (property) or moral damage. 

Abstract: This article deals with complex organizational and legal issues in relation to the prosecutorial supervision of the formation and organization of specialized anti-corruption agencies - commissions on compliance with the official conduct of government (municipal) employees and the resolution of conflicts of interest in government (municipal) service encountered by government agencies and/or local government authorities. The article distinguishes and justifies two main areas of prosecutorial supervision: supervision of the legality of these commissions, and supervision of the legality and validity of their recommendations and binding decisions. As a result of this comparative legal study, the author establishes, formulates, and proposes a checklist of issues to be used in the implementation of prosecutorial control over federal and/or regional Russian legislation in relation to government and/or municipal service, as well as laws on combating corruption in public authorities and/or local government bodies.

Abstract: This article considers the main issues relating to the existence of and the dynamic changes to political crime in Russia in relation to the legal, doctrinal and societal perception of political crime and its various forms, from Kievan Rus' to the end of the twentieth century. Using historical and legal sources, available statistical data, and various academic publications of both Russian and foreign experts, the author distinguishes two types of political crime - violent political crime and non-violent political crime, both of which are extant in modern Russian society. The qualitative and quantitative indicators of these varieties of political crime are constantly changing. At different times, different qualities of both types of political crime appear and disappear, and the situation can change dramatically, driven by various groups of objective social factors. The organization of political power of government is essential in determining the status of political crime in Russia and its perception in society. The widespread use of electoral technologies in the formation of state and local government is increasing and will lead to the growth of a special kind of political crime - electoral crime.

Abstract: The author of the article describes the grounds for formation of a new inter-disciplinary criminological trend - criminological political victimology that studies victims of political crime and abuse of political power. The author describes its contents and inner structure and offers particular criminological definitions of its subject as well as the most popular trends of researches for the nearest future. 

Abstract: The article is devoted to the basic issues about the status of modern Russian political criminology as an independent branch of criminology. The author provides a brief review of the most major researches on this topic both in Russia and abroad. The author shares his own views on the subjet of Russian political criminology, describes disputable concentual problems and suggests how to solve these problems in the nearest future. In addition, the author establishes the main goals of Russian political criminology modern Russian criminologists should focus on. 

Abstract: The article is devoted to the matters of procedure for studying the appeals received by the members of the Commitee for observance of requirements for official behaior of state (municipal) officils and management of conflicts of interests which are not legally fixed in documents regulating this Commitee's activities. As a result of the study, the author makes the following conclusions: 1) the members study the documents when the materials are being prepared for consideration; 2) the secretary of the Commitee studies the documents; 3) the documents must be viewed by the secretary after they are received by the Committee and before the scheduled date of the Committee meeting; 4) after studying the documents, the secretary may execute a procedural document - the review worksheet of documents submitted to the Committee for consideration.