Abstract: The research subject is the provisions of municipal legislation of the federal, regional and local levels, regulating the activities of local government bodies, aimed at the protection of human rights and freedoms. The author studies the work of local government bodies in the sphere of the protection of human rights and freedoms, performed with the help of specific methods, procedures and means. Special conditions are created on the local level, necessary for the implementation of constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens. It helps the population of the municipal entity solve local problems independently. The article analyzes the authorities of local government bodies in the implementation and protection of rights and freedoms of citizens, and their rights and responsibilities in this sphere. The research methodology includes general scientific and specific methods, including analysis, the deductive, logical and formal-legal methods. The scientific novelty consists in the consideration of local government bodies as the subjects, protecting rights and freedoms of citizens. The author concludes about the socially important character of activities of local government bodies, aimed at the protection of citizens’ rights and freedoms. The author substantiates the necessity to include local government bodies in the system of agencies, protecting human rights and freedoms, enshrined in the article 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. 

Abstract: Article is devoted to consideration of the legal nature of examination. The choice of research of this form is caused by the special importance of the specified action in activity of executive authorities, in particular customs authorities as during examination the most part of customs and administrative offenses is opened. The conclusion that examination has two aspects locates: administrative and customs. On the one hand it is applied as a form of customs control, with another - as a measure of administrative coercion. The author presented own classification of customs inspection, its purposes and a task are defined. In article the special attention is paid to personal customs inspection as this form of control is applied only in exceptional cases that is caused by ensuring the rights and freedoms of the person and the citizen. The author offered own scientific definitions of studied concepts that is the undoubted advantage of this work. The conclusion is as a result drawn on a duality of the legal nature of examination.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the questions of integration in the territory of the former Soviet Union. The author analyzes advantages of  the Customs Union as a form of integration. Then the author provides which state interests are implemented in connection with the inclusion of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus into the Customs Union. The article includes analysis of positive and negative features of the integration among the said countries. The author then attempts to predict the further development of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.