Abstract: The matter under research is the applicable laws of the Russian Federation as well as opinions of researchers on the correspondence of terms 'property' and 'belongings'. In addition, the authors of the article have also analyzed competences of internal affairs officials in property protection and their efficiency under the conditions of reformation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. The authors also discussed problems and gaps of the current national legislation. The basis of the research includes general research methods based on the principles of objectivity, systematicity, induction, deduction, and others. As the result of the research, the authors outline problems that arise in the process of arranging activities of internal affairs agencies aimed at execution of their powers in the sphere of property protection. The authors also offer relevant solutions and emphasize the need to create police subdivisions that would be responsible for the aforesaid range of issues. In particular, they prove the need to create a subdivision of the Main Directorate for Countering Property Crime as part of the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and to make associated amendments in the Decree of the President of Russia No. 218 of March 1, 2011 'Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation'. The authors also stress out the need to include a list of property crimes into The Instruction on Single Record of Crimes. The conclusions and suggestions made by the author may be used to improve the activity of internal affairs in a developing society and government. 

Abstract: The subject of the research is the legal acts of different legal power that regulate the grounds and extent of competences assigned to migration subdivisions as part of internal affairs authorities of th eRussian Federation. The authors of the article also share their opinion regarding the entire internal affairs system of the Russian Federation. The authors view the subject matter from the point of view of the legal regulation of migration subdivisions' competences taking into account the current internal affairs system of the Russian Federation, analyze opportunities and efficiency of their implementation at the stage of reformation of Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs structure. The research is based on the analysis of the history of migration authorities developent, applicable legal acts and regulations, their comparison, discovery and description of certain problems that may arise in the process of legal regulation of competences of the aforesaid subdivisions created and functioning at different territorial levels of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation. The main results of the research include description of special competences of migration subdivisions at different levels of state management, particlarities of the legal regulation of their competences and activity arrangement,  problems the Ministry of Internal Affairs faces and their solutions. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that so far there have been no integral researches of the legal regulation of powers and migration subdivisions' activity arrangement under the conditions of reformation of Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs structure. Conclusions made by the authors may be applied for improving the legal basis that regulates the legal position and migration subdivisions' activity arrangement at internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation. 

Abstract: The research subject is the system of various statutory instruments regulating the possibility and legality of the internal affairs bodies’ decisions on the undesirability of residence of foreign nationals in the Russian Federation. The author considers the problem from the position of internal affairs bodies participation in the process of migration regulation and state security provision via control and supervision mechanisms in the considered sphere. The research is based on the analysis of the current Russian legislation, detection of its gaps, prognostication of the related problems and defining the directions of improvement of particular legal provisions in the considered context. The author, on the one hand, detects and systematizes the key statutory instruments in this sphere in respect of internal affairs bodies, and on the other hand, particularizes the existing legislative gaps. This issue hasn’t been studied in the context of internal affairs bodies’ activities so far.