Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of civil society institutions on fiscal policy in the Russian Federation. The paper examines the structure of civil society in Russia, examines the place and role of its various institutions (primarily the institute of public control) in the system of legal guarantees for the implementation and protection of both the system of constitutional principles and the system of human and civil rights and freedoms, the rights and legitimate interests of public associations, as well as other non–governmental non-profit organizations. The article analyzes the essence and content of the fiscal policy of the state, its place and role in the state policy of the Russian Federation. The paper examines the main factors influencing the formation and development of the fiscal policy of the Russian state. This article uses a number of scientific research methods: formal-logical; historical-legal; comparative-legal; statistical; sociological; method of analyzing specific legal situations. The authors analyzed various approaches to defining the concepts of civil society and fiscal policy of the state, developed and justified the author's definitions of these concepts. The paper substantiates the role of civil society in the system of factors determining the directions of development of the fiscal policy of the Russian Federation. The article analyzes the main directions of the impact of various civil society institutions on the formation and development of the fiscal policy of the Russian Federation. The paper formalizes and explores the main problems that hinder the optimization of the processes of influence of civil society institutions on the processes of formation and development of the fiscal policy of the Russian state. The authors have developed and substantiated a system of measures to resolve these problems aimed both at the development of Russian civil society as a whole and at optimizing fiscal policy in the Russian Federation.

Abstract: This article is devoted to the study of conceptualization of the concepts of "migration" and "migration process" in legal science. The paper substantiates the author's definitions of these concepts. Subject of research: social relations associated with the processes of migration (external and internal). The object of the research is the norms of international and national Russian law regulating legal relations in the field of migration processes. The purpose of the study is the following: from the standpoint of legal methods of studying migration relations to analyze the degree of conceptualization of the concepts of “migration” and “migration process” in domestic and foreign legal science.The authors of the article use a number of research methods such as analysis; synthesis; formal-logical; comparative-legal; classification; interpolation; extrapolation; historical. Objectives of the study are: 1) to analyze the theoretical foundations of the concept of migration (in Russian and foreign scientific literature); 2) to explore the legal basis of the concept of migration (international and Russian legislation in the field of regulation of migration processes); 3) develop and justify the author's definition of "migration"; 4) develop and justify the author's definition of the notion "migration".