Abstract: In the context of the modern transformation of Russian statehood, attention to the problems of improving law enforcement has naturally increased. Of particular importance are the issues of the application of modern scientific achievements. It is no coincidence that over the past decade, the study of the process of formation and development of criminal investigation has noticeably intensified. The object of the study is the activity of the East Siberian Criminal police aimed at combating criminal crime, the subject is the implementation of this activity through the introduction of advanced scientific achievements. The purpose of the study is to determine the content, trends, patterns and contradictions of the process of formation and development of criminal investigation. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the features of the introduction of advanced methods of investigation into the activities of the police of Eastern Siberia. The practice of combating criminal crime in pre-Soviet times on the territory of Eastern Siberia demonstrated the urgent need to apply the latest achievements of science and technology. Due to the lack of effective means and methods of identifying criminals, the criminal investigation system of Eastern Siberia did not fulfill its main tasks. Already in the second half of the XIX century, the steady decline in the personal and property security of the Siberian population required the local administration to take the most drastic measures. One of the most promising areas of combating criminal crime was the use of advanced methods of investigation. However, due to financial difficulties, the use of promising methods in operational activities for many years remained only the lot of single enthusiasts. The remoteness from the metropolis, the personnel crisis and insufficient funding had a decisive impact on the very possibility of using advanced scientific and technical achievements in detective work.

Keywords: registration, signs, Eastern Siberia, anthropometry, judicial photography, crime, police, detective, link, financing

Abstract: The research object is the history of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs. The research subject is the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its battle group - the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The article studies the experience of the Internal Affairs bodies’ struggle against the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which became a symbol of the national-separatist movement in postwar regions of Western Ukraine.  The purpose of the research was to analyze the practice of the Internal Affairs bodies’ struggle against the nationalist armed groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1944 - 1955. The research task was to consider various measures aimed at the extermination of nationalist armed groups in postwar Western Ukraine.  The research methodology is based on analysis and synthesis, and the historical-legal analysis of events. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the need for a comprehensive study of the experience of struggle against armed national-separatist groups in the context of complicated Russia-Ukraine relations after the 2014 armed coup in Kyiv which resulted in radicals coming to power, who use the ideas of the OUN-UIA and the postwar experience of struggle against official authorities. The topicality of the research consists in the fact that the experience of military and ideological struggle against the Internal Affairs bodies of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic has been actively used by the modern Security Service of Ukraine. Territorial claims to Russia’s south-western areas are expanding, which are believed to belong to the Ukrainian Republic by Ukrainian radicals. The author’s contribution to the research of the topic is the definition of the strategy and tactics of internal affairs and security bodies of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic aimed at the elimination of nationalist armed groups. The author defines the reasons which impeded the work of internal affairs bodies during the suppression of armed separatism.   

Keywords: fighting, armed confrontation, Western Ukraine, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian Nationalism, liquidation, separatism, MVD, post-war years

Abstract: In the context of modern transformation of Russian statehood, attention to the problems of law enforcement activities improvement has strengthened. The problems of specialization of police structures have become of a key importance. It’s no coincidence that during the recent decade, the process of formation and development of criminal investigation has been actively studied. The topicality of the problem determines the object, subject and purpose of the research. The research object is the process of formation and development of criminal investigation service in Irkutsk province, the research subject is the implementation of this process in the work of Irkutsk police. The purpose of the research is to define the sense, tendencies, patterns and contradictions of this process. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the analysis of the process of formation of criminal investigation service in Irkutsk province. The specificity of organization of criminals detection in Irkutsk province was determined by the specificity of local law enforcement activity. To the extent possible, local administration was trying to carry out criminal investigation in the region using the standard organization of the police work. But such an organization was in contradiction with the requirements imposed on it. Police were not able to organize proper criminal investigation due to the variety of tasks they faced. It turned out to be impossible to organize criminal investigation by independent units in Irkutsk province. Experience proved that the system of financial support for criminal investigation of that time didn’t allow creating special investigative units. This factor determined the appearance of “private detectives” under the jurisdiction of Irkutsk police. However, the insufficient financial support resulted in the poor quality of investigative activity which usually erupted into illegal activities. Remarkably, the necessity to create organizational structures of criminal investigation was much more urgent than in other regions of the country, which is proved by persistent actions of the province administration.   

Keywords: Administration, Detective, Detective squad, Irkutsk province, The police, Criminal Investigation Department, Funding, Detective credit, Secret expenses, Official

Abstract: Based on the historical-legal approach, the author studies the national-separatist organization The Forest Brothers that was acting in Lithuania in 1944 - 1953 and was resisting the authorities by means of terrorist acts. The research subject is the set of measures aimed at suppressing nationalist armed groups. Special attention to this research is caused by the necessity to analyze the activities of the Forest Brothers, as in Lithuania since the Post-Soviet period, the actions of nationalists have been heroified, many of whom, during the occupation, served in divisions under the German administration. The purpose of the research is the historical and legal assessment of the activities of separatists in postwar Lithuania. Special attention is given to the operative activities of NKVD aimed at suppressing regional extremism and introducing legal order in postwar Lithuania. Special contribution of the author is the consideration of the problem of national-separatism in Lithuania. It’s been established that to suppress and oppose the Forest Brothers, the bodies of NKVD and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic developed a set of operative, tactical and ideological measures which helped as early as by the late 1945 to change the situation in the Republic and achieve the permanent annual decrease of destructive actions of nationalists, and since the late 1940s - the early 1950s to fully control the criminogenic situation in the Republic. It’s been established that the set of measures against Lithuanian separatists consisted of five main directions which included the creation of People's Defense Platoons known as “Destroyers”, constant mopping up of forests for extinguishing the resistance zones, intelligence work, large scale amnesty of fighters, deportation of persons who shared the ideas and supported nationalism and separatism. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the critical scientific insight into Lithuanian separatism, its prerequisites and methods of struggling against it by the internal affairs bodies of Lithuania in 1944 - 1953.   

Keywords: measures, Lithuanian Soviet Republic, Forest Brothers, armed struggle, extremism, nationalism, separatism, suppression, post-war period, NKVD-MVD

Abstract: The article presents a review of the research-and-practice conference 'State and Law: Evolution, Modern State, Prospects for Development (Devoted to the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Police) that was held in St. Petersburg, University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on 27 - 28 of April, 2017. The conference involved scientists, practical lawyers and young researchers interested in evolution, modern state and development prospects of Russia's police system. Participants of the conference focused on the development of the police law theory and determination of its place in the history of studies of law and state; retrospective analysis of organization and activity of the Russian Empire's police, Temporary Government's militsia, Soviet militsia and Russian Federation police. The author of the present article provides a review of reports and speeches read at the conference that were devoted to the following issues: contents of the police law theory and its role in the organization of the Russian police activity; formation and development of the Russian Empire's police system; break-down of the Russian Empire's police system and opportunities of using that experience today. In the process of preparing summaries of conference reports, the author of the article has used the hermeneutical approach to demonstrate what conference participants thought of pattern and particularities of the Russian Empire's police development based on their analysis of broad materials (including archives) by using modern methods of historical-legal science. The author of the article has used general research methods such as analysis and synthesis and elements of the formal legal approach and the method interpreting legal texts. In this research Nizhnik summarizes work of modern Russian researchers who used new sources and references to study the history of the Russian police and focused on understudied facts and events of the police formation and development, and carried out a critical analysis of the main provisions in the Russian histriography regarding police activity in the Russian Empire. At the year of the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917 and prior to the 300th anniversary of Russia's police, summary of the experience of the Empire police and analysis of perspectives to use their experience as it was presented at the conference will enlarge research and historical knowledge and may improve police activity of the Russian Federation. 

Keywords: police legal theory, police studies, police of the Russian Empire, militsia of the Temporary Government, Ministry of Internal Affairs, 300th anniversary of the Russian police, police system, law-enforcement system, history of the Russian police, international conference

Abstract: The research subject is the public law concept reflected in the works of Russian jurist-researchers of the 19th century – Vasilii Nikolaevich Leshkkov (1810 – 1881) and Mikhail Mikhailovich Shpilevsky (1837 – 1883). The fundamental provision of the concept is the thesis that society is the key independent subject of public administration; private individuals as members of social associations obtain wider opportunities to realize their interests. The research subject is the ideas of V.N. Leshkov and M.M. Shpilevsky about objects, subjects and the subject-matter of public law; the jurist-researchers’ estimation of the public law concept of the 19th century. The research methodology is based on general scientific (historical, system, functional) and specific (formal-legal, historical-legal and comparative-legal) research methods. The author uses the methods of interpretation of legal ideas and statutory acts. The author characterizes the public law concept reflected in the theoretical heritage of V.N. Leshkov and M.M. Shpilevsky, which hasn’t been studied thoroughly enough so far. Within the public law concept society if considered as the key subject of administration; families, communities, classes and various interstate associations and everything created by the public – as the objects of public law. The author estimates Leshkov’s conclusions that public law reflects the process of emergence and development of social regulators; allows defining the specificity of public regulation of social relations within particular historical epoch, helps study the evolution of the legal system of any state. Therefore, when making important managerial decisions, it is necessary to take into account the experience of development of the public law sphere in a certain state. The author concludes that in the context of formation of civil society in the Russia Federation, the public law concept is to be analyzed, and its importance for the transformation of state and legal reality in contemporary Russia is to be understood. 

Keywords: Leshkov, Shpilevsky , police studies , municipal law , adminstrative law, police law, self-administration, public administration, society , public law

Abstract: the article gives an account of peculiarities of establishment, development and functioning of the law enforcement bodies which secured policing on transport while the Russian Empire.

Keywords: Ministry of Internal Affairs, crime combat and control on transport, railway stations guard, gendarme, Ministry of Railway Communication, policing on transport, police, transport security, police officer