The subject of the study of the article is the legal foundations of the institution of legal responsibility and the features of its interaction with legal consciousness and legal culture. The goal is to substantiate the need for effective legal regulation of legal liability, taking into account the existing forms of interaction with legal consciousness. The work carried out a comprehensive general theoretical analysis of the institution of legal responsibility and its role in the process of formation and development of the legal consciousness of citizens. The team of authors in the process of studying the place and role of legal liability in the legal system came to the conclusion that there is a relationship between the category under consideration and legal consciousness in the process of implementing legal acts that provide for measures of legal liability. The problem of a low level of legal culture can manifest itself not only in legislative and law enforcement activities. Shortcomings in the implementation of the official interpretation of legal norms and execution of the relevant act in some cases can also cause unlawful consequences, among which are: unlawful prosecution, exemption from liability in violation of established procedures, etc. In the course of the study, a whole set of methods of scientific knowledge was used, among which one can single out: the formal-legal method, the method of comparative legal analysis, systemic, dialectical and others. As a result of the research, it was found that there is a direct connection between the signs of positive responsibility and legal consciousness. In the absence of a high level of legal awareness, which would include both intellectual (views, ideas) and psychological (emotions, feelings) aspects, the implementation of the positive aspect of legal responsibility becomes impossible. It has been proven that positive responsibility, together with legal consciousness, contains volitional and intellectual aspects. The team of authors put forward an opinion according to which the positive responsibility of the individual can be represented as a mental attitude in the form of a sense of duty and the need to fulfill the existing duties to the required extent. Such a sense of duty will be available to the subject only in the absence of a struggle of motives, which is excluded in the developed general legal culture of the individual and society as a whole. Assimilation of the requirements of the law is a prerequisite for the presence of responsible behavior and legal awareness. Based on the results of the study of legal responsibility and legal culture, a conclusion is made about the close interaction of these categories and the need for the legislator to take into account such a connection when exercising his law-making powers. A brief description of positive legal liability with the establishment of its characteristic features is also given. Thanks to the study of the relationship between legal responsibility and legal consciousness, it was revealed that the level of culture will grow if the ideas of social justice, democracy and the rule of law are reflected in law.

The article deals with a new phenomenon for the legal science – the institute of legal regulation of the genesis of digital identity.

The subject of the research is the relations that emerge in the process of such regulation. The aim of the research is to analyze the legal regulation of the institute of digital identity at the international, regional and national levels, including in the Russian Federation.

The methodological basis of the research is the logical and systematic methods of scientific knowledge, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis, formal-dogmatic and comparative-legal methods.

International, foreign and domestic experience in the genesis of digital identity is studied. The features of legal regulation of each of the elements of digital identity – digital profile, digital image, digital footprint – are analyzed. At the same time, the legal regulation of the relevant relations is considered in their dynamics. As a result of the study, conclusions were made about the peculiarities of international legal regulation of relations related to the genesis of a legal identity, the legal regulation of these relations in the European Union and China. It is noted that international legal regulation of relations related to the genesis of legal personality is carried out, as a rule, only in connection with the need to protect human rights and freedoms in the digital age, including in virtual space; in the European Union the legal regulation is mainly subject to the digital profile of the person, based on his personal data; at the level of individual states the most holistic and systemic regulation of relations related to digital identity is carried out in the People's Republic of China on the Special attention is given to the problems of legal regulation of the genesis of digital identity in the Russian Federation. It is noted that the problems of legal regulation of the genesis of digital identity are becoming particularly relevant at the present time. Its theoretical comprehension is a prerequisite for improving current legislation and law enforcement practice in the Russian Federation.

It is pointed out that there are significant gaps in the legal regulation of relations related to the digital footprint in Russia, the most regulated relations in the area of digital profile and digital image; further lack of legal regulation of the collection and processing of information that constitutes the content of the digital identity footprint in Russia will lead to a massive violation of individual rights and freedoms.

The study also found that the international legal regulation of relations related to the genesis of the legal personality is usually carried out only in connection with the need to protect human rights and freedoms in the digital age, including in virtual space, and in the European Union the legal regulation is mainly subject to the digital profile of the person, which is based on his personal data.

The article is devoted to the consideration of modern methods used in the process of resolving political conflicts. The subject of the study is conflict as a political and legal phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to consider legal methods of resolving political conflicts as the most effective and civilized ways to achieve peace.

The following scientific methods were used in the work: system, structural and network analysis, which allowed us to consider the totality of the main modern methods of resolving political conflicts, their potential and limitations. Psychological, philosophical, political and legal approaches were also applied in determining the category of "conflict" and its main characteristics.

The study reveals the features of modern political conflicts, taking into account which the need to consciously approach the search and practical application of certain methods of their resolution is formed. It is emphasized that a special responsibility lies on the nuclear Powers, as well as on the leading world states and international organizations that create and maintain stability and unity of the global space of the modern world.

As the results of this study, the most optimal, effective and rational methods of resolving political conflicts were noted as the most destructive and destructive types of confrontations. Their potential and limitations are highlighted. These methods are in demand in the plane of real conflict-prone realities and do not lose relevance in the modern world. Thus, such methods of resolving political conflicts as the game method, coercive diplomacy, civilizational approach, socio-cultural integration, structural functionalism and the network method were identified and analyzed. Also, legal methods were considered separately, which, according to the results of the study, were recognized as the most fair and consistent for a number of reasons. Among them, negotiations, mediation, arbitration (arbitration), the method of institutionalization of political conflict, political mediation and judicial proceedings are considered. The appeal to legal methods of resolving political conflicts becomes particularly relevant during the wartime period, when the threat of the use of nuclear weapons increases and war crimes are committed.

According to the results of the study, it was concluded that legal methods of resolving political conflicts are the most effective and civilized among others. They are structured, clearly formulated in the form of regulatory legal acts, some of them can be implemented in the form of procedures with mandatory execution of the decision, are politically neutral, are carried out with the support of professionals and based on previous constructive experience.

The subject of this study is the legal regulation of the unified system of public authority in the Russian Federation. Its purpose is to determine the theoretical approaches and practice of legislative regulation of a unified system of public authority, which is unfolding after the adoption of amendments to the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020. The main hypothesis, which authors propose is that there is a contradiction between the norms of the acts, governing organization and activities of public authorities, and those norms in their relationship with the constitutional norms governing the relevant relations. In the course of the work, the authors used both general research methods, including methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as field-specific ones, including the formal legal method. The authors believe that the difficulties in reflecting public authority in normative regulation lie primarily in the fact that neither in Soviet legal research, nor in the current Russian legal thought, issues of public authority have been considered meaningfully and in detail. Its content and structure do not have a clear, complete doctrinal understanding. Foreign experience, however, shows that such a clear understanding at the theoretical level is absent in foreign jurisdictions either.

This paper discusses the question of how exactly the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Law of the Russian Federation “On the rehabilitation of victims of political repressions” work, and what difficulties heirs face in practice in exercising the right to information about the death of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens.

The problem of obtaining objective information about the death of these citizens by relatives of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens has a rather long and sad history. In this regard, using the historical method and the method of comparative legal analysis, the main stages in the development of these legal relations are determined, an analysis is made of the previously secret regulatory legal acts of the USSR of 1934-1988 in the field of providing relatives with information about the death of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens.

The paper concludes that for 54 years from 1934 to 1988, the heirs of the repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens were not provided with truthful information about the causes and date of death of the actually executed citizens, as well as about the places from the burial place. But at the same time, despite the abolition of all illegal legal acts and other documents on this issue, they still continue to be applied in practice without delay.

The paper analyzes the current state of legal regulation in the field of exercising the right to information about the death of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens, the practice of implementing these provisions of federal legislation by public authorities.

As a result of abuses on the part of archival authorities, the practice of courts of general jurisdiction to protect the rights of heirs in the exercise of the right to information about the death of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens has become widespread. In particular, it is noted that courts of general jurisdiction refuse to satisfy the requirements to establish an objective date and cause of death of repressed citizens as a result of execution (instead of fictitious dates and natural causes indicated in death certificates issued in 1955-1962), based on the fact that there is no reliable and proper evidence in the case files, testifying to the execution of the sentence to shoot the repressed citizen.

Given the negative experience of the heirs in the exercise of the right to information about the death of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens, this paper attempts to substantiate the prospects for filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on this issue. In particular, the paper concludes that part five of Article 11 of the Law of the Russian Federation “On the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repressions”, which provides for the possibility of an arbitrary refusal by the archival authorities to inform the applicants of the time, causes of death and place of burial of the rehabilitated simply because of the lack of relevant information, without giving the reasons for the loss of documentation or evidence of such loss in conjunction with the provisions of parts 1 and 3 of Article 56 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation does not comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

In conclusion, attention is drawn to the fact that the cases of establishing the facts of the death of repressed and subsequently rehabilitated citizens on a certain date and under certain circumstances as a result of execution are not simple and not isolated. Such cases actually concern an indefinite circle of persons and are of particular public interest.

The subject. The article discusses the legal regulation of investment tax incentives in China. The choice of the object of research is determined by the prospects of comparative legal studies of the experience of states bordering the territories of the Russian Far East, where numerous zones with special economic status have been created, within which preferential business regimes are applied.

Purpose of the study. Despite the diversity of special economic zones in the Russian Federation and the constant creation of new zones, preferential regimes do not always prove their effectiveness. Based on the above, it seems very relevant to analyze the best international and national practices in order to develop criteria for the effectiveness and efficiency of preferential tax regimes for zones with special economic status.

Thus, the specifics of the comparative legal method of research always consists in the fact that it is not necessary to borrow foreign experience, but it is also possible to find the best practices within domestic legislation. Therefore, it is necessary to look for ways to ensure that Russian tax legislation laying the foundation for supporting innovation in our country.

Methodology. The research was carried out with the application of the formally legal interpretation of legal acts as well as the comparative analysis of international and Chinese legal literature. Structural and systemic methods are also the basis of the research.

The main results. As China seeks to transform from a mass producer of inexpensive goods to a high-end producer, the national government is making significant efforts to encourage targeted investment in research and development (R&D) and technological innovations. This has led to the fact that China has awarded the technology sector the title of strategic, and its state support has increased significantly.

Сonclusions. On the base of the analysis of the main tax incentives in China, the author comes to the conclusion that a significant part of them is aimed at enterprises engaged in research and development, as well as technological innovations. Also, a significant part of tax benefits is provided to enterprises based on the choice of the geographical area of the company's establishment. The conclusion is made about the possibility of applying the Chinese experience in Russia in reforming preferential tax regimes.

The support for companies in the technology sector in Russia is especially important due to the policy of recent years aimed at establishment of tax benefits for IT companies. Both Russia and China strive to promote the accelerated development of innovative industries, the implementation of priority investment projects, as well as the development of small business.

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The subject of this study is the legal norms contained in legislation, other legal acts, as well as materials of law enforcement practice that determine the specifics of tax procedural evidence. This article also analyzes the experience of legal regulation of the mechanism of tax procedural evidence, examines the gaps in tax legislation directly related to the topic under consideration.

The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze the features of evidence in the tax process, to study the application of evidence theory in the activities of tax authorities, to develop new ways, means and simplified procedures for effective proof, as well as to prepare appropriate regulatory changes. The objectives of the study are to identify and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the current state of the regulatory regulation of the means and procedures of tax procedural proof; to study the distribution of the duty of proof from the position of the presumptions proclaimed in tax legislation, the established grounds for exemption from proof, as well as the blocks of circumstances formed by law enforcement practice that are subject to proof, respectively, by the tax authority and a participant in the tax process controlled by it; formulation of the author 's position on the general rule of burden of proof distribution and proposals for adaptation in the Tax Code of the Russian Federation constructions of grounds for exemption from proof according to the presented concept; allocation of stages of evidentiary activity carried out within the framework of the tax process.

Methodology. Within the framework of this article, general scientific methods were applied in the framework of comparative, logical and statistical research and analysis of law enforcement and judicial practice in the field of tax process.

The main results. Within the framework of the study, a number of issues related to the chosen topic were considered. First of all, it is necessary to understand that by proving in the tax process, one should consider the procedural activities of authorized participants in the tax process for collecting, researching and evaluating evidence, ensuring the adoption of legitimate and justified procedural decisions on issues that are subject to the regulation of tax legislation. The general subject of proof in the tax process is the circumstances relevant to the decision of the tax authority in the cases provided for by the legislation on taxes and fees, determined by the tax authority based on the substance of the relationship and the positions of its participants in accordance with the applicable rules of substantive law in cases where such circumstances are not defined by the legislation on taxes and fees. For the general the rule for distributing the burden of tax procedural proof is to adopt the following judgment: "Each participant in the relationship regulated by the legislation on taxes and fees, in order to comprehensively and most fully establish the facts relevant to the decision of the tax authority in the cases provided for by the legislation on taxes and fees, must prove the circumstances to which he refers as the basis of his procedural position (claims, objections)."

Conclusions. The interests of the state in replenishing the budget should not lead to violations of the rights of an unlimited number of taxpayers. To do this, it is necessary to apply the norms on the presumption of innocence and increased standards for proving an offense committed by a taxpayer in tax disputes. The imposition by the tax authorities of their approach to regulating tax legal relations is going beyond the powers of the tax authorities. The application in practice of the presumption of taxpayers' guilt in committing a tax offense, which is not provided for by law, violates not only the private interests of taxpayers, but also represents an encroachment on public interests, on public order, since obvious injustice is being done.

The subject. The analysis of trends in the development of the institution of tax liability, which arise as a result of digitalization of the economy.

The purpose of the article is to identify trends in the development of the science of tax law and tax legislation in relation to the theoretical category “tax obligation” and the legal regulation of individual duties of taxpayers.

The research methodology includes an analysis of regulatory acts of tax legislation governing the issues of generally binding tax obligations, as well as the obligation to pay tax and submit tax returns.

The main results and scope of their application. The active use of information and communication technologies in tax relations necessitates a theoretical assessment of the possible transformation of the central category of tax law - tax liability.

This will eliminate the unnecessarily complicated process of notifying the tax authorities about such transactions, which is currently being carried out simultaneously by the operators of electronic platforms and the taxpayers themselves. This will make it possible to develop an opinion on the development of legal regulation of various duties of taxpayers, which are fulfilled in the context of digitalization.

Conclusions. The author proves the static nature of the content of the concept of tax liability, which is a system of its features. The “classic” sign of general obligation inherent in the tax obligation has been questioned as a result of the ambiguous legal regulation of the tax on professional income. According to the author, in this regard, it is necessary to clarify the legal status of the self-employed in terms of their recognition or non-recognition as entrepreneurs. It is also necessary to improve the legal regulation of the use of a single tax payment and the issue of the gradual abandonment of tax reporting. Such norms should appear if the tax authorities have the technical ability to move to a new stage of digitalization.

The subject of the study is the legal nature of personal data, as well as a set of legal norms governing relations in the field of their processing and circulation in the Russian Federation and foreign countries. The article uses a comparative method, a system analysis method, as well as a forecasting method.

The purpose of the article is to confirm or refute the hypotheses about the further strengthening of the contradictions between the emergence and implementation of new technologies for processing personal data versus ensuring the protection of human rights, as well as the expediency and possibility of using foreign legislative experience in domestic practice to counter these threats and reduce the risks arising from this and damage.

Main results, scope. The article examines the legislative experience of legal regulation of the types, scope, and nature of personal data in the People's Republic of China, the United States of America, the Republic of Belarus, and the Russian Federation. At the same time, Chinese legislation most quickly responds to the challenges of the criminal use of biometric technologies, American legal norms are less acceptable for our practice due to the peculiarities of case law, and Belarusian law has only recently entered into force, opening the era of legal regulation in this area. The facts of the use of new technologies (such as deepfake) for the processing of biometric information for criminal purposes and the problems of law enforcement in this area, as well as legal disputes of citizens who have suffered damage from the use of these technologies, are analyzed. It is predicted that it will be impossible to fully ensure the protection of human rights in the context of the emergence of new technologies for processing personal data. The importance of the desire to predict threats to the protection of personal information at the stage of emergence of new technologies for processing personal data in order to neutralize them in a timely manner is indicated.

Conclusion. An analysis of the legislation of foreign countries will make it possible to give preference to the Chinese experience, which promptly counteracts the risks of using new technologies for criminal purposes. An analysis of domestic and global law enforcement practice will make it possible to predict the spread of new ways of committing crimes, the misuse of personal data, and vulnerabilities in their storage and protection. At the same time, excessive restrictions on access to data, their processing and their circulation can make it difficult for law enforcement agencies to solve the tasks of ensuring state security and the protection of public order. It requires constant monitoring of threats and risks and timely technical and legal response to their manifestation. The purpose of the study has been achieved, ways to improve legislation in order to protect human rights in the context of the introduction of digital innovations in all spheres of human activity are proposed. Security, combating crime.

The article is devoted to studying the issue of the formation of the international legal regulation of the activities of so-called offshore zones – special jurisdictions that specialize in providing financial services to non-residents in conditions of low or zero taxation, stability and confidentiality. Since the late 1990s, the most successful anti-offshore policy has been conducted (in close cooperation with the G20 states) by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which has begun to actively use both organizational and international legal methods in its activities. The most successful examples include the OECD adopting the International Standards for the Exchange of Tax Information (Tax Information Exchange Agreements) in 2009, the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Program in 2013 (which has become its most significant and successful initiative), the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement in 2014, as well as the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in 2016, and others.

However, in Europe the OECD was forced to face a situation where not only member states or specific territories that are in one form or another directly dependent on said states served as offshore zones, but also small (micro) sovereign states that were not its members. The microstates of Europe ended up resisting the OECD's anti-offshore activities for quite a while, since the high profitability of the offshore business made these states accustomed to getting “easy” money, and their population – to the high standard of living, which was largely provided for by these funds. The conducted research allowed the author to draw the conclusion that multiple stages can be singled out in this confrontation, during which the microstates of Europe, somewhat successful at first, were eventually forced to cooperate with the OECD and officially accept the rules the latter, as well as the mechanisms of interstate tax control it introduced. To a large extent, this stemmed from the fact that the microstates feared the G20 countries would levy sanctions against them, as well as because some of the microstates of Europe, in light of the instability of the world financial and economic system, were looking for ways to access the European market by obtaining the status of associated EU members. Nonetheless, while formally adhering to the OECD requirements, the microstates of Europe are still attempting to provide offshore services to nonresidents by transforming and significantly complicating the financial schemes used for such purposes. General scientific methods, the technic method, the concrete-historical and the historicalgenetic methods, as well as the formal-dogmatic and the systemic approaches were used within the framework of the study.

Offshores and the settlement of cross-border tax relations is one of the most vital economic problems of our time, yet no fundamental scientific research on the international relations of the OECD and the microstates of Europe has yet been carried out.

The subject of the study incorporates the problems and prospects of remote sensing of the Earth, an analysis of the effectiveness of the international legal framework in this area is given in the article.

General and special methods of legal analysis were used.

The main results of the research include the proof that from a technical point of view, the definition and concept of remote sensing do not cause disagreement among professionals, but it was not possible to achieve consensus on the international legal status of remote sensing. It is not in the main sources of international space law. The Principles of Remote Sensing of 1986 are imperfect and outdated in many respects, although they remain the only universal international document regulating remote sensing, and have not been challenged for more than 30 years. A balance has been established between the interests of states on the main controversial issues, such as the relationship between freedom of space monitoring, state sovereignty and access to remote sensing data.

The results are practically significant, as they can serve as the basis for new normative legal acts at the international level, in the long term it is important to further expand cooperation in the field of remote sensing within the UN and other international organizations, conclude regional and bilateral agreements and develop national legislation.

The conclusion of the study is that the formation of the legal framework for remote sensing occurs by integrating the norms of "soft laws" into national laws, fixing them in international treaties and, as a consequence, the emergence of norms of customary law and norms of international law.

Essay. The subject of this research is to provide an elaborate analysis of current municipal reform in the RF and assess its impact on the self-government place, the role and development trends within the system of the Russian statehood. This paper aims either prove or disprove a hypothesis about the impact of adopted legal regulations on local self-government in the RF in view of the amendments to the RF Constitution, and make a contribution to scientific understanding of this issue.

Methodology. The research methodology is built by combining such methods of scientific knowledge as analysis (to study normative legal acts on the research topic), synthesis (to analyse theoretical sources and make generalizations), comparative legal method (to study and compare legal norms), logical method (to identify the peculiarities of the research object), system-structural approach (to define the role of local self-government in the Russian statehood), the method of legal hermeneutics (to provide an interpretation of legal documents) and the synergistic method which allowed to analyse the system of local government in cooperation with state authorities.

Results. Local self-government shall be recognized as the basis of a democratic regime and present-day Russian statehood. The adoption of the 1993 Constitution resulted in numerous normative acts which regulate the system of local self-government, including The Federal Law of October 6, 2003 No. 131-FZ “On the General Principles of Local Self-Government Organization in the Russian Federation”. However, regular changes to this law regarding local self-government have raised a number of concerns about uncertainty and contradictions in the legal system. Thus, along with positive effects of ongoing reforms, there are some negative trends including current tightening of local self-government officials’ liability in Russia as well as the increasing gap between the population and local self-government, uncertainty of legal solutions and enforcement practice. Members of the expert community, municipalities and practitioners have high hopes for the new legal framework in the field of local self-government, which is being developed following the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020. As a result, strengthening and expansion of local self-government powers are expected, which will increase citizens’ involvement in resolving issues of local importance. However, draft law No. 40361-8 on local self-government submitted to the State Duma on December 16, 2021, provides for the liquidation of the settlement level and the reduction in the number of lower-level local self-government bodies. As a result, the gap between the population and local self-government bodies has highly increased. In addition, the draft law strengthened responsibility of the heads of municipalities to the highest officials of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which implies more dependence of lower-level authorities on the state.

Conclusion. Legislation is rapidly adjusting to the existing realities rather than establishing a legal basis for local self-government development. In order to restore the essence of local self-government, deformed as a result of systematic changes in the legal basis of local self-government, it is necessary to improve the submitted bill, strengthening local self-government as a factor in the sustainable development of a democratic Russian state.

The authors point out the main problems of the transformation of criminal justice. Which rest on the need to reform the entire system of the branch of law, as the digitalization of any sphere of activity requires changes in formal and constitutional institutions, culture, as well as the creation and use of AI artificial intelligence systems, the creation of technological capabilities to analyze huge amounts of Big Data and the protection of personal data. This is a condition of digital transformation.

In the formation of a strategy of digitalization of criminal justice in the Russian Federation, according to the authors, there is a stalemate, which is difficult to resolve. On the one hand, criminal justice is a procedural institute, which operates strictly within the system of regulations, on the other hand, the digitalization of criminal proceedings requires huge changes in the sphere of law in general and in its individual branches.

From the technological point of view, we see from the example of some business projects that such processes of some sectors of the economy are feasible. To build a technological platform for criminal proceedings is currently possible, it requires a transition to electronic criminal records (with minor amendments to the RF Criminal Procedural Code), to implement artificial intelligence and “drive” it all into technologies for processing large heterogeneous data Big Data, OLAP and DataMining. The problem lies not in the impossibility to change the existing legal model of criminal procedure and other procedural subjects, but in the fact that law enforcement is carried out between values where logic is powerless, where thinking is carried out in the form of understanding. And the necessary condition for understanding requires intuition and empathy as the most important elements of legal thinking of the law enforcement officer. Artificial intelligence cannot have them.

In other words, in some parts of the law enforcement will be possible to create some kind of digital platforms, which will not meet the whole concept of building a sectoral platform, the consequence of these particular transformations is the fact that a co mprehensive digitalization of criminal justice is not expected in the near future, in view of the thin matter of science – law.

Introduction. They complete and specify the rules for assigning the final penalty for both single crimes and for the totality of crimes and sentences of the prescriptions of Articles 71-72.1 of the Criminal Code, the content of the provisions of which is much broader than the names of the articles themselves. The logical sequence of the presentation of regulatory requirements in these articles is flawed.

The method and the basic algorithm for determining the final penalty when adding punishments. The final punishment for two types of plurality - the totality of crimes and sentences – is determined by the rules of Articles 69-72 of the Criminal Code, which establishes: (a) a method for determining the final punishment (absorption, full or partial addition); (b) a basic algorithm for determining the final penalty when adding punishments imposed for individual crimes; (c) differentiated limits of the final punishment.

Rules for adding punishments. Article 71 of the Criminal Code details the rules for adding individual punishments, different in appearance: (a) by transferring to a single more severe type of punishment; (b) by their independent execution (thereby - only a complete addition).The proportions by which the replacement is made are chosen arbitrarily, and in some cases, contrary to the intention of the legislator, it is even possible to mitigate the punishment instead of tightening it. There is an obvious need for scientific substantiation of such coefficients, taking into account, at least, the political and social significance of deprivation and restrictions that determine the qualitative indicator of the repressiveness of punishment, their consequences (primarily legal and economic) both for the convict himself and for society, which is the subject of independent research. The legislator has not strictly observed the principle of the arrangement of types of punishments depending on their severity and severity. The problem lies in the fact that all the rules for the application of punishment (sentencing, replacement of punishment with a stricter one, release from serving a sentence) proceed from the presumption of an indisputable and accurate classification of punishments according to their severity. The above fully applies to the provisions of Articles 69-72 of the Criminal Code. Part 2 of Article 71 excludes the first stage of the addition of individual punishments, different in type, namely their transfer (recalculation) to another type of punishment. In such cases, independent execution of the relevant measures is provided. The legislator has avoided developing a set of rules defining the independent execution of punishments imposed by the court without bringing them to a single form. In fact, Part 2 of Article 71 of the Criminal Code presents only some special cases of this type of addition of punishments, but even they suffer from incompleteness.

Addition of punishments with their independent execution. It would be preferable to reflect in Part 2 of Article 72 of the Criminal Code all the existing rules for the addition of individual punishments involving the independent execution of the measures-components: (1) additional punishments of different types; (2) basic and additional punishments of different types; (3) basic and additional punishments of the same type; (4) real for the execution of punishment and suspended sentence; real for the execution of punishment and punishment, the execution of which is postponed; two or more sentences with a suspended sentence; sentences with a suspended sentence and with a suspended sentence; (5) basic or additional punishments of the same type, if the characteristics of the repressiveness of the penalties determined by the court are fundamentally different, in particular, the consequences of evasion from serving the sentence.

Conclusions. The current rules for adding and determining the final terms (sizes) of punishment are desystematized, fragmentary and do not always correspond to the elementary canons of legislative technique, their very presentation in the Criminal Code is rather chaotic. They do not fully take into account the peculiarities of the construction of the punishment system and its shortcomings, general and special rules for the appointment of punishments and other measures of criminal responsibility.

The research subject is represented by the correlation between provisions for criminal and criminal procedure law in Russian Federation which turns out to be the basis in resolution of the inclusion of certain terms of criminal procedure measures administration into the criminal punishment duration which is enforced toward a defendant during criminal proceedings.

The research objective is expected to be a confirmation or a contestation for hypothesis about the existing diversity of calculation methods for criminal punishment duration. Research methodology encompasses both dialectical and formal cognition methods. It is based on a complex and comprehensive analysis and interpretation of statutory acts, legal reasonings of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Russian Federation as well as on judicial rulings regarding criminal cases and on doctrinal approaches to the current research subject.

Main determinations and application field. The research rationale is represented by the following conclusions. Criminal law does not contain the regulation of the inclusion of certain terms of criminal procedure measures administration into the criminal punishment duration which is enforced toward a defendant during criminal proceedings, namely – the restrictions enforced upon the suspect (defendant) with regards to sub-para. 1 para. 6 of the article 105.1 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Russian Federation. Hence, such issue constitutes an evident legal gap in the existing calculation methods for criminal punishment duration. Given the comprehensive analysis conducted with respect to pre-trial restrictions such as house imprisonment and restraining order, as well as examination of final judicial rulings which concern the inclusion of certain terms of criminal procedure measures administration into the criminal punishment duration which is enforced toward a defendant during criminal proceedings, it can be concluded that the existing case law appears to be generally established. At the same time the judiciary apply rather diversified calculation methods for criminal punishment duration, while due to the absence of distinct and precise legislation judicial provisions being therefore bearable and discordant lead to their controversial interpretation. Moreover, in the author’s opinion, the existing practice for the inclusion of certain terms of pre-trial restrictions administration into the criminal punishment duration does not correlate with such principles of law as principles of justice and equality of citizens in the face of law. Pursuant to the conducted legal research it is suggested to introduce adequate changes and amendments to the effectual criminal law and criminal procedure law accordingly.

The article deals with the problem of the expediency of a criminal case’s returning to the prosecutor at the stage of appointment and preparation of a court session in Russian criminal proceedings. This problem is relevant to the science of criminal procedure.

The purpose of the study is to analyze critically the practice of returning of a criminal case back to the prosecutor in order to correct mistakes made at the pre-trial stages of the proceedings according to the new concept of justice independence and the absence of an accusatory bias in the court functioning.

The methodological basis of the study is a set of scientific techniques, focused mostly on the dialectical approach, which made it possible to determine the essential characteristics of the prohibition to turn the criminal proceedings in Russia for the worse. Both general scientific (analysis, synthesis, systematic method) and specific scientific methods (formal-legal, historical-legal, comparative-legal) of knowledge were also used. The analysis helped to formulate the position of understanding the turn for the worse as an independent principle of criminal procedural law, to study the procedural form of the turn for the worse. The synthesis method made it possible to determine the return of the criminal case to the prosecutor at the stage of appointment and preparation of the court session as a holistic institution of the criminal procedure. The systematic approach allowed to determine not only the mixed nature of the mechanism for changing the prosecution to a more serious one, but the investigative organi

zation of pre-trial proceedings and its place in the structure of criminal proceedings, the separation of the investigative and “accusatory powers” of the prosecutors as well as their balance. The historical method let us trace the evolution of the prohibition to turn the Soviet and Russian criminal procedural systems for the worse. The comparative-legal method made it possible to assess the potential of domestic legislators' reception of foreign experience of regulating the prohibition to turn for the worse and formulate proposals to improve the Russian criminal procedural legislation.

The main scientific results of this research consist of justification of the conclusion of the conversion expediency of the domestic judicial proceedings to the adversarial model of accusation which is carried out within the trial on the previously filed charge. The presentation of a new charge (criminal action) in court and the procedure of supplementing the charge change it for the worse. This model of re-indictment for the worse for the defendant appears to be fairer and more convenient both for the prosecuting authority and for the legal organization of combating crime. The changeover to the suggested form of implementation of the ban to turn for the worse in the institution of bringing and changing charges in court is possible only in a systematic link with the reform of the preliminary investigation. Conclusion. The institution of the criminal case returning by the court to the prosecutor in order to change the charge to a more serious one when implementing the adversarial model of bringing charges in the criminal procedure system of Russia will fully satisfy the concept of independence of justice administration and the absence of an accusatory bias in the activities of the court, while at the same time with fairly organized the prosecutorial power aimed at countering crime.

The section 1 was prepared by N.N. Lysov, section 2 by K.D. Vanyan (together with M.T. Tashilin), section 3 by A.S. Shuisky (together with I.R. Gilmanov), section 4 by V.V. Kosterin.

The subject. The study is devoted to the study of corruption aspect of criminal prosecution of entrepreneurs in Russia.

The aim of this paper is to identify typical corrupt practices in the criminal prosecution of entrepreneurs, to investigate their causes, as well as to formulate recommendations for minimizing the identified practices of abuse.

The methodology. The author analyzes the cases of criminal prosecution of entrepreneurs who have filed appeals to the Center for Public Procedures "Business Against Corruption", the Center "Protection of Business". These public platforms act as filters of appeals for unwarranted criminal prosecution. In case of confirmation of the facts of illegal use of criminal law instruments in relation to an entrepreneur, the appeal with the attached expertise is sent to the Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights.

The main results, scope of application. To corrupt practices in the field of criminal prosecution of entrepreneurs the author included the following: unreasonable use of preventive measures in the form of detention in contravention of the direct prohibition of pt. 1.1 of the art. 108 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation; ignoring the fact of committing a crime in the field of business and as a consequence qualification of the crime not by special business, but by common crimes; "superficial" preliminary investigation, resulting in criminal proceedings without due cause; ignoring the prejudicial facts established by arbitration courts in criminal proceedings; unreasonable imputing the commission of an intentional act.

The reasons for the corrupt practices highlighted and investigated by the author are such factors as the wording of the law and its interpretation, limitations and imprecision of the law, allowing discretion on the part of law enforcers; the established KPIs of law enforcement agencies that encourage "the pursuit of performance" and accusatory bias; declarative ethical standards adopted by public authorities and companies, i.e. the lack of effectively implemented instruments of integrity management; low level of public control over criminal proceedings.

In order to minimize the above practices, it is necessary to further improve regulations, to stimulate ethical regulation in organizations; to modernize the metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies, focusing on non-departmental parameters; to significantly increase the role of the institution of business ombudsman as an additional guarantor of legal rights and interests of entrepreneurs, and to actively introduce digitalization tools, in particular, digital records of criminal cases.

It is important to emphasize again that the author does not claim to cover all possible corrupt practices in the prosecution of entrepreneurs and their causes. For example, there is a vicious practice of reclassifying a witness in a criminal case after testifying as a suspect and subsequently as a defendant. Further research could look in more detail at each of these corrupt practices, identify and analyze additional practices, as well as explore opportunities for their mitigation. From the point of view of the applied implementation of the results of the study, it seems that they can be useful, on the one hand, to decision makers when improving criminal policy towards entrepreneurs, but also to entrepreneurs themselves to understand the potential criminal law risks that they may face and must minimize.

In the context of the burgeoning Russian insolvency law, the applicable regulations may undergo essential changes over a bankruptcy period due to lengthy insolvency procedures. In such case, a pivotal question for the bankruptcy participants is the application of legal developments that significantly affect the participants’ scope of rights and obligations to the initiated procedure.

This study is aimed to develop and substantiate a unified procedure for the commencement of legal provisions governing the bankruptcy procedure.

The following tasks promote the above purpose:

1) Determining applied options of commencement of amendments to the Insolvency Law;
2) Weighing strengths and weaknesses of the determined options;
3) Concluding on the most suitable procedure for commencement of amendments in these legal relationships.

The analysis of amendments to the Insolvency Law highlights the absence of a legislator’s unified approach. The article outlines seven models of amendments commencement used by the legislator:

1) amendments to the Insolvency Law do not describe the commencement procedure, so the general rule applies here: entry into force after ten days upon the date of their official publication;
2) amendments to the Insolvency Law explicitly specify the date of entry into force or the period on the expiry of which the amendments enter into force;
3) amendments to the Insolvency Law enter into force on the day of their official publication;
4) amendments to the Insolvency Law apply in bankruptcy cases in which proceedings are initiated after the date of the amendments commencement;
5) amendments to the Insolvency Law single out a cluster of legal relationships (e.g. legal relationships in current costs accounting) to which the amendments apply immediately (which is an exception to the general term of amendments commencement);
6) amendments to the Insolvency Law specify legal facts, given which a new version of the law shall or shall not apply; in particular, the legislator has used the following jural facts (1) the beginning of settlements with creditors of the third priority; (2) the completion of a monitoring procedure in relation to an indebted developer;
7) amendments to the Insolvency Law imply an extension of new rules to earlier existing legal relationships.

Following the analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the given models the authors believe that a new legal regulation (if any) shall be recognized when the bankruptcy case moves from one procedure to another. At the date of transition, the current version of the law in force is determined, its reference indicated in the judicial act. This mechanism allows the parties to the legal relationship to know with certainty the legal assessment from the judicial act and to build on the new legal regulation in their line of conduct. In the event of a fundamental change in the law, the parties will be protected by the current procedure as a temporary safeguard.

This will make the bankruptcy procedure foreseeable for the parties and prevent unpredictable risks that did not exist at the initiation of the bankruptcy proceedings.

The subject of the research is the contract of participation in shared construction. This type of contract is characterized by a special subject structure and defined as independent bilateral commercial agreement owing to which it stands out of other types of contracts. The practice of using this legal institution shows its possibilities and advantages in terms of increasing the number of citizens who have received the opportunity to improve their housing conditions. Nevertheless, today in Russia there is a question of stopping the use of shared-equity construction because there are also negative aspects of the implementation of this right, including an increase in the number of defrauded shareholders. The ambiguity of this legal institution throughout the history of its existence has been the subject of study by many scientists. One of the main issues of these studies was the equity participation agreement as a form of expression of legal relations between developers and participants in shared construction, which provides protection of the rights of all parties to the specified transaction. The equity participation agreement is the basis of legal relations between the parties and regulates their rights and obligations.

The purpose of this article is to investigate the main features of the contract in shared construction, to summarise different points of view on the definition of this legal document, to consider the algorithm of concluding this kind of contract, to review Russian legislation in the sphere of shared construction, Russian judicial practice and negative aspects of buying real estate units under this type of contracts.

Methodology. A systematic approach was used in combination with logical methods of cognition. It made it possible to study the theoretical, factual and legal grounds of the phenomenon of shared construction in Russia.

The main results, scope of application. The article stipulates the main features of the contract of shared construction, different points of view on the definition of this kind of contracts, the algorithm of concluding a contract of shared construction and Russian judicial practice in this sphere.

Modern criteria for assessing scientific activity, established in 2013, are considered. The shortcomings of these criteria, which the author of this article, together with another professor, tried to recognize as invalid and not subject to application due to their contradiction with Russian legislation and national interests, are emphasized. The requirements for applicants for grants of the Russian Science Foundation are considered (RSF), which, after merging with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), became the only federal scientific foundation. The first results of the merger of the two funds are analyzed. It is shown that this had a negative impact on the humanities, including legal sciences. The Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation dated March 19, 2022 No. 414 "On some issues of applying the requirements and target values of indicators related to publication activity" is analyzed. The resolution was adopted in response to the sanctions of unfriendly states, as well as a reaction to open letters from the public about the immediate exclusion from all regulations of the requirement to publish in journals from commercial indices. The resolution has the character of a moratorium on the application of requirements for the availability of publications in scientific journals indexed in international databases. Proposals are being made on the development of domestic criteria for publication activity.