Journal headings
"Legal sciences"

Annotation: The article describes the problem of transparency of the “funeral” business, ensuring the balance of private and public interests in the burial and maintenance of cemeteries. Abuses in the sphere of the “funeral” business are analyzed, options for solving the problems indicated in the article are proposed. Special attention is paid to the improper activities of local governments in terms of organizing and maintaining burial sites, non-compliance with the rules for the intended use of land. As a result of studying the problems identified by the author, a positive assessment is given of the licensing of funeral services, which should clear the market of illegal participants, help fill the country’s budget and respect the rights and legitimate interests of the family members of the deceased. Based on open information and analysis of the draft Federal Law “On burial and undertaking”, the author proposes to amend the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, aimed at preventing and suppressing socially dangerous acts in the implementation of entrepreneurial activities in the field of burial and undertaking.

Annotation: This paper discusses the methods of adjusting the level of affiliation of the young electorate and the reactualization of suffrage for this social group of the Russian population. The aim of the author is to analyze and identify the problems of overcoming political and electoral apathy among voters, in the age category up to 40 years. The topic of scientific research chosen by the author is relevant, due to the continuing high level of absentee reactions in Russian society, still weak percentages of voter turnout, especially for regional or municipal level elections, which calls into question the legitimacy of existing government institutions as a whole. As the main results of the author’s study of the problem, the main behavioral stereotypes in the electoral environment of young voters in Russia are given, forms and methods for reactivating suffrage in this social group are given, recommendations are presented for the effective inclusion of future voters and those who have already become them in the electoral process based on the formed knowledge, experience of interaction with government structures, a built civic position

Annotation: The article describes the history of the creation and evolution of the institution of the Commission of the European Community (Community) in the second half of the XX century. Since the beginning of Western European integration this structure has played one of the key roles in the Community and continues to play now within the framework of the European Union. The relevance of the topic is justified by the interest in the European Union as a whole as the most successful regional integration association at the moment, claiming to be one of the centers of the multipolar world. The main aim of the article is to identify the functions, place and role of the Commission in the European Community. Document analysis, narrative, historical and chronological methods were used as key methods of work. The article provides an overview of the key powers of the Commission, shows their changes under the influence of the process of development of Western European integration. Attention is paid to the presentation of the Commission as a supranational body. The article analyzes the provisions of the fundamental treaties of the European Community: Paris, Rome, Brussels and the Single European Act. Conclusions about the powers and significance of the Commission within the framework of the integration association are made on their basis.

Annotation: The subject of the research in this article is the consideration of issues of providing state and municipal services to citizens. The purpose of the work is to study the legal regulation and problems of providing state and municipal services to citizens. The following methods were used during the research: methods of observation, description and comparison. General scientific and special methods made it possible to build a system of arguments on the basis of which the author came to scientifically based conclusions. The results of the work are presented in the conclusion. The scope of the results: administrative and municipal law, provision of state and municipal services to citizens. The following conclusions were made as a result of the research: an individual (citizen) is proposed to be understood as a citizen who has civil legal capacity, the content of which implies, among other things, the right to engage in entrepreneurial) and any other activity not prohibited by law, which leads to the fact that an individual can produce goods, perform work and provide services and receive funds from the budget for this. In our opinion, it is obvious that the transformation of the budgetary and legal status of individuals occurs when they enter into budgetary legal relations in the cases and under the conditions provided for by the budget legislation of the Russian Federation.

Annotation: The article analyzes the concept of competence of local self-government bodies. The author considers the transformation of this category in the conditions of reforming the institution of local self-government. A comparative analysis of certain provisions of the current Federal Law “On the general principles of the organization of local self-government in the Russian Federation” from October 6, 2003, and the draft law “On the general principles of the organization of local self-government in the unified system of public authority” submitted to the State Duma is carried out. The problems of defining issues of local importance at different stages of the development of legislation on local self-government are considered. Questions are raised about the need for a clear consolidation of the competence of local self-government bodies in order to optimally organize the activities of the entire state apparatus. The conclusion is made about the systemic transformation of local self-government in the Russian Federation, affecting both the territorial organization of local self-government and the procedure for determining the competence of local self-government bodies. The methodological basis of the presented work was: the comparative legal method; formal-legal method; general scientific methods of cognition.