Journal headings
"Legal sciences"

Annotation: This article discusses the features of the application of the proportional electoral system in Russia and abroad. The author’s goal is to analyze and formulate the main characteristics of the most common methods of voting under the proportional system, taking into account the historical aspect, as well as the practice of applying in modern states in elections to representative bodies of power, and the development of this political institution. This topic is relevant in connection with the use of all three election models in voting for certain elected bodies of state power and local self-government: majority, proportional and mixed. It often leads to a lack of understanding among the electorate of the features of using a particular model, its disadvantages and advantages, which in turn leads to an unwillingness to understand this and take part in voting, realizing their real capabilities. In the fall the legal culture of citizens, the decline of interest in the institution of elections in the formation of representative bodies at various levels of emphasis is the practice of applying the most common voting patterns in the world – under the proportional electoral system. Taking as a basis the European and Russian experience of elections, the author analyzes the main negative and positive aspects of the organization of vote by party-list proportional representation, in terms of the ability to highlight the level of elections that use this model election system is appropriate and combined it with the features of the form of government that existed in the state. As the main results, the characteristic features of the proportional voting model for representative bodies of power are formulated and also recommendations on the effective use of the proportional electoral system in elections are provided.

Annotation: The article examines the systemic civilizational shortcomings of the 1993 Russian Constitution and substantiates the relevance and significance of the constitutional reform of 2020, the return to the text of the constitution of traditional spiritual and moral values of Russian society, filling with real content of the social character of the modern Russian state. The need to return Russia through constitutional innovations to its civilizational route of development, suggesting the traditional nature of spiritual and moral values and unity around the Orthodox spiritual core of society of all Abrahamic and other traditional religions.

Annotation: For more than 20 years, the problem of adopting a law on normative legal acts has remained unsolvable in the Russian Federation. The purpose of the work is to present the experience of legal regulation in the field of law-making in the member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Most of the CIS countries have established the concept and types of normative legal acts at the legislative level, defined the hierarchy of acts and the content of the law-making process. Many States adopted new versions of laws on legal acts in 2016–2018 due to the current trends in Informatization and digitalization of society. The article deals with the system of normative legal acts of three States – the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic. The author has studied the approaches of a number of CIS countries to defining the concept of a normative legal act. The significance of this analysis is due to the possibility of using the experience of legislative consolidation of the system of normative legal acts in foreign countries for the Russian Federation.

Annotation: The article examines the main aspects of the state structure of the Russian Empire after the revolution of 1905–1907 and before 1917. The goal of the authors is to analyze the political prerequisites for the formation of a special form of state structure in Russia, which received the name “the Third-June monarchy” in the historical literature. This topic is relevant in the context of the need to maintain political stability in the state and society. The authors cover the main provisions of the Manifesto of October 17, 1905 and the electoral law of June 3, 1907. The controversial issue of the legality of making changes to state laws in 1907 is raised, the author’s assessment of these actions is given. Special attention is paid to the historical consequences of the “June third coup”. As the main results, the authors formulate the characteristic features of the parliamentarism of the Russian Empire after 1907. The conclusion is made about a natural increase in the internal political crisis in the country, the origins of which lie in the events of June 3, 1907.

Annotation: In the article it is considered the Russian segment of the Internet as a platform for the emergence of new types of relations regulated by law. It is noted that the current “world wide web” is a huge layer of the most diverse information, which counts a huge number of services and more than 3,3 billion subscribers, and this technology has not spared almost anyone. It is displayed that today the Internet opens up endless opportunities for people and states for gaining knowledge, conducting scientific activities, improving the procedure for interaction, both between citizens of different countries and the states themselves. It is pointed out the need to detail law enforcement, the need for enhanced coordination with the technical branches of informatics and cybernetics in the development of relevant legislation. It is emphasized the importance and relevance of the need to delimit the national part of the Internet and highlight legal regulation in the Russian segment of the network, establish ineffective methods of regulating the relations under consideration, also the reasons for a large number of problems in the legal regulation of the Russian segment of the network are highlighted and some ways to solve them are suggested.