Journal headings
"Legal sciences"

Annotation: An active development of regulation of economic and legal features of many industry activities occurs at the present, and the activities of self-regulatory organizations are becoming increasingly important. In modern conditions it is not the state that is responsible for the poor-quality work of most firms but self-regulatory organizations endowed with some control and supervisory functions. In this regard study of forming and development of self-regulating organizations in Russia has particular value in rapidly changing market conditions since it allows us to identify the prerequisites for the forming of self-regulation institution, its origin, specificities of action at present as well as to predict its further development. The article discusses the main milestones of the origin and development of self-regulating organizations institution in Russia from ancient times to the present, the main stages of its legal consolidation and regulation. The research uses general scientific, formal and logical methods of cognition. The author comes to the conclusion that analyzed institution has a centuries-old history; the main stages of its genesis are determined by the socio-political conditions of the development of the state.

Annotation: The paper describes the peculiarities of the Russian banking system and analyzes the legislation on the banking system and ways of its possible improvement. The paper analyzes the evolution of legislation on the domestic banking system, constitutional norms on the banking system and the functions of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, analyzes the concept of “federal bank”, features of the Russian banking system structure at the present stage. The process of recreating commercial banks in the USSR in the late 1980s is analyzed, the content of the norms of the current Constitution of the Russian Federation of December 12, 1993, affecting the legal status of the Bank of Russia, as well as the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation in matters of legal regulation of banking activities. The author concluded that there is a legal conflict between paragraph “g” of Art. 71 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the provisions of the Federal Law of 02.12.1990 No. 395-1 “On Banks and Banking”. Thus, a variant of its elimination was proposed by enshrining the definitions of the concept of “federal bank”, which is referred to in Art. 71 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the current legislation. Attempts to develop proposals for further improvement of the legislation on the banking system of the Russian Federation are undertaken in the paper.

Annotation: The political system is a multi-faceted category that has, among other things, a constitutional and legal dimension, due to which constitutional reforms, constitutional transformations, as a rule, generate changes in the political system. The constitutional reform in the Russian Federation in 2020 was no exception, in the course of the reform, all the components of the form of the Russian state have undergone changes. In the history of the Russian state changes in the political system have taken place more than once. Using traditional methodological tools, the article substantiates the conclusion that large-scale textual changes to the Constitution of the Russian Federation did not, however, lead to a radical transformation of the political system in general and the Russian state in particular, which had developed by the beginning of the reform. The main thing in understanding the political and legal essence of the state is not the constitutional consolidation of certain characteristics of the state, but the real mechanisms of power, the interaction of the state with society, citizens.

Annotation: The COVID-19 pandemic has even had an impact on environmental change. Air pollution, which is classified as one of the biggest environmental problems affecting public health, changed as the pandemic progressed. Evidence has also emerged that polluted air increases the risk of contracting COVID-19 and contributes to an increase in the number of deaths among those infected. Thus, a pattern was found between air quality and the number of cases and deaths. The objective of the study is to briefly review Canada’s experience with environmental rulemaking in a pandemic environment. The aim of the study is to highlight the practical proposals of foreign jurisdiction on the analyzed issue, to reflect the advantages and disadvantages of the received experience. Methodological basis: formal-legal method, comparative-legal method, general scientific methods of knowledge. Rethinking the definition of legislative standards to the quality of the environment is considered in the area of effective and rapid struggle against pandemic in the future and for the sake of decent maintenance of environmental quality, which is the main direction of state policy in the field of environmental protection.

Annotation: The subject of this study is the problem of legal regulation of the procedure for considering citizens’ appeals received by state authorities, local governments and election commissions on issues related to holding elections and exercising the electoral rights of citizens. For this purpose an analysis of the electoral legislation, legislation on the procedure for considering citizens’ appeals is carried out, their basic concepts, principles and methods of regulation are compared. As a result, conclusions are made about the main problems of the current legislation in the subject area and proposals for their elimination are proposed. The results of the study can be used both to improve legislation and to organize work on considering citizens’ appeals by election commissions of various levels, state authorities and local self-government. The legal regulation of the procedure for considering citizens’ appeals related to the exercise of electoral rights has a complex legal regulation that requires adjustments in order to improve the law enforcement process.