The article is concerned with the basic Act regulations and its enforcement.
Difficulties of the Act application were caused by both objective and
subjective reasons. To objective reasons that hindered the act the author refers
inconsistency of the law and insufficient interpretation of its concepts and to subjective
- manufacturers counteraction to the requirements of the Act, low legal
culture of workers and not numerous staff of inspection. There is enough evidence
to prove that manufacturers consciously violated the law because of its imperfection
whereas workers were ignorant and lacked labour discipline. The 3 rd of June
1886 Act formed the legal bases of labour law development, but its further perfection
was restrained by tsarist bureaucracy reluctance to regulate employers/
employee relationship on a legal basis.

The article covers the state housing policy legal foundation of Russian
Federation in the first decade of the 21st century, the main focus being on the
efficiency of this foundation in the area of mortgage loans and the drawbacks of
existing legislation.

The article examines the complex of the Soviet Power organizational and
legal means to influence public organizations. The legislative base of public activity
regulation is analyzed in its connection with ideology and policy. A range of repressive,
administrative and legal regulations imposed on the activity of public organizations
is revealed. The author concludes that there was a system of strict governmental
submission of public organizations.

Local self-government is one of the major elements providing stability
of modern political systems. The author regards the prospects of local selfgovernment
are connected with the development of new mechanisms of multi-level
interactions and civil participation in the light of comparative historical study of
European and Russian experience.

The paper is concerned with the peculiarities of studying handwritten
documents carrying criminologically important information and made in
North Caucasian local dialects

Successful implementation of the protective function of the criminal
law depends largely on a coherent set of standards contained therein. Proceeding
from this postulate, the author examines the controversial issues to qualify the
violations of a range of safety standards, such as fire and nuclear power facilities
safety, safety at explosive objects, during mining, building, etc

This article is concerned with the problems of participation of the
legal representative of a minor suspect, the accused. The main focus is on the guarantee
of legal representative's rights during investigative procedures in dwelling
(incident location survey, search and seizure).
The participation of legal representative in the specified investigative procedures
is a little bit limited due to objective and subjective factors. The majority
of the specified procedures demand suddenness, and the investigator does not inform
the legal representative of a minor suspect, the accused, of the court decision
about the procedure. According to item 426 CPC of the Russian Federation the
legal representative has an unequivocal opportunity to participate only in the in-
terrogation of the minor suspect, the accused, other investigative actions require
the sanction of the investigator.

The European Union is a unique international and legal phenomenon
of modern Europe that came into being in 1950s to overcome the consequences
of WW II.
The creation of the European Union was a new step in integrating process.
This brought about a certain amount of opposition to a unified Europe.
The European integration process is characterized by complex and inconsistent
interaction of social, economic and political factors, the combination of which has
led to the economic integration that has created a system of institutional bodies.

The author of the article strives to establish a correlation between
criminal and administrative responsibilities for offences in economic sphere, indicating
some problems of the code relations. The author also points out that the
contradictions connected with a competition of norms and subjective interpretation
of criteria of qualification of illegal acts have not only been eliminated, but
aggravated by the introduction to the Administrative Code of Russian Federation
new administrative offences that are boundary (sometimes identical) with criminal
corpus delicti. It strengthens corruption as provides possibility of groundless
non-application of criminal responsibility. Being universal the problem of correlation
between criminal and administrative codes has been mainly approached from
the angle of economic offences.

The article examines the measures of educational impact taken to
convicts serving a sentence in the form of correctional labor. The author analyses
the concept of encouragement, the efficiency of such measures and traces their
historical development focusing on the problems of legal regulation and formulating
proposals to improve the penal legislation.

The article is concerned with the definition of «success fee» as a
procedure of estimating the amount of attorneys or another persons fee (in case
the latter provides legal service). In the focus of the authors attention is legal regulation
of «success fee» in Russia and abroad, its advantages and disadvantages.

This article describes both the concept of legal institution of licensing
and the process of licensing private detective and security activity by the bodies
of home affairs. The author makes a list of problems of legal relationships between
licensing authorities and licensees, and concludes that their solution should
be made at the expense of optimizing the structure of management, control and
strong procedural and legal support.