No 1 (2015)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the crisis of civilization in the context of the theory and history of state and law, which is systemic. The authors believe that the way out of this crisis is possible only through the formation and transition to a new, more progressive Humanistic socio-economic system as a basis for creating a new state and legal system.

The article deals with the analysis of two exclusive institutes in preliminary investigation in criminal procedure of the Russian Federation, a stage of initiation of legal proceedings and the investigator.

The article deals with the protection under the contemporary international law of girls as a vulnerable group. Notion «vulnerability» and «vulnerable groups» are analyzed as well as the factors affecting the degree of vulnerability of individuals and criteria to consider girls as a vulnerable group. The article covers the rationale for allocating a special group of girls in order to develop the most effective measures to prevent and combat widespread practice of violating the rights of girls. A number of international treaties and documents provisions devoted to girls are analyzed. There is a list of human rights violations girls are usually victims of (violence, economic exploitation, social exclusion) and specific examples of such violations. Particular attention is paid to the problem of discrimination of girls, including factors influencing the development of practice of discrimination against women and girls, possible ways of eradicating the relevant harmful practices are suggested, statistical evidence on the relevance of the issue in question are given.

This paper presents abstracts of Prof. Abashidze’s speech at the International Seminar on the Impact of Economic and Financial Sanctions on the Enjoyment of Human Rights (Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, 15 December 2014). The main conclusion, made by the author is the following: in frames of globalization, the more interrelatedness and interdependence of States, the unilateral application of coercive measures (sanctions) of economic and financial character by States or group of States and the consequences of these sanctions should be qualified as a factor undermining the pillars of the system of collective security based on the UN Charter.

The article presents a brief analysis of cases of road traffic accidents, classification disputes about compensation of the harm theoretical problems of formation of the legal position of the lawyer in a civil case, as well as practical aspects of the formation of the legal position on the disputes on compensation of damage.

The article examines the international legal integration regulation of relations in the sphere of economics and finance context of globalization. The modern era - an era of globalization, which includes the highly dynamic development of integration processes in various areas of activity of the state. Globalization is an objective the emergence of supra-national / transnational elements of legal regulation. More and more questions of domestic jurisdiction transferred to the states under the international legal regulation. In the context of globalization in the development of the law is a tendency of formation of international integration law. Therefore, considering the legal regulation of relations in the sphere of economics and finance in the modern period, we can not ignore world integration processes as a result of globalization.