No 4 (2009)

This article is devoted to the role and functions of the financial institutions in AML/CTF area. The article describes the structure of the national system of AML/CTF and determines the place of the financial institutions in the Russian AML/CTF system. The author also tries to sort all financial institutions depending on their motives and inputs in the financial monitoring.

The article is considering legal status of legal entities of public law in foreign countries, given concept and its particular qualities in different legal systems are determined.

This article analyses general constructions of property ownership in the U.S. modern Property Law. It reviews the system of present estates and future interest as well as various types of common ownership and suggests a classification of proprietary rights. The author considers the possibility of using specific achievements of American legal theory and practice in order to upgrade Russian concept of modern Property Law.

The article provides brief comparative law research on the legal regulation of foreclosure in Russia and USA. Russian law is considered taking in account latest changes in extra-judicial foreclosure procedure legal regulations.

The extradition (delivery) of criminals is one of the important and oldest international law institutions and international relations as a whole. It gets a special value for interstate relations in the present period in the epoch of outburst of international terrorism and other internationally illegal acts. The article seeks to analyze and investigate the history of formation and development of this institute in international law by the example of the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

Article is devoted such important during an epoch of creation of integration communities to a problem as a question on a parity of the right of the European Union which as the main principle assumes a principle a priority of the right of the Union over the national right of member states, and also a principle of direct action of the right of the European Union and sovereign statehood of the countries-participants. After all the European Union is an integration community which, certainly, assumes that its participants and founders are the sovereign states. However presence of two specified principles is not absolutely combined with the developed representations about the international organization.

This article is dedicated to new aspects of the International Security Law as one of instruments used for maintaining national security, as well as to main directions of Russia's foreign policy in the modern world which it regulates.

The article is devoted to the issue of WTO's legal status and concerning with it particular qualities of organizational structure, which is covered by Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994.The conception «WTO is member-driven, with decisions taken by consensus among all member government» is offered as a methodological approach to the study of problems of WTO's functioning as an international intergovernmental organization.

In given article are considered international legal documents which form strong bases for a combination and use of possibilities of system of struggle against money laundering and the organised criminality as the most important and effective mechanism in the corruption counteraction, intended for the states which aspire to that their national anticorruption legislation corresponded to the international standards.