In the Soviet Union, for well-known reasons, training for a market economy was not carried out. Therefore, initiatives to open new educational programs in the transition period after the collapse of the USSR in universities usually came from active, focused on the use of international educational experience, teachers, as a rule, who had a humanitarian education. Many of the founders of future scientific and educational schools mastered their own new specialty independently, reading the few translated books available, sometimes working in practical projects in this profile (usually also heading marketing, PR, legal and personnel services in their universities).

The article deals with the analysis of the victimological aspects of crimes against persons. The main attention is paid to the most dangerous acts: murders, intentional infliction of grievous harm to health and rape. These crimes cause not only irreparable harm to the victims, but also cause moral suffering to their relatives, reduce the safety of society, are characterized by the most base motives and means of achieving the criminal purposes — violence. The peculiarities of victims’ behavior became the basis of the research, since it is the behavior of a person that concentrates all the main factors forming his/her personality (social, demographic, biological, etc.). Behavior of a potential victim can be corrected most of all, so the obtained data will undoubtedly help to increase the effectiveness of crime prevention.

The article is devoted to the consideration and analysis of the main changes in the global and domestic drug business during the spread of coronavirus infection. A review of data from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, documents of the state anti-drug committee of the Russian Federation, statistical materials of law enforcement agencies and the main department for combating smuggling of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation is presented. It is considered how the pandemic and the temporary closure of borders have affected the main drug markets, the usual routes for the delivery of drugs from country to country and the structure of drugs, and the international import of drugs into Russia. It is shown that criminal drug groups have proved to be quite resistant to the changes associated with COVID-19, and quickly formed new strategies for the sale of drugs aimed at overcoming the obstacles that have arisen. A comparison is made of the involvement of some countries in the international drug trade. An analysis of the dynamics of drug crime in Russia showed that against the backdrop of a general decrease in drug trafficking crimes over the past few years, there are a number of negative trends that have worsened with the onset of the spread of coronavirus infection in Russia. A significant increase in the role of the Internet and social networks in drug trafficking during the pandemic has been revealed. It is shown that, despite the positive trend of recent years to reduce various indicators of drug addiction, the pandemic has created new conditions for a possible explosive growth of drug problems in the near future.

The life world of the village (rural life) is a kind of background (independent environment, substance), which structurally consists of public (group) consciousness in the form of the meanings of public (public) and personal (private) life, aimed at mutual understanding. Here, law is expressed through fundamental ideas and manifests itself as the spirit of law. The system of the village’s life world is a set of institutional socio-political structures (subsystems), including the legal subsystem. The legal subsystem is essentially the legal basis of the life world of the village (rural life), which reflects the system of positive (positive) law in force in the state, where legal norms are developed. The structural elements of the legal foundations of the life world of the Russian village (rural life) and their essential characteristics are determined on the basis of the formal-legal (dogmatic) and, in combination with it, institutional-legal and other research methods.

The presented article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of regional organized groups or the criminal community of megapolis (St. Petersburg and Leningrad region), the debatable nature of their socio-criminological characteristics. The article indicates possible ways to improve the effectiveness of countering and preventing crime in general, as well as crimes committed using information and telecommunication technologies, in particular. Attention is drawn to the problem of remote fraud, including Internet fraud, in terms of obtaining remote access to customers’ bank cards. It is emphasized that the effectiveness of law enforcement activities in preventing the activities of organized crime is associated with the vulnerability of existing formulations of organized groups or criminal community. The success and effectiveness of countering the activities of organized crime is largely determined at the level of early prevention.

The article examines the problems of the influence of mass media, primarily the Internet, on the value-semantic sphere of the personality of a representative of student youth. The characteristic of the role of formed professional-value orientations in professional activity is given. The key patterns of formation of professional value orientations through media consumption are analyzed. The positive and negative factors of the influence of the Internet space on the development of the value-semantic sphere of the individual are highlighted. There are five main factors of negative influence; the mechanism of functioning of each of them is described. Methods for reducing the considered risks for optimizing the process of forming the axiological sphere of a student’s personality are proposed. The role of the scientific community and public authorities in the development and implementation of appropriate social technologies is characterized.

The participation of citizens in the implementation of urban planning activities is a form of public influence on the content of decisions taken by local self-government bodies. However, the attitude of scientists and the population of the Russian Federation to the institution of public hearings, as one of the forms of participation of citizens in the implementation of local self-government, is not unambiguous. The absence of binding decisions of the public for public authorities on issues of land use regulation may lead to a decrease in the activity of the population in these issues and cause spontaneous protest of citizens. In its current form, the institution of public hearings has little influence on the content of decisions taken by local self-government bodies in the field of urban development, and is a formal, but actually sluggish institution of direct democracy.

The legislative innovations introduced into the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020 required the reform of the legal understanding of the concepts of “state power”, “public power”, and, in addition, led to the realization of the existence of the phenomenon of “public power”. The Constitutional Court of Russia, through an expansive interpretation in unison with the legislator, explained the structure of the unified public authority, which today includes both the system of state authorities and local self-government bodies. At the same time, the purpose and objectives of public administration were clarified, the implementation of which in a truly legal and democratic state is possible only if the limits of designated public administration formulated in the Basic Law of the country are not violated.

At present, the institution of reviewing an expert’s opinion is of significant importance in the practice of considering civil cases. In the doctrine, this procedural institution is poorly developed. The article is devoted to theoretical and applied research of the emerging institution of reviewing the opinion of a forensic expert. The article focuses on the concept and form of reviewing, negative and positive judicial practice of using reviewing in civil cases. The author’s understanding of the institution of review, the figure of the reviewer and the procedural and legal significance of the institution of review for the practice of considering and resolving civil and arbitration cases in courts is given.

The article examines the practice of digital transformation of the economy, society and law in the Russian Federation, highlights the main directions in the legal regulation of digital technologies — the increase in electronic document flow; recognition by judicial practice of the power of electronic evidence; and at the same time, the penetration of digital technologies into the legal “field”, the translation of regulatory legal acts into digital form.

The article examines the problems of administrative responsibility for violations of fire safety rules in the Russian Federation. The issues of the correlation of administrative and criminal responsibility in the field of fire safety are considered. The statistics of incidents related to fires in Russia are being studied. The analysis of the most common offenses in the field of fire safety is carried out. Reference is made to the provisions of the most frequently violated regulations in the field of fire safety. The specifics of ongoing administrative offenses in the field of fire safety are assessed.

The right to housing is one of the natural human rights, which is enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Housing will always be in demand, so a lot of attention is paid by the Government to such business activities as construction. According to M. V. Mishustin, Russia has decided to radically change the requirements in the field of construction — almost all of them will be made voluntary, but the safety of facilities will be ensured. The construction industry is one of the key sectors in the economy of each state. The history of the development of the construction industry has undergone various and numerous turns, starting with the change and improvement of building materials and ending with the improvement of building rules and regulations. Subject to change and construction in the Russian Federation. Difficulties arose, for example, in connection with the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation in 2014. Construction companies struggled with the difficulties that arose in terms of logistics, the supply of building materials, which made it possible to take a different look at the need for interchangeability between the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the countries of the Customs Union. But, if this burden entailed certain difficulties, in general, they did not touch the construction process, which includes: the acquisition of a land plot, engineering surveys, architectural and structural design, examination of the results, obtaining a building permit, the construction process itself, commissioning into operation. Today’s realities have the responsibility not only to develop the construction industry, not only to save jobs, but also to make the construction process and its results as useful as possible for the people in the face of the ongoing threat of COVID-19. The author of the article tried to discover some of the problems of the construction industry in Russia in modern conditions. The article points to the presence of a trend of integrated and sustainable development of the territory in the Russian Federation.

This article discusses such a way of protecting the violated rights of a participant in a business company as the restoration of corporate control. The grounds and conditions for the use of such a method of protection are determined. The possibility of competition of this method of protection with other means of civil protection is indicated. The fact of a change in the authorized capital is considered as mandatory for the application of a claim for the restoration of corporate control. The consequences of restoring corporate control are analyzed.

This article addresses topical issues related to the consequences of possible introduction of special administrative and legal regimes in the territory of the Russian Federation. In these conditions, it is important to find a compromise between the rights of citizens and the measures that the authorities take to ensure order. Using as example the situation that has developed within the context of new pandemic coronavirus infection COVID-19, the most problematic aspects are highlighted, such as: suspension of planned medical care, restriction of freedom of movement, insufficient protection of personal data, and other. Having carefully studied the legislation in this area, the authors come to the conclusion that it is necessary to specify measures restricting constitutional rights and freedoms in emergency conditions.