Organizational and financial issues related to the governance of municipalities were examined in this work with the aim to analyze regional peculiarities of municipal reform during transition period. Analysis was conducted with the help of budget statistics for the first half of 2006 and...

This publication addresses theoretical and practical aspects of rural life in Russia. The authors developed approaches to enhance rural evelopment in the framework of regional managerial strategies. Operation of the institutions of local development in Arhkangelsk oblast and the Republic of...

Present work contains municipal reform implmentation results for 2007. The authors analyzed modifications in the federal legislation regarding local selfgovernance, regional legislation which regulates issues relatyed to newly created settlements in transition period. The authors analyzed...

This paper studies the factors driving changes in judicial independence (JI) as incorporated in constitutions. Two indicators of constitutionally safeguarded JI are constructed. Variations in these indicators are identified based on changes in the constitutions of as many as 100 countries that...

The nuclear states club includes nine states, in comparison to only five nuclear states that existed at the moment of entering into force of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970. Nuclear proliferation had a significant evolution during the Cold War, but also in the post-Cold War period,...

All human societies have thoroughly disapproved of robbery as a deed through which a person appropriates a good belonging to somebody else. In various law systems, this deed has been vehemently incriminated, and when the robber used violence to accomplish his action the crime was called robbery...

The Swedish private international law doctrine, stresses that the Scandinavian countries operate with two sets of conflicts of laws: a set of rules apply only to inter-Scandinavian relations, while the other set applies to relations with the world. The conflict of laws reserved only for the...

Broadly, the financial apparatus of the state includes all state bodies that contribute directly or which only facilitate the achievement of financial activities by means of which the financial policy of the state is applied. In a narrow sense, the financial apparatus includes specialized state...

The article hereby analyzes aspects regarding the behaviour, typology and mental status of deceit victims, as fighting deceit offences effectively implies knowing the specifics of the victims of these crimes. The offence of deceit is performed against people with specific psychological traits,...

In order to perform various acts and operations that are required to be met by the spouses during marriage and to give legal certainty to the civil circuit, in the interests of third parties in good faith who would deal with the spouses, the new Civil Code established by art.314 the conventional...