Civic Participation as Constitutional Lawful Behavior

The author proposes to consider civic participation as a lawful constitutional behavior. The concept of civic participation as a legal constitutional behavior includes goals and motives for participation, behavioral attitudes and a volitional component. It is noted that an important circumstance of civic participation is the combination of political-legal and public-social components in it. For the experience of theorizing socio-constitutional behavioral practices, it is proposed to conditionally distinguish between civic and public participation. On the example of such practices of civic participation as volunteering, it is noted that the constitutional legitimization of models of civic participation is important, as a result of which such behavior acquires legal significance.

Individual Regulation of Legal Relationships in Science and Engineering in the Conditions of Digitalization: A Theoretical Legal Aspect

The author creates evidence-based knowledge about the essence of individual regulation of legal relations, revealing the features of this type of regulation in the scientific and technological sphere in the context of the digitalization of civil society. The increasing role of individual regulation is substantiated in connection with the openness of society, the existing processes of its self-organization, as well as the need for self-realization of individuals. It has been established that the development of individual regulation in the scientific and technological sphere is facilitated by the lack of proper legal regulation of new social relations. The article analyzes the existing approaches to individual regulation in legal science, identifies the differences between legal and individual regulation of legal relations. The theoretical debatable nature of the concept of «individual legal regulation» has been proved. Results of a research can be used in law-making activity, including in the process of interaction between civil society and the state, aimed at improving the legal regulation of the scientific and technological sphere, in the subsequent scientific research.

Law and Social Justice in the B.A. Kistyakovskiy`s Doctrine

The article analyzes the views of the representative of the Russian sociological school of law, a supporter of the ideas of the right state and civil society B. A. Kistyakovsky on the problem of law and social justice. It is established that social justice, according to the scientist, could not exist outside of a legal society with a developed legal culture, values and freedom of choice. It is doctrinally justified that the true existence of law in the concept of B. A. Kistyakovsky was not in formal normativism, but in the consciousness of the whole society, which influenced the knowledge of law as a social phenomenon, the so-called «just law».

Participation of Members of the Public in the Development of a Provisional Government Reform in the Local Self-Government Sphere

The paper considers the prerequisites and general trends in the development of local government in Russia during the Provisional Government and the issue of participation of the organized public in the reform activities of the Provisional Government, aimed at reorganizing the system of local government. The victory of the February Revolution raised the question of how the government in the center and in the localities will work. Provisional Government took a course towards building an updated system of municipal government and indicated this in the Declaration of March 3, 1917. On March 23 Counsel on the reform of local government and administration under the Ministry of the Interior was formed. It was engaged in legal support of the local government reform. Experienced zemstvo and city actors, as well as notable representatives of the scientific community, took part in the work of the Counsel, thanks to which the Provisional Government managed to achieve certain success in the formation of the beginnings of a new Russian civil society, built on a system of full-fledged realization of the rights and freedoms of citizens through local authorities. However, due to the slowness and certain actual problems, the reorganization was not finished.

Issues of the Freedom of Worship in Africa (on the Example of Christian Communities)

In this article we propose the analyze of positions of persecuted Christian communities in African countries in the context of violation of freedom of religion. It includes the facts of persecution, markers of most vulnerable for extremists countries, main actors and examples of protection of African Christians.

A Comparative Country Analysis of Legal and Management Bases of Regulation of Migration Processes

Changes in the types of economic, political and legal behavior, social interests and forms of their protection in the modern world are connected, among other things, with migration processes. With economic, labour and demographic potential, migration carries social, political and other risks that are perceived with concern by the titular population and can lead to threats to public stability and national interests if the State does not take appropriate regulatory measures. Migration risks can be seen as a factor in the emergence of tension in the host society, as well as ethnic, religious, socio-economic conflict situations. On the other hand, migration processes have an impact on the social development of recipient states, reflected in the legal frameworks and management mechanisms of regulation of migration, labour market, employment, social sphere. «The Global Compact for Safe has been an important goal of the social adaptation of foreign nationals into the host society while creating favorable conditions for social harmony and promoting the integration of migrants. The article conducted a country comparative analysis of the legal and management frameworks for regulating migration processes in the main recipient states.

The Establishment of the Theoretical Legal Research Methodology in the Works by Pre-Revolutionary Legal Scientists

The article explores the ideas of pre-revolutionary legal scholars on the methods of studying classical theoretical and legal problems. The key ideas and directions for the development of the domestic pre-revolutionary methodology are outlined. Studies of civil society, which were intensively develop in pre-revolutionary Russia, are an important object of methodological research by pre-revolutionary legal scholars.

Constitutional Principles of Law as a Ground of the Civil Society (Based on Russian and Armenian Law)

The article compares the constitutional principles of law of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia. The author structures the material based on the classification of constitutional principles of law, within which the principles are divided into general legal, intersectoral and sectoral. The constitutional principles of law are considered as the foundation of civil society.

State Modernization Issues in the Range of Problems of Public Congresses of the Early XX Century

The article examines the role and place of state modernization issues in the problems of public congresses in Russia at the beginning of the XX century. Significant attention is paid to the statements of the delegates Pirogovsky congresses of doctors and Congress leaders on technical and vocational education 1903-1904 on issues of national importance, and also analyzes the role of social conventions in shaping public opinion of the period under review, the origin and development of civil society institutions.

Ethnic and Race Problems in a Federal State (Based on the Results of the U.S. Presidential Campaign of 2020)

The United States, originally formed as a haven for immigrants of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, has felt the inefficiency of its famous «melting pot»since the beginning of the XXI century. In this ethnically-and racially-conflicted state, one of the long-standing problems was considered to be the problem of African-Americans, who after World War II dispersed outside the southern states. This problem was only partially solved, and the policy of positive discrimination in favor of blacks in recent years has become increasingly critical. At the same time, the country, in which the proportion of white citizens is sharply decreasing and the number of Spanish-speaking people and people of Asian origin is increasing, is experiencing an increasing cultural, civilizational and geographical split. During the 2020 presidential campaign, the United States faced not only an epidemic of coronavirus infection, but also unprecedented protest activity, which was a test for the outdated mechanism of this federal state. The domestic political crisis might have been averted or mitigated if the United States had had a more centralized model of federalism, which would have strengthened administrative coordination and allowed ethno-racial egoism to be contained within certain limits.