Andrej Viktorovich Seregin
Associate professor of the department of state legal disciplines of the Rostov Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice, candidate of legal sciences
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Annotation: the feature analyzes the origins of the Slavic legal culture that affect the current reality of the organization of political power. Special attention is paid to the question of finding some optimal shape of the Russian state, taking into account its rich historical experience. The relevance of the study is to debunk the myth about the evolutionary history of the forms of the Slavic states. It is proposed to analyze the evolution of the medieval forms of the Slavic states to identify their legal and historical similarities and differences, knowledge of which would allow to solve successfully the international legal and domestic state problems.

Keywords: legal culture, Middle Ages, form of state, Slavs, law, ancient Russia, veche, state territorial structure, constitution, state legal regime.

Susanna Eduardovna Arutjunova
Associate Professor of the department of state and legal disciplines of the Saratov State Law Academy, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor
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Annotation: the article concerns some topical aspects of the status of civil servants. Professionalism and competence, transparency, public oversight, anti-corruption, ethics and culture in the activities of an employee of one or the other type of public service are essential elements of formation of legal consciousness, reflect the population’s attitude to the law, and thus to the public authorities’ bodies in persons of modern officials. The key problem of public service today can be called the decline of its prestige and credibility in society.

Annotation: The main purpose of the article is the analysis of legal culture in the activities of modern civil servants, the quality of recruitment of professional personnel in the public service’s system.

Keywords: state, public administration, public servant, transparency of public service, legal culture, anti-corruption.

Gavrilova Julija Alexandrovna
Associate Professor of the department of theory and history of law and state of the Volgograd State University, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor
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Annotation: the relevance of the chosen topic of the article is related to that within the frameworks of the problem of the law understanding the correlation of the normative and axiological components of the law remain unclear, although all scholars recognize the significance of each of these components. The feature discusses the normative-value approach to law, according to which the legal values, mediated by ideas and requirements of the expedient legal regulation and the law norms express the basic semantic content as the current legislation and practice of its implementation, and taken in unity are simultaneously the most generic and fundamental characteristics of the legal progress, those of the level of development of legal culture of society. In result, the legal culture represents nothing but “a concentrated expression” of the sense of law in this specific historical society.

Keywords: sense of law, norm of law, legal value, legal culture, legal progress, needs, interests, goals.

Andrej Valer'evich Skorobogatov
Professor of the department of state legal disciplines of the Kazan Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice, doctor of historical sciences, associate professor
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Alexandr Valer'evich Krasnov
Associate professor of the department of theory and history of law and state of the Kazan branch of the Russian Academy of Justice, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor
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Annotation: the purpose of the feature consists in a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of legal behavior in legal reality. On the basis of the post-classical scientific paradigm this feature argues that legal behavior is an ordered set of socially important acts of individual determined by psychological, social and legal factors, first of all, a legal archetype, and targeted at meeting the legal needs (interests and aspirations) in order to obtain a socially beneficial or acceptable outcome. One highlighted the essential properties of legal behavior, in particular social, psychological, legal, political ones. Being determined not only with legal, but also with socio-cultural factors this category allows to define the degree of involvement of individual into legal reality.

Keywords: legal behavior, legal reality, legal experience, legal awareness, unwritten law.

Vasilij Nikolaevich Babenko
Professor of the department of theory and history of law and state and philosophy of the All-Russian State University of Justice, doctor of historical sciences, professor
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Annotation: the feature discusses the main directions of legal policy in Ukraine during 1991–2016. Its essence and content had experienced a big impact of inconsistency and discrepancy of internal and external policy by the Ukrainian leadership, which until February 2014, sought to balance between the European Union and Russia, meanwhile neglecting the national interests of the country. All this led to the coup d’état of 2014, a major overhaul of the foreign policy and socio-economic strategy and a radical change in legal policy.

Keywords: Ukraine, legal policy, legal system, foreign policy strategy, 1991–2016, Russia, European Union, NATO, coup d’état of 2014.

Alexandr Alexandrovich Bondarev
Head of the department of special training of the Oryol law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. V. Lukyanov, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor
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Milana Alexandrovna Boeva
Instructor of the department of special training of the Oryol law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. V. Lukyanov, candidate of legal Sciences, associate professor
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Annotation: the feature examines the most important objective and subjective factors determining the process of formation, functioning and development of legal awareness of the state and municipal officials within the context of contemporary Russian realities. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the correlation of the legal consciousness of the stated categories of civil officials with their moral and political consciousness, their level of professionalism, as well as the condition of the socio-economic and political situation in the country. One justifies the necessity of formation in the modern Russian state of the institute of the constitutional responsibility of public officials.

Keywords: legal culture, legal consciousness, moral consciousness, civil officials, legitimacy, competence, legal nihilism.

Vjacheslav Vladimirovich Gur'ev
First deputy director of the Volga Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice, candidate of economic sciences
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Anna Anatol'evna Rozhdestvina
Dean of the faculty of additional education of the Volga Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice
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Annotation: the article is devoted to consideration of some aspects of the formation of culture of detecting and solving social and labour contradictions, which is a part of the legal culture of the state, the bearers of which are all citizens carrying out labor functions. The article focuses its attention on new methods of formation of culture like social audit as a method of detecting social and labour contradictions, that of mediation and mediative approach as methods of solving social and labor contradictions. The authors note that the choice of methods depends on the type of a social and labour contradiction.

Keywords: social-labour contradictions, culture, detection, resolution, social audit, mediation, mediative approach.

Ljudmila Alexandrovna Brusenskaja
Professor of the department of the Russian language and speech culture of the Rostov state economic university (Rostov institute of national economy (RINH))
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Jella Germanovna Kulikova
Professor of the department of liberal arts and socio-economic disciplines of the Rostov Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice, doctor of philological sciences, professor
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Annotation: the urgency of this feature is connected with the necessity of the revival of the legal rhetorics. For your persuasive speech you need the ability to see the problem from inside, to analyze alternatives, to build arguments and counterarguments. The feature reveals the notion of a topos as one of the most ancient and fundamental concepts of rhetorics in general and rhetorics in law in particular. One can talk about two types of the toposes: public and private ones. Common toposes contribute to the deployment of the text, and private ones are a thematic repertoire proper. Common toposes include the division of the subject into kinds, private ones – the introduction of specific topics.

Keywords: topos, legal rhetorics, text, law, concept, fact, event.

Jurij Georgievich Torbin
Professor of the All-Russian State University of Justice, doctor of legal sciences, professor
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Annotation: the article is devoted to the characteristics of the legal culture of an investigator, which should contribute to the effectiveness of execution of an examination as an investigative action, aiming primarily at the detection of traces of a crime or special signs on the body of a living person.

Keywords: legal culture, professional culture, procedural requirements, investigator, morality, ethics, tactic techniques, examination, examined person, investigative action.