The article deals with positive and negative role of game actions in law; game elements of law and law games are highlighted; it is concluded that there is a discrepancy between the type of mind and personality appropriate for the game and the type of mind and personality commonly found in Russian national character; in the author’s opinion the Russian legal nihilism is maintained by that circumstance.

In Western Europe the law evolved from material hypostasis tovirtual, from facts to concepts, from particular practices to systematization and conceptualization, if understanding the conceptualization as a generalization of specific incidents, bringing them to abstract concepts and normativity and the law as a semiotic system, which, from legal discourse, has evolved through legal techniques in a legal structure based on justice. A diachronic approach helps to clarify the essence of law as a discourse and the emergence of normativity in the evolution of legal discourse, which gives an opportunity to put a more global issue in a cultural perspective. From what must the rule be derived - from facts as in Roman law or from the discourse?

This article is the third in a series of articles devoted to the problem of formation and development of the Russian model of federalism in the context of the world federalism. The author aims, as in previous articles, to show the originality and uniqueness of the Russian experience. However, the article addresses the question of the need to rethink a number of provisions from the perspective of the changing political situation in the world.

The article deals with historical collisions form of government of the United States, taking into account the divergent views on the Alliance between Southern and Northern States. Based on the analysis of the legal foundations of U.S. and alternative models of governance organization, as upposition is made about the reality of the disintegration threat for the American Federation under the crisis of economic and ideological paradigm.

The article deals with problems of legal regulation of the administrative and jurisdictional process, driven by the need of to its improvement.

The article analyses actions of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on maintenance of stability of national currency in terms of sanctions and falling oil prices. It also gives a legal assessment of various actions of the Bank of Russia at the present stage and considers their implications for the economy of the Russian Federation.

The article presents a legal analysis of the current legislation in the area of auditing activities during its transition to International auditing standards, provides an assessment of adopted changes in the legislation on auditing activities during the implementation of the ISA on the territory of the Russian Federation.

This article considers essential at the present time questions of the legislative regulation of protection and use of the fauna in the Russian Federation. The analysis of the RF modern legislation in the indicated area, including the RF Law “On wildlife protection”, that in many respects determines the legal regime of the fauna, is important and interesting both from the point of view of studying peculiarities of the faunaas an object of use and protection and also in the context of practical realization (law application) corresponding to the standards of the acting RF legislation.

The article gives a legal description of the new Russian civil law institutions - pre-contractual liability and the agreement on the modalities for negotiations on conclusion of the contract, and their role in the implementation of the principle of good faith in negotiations on the conclusion of the contract.

The article analyses specifics of trust management of exclusive rights. It compares the trust agreement to other civil legal obligations arising from the use of rights to the results of intellectual activity and individualization means.

There is a question in the article about necessity of development of legal mechanism, which can provide effective implementation of innovations in the business, including innovations transfer to the industrial sphere for obtaining a new product, work, service, method, technology, with their subsequent commercialization and consumption.

The article raises issues of organization of entrepreneurs legal work while contracting foreign partners, with account of changes in the rules of the Civil code of the Russian Federation regarding the form of a foreign economic transaction.

In this article the author analyses the definitions of “family” existing in the family and legal doctrine, proves the need of entering of this concept into the present family legislation. In order to protect the rights and legitimate interests of family members the author proposes an introduction into the current legislation of the Russian Federation of a new statutory concept - “the family contract”.

This article deals with a new kind of labour contract in the Russian Federation - a labour contract with a teleworker. The author clarifies typical terms and conditions of labour contract, analyses the peculiarities of the contract-making procedure.

The article considers the main issues of criminal liability for crimes against justice by the criminal code of Slovak Republic, the main elements of criminal offence, and also bases for exemption from criminal liability.

The author deals in this article with the stance of the countries towards the International law. He points out at the implications and weakening of International law creation effectiveness and its application. He also outlines that the states give preference to their own interests and to privating the international and national ones. In that context an attention is given to the new interpretation of International law.

The article is dedicated to a number of implementation issues of the Juveniles’ constitutional rights to the freedom of creativity in the Russian Federation and, in particular, numerous violations of young professional artists’ labour rights.

This article discusses the grounds for force liquidation procedure. There is an attempt of theoretical separation of such grounds for the general and specific, depending on their nature and conditions of practice application. In addition, the article presents principles of forced liquidation procedure.