Volume 4, Nº 2 (2025)

Purpose of the study. This paper examines the key strategic legal acts regulating the development of the Arctic, including the decree of the President of Russia on the development strategy until 2035 and laws that provide support for entrepreneurship and investment activities in this region, including the recently adopted federal law of 13.07.2020 № 193-FZ “On state support for entrepreneurial activity in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation”. Conclusions. The authors of the paper emphasize the importance and necessity of creating an investment fund for the development of the Arctic, which will operate within the framework of public-private partnership and focus on sustainable development and innovative technologies in the Arctic zone. The article discusses aspects of forming the legal structure of the fund, creating mechanisms to protect the rights of investors and ensuring transparency of financial flows. According to the authors, the Arctic Development Investment Fund can become the basis for the development of key sectors of the Arctic zone economy, contributing to economic growth and sustainable development of the region. Taking into account all the above-mentioned aspects, the creation of the Arctic Development Fund will start a new era for the Russian Arctic, turning it into an important element of the global economy with the participation of the Russian Federation.

Purpose of the study. The article examines the problems of theory and practice related to the reform of the notary system in Russia. It is determined that strengthening state control over the activities of notaries should be carried out in compliance with the principle of independence, self-financing and self-government of the notary, which will ensure the desired balance of public and private elements in the notary sphere. It is determined that the unjustified expansion of the functionality of justice bodies in matters determining the organization of notary activities calls into question its effectiveness as one of the most popular forms of protecting the rights of citizens and legal entities in the context of undisputed jurisdiction.

This article examines the features and priority areas of national policy implemented in Russia and China in the field of waste management using the example of the main strategic planning documents, as well as the legislative framework for regulating relations in this area. This topic is extremely relevant in the context of the objectively existing need to solve the problems of waste generation, their negative impact on the environment, living conditions of the population, which requires taking measures aimed at ensuring a favorable environmental situation and environmental rights of citizens, the transition to a closed-loop economy. The purpose of this study is to identify common trends, legal mechanisms and positive Russian-Chinese experience in implementing the most significant political and legal decisions aimed at achieving national goals of ensuring environmental well-being in terms of reducing the amount of waste generated, increasing their recycling and disposal. The use of the comparative legal method allowed us to analyze the approaches used in Russia and China to solving the problems existing in this area, as well as to draw the main conclusions and substantiate the proposals set out in the article, aimed, among other things, at clarifying the conceptual apparatus, waste classification, requirements for processing, recycling and rendering harmless municipal (household) and industrial waste, and effective management of their circulation.

The need to restore the multipolarity of the world has actualized the task of ensuring the proper level of protection of the legally protected interests of Russia, the rights and legitimate interests of organizations and citizens from socially dangerous encroachments, including in the economic sphere. The solution to this problem is objectively associated with determining the optimal balance between the rights and obligations of victims of crimes and persons who have committed crimes. Today, this area is characterized by many unresolved problems, including the issues of implementing state functions (including economic management in conditions of geopolitical tension) using the means of criminal law policy, ensuring a balance between humanization and tightening of criminal law norms, changing approaches to determining the severity of economic and corruption crimes in the changed geopolitical conditions. The authors formulated proposals for improving the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation.

This article is devoted to the study of modern approaches to organizational counteraction to neo-Nazi activity in the context of rapid development of digital technologies. The features of functioning of radical nationalist structures on the Internet, the effectiveness of current legislative norms and problems of their application, as well as the role of information technologies and public organizations in the fight against extremism are analyzed. It is noted that extremism in the global dimension is one of the most serious threats. The article offers recommendations for improving legal mechanisms and organizational cooperation, including the use of digital platforms.

The article examines the legislative regulation of exemption from criminal liability in connection with reconciliation with the victim. The purpose of the study is to carry out a theoretical and applied analysis of the institution of reconciliation with the victim and its legislative regulation in the light of the criminal law reform carried out in the Republic of Armenia, which resulted in the adoption of a new criminal code (adopted on May 5, 2021, and entered into force on July 1, 2022); to identify legislative gaps and problems that arise in law enforcement practice when implementing this incentive norm; analysis of the positive and negative aspects of the introduced innovations. This is important and useful for improving Armenian criminal legislation and can serve as an interesting experience for the Russian legislator in optimizing the norm on reconciliation with the victim. Conclusions. Based on the conducted research, the author concludes that the Armenian legislator has taken a positive step by making the norm on reconciliation with the victim mandatory.