Law

In this article the author observes international legal acts that regulate the matters of protection of rights and freedoms of the child in present day world. The process of origin and development of the institute of Ombudsmen for Children in different countries of the world, including the Russian Federation, is considered. The author gives special attention to the legal status of the Children’s Rights Commissioners in regions of Russia, compares them to other organizations and institutions for protection of the Rights of Childhood.

The author analyses the questions of legal policy of different levels in the frames of urgent process of decentralization of state power. Regional and municipal forms of legal policy, their concept, principles of forming, aims, goals and content are the main object of research. The author came to the conclusion that the process of decentralization of state governing will be connected with the fact that separate legal policy will be needed on the regional and municipal levels.

The article deals with the analysis of interaction between religious communities and the state in foreign countries. The author has considered countries with different types of state-confessional relations, examined the current religious changes in the world, paid special attention to the Middle East, and has come to the conclusion of the necessity to develop the international dialogue for the purpose of avoiding religious tensions. 

In work the main stages of formation in Saratov of school of sciences of a forensic weaponology are presented. Integration of criminalistic research of the weapon and ammunition with such sciences as physics, chemistry, the physics of explosion and burning, design of the weapon and ammunition, forensic medicine, etc., is noted need of coordination of interdepartmental researches is shown.