The rules that protect consumers could be traced back to Roman law. Later they were supplemented and modified, and now they are reflected in modern law of foreign countries and Russian law. Roman law regulated in detail the rights of the buyer and the seller’s obligations in case of defects of goods sold. Roman law manifests the features of the legal position of consumers, which are inherent in modern consumer legislation, arising from the liability of the seller for inadequate quality of goods and for selling goods that have hidden defects, as well as the buyer’s right to receive truthful information about the product

The article deals with the problem of creating single information space in the subjects of the Russian Federation. The author outlines the ways of development of the state strategy which in the shortest possible time would ensure the creation of a single information space in the subjects of the Russian Federation

The article deals with problems of enshrining duties of Russian Federation citizens in the constitution. The authors examine the historical aspect of constitutional duties and problems of practical realization of basic duties of RF citizens

In the contemporary history the problem of Muslim immigrants has become topical. In the German discourse there appeared a question concerning the interaction of immigrants and the society accepting them. Legal institutes got involved in that dialogue

The article is based on relevant doctrinal sources. It deals with the peculiarities of Russian legislation on legal entities in the field of physical culture and sports. The authors study the problems and shortcomings of laws about the sport focusing their attention on such an important theoretical problem as the limits of legal regulation of sports organizations and their legal status. Having analysed legal acts and regulations relating to the issue, the author arrives to relevant conclusions.

The article deals with the judicial and extra-judicial ways of execution upon mortgaged movable property and conditions of execution. The authors propose to amend the existing legislation in order to optimize the procedure of foreclosure.

The article deals with procedural problems relating to the setting and conducting a forensic medical examination of a corpse. The authors analyse the possibility of their solution as a method of preliminary forensic examination through the usage in forensic practice innovative scientific-practical tech-niques of non-invasive (without the use of abdominal dissection of the body) ways of au-topsy - “virtual” autopsy carried out with the use of x-ray method of computed tomography (CT) and 3-D technologies.

Activities of such a modern civil legal form of apartment building management, as association of homeowners has not only advantages, but also involves liability according to the legislation of the Russian Federation. For successful functioning of a homeowners’ association in the management of apartment buildings, it is necessary to perform one’s du-ties in a fair and proper way. In case of failure or improper exercise of these obligations direct legal liability ensues. Despite significant development of the legal basis of homeowners’ liaibility there are many problems and unresolved issues. Independent civil liability is one of the hallmarks of a legal entity, and respectively, a homeowners’ association. This characteristic is enshrined in the Civil code of the Russian Federation and the Housing code of the Russian Federation

The authors consider problem of English and Abkhazian fixed phrases that have gender orientation. It was found that the vast majority of English phraseological units have referents-men, while in the Abkhazian language more gender-marked units are based on female categories.

The article analyzes the concept of pun and language game in the aspect of correlation of their theoretical linguistic and functional constituents, as well as the concept of carnivalization, which is built into this series as a specific feature of the nonstandard speech.

The article analises marriage trends during the XIV-XV-th centuries, as well as institutions of public order which con-trolled not only spiritual and emotional sphere, but also economic and political life of the family.

The article analyses the conflict around Vsevolozhskys’ fishing crafts in 1853-1856. It was a result of the introduction of repurchase of transporting salt from salt lakes to the shops of the Stavropol region.

The article deals with sentiments among students and academic community of social studies’ scholars as well as intellectual atmosphere in local societies of the Soviet Union in the 1940 -s - early 1950-s. The author examines the mechanism of influence of social sciences on mass consciousness of the Soviet society

In the article a complex of problems in context of royalty development is considered. The issue of time of emergence and the role of regal power in state genesis is debatable. The author pays attention to differences of opinion among Anglo-American medievalists.Nevertheless, they unanimously agree about decisive influence of the Crown on many aspects of social-economic and political life of Early Medieval England.

In the article, the problem of notarial service in the context of Soviet political and legal system in the 1920-s is analyzed. Having studied some social practices of Stavropol province population the author concluded that the notary offices in the region functioned uninter-raptedly in spite of the Russian revolution.

The article analyzes the everyday life of Montparnasse, an area in Paris which was the artistic center of the city in the 1920-s. The analysis is based on the memories of a French artists’ model, actress and painter Alice Ernestine Pren known as Kiki de Montparnasse

Article is devoted to insufficiently studied aspects of the early history of Cossacks villages of Cuban line regiment during the first ten years of its service on the new Caucasian border. On the basis of archival and published documents, the author studies the religious features of migrants, the statistics of their migrations and describes the first officers’ staff of the Cuban regiment. The author offers solutions to the research problems that have not been resolved by the previous imperial and Soviet regional historiography.

The article is devoted to social unrest in Russia in 1648-1650, the Author makes the generalization of the accumulated results of their research unrest. He discusses the most relevant aspects of this problem: history, social structure, geography, the conceptual apparatus

The research paper is devoted to studying issues which contributed to the decline of priests’ morale in the North Caucasus, as well as the causes and consequences of this phenomenon.

The article analyzes the ritual hierarchy of French peers in the procedure of the royal ceremony of initiation (le sacre royal) and the causes of this general historical tradition. The basis of the research paper is the coronation ordines - regulations of the inaugural ceremony of French monarchy during the IX-XIV centuries.

The subject of the article is peasants’ struggle against significant increase in local taxes, the climax of which was the uprising of peasants in the village of Alexandria in November 1914. The revolt resulted in clashes with the police and took a toll of human lives. Military District Court sentenced the peasants to severe punishments. However, the sentence was mitigated under the influence of public opinion.

The article deals with the civilizational aspects of World War I origins and its after-math as well as its role in the transformation of the foundations of the European civilization in the twentieth century.

In the article the author has tried to jus-tify the point of view that it was in the early twentieth century that the press started to get used for the formation of public opinion.

The article deals with the scientific problem of historic conformity of the Buddhism of the Russian Kalmyks at the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX century with the Tibetan original of this dogma, as well as religious links of the Kalmyk Buddhist community (Sangha) with the spiritual center of Lamaism in Lhasa. The aspects of the Tibetan Buddhism (Lamaism) are examined within the context of pre-revolutionary culture of Stavropol province. The authors show the influence of this religion on provincial culture on the example of publications in the newspaper “The North Caucasus” and the exposition in the Stavropol Museum.

This article discusses political management in two ways: as political technology related to the managerial function of policy’s actors, and as a part of political science, its subdiscipline and an area of political studies. Various scientific approaches to the concepts of political management, political technologies in modern political science discourse are analysed. The authors examine new approaches to the concept of electoral management, e-government and others which at present are increasingly attracting the attention of researchers and policy makers.

The article compares ratings of three Russian presidents, analyzes the features of their perception by public opinion, and also examines the phenomenon of the socalled «rating push» by which the author explains the high approval of a politician, who becomes the successor of the current president.

The paper deals with the essence of “think tank” phenomenon. The authors offer their own definition and feature the characteristics of modern “think tanks”. Analysing the USA «think tanks» the authors reveal the mechanisms of functioning, influence and participation in foreign policy decision making in the modern state.

The author analyses the problem of possibility to identify postindustrial society as postmodern society. She proves the thesis that the transformation in industrial, economic and scientific spheres of modern society should be described on the basis of the reality of postmodern culture, the characteristics of postmodern ideology and the postmodern worldview.

Under the influence of the linguistic turn the paradigm of modern philosophizing is being transformed. The problems of language are coming to the forefront. According to constructivism any knowledge including philosophy is constructed by the subject. Applying this approach to philosophical hermeneutics we can conclude that the comprehension is also constructed in the process of mastering or interpreting a text.

The author examines the probem of cultural interaction as a factor of ensuring cultural stability. Russia is presented as a specific socio-cultural type within the frame of which the synthesis of western and oriental cultures is possible. As a result, a new integral civilizational type can be created.