Editor's Introduction : The "New" Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

The Concept for Ensuring Internal Security Within the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs outlines goals, principles, and measures of ensuring internal security, defines threats to internal security and criteria for assessing the state of internal security, assigns responsibility for ensuring internal security, and sets out key areas of protection of internal security in the MVD.     

Penal Execution Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Order No. 77 defines the procedure for departmental control (inspections and checks) of police units and subdivisions by the MVD chiefs.     

解读《刑法修正案(六)》

《刑法修正案(六)》增设了群众活动重大安全事故罪等新的犯罪,对有些犯罪的构成要件进行了修改,从而需要对公司、企业人员受贿罪等犯罪的罪名予以变更,个别罪名(违法向关系人发放贷款罪)因已丧失独立存在价值而应当取消。     

Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan,No. 231-V of July 4, 2014 (with amendments and additions as of November 24, 2015)

This issue contains translation of Chapters 44–51 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, dealing with the judicial investigation, pleadings, and sentencing in the criminal trial, trial in cases of private prosecution, appellate proceedings, and execution of court decisions in criminal cases.     

Editor's Introduction

The future of socialism and of the former Soviet Union is the unifying theme of this issue of Russian Politics and Law. Swedish sociologist Per Månson asks whether the historic events of 1989-91 toll the death knell of the entire era of socialism or whether they signify the end merely of the Soviet variant of an otherwise viable ideology. Any answer to this question largely depends on whether the observer regards the former Soviet Union as having been a deformation of "genuine" socialism rather than its very embodiment. Månson believes the USSR was a caricature of real socialism, which, he argues, requires democratic control of the economy, not state control. Although Månson provides an excellent summary of the contradictions of social democracy, he does not explore in depth the posited distinction between "democratic" and "state" control of the economy in a democratic state.     

Editor's Introduction

The regular 22nd Congress of the CPSU held in October 1961 summarized the results of the enormous activities of the Party and the Soviet people. A grandiose plan for the building of communist society in our country was set forth in the Program adopted by the Congress and in the decisions of the Congress.