DOI: 10.7256/2454-0706.2019.1.43192

Abstract: The subject of this research is the legislation on the territories of traditional natural resource management and array of regulations determining the rights of indigenous peoples to use natural resources, as well as the established law enforcement practice with regards to implementation of the traditional economic activity. The study aims to determine the full extent of realization of positions of the Article 69 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in Russian legislation, as well as conceptual justification of the changes required for creation of the mechanism that guarantees realistic implementation of the constitutional right of the indigenous peoples to preserve their traditional way of life. The historical and comparative-legal methods allow giving general characteristics to the two stages of development of the institution of traditional natural resource management. Based on assessment of the federal and regional legislation, as well as the law enforcement practice (including the responsibility for unlawful natural resource exploitation), the author suggests to revise the ideological doctrine that predetermines the development of national legislation in this area; formulates the changes that should be introduced to the legal and regulatory framework of the rights of indigenous peoples to natural resource management in terms of realization of the traditional economic activity. The results of the research demonstrate that the orientation towards limitation of indigenous peoples economy to the natural exchange essentially contradicts the fact that the members of the indigenous peoples are practically deprived of the preference to natural resource management in their original habitat. It is proven that the need to establish the duty of the government authorities to provide the communities with land suitable for conducting traditional economic activity in order to compensate them for their original land that is now being used by mineral developers, loggers, industrial or other objects.

DOI: 10.7256/2306-9945.2018.3.27376

Abstract: When implementing a new legislative institution of conflict of interest in the activities of a deputy of a representative body of a municipality, problems arose due to the lack of formal certainty in the Russian legal system in the procedure for a deputy to notify him of a personal interest that may affect his exercise of authority. The peculiarities of the status of a deputy, the specificity of the law-making activity being carried out cause the emergence of differences between the institution for settling the conflict of interests of a representative of a representative body, including in terms of the procedure from such an institution in the state (municipal) service. The subject of the research is the regulatory legal acts regulating the procedure for the deputies to perform the representative body of the municipality to notify about the occurrence of a conflict of interest. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of possible options for notification procedures, determined by the differentiation of parliamentary activities. The factors subject to consideration when determining the subject of notification and resolution of a conflict of interest of a deputy are subject to investigation. The dialectic method of cognition was used as well as the system-structural, formal-logical and other methods of scientific knowledge. The study made it possible to conclude that the absence at the federal level of legal regulation of the general provisions of the procedure for notifying a representative of a municipal body of a personal interest at a federal level reduces the effectiveness of anti-corruption activities, and also creates legal risks of political extra-legal influence on a deputy carrying out representation interests of their voters. Therefore, it is proposed to empower the regional legislator to determine the basic principles in accordance with which the procedure for notification of a conflict of interest by a deputy of a representative body of a municipality should be established in municipal legal acts.