DOI: 10.7256/2409-7543.2015.2.16047

Abstract: The article considers the criminal responsibility of persons guilty of bad repair services provision and malfunctioning vehicles launching, and responsible for the technical condition of these vehicles and transport equipment. The author pays attention to the peculiarities of judicial practice of application of the existing legislation provisions in this sphere, and to the elucidations of the highest judicial bodies which help to unify the judicial practice. The methodology of the research is based on the set of general scientific and special methods: the methods of analysis, synthesis, systematization and generalization, the formal-logical method. The author defines the peculiarities of use of the existing legislation containing the legal norms devoted to the provision of the observation of rules in the sphere of repair services and launching of vehicles and the establishing of responsibility for their violation. The conclusions of the study can be used by law-enforcement bodies, students, post-graduates and those interested in jurisprudence. 

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7543.2015.2.15878

Abstract:  The subject of the research is cluster policy as a set of measures taken by the public authorities and aimed at the formation and development of clusters in Russian economics. The author shows that government regulation of the economy by means of the clusters approach is a logical result of development of the modern market economy and its regulation by the government. Special attention is paid to the revelation of the risks of cluster policy and their systematization according to their composition. The author shows the connection of risks with the cluster policy efficiency. The research is based on the dialectical approach, understanding the contradictions as a driving force of development. The author uses the methods of comparative, retrospective and systems analysis. The paper reveals the tendency of transformation of the phenomenon of market competition in modern conditions. The author shows that it is a combination of elements of competitive and cooperative relations, and clusters are one of the forms of institutionalization of such contradictory relations. Due to the fact that clusters serve as the poles of economic growth it is necessary to develop and realize the special government policy – the cluster policy. The author explains the thesis that cluster policy is based on the indirect instruments of regulation which is connected with the conflict of interests of its subjects and objects. The author offers the classification of the main risks of cluster policy. It is offered to differentiate three groups of risks - those connected with the external environment of a cluster functioning, with the activity of the cluster’s subjects, and with the work of public authorities. 

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7543.2015.2.15866

Abstract: Basic capital investment is the main catalyst of a dynamic economic growth. Due to the institutional changes in the sphere of property, the investment market becomes more dependent on the motivation of investors in the existing market conditions. The investment level depends on the socio-economic situation in the country and on the external challenges. The research is aimed at the assessment of the influence of investments on the dynamics of the GDP and of the possibilities of investments stimulation in a complicated situation on the finance market in the conditions of restrictions and anti-Russian sanctions. The authors use the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison, and grouping. The empirical base contains the statistical data which allows analyzing structural shifts, tendencies and sources of financing of basic capital investments. The authors define the interactions between the investment dynamics and the GDP for the period from 1990 till 2014. The results of the research are presented in a graphical form. The authors substantiate the conclusions about the increase of influence of corporate structures on the activation of investment activities in certain sectors of the economy, and define the role of the government and the importance of foreign investments in the investment sphere. The authors reveal the logic of a more rapid growth of economy in relation to basic capital investments in terms of its renewal. The multiplier effect appears when modernizing basic capital. 

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7543.2015.2.16097

Abstract: The subject of the research is a range of economic interrelations in regional economics in the sphere of economic security. The object of the research includes industrial and agro-industrial sectors of regional economics. The author considers the advantages of cluster integration for the solution of the most important issues of economic and biosafety of a region. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the applied methods in terms of the existing situation on the international scene and to the consideration of these problems in Moscow region. The author uses the methods of abstraction, deduction, induction, logics, and the method of economic statistics. The author enumerates the government interests which are realized by means of strengthening of economic clusters in the regions. The author assesses the positive and negative sides of integration within the clusters. The author attempts to predict the prospect of the future development of industrial and agro-industrial clusters of regional economics. 

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7543.2015.2.15453

Abstract: The subject of the paper is the range of social relations in the sphere of criminal-legal assessment of hypnosis. The author considers the issues of influence of hypnotism on the state of the victim within the criminal law, and criminal hypnotism as a specific method of crime, paying particular attention to the definition of the condition of helplessness of the victim and the need for changes in the existing legislation for the purpose of full and correct qualification of crimes and formation of the judicial practice. The author uses the following methods: historical, legal, sociological and the method of comparative law. The novelty of this research lies in the definition of a common understanding of the essence of hypnosis which does not require other interpretations in the context of other fields of science. The main conclusions of the research are: 1) Hypnotism should be understood as a procedure, a method of immersing a person in a special psycho-physiological state, distinct from wakefulness and sleep, characterized by a temporary restriction of consciousness and inhibition of certain sections of the brain, which maintains the rapport of a hypnotized and a hypnotist. 2) To solve the mentioned problems it is appropriate to amend the Federal law "On the bases of health protection of citizens of the Russian Federation": to include the proposed understanding of hypnotism in the article 2, to include the prohibition of hypnotism except for the medical or scientific purposes in the chapter 5. 3) It is necessary to amend the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia "On the court practice in murder cases (art. 105 of the Criminal Code) and "On the judicial practice in cases on crimes against sexual inviolability and sexual freedom of the person", namely to refer in their text on hypnosis as an example of the state of helplessness of the victim.