Pavel D. Simashenkov

The paper analyzes the legal institution of justifiable defense as a conflict of t legally protected interests. Criticizing the definition of defense, the author suggests the original version of the Criminal code, based on the priority of objective evidence in the justifiable defense’s qualification.

The article is devoted to comparative analysis of modern innovations and traditions of public administration in Russia. By identifying historical trends, the author proves the necessity of the use of national experience of nation-building as opposed to the reception of foreign models «state management».

The paper analyzes the regulatory protection of the rights of religious Russians. According to the results of the comparative historical and legal study, the author proves the redundancy of legal regulation of religion in the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

This article analyzes the technological approach to the understanding and realisation of innovation. Modern focus on the so-called “effective management” in the government essentially demoralizing Russian officials. Overcoming the crisis of managerialism author sees in the implementation of a coherent and consistent human resources policy based on the humanization of government.

The tendency to substitute legal terms to political statements can be perfectly illustrated by public law. The misinterpretation of legal terms appears from an attempt to deduce them directly from regulatory materials. The author considers legal structures the precursor of a norm determining law development. The analysis of the Russian Federation constitutional, administrative, criminal and procedural law regulations allowed the author to focus on typical problems of correlation between legal terminology and political rhetoric in regulatory texts.