Vasilii Frolov

The article discusses the specifics of financial support for the Prosecutor’s Office of the Pskov region in the second half of the 1970s - 1980s. This work was written on the basis of previously unpublished materials and documents of the State Archive of the Pskov Region. The author used systemic and comparative historical methods for solving research problems in this article. This work can be useful to all those who are interested in the history of law enforcement bodies of the USSR.

The article presents an analysis of modern Russian historiography of Russian and Russian-speaking population position in the Baltic countries in the post-Soviet period. Particular attention is paid to the coverage in historical science of the problems of mass statelessness, legal and political discrimination of the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic republics. The article notes the fact that the authorities of the Baltic States are implementing the policy of overt and covert assimilation of the Russian-speaking population for a long time in their territories. According to the results of the study, the author concludes that Russian political scientists and historians unanimously agree that the Baltic republics authorities have been implementing a discriminatory policy against the Russian population for nearly 30 years, which does not comply with international law.

The article discusses the activities of the prosecutor's office of the Pskov region to improve the educational level and professional qualifications of its employees in the 1960s. This work was written on the basis of previously unpublished materials and documents of the State Archive of the Pskov Region. The author used structural-functional analysis, systemic and historical-genetic methods for solving research problems in this article. This work may be useful to all those who are interested in the history of law enforcement agencies of the USSR.

The article analyzes the modern domestic historiography of the bodies of the Soviet Prosecutor's Office in 1955–1991. The source base of the research is the works of legal science representatives, historians of law and civil history researchers, published over the past ten years (2009–2018). This analysis allows us to present more objectively the development process of the Soviet prosecutor's office during the so-called “thaw” period, the era of “stagnation” and “perestroika”. Based on a historiographical analysis, the author also finds poorly studied aspects of the problem and prospects for further historical and legal research in this area.