Keyword: «history of state and law»

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.

Political myths have been existing from ancient times. Being a form of social consciousness, they always reflect the interests of a narrow social group. They can motivate the population of the country to creative activity or cause chaos, the collapse of society and the state. This article is devoted to the analysis of the latter situation, when the destruction of a certain political myth or the creation of a new one can have an influence on the very possibility of the collapse or destruction of the state.