Purpose The formation of an information society in Russia requires new approaches in the implementation of citizen’s rights to access information. At a modern time, when the resources of internet are available to almost everyone, the modern financial and legal institutions adapt or are obliged to adapt to the modern model of the information society. Not so long ago, just at the beginning of the twenty-first century, new information and legal concept – Civil budget – was introduced. The authors tried to show concrete examples of what it is, what it is, its structure and principles. The authors believe that the realization of the idea of a Civic budget in the Russian Federation will increase the accessibility of information for citizens about the financial performance and financial state and municipalities will allow the State itself, through its Government and the Parliament, to form the budget, based not only on macroeconomic goals and objectives of the country, and objectives of each, even the most small territorial unit in accordance with the needs of living of its citizens. Design/methodology/approach The problem is not new and, in one way or another, exists in all States, but many countries have undertaken very effective reforms and have made improvements in the situation. For example, in Brazil, in the city of Port Alegre, a budget initiative was launched in 1990. Then, it was “replicated” in 400 prefectures throughout the country. The procedure begins with the assembly of residents of the district, where citizens discuss and outline budget priorities, and ends with the approval of the city budget by delegates directly elected at district assemblies. The success achieved in Porto Alegre was further spread: in 1996-2000, budgeting options were implemented in 100 municipal districts, including São Paulo. In 2000-2004, it is estimated to be implemented in another 250 municipalities. Findings The access of the population to budget information is a positive factor not only from the point of view of budgetary law but also in the legal field of information law. Such an opportunity is a direct implementation of principles of the industry such as the principle of publicity and the principle of priority of individual rights. State bodies that form and execute the state budget are, initially, already subjects of the information law, but the above-mentioned activities for monitoring, collecting and providing information within the framework of the Civil budget concept lead them to a new qualitative level of rights and obligations within the framework of information relations, which is unquestionably a positive factor for the activities of these bodies. Originality/value The authors believe that the realization of the idea of a Civic budget in the Russian Federation will increase the accessibility of information for citizens about the financial performance and financial state, and municipalities will allow the State itself, through its Government and the Parliament, to form the budget, based not only on macroeconomic goals and objectives of the country, and objectives of each, even the most small territorial unit in accordance with the needs of living of its citizens.

This article presents theoretical and methodical as well as pragmatic basis of the theory of mentality of diasporas and provincial communities which is just taking shape in domestic legal and political knowledge. Great attention is paid, in particular, to legal mentality of diasporas’ representatives manifests itself in a different way in the social space of a multinational state. The authors of this work believe that turning to steady in time mental attitudes common for representatives of different diasporas is necessary first of all for forming an adequate political and legal strategy of the national development, for pursuing relevant legal policies in different Russian regions. The contents and peculiarities of the legal mentality of diasporas and provincial communities should be taken into account in the process of defining priorities of reforming the legal and political system, choosing ways and methods of changes in the legal, political and socioeconomic fields. Besides, thorough research of legal mentality of different diasporas will give a chance to find out the ethnocultural component of dynamics in social processes and to assess them (e. g. in the issues of level of riskogenicity and conflictogenicity), to outline possible results and perspectives. The article considers features of legal mentality of the diasporas of the Far Eastern region of Russia as a specific example.

Государственно-правовые учения XIX-начала ХХ в. в России: взгляд на методологию разработки и практическую применимость АПОЛЬСКИЙ Евгений Александрович, заведующий кафедрой теории и истории государства и права Ростовского института (филиала) Всероссийского государственного университета юстиции (РПА Минюста России), кандидат юридических наук, доцент 344002, Россия, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пер. Соборный, 26

The monograph contains the analysis of the content and classification of the results of master's and doctor's theses in the specialty "Civil law", defended in the leading universities of the Russian Empire, the subject of which were the institutions and norms of civil judicial system and justice, as well as Roman law. The theses are considered in blocks grouped according to the basic elements of the science of Roman law and civil procedure. The main purpose of the authors is to identify the main areas of research of domestic legal scholars of the XIX-early XX centuries., to trace the goals, objectives and nature of the work, to present a set of forms of theoretical knowledge obtained in them. The content of key ideas, hypotheses, concepts, theories obtained in the course of pre-revolutionary studies on Roman law and civil procedure is disclosed in the appendices to the monograph. The book is addressed to a wide range of researchers, teachers, doctoral students, graduate students and University students interested in the development of science of Roman law and civil procedure in Russia.

The paper presents the results of the next stage of a comprehensive study concerning Russian state-legal doctrines in the 19th and early 20th centuries, taken in the triune of the external form of their expression: in dissertations, in monographs and in scientific papers of the periodical legal press. The authors analyzed the content and results of publication of monographs and the most famous papers published by prerevolutionary Russian political scientists on key aspects of the state (constitutional) law science. Data are presented on the main priority areas of research, poorly developed fields of public law science, the laws of genesis and evolution, respectively, of monographic and periodical state-legal doctrines. The methodology proposed for the identification, analysis and general theoretical evaluation of state-legal doctrines has every reason to be applied for obtaining comprehensive knowledge of other branch pre-revolutionary legal doctrines.