The article provides an analysis of the features of the legal regulation of copyright protection and the control of the distribution of the prohibited content on the Internet. Copyright violation and distribution of the prohibited content are considered by the author as two sides of the same problem – the illegal use of information on the Internet. Despite the close attention received from legislators, law enforcers, Internet-based businessmen, journalists, bloggers and regular users of Internet resources, the amount of whom is becoming larger from year to year, this problem still remains unsolved up to date, so the urgency of development of its legislative solution is unquestionable. The objective of the work presented is to seek effective legal regulation of Internet relations connected to the protection of authors' rights and the fight against the distribution of illegal (hazardous) content. In order to achieve this objective the author analyses the Russian legislative framework, refers to international and foreign experience and views the positions of representatives of various sciences related to the Internet, especially legal scholars and political scientists. Various categories of Internet-based information, which are regulated under the Russian legal system, are considered in this article. The potential of existing technologies to restrict access to Internet resources is analyzed. The results of the study of different views on the mentioned problems are presented, and solutions for their resolution are offered, which is of scientific and social interest. The scientific novelty and relevance of the study are that in order to address the problem of copyright control and the distribution of illegal content on the Internet, it proposes an integrated approach, combining legislative restriction of access to relevant information with opening an active dialog with the Internet community and business in the area of Internet communications.

Gambling has a destructive effect not only on those involved, but also on the surrounding environment. In this connection, in December 2012, addiction to gambling was separately identified in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation among the grounds for civil incapacity of physical person. The results of theoretical and empirical study of the influence of the gambling problem on the civil capacity of citizens, obtained using the methods of psychological testing (GAMBLING-UDIT test) and mathematical processing (correlation analysis, Mann-Whitney test) which are presented in this article. The analysis of civil legislation makes it possible to express a proposal to amend the provisions of Art. 30 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation regarding the grounds for restriction of the legal capacity of an individual. At the same time, it has been noted that timely psychological diagnostics will contribute to identification of such persons and timely provision of the necessary legal assistance to them.

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The article is devoted to the study of one of the most urgent questions of modern political sciencethe question of state sovereignty. Taking into account the breadth of the question, the authors selected only a few issues as their object of study, that the most important from the point of view of their influence on the formation of statehood and the modern world order. The authors consider the following questions: the genesis of the idea of state sovereignty; analysis of the main problems of the implementation of ideas of state sovereignty in the modern world. These questions determined the scope of the entire scientific research of the authors.Noting that the aggravation of the problem of state sovereignty in the modern world is based on the processes of globalization, the authors turn to the ideological sources and content of current concepts of sovereignty as the antipode of globalization. With this end in view, the authors analize the theoretical concepts of J. Bodin, T. Hobbes, J. Locke and other thinkers of the past, as well as the views of modern scholars on the essence and typology of sovereignties. The influence of the conceptual development of the idea of state sovereignty on the process of folding of European statehood, in particular the Westphalian system, is explored in historical, political and legal aspects.In this article special focus is paid to the question of the correlation between the nominal and true sovereignties of states. There is a practical need to resolve this issue in connection with the situation in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, etc.The authors suppose there are two main problems of the modern world order connected with sovereignty. On the one hand, it is "blurring" of the borders of state and national sovereignties, and on the other hand, it is the attempts of individual states, that are not satisfied with the modern world order, to isolate themselves from the rest of the world and find its own particular way. The authors believe that the further development of these tendencies poses a threat to the established world order.Within the presented research, it was concluded that in the current world order no state has absolute sovereignty. Worldwide processes are actually managed by a small number of superpowers -"center of power". But because of the processes of globalization, even the superpowers are compelled to seek compromises among themselves and negotiate, transferring some of their powers

This study, based on the economic and legal metrics of the Russian Federation, considers the possibility of implementing the concept of the rule of law in the modern world. The study emphasises the issue of the rule of law in any country being directly related to the problem of redistribution of public goods. In many ways, this can be considered an example of how economic stability ensures legal stability. The research methodology includes a dialectical method, which allowed to ensure compliance with the principles of scientific knowledge. The study shows the dynamics of ensuring human rights, the distribution of income and expenses in society over different periods in the history of the Russian Federation. In this regard, the authors come to the conclusion that the perception and functions of the concept of the rule of law will soon deviate from classical liberal values towards the basic ideas of social equality and justice.