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The article substantiates the author’s conclusion to the effect that the introduction of criminal liability of legal entities is a forecast tendency of Russian criminal law policy development, and exposes objective grounds for introducing such a liability. It points out that criminal responsibility of bodies corporate is established in many countries and required by international obligations of the Russian Federation. The article contains data on the charging of legal entities in the Russian Federation with an administrative offence of illegal gratuity on behalf of a legal entity (Article 19.28 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) and formulates reasons pointing out the insufficient effectiveness of the existing institution of legal persons’ administrative liability for acts of that type.

The article presents an overview of the reflection in the database RSCI scientific studies published in the journal «Drug control», and formulated guidelines for authors the journal to improve reflect the results of their research.

The article deals with issues concerning initiation of criminal case as a stage of criminal procedure. The author analyzes arguments of scientists claiming the necessity of abolition of this pretrial stage. The author also proves his position that while there is no necessity to the moment to abolish initiation of criminal case as a stage of criminal procedure this stage still requires further improvement in terms of legislative regulation and legal practice.

The article considers the issues related to the bringing of the Russian lists of narcotic means, psychotropic substances, precursors of narcotic means, potent and poisonous substances to correspondence with international antinarcotics conventions, analyses the history and tendencies of normative-law regulation of definition of such means, substances and the lists thereof, the consequences of such definition.