Том 15, № 3 (2022)

The mass media are the most accessible source of information and have a significant impact on people's lives, on the development of Russian society and the state. Media coverage of events taking place in the country and the world leads to an aggravation of social contradictions and a significant surge in crime associated with the dissemination of deliberately false information. Crimes in the sphere of deliberate dissemination of deliberately false information in the media have significant specifics of the subject composition. Due to the specifics of the named criminal act, special attention of law enforcement agencies should be paid to solving issues related to the methodology for detecting and investigating the crimes in question in the context of the development of the information society in Russia, taking into account the transformations of social activity due to world processes taking place in society and the state.

The purpose of this research is to study the potential of wrestling and hand-to-hand combats in the professional training of law enforcement officials, the development of which is aimed at effectively repelling an attack by an offender. As law enforcement officials often lose in technical and physical training to criminals, while ensuring personal safety, they need to show resourcefulness and quick reaction in a fight. Despite the abundance of scientific and methodological support for the practical use of physical force by police officers, according to the principle ‘there is no limit to perfection’, they require additional elaboration. The most important task of mastering wrestling and hand-to-hand combats and the tactical features of their use is the correct choice of the variant of force on the offender. The use of the chosen algorithm of actions must be justified in the current operational situation and comply with the principle of the legality and legitimacy of the use of physical force. The success of the forceful detention of the offender is facilitated by the unexpected conduct of the combat technique of the struggle. The qualitative growth of criminal structures actualized for the law enforcement officials the task of adequate physical confrontation with the offender, the solution of which lies in the plane of constant improvement of motor skills and abilities. Accordingly, the solution to this problem also arose for teachers and leaders of classes, who considered it expedient to introduce training in a professional wrestling or hand-to-hand combat into the training process. It has been established that when organizing classes in the section of fighting techniques in order to achieve the goals and effectively master wrestling techniques and hand-to-hand combats, it is recommended that class leaders more often resort to a practice-oriented problem-based teaching method. In this situation, many researchers are unanimous in their opinion, which, for objective reasons, we do not share, about the benefits of the situational teaching method in physical training classes. Thus, the expansion of the combat techniques section by studying wrestling and hand-to-hand combats will have the most positive impact on the physical fitness of law enforcement officials.

In this article, we have considered the problematic aspects of organizing physical training in educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. It was established that in order to solve this problem, it was necessary to form a system of education and training of future personnel that would meet the requirements of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and could solve the tasks assigned to them. To do this, first of all, it is necessary to develop an education system, and then select suitable people who are professionals in their field who could take the positions of teachers and instructors and train personnel for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Physical training has always been considered the main direction of training. Weak physical training of students enrolled in educational organizations is the main problem of the process of professional and applied training. In a short period of time, the teaching staff needs to teach weakly physically developed students all the necessary wrestling techniques. And trying to implement this activity, teachers are faced with a number of problems, the solution of which will directly affect the level of physical fitness of future employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The main problem, in our opinion, is the incompetence of teachers and instructors of the Department of Physical Training. Again, this problem originates from the past years, when there were very few qualified police officers trained for work in the country, consequently, in the first years of the formation of the system of training future personnel for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, it was almost impossible to find a good teacher or instructor. The quality of the work performed, its professionalism and competence are formed both in the process of training and in the process of work - gaining experience. Do not forget about this, and if you think about it, it becomes clear that no matter how high the level of training of an employee is, experience is an integral part of his formation and development as a professional in his field.

Unfortunately, among the Russian youth, radical views based on the support and promotion of violent methods of solving any emerging situations are becoming widespread. On the one hand, these views are closely related to the ideas of extremism and terrorism, on the other hand, radical views are very aggressive. This process is directly related to informatization and digitalization, since from the moment the Internet became an integral part of the life of a modern person, representatives of the younger generation have almost entirely moved to interact in the Internet space. The virtualization of the life of today's youth has a number of negative circumstances, one of which is the impossibility of fully ensuring the closure of access to destructive Internet structures. The purpose of writing the presented work is to study the influence of destructive Internet structures on the process of radicalization of modern youth. The author comes to the conclusion that the radicalization of young people is a natural process, objectively conditioned not by the desire to support specific illegal ideas regarding manifestations of aggression, but is primarily focused on the desire of representatives of this category of the population to stand out and take an advantageous place in society. Given the given nature of this social phenomenon, in order to transform the views of the younger generation, it is necessary to more clearly demonstrate the possibilities of their development without illegal behavior. In recent years, a number of measures have been taken to regulate the features of restricting and prohibiting access to Internet resources of certain content, however, in the context of large-scale blocking of many sites and communities, the practice of using various special services and programs that provide access to any resources is significantly expanding. Attention is focused on the prospects for reorienting the values of representatives of this category of the population through involvement in youth policy and other areas that can arouse real interest.

The purpose of this study was to study the possibilities of odorological examination in the investigation of crimes of a terrorist nature. The possibility of preserving odors at the scene of incidents of this category and subsequent identification fundamentally expanded the prospects for identifying persons involved in the crime by their odor reflections on seized items. Objectives of the investigation. The essence of the odorological method is to identify, collect and preserve odor traces at the scene by the investigator with the help of forensic specialists and subsequent laboratory identification of odors by cynologists using detector dogs. from the scene, there is an individual smell and there are no individual smells of other persons being checked. The results of the examination, along with other facts established in the case, contribute to the exposure of the offender. Conclusions. In the course of the study, we found that the detection of traces of smell during the inspection of the scene of the incident consists in establishing objects with which the offender could come into contact in the process of committing the crime. The main method for identifying such objects is the mental modeling of the actions of a criminal based on an analysis of the situation at the scene, the testimony of victims and eyewitnesses. Thus, forensic odorological examination is one of the few methods available to forensic scientists that allow identifying signs that individualize the subject in the traces of a person.

Despite the fact that modern times are characterized by the presence of developed legislation regulating liability for crimes of a terrorist nature, the global scope of terrorism, unfortunately, does not decrease, and not only due to the large-scale prevalence of these negative phenomena, but to a greater extent because humanity has access to weapons mass destruction. It is impossible not to take into account the fact that some crimes of a terrorist nature have moved into the virtual space, in which active psychologically competent work of the "ideologists" of the international criminal network is carried out, not only in relation to the most vulnerable groups of the population, but also purposefully in relation to individuals young age[8, p. 62-65]. One of the types of terrorism is the terrorism of minors as a result of their involvement in this activity by an adult contingent. The development of this type of terrorism is a consequence of a decrease in the educational level, a break in the continuity of the value and moral attitudes of different generations, and a decrease in the indicators of citizenship and patriotism. It is the age limits of his followers that distinguish terrorism from other types. There are many reasons that contribute to the formation of terrorism among young people, among them the following can be mentioned: educational functions are weakened in the family; there is no effective system of preventive measures that can have a positive effect on young people; low efficiency of work on the prevention of juvenile crimes; lack of leisure activities; deficiency of the value system; increased family conflicts; increasing the role of informal, interpersonal relations among young people. The republics of the North Caucasus are no exception, which have always been famous for their active and ambitious youth who want to have newfangled household items, gadgets, cars and other benefits. The article analyzes the problems of involving minors in terrorist activities, the causes and conditions that contribute to it, in particular in the North Caucasus, as well as ways to combat it.

The purpose of this work is to study development trends, counteraction problems, as well as the features of modern extremism and terrorism, which pose a significant threat to the principles of civil society in almost any rule of law state. To date, extremism and terrorism as a socio-political phenomenon occupy one of the central places in modern scientific discourse. The discussion of problems related to these negative phenomena is actively taking place on the pages of scientific and journalistic journals, which in turn allows us to talk about the possibility and relevance of their consideration. The paper notes that one of the general trends of these highly resonant crimes is a steady increase in the degree of their public danger both for the foundations of the social and state system of Russia, and for international relations and international security. This, in turn, presupposes the legal regulation of the fight against these radical social phenomena on the part of the State as one of the priorities. Almost any legal state can potentially be targeted by extremism and terrorism, regardless of the level of socio-economic development, state-political structure and military power and capabilities of a particular country, as evidenced by the scale and geography of crimes of this nature at the present stage of their development. Modern extremism is ideologically represented by radicalist and, as a rule, religiously determined views, supporters of this ideology rely on violence and terrorism in resolving social contradictions and implementing social transformations. The objectives of the study are the need to develop a comprehensive set of countermeasures aimed at prevention, as well as combating the activities of extremist and terrorist organizations, which, in our opinion, should in turn be based on: firstly, a nationwide unified set of preventive measures assuming a systematic and permanent nature, covering all the necessary levels of regulatory regulation; secondlysecondly, to increase the effectiveness of the practice of applying anti-terrorist and anti-extremist legislation; thirdly, to use the international experience of other countries that have also faced extremism and terrorism in any form of its manifestations. Russia, through the relevant bodies and services, as well as interaction with international organizations whose main activity is the prevention and combating of terrorist and extremist crimes, cooperates with many foreign states, which greatly increases the effectiveness of countermeasures in the fight against international extremist terrorist organizations. Conclusions: improving the effectiveness of countering criminal extremism and terrorism can be possible only if it is engaged not only by persons authorized by Law, law enforcement officers, but the whole society as a whole, including representatives of the scientific world, scientists of various specialties. In the development of modern extremism and terrorism, certain trends and counteraction problems are traced, the study of which can help in understanding these crimes as a phenomenon, as well as developing a certain system of scientifically based practical measures necessary to increase the effectiveness of combating them.

Illicit trafficking in firearms is a threat to the life and health of the population. This phenomenon is especially dangerous in the absence of state control. Illicit trafficking in firearms is completely outside the legal field. In this context, the effectiveness of criminal legislation is of particular importance, which is expressed in the regulation of all forms of illicit trafficking in firearms, taking into account modern criminal practices. This is the primary basis for the qualification of acts committed within the framework of the above-mentioned illegal activities. In 2021, a number of changes were made to the Russian criminal legislation in terms of improving the rules governing the specifics of bringing to justice in the above area. The purpose of writing the presented work is to analyze the criminal law forms of illicit trafficking in firearms and determine their meaning. The author comes to the conclusion that Art. 222 and Art. 223 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is currently fixing the complete list of criminal law forms. Their substantive characteristics are carried out in great detail in the acts of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which makes it possible to avoid unreasonably overloaded text of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Attention is focused on the timeliness of improving legislation in 2021, which made it possible to specify the forms of illicit trafficking in firearms in the Russian Federation and regulate proportionate and fair punishments for these criminal activities.

This scientific article is devoted to the study of the possible relationship between economic and corruption crimes committed, including in priority sectors of the economy. The authors analyzed the attitude of society towards the committed economic and corruption relations, as a result of which it was determined that the effect of corruption aggression, which is a possible motivating factor for the commission of these categories of crimes, is enhanced by the labile attitude of society towards the torts under consideration. The author's concept of the characteristic features of the relationship between economic and corruption crimes committed in priority sectors of the economy has been formed. The relevance of this work is noted for the first time by a study of the criminological component of the relationship of these torts in the environment of domestic scientific circles. In this article, the opinions of domestic scientists are quite fairly analyzed, on the basis of which the corresponding conclusions are drawn on the merits of the research problem.

The purpose of the research. The article discusses the theoretical and applied problems of sentencing for complicity under Russian criminal law. The purpose of the research is to identify the disadvantages of legislative regulation of sentencing for complicity and to make suggestions for their elimination. Results. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that existing criminal law does not allow to fully guarantee sentencing proportionate and fair measures of responsibility for complicity and to ensure stable and consistent judicial practice. This is due to the fact that relevant legislative requirements are purely evaluative in nature and create prerequisites for excessive judicial subjectivism when determining the nature and degree of public danger of various manifestations of complicity. In this regard the author proposed to fix in The Criminal Code more deep differentiation of sentencing taking into account the form of complicity and the type of accomplice and to specify the criminal law principle of guilt to complicity. For these purposes, special rules of sentencing for complicity should be supplemented by the requirements on the inadmissibiblity of assigning a more severe punishment to an accomplice than to the perpetrator and on the inadmissibiblity of assigning a more lenient punishment to the organizer of crime than to other accomplices. In the articles of The Special part of The Criminal Code qualifying signs «group of persons», «group of persons by prior agreement» and «organized group of persons» should be fixed in different parts of the relevant articles with the establishment of their commission consistently increasing punishments. Besides, it is necessary to legislatively define that mitigating and aggravating circumstances characterizing the committed crime but not related to the identify of one of the accomplices, should be taken into account when assigning punishment only to those accomplices who were aware of the existence of such circumstances when committing a crime.

Based on comparative-historical and analytical methods, the publication presented to the reader's attention attempts to describe and comprehend the path of formation and change of the category "freedom" in philosophical, legal and political thought. Consistently solving the following tasks (characterization of freedom by ancient authors, consideration of the category of "freedom" from the point of view of thinkers of the New Age, appeal to the understanding of freedom by the French Enlightenment, analysis of the definition of freedom by German philosophers - Hegel, Marx and Engels, establishing the place of the category "freedom" in works of followers of the liberal trend), the author is guided by the principle of historicism, according to which the assessment of a particular period is carried out on the basis of the existing context and previous stages of development, and not subsequent ones. It is noted that the concept of "freedom" has undergone a significant conceptual evolution over time. The evolutionary character is expressed in the acquisition of both humanistic and essential, deep content. The humanistic component of freedom consists in recognizing the latter as the highest value, the essential one in establishing reasonable limits for the realization of freedom in society. At the same time, the evolutionary process is not recognized as linear, consistent, since the periods of contribution to the doctrine of freedom were often replaced by stagnation, which is proved by the author on the basis of an appeal to the reception of Holbach's views by Engels, as well as the transfer of components of freedom from the philosophy of Rousseau to the philosophy of libertarianism. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that freedom now occupies a significant place in the axiological system of any developed society, which shows the enduring importance of this category for the human community.

The article substantiates the need and formulates the basic principles of an information security monitoring system that allows analyzing threats to information security in organizations of the fuel and energy complex (FEC) in order to quickly identify violations in the information sphere, assess, predict and issue recommendations for preventing threats at an early stage. their occurrence. The development and implementation of the system will make it possible to monitor: the overall economic situation in terms of financial stability and competitiveness of technological potential, security of the organization's personnel, its property and capital, legal protection of rights and legitimate interests; the emergence of external and internal threats to organizations of the fuel and energy complex in connection with the use of protected information in economic activities; the aspirations of foreign intelligence agencies and competitors to identify the distinctive features of the projects being developed and promote the product to the market using competitive intelligence methods and illegal methods of industrial espionage; the state of the legal regime of information protection established in the organization and the effectiveness of the measures taken to ensure it.

In the implementation of the system of measures aimed at the prevention of crimes and offenses of minors, Commissions for Juvenile Affairs and the protection of their rights occupy a leading place. Established more than a hundred years ago, they still occupy a leading place in the coordination of activities for the protection of children's rights. However, weak legislative regulation of the activities of the Commissions does not allow this work to be carried out effectively. The authors raise the problem of clear and complete legislative regulation of their activities.

Research Objective. Mass labor migration in the 21st century is a socio-economic outcome of globalization processes that have radically changed traditional labor and labor markets. Millions of people migrate to economically successful and stable regions and countries in search of more decent earnings to carry out labor activities. The Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, and the United Arab Emirates are among such world centers of labor migration. As leaders in this matter, they regulate the labor of temporary workers in their territories in different ways, protect their labor rights and solve labor disputes with regard to them. The purpose of this article is to analyze these problems in their broad socio-economic and legal (legislative) aspects. Conclusions. The approaches taken by Russia, China, and the UAE as hosts to the regulation of migration processes are very different and are determined primarily by the specifics of economic policy and worldviews. The PRC has not yet provided migrant workers with legal opportunities to protect their interests. The UAE has become more open and liberal, but it still does not sufficiently realize the labor rights of temporary workers and selectively favors Westerners in disputes. Against this backdrop, Russia is particularly systematic and consistent in its implementation of advanced global values with respect to migrant workers. Labor disputes involving them have several legitimate options for development, including fair consideration of claims in court.

The purpose of the research. The article discusses the problems of the impact of global warming on the occurrence of forest fires. The state of both Russian and international legislation aimed at solving the current problems of global warming is being assessed. The purpose of the study is to establish and identify tasks aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere of the environment. Results. It is shown that today there are some legal omissions in the regulation of forest protection relations. The author explores the possibility of using advanced innovative technologies to combat forest fires. As a result of the above research, the author concludes that not only the systems of self-temporary response, but also the appropriate technological equipment will be able to help in the prevention of forest fires on the territory of the Russian Federation. Comprehensive regulation and targeted measures are the cornerstone in the implementation of tasks set at the state level.

The article examines the features of legal regulation of digital business in the Arctic zone. It is necessary to introduce into the federal law of 13.07.2020 N 193-FZ "On state support for entrepreneurial activity in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation" a clause on the creation of mining pools in the Arctic constituent entities of Russia. And also put forward a proposal for federal and regional subsidies and other benefits for novice business entities in digital business. It was proposed to amend the federal law of July 24, 2007 No. 209-FZ "On the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the Russian Federation" clause 8.1. Article 3 "on the concept of aiti-social enterprise." The development of legal regulation of digital business in the interaction of state and economic entities in the Arctic territory of Russia was studied. It was concluded that the state control of rare earth metals for alienation to foreign countries should be regulated by an industry codification act. It is necessary to develop and adopt the Arctic Code of Russia for the development of Arctic territories.

From a theoretical point of view, a corporate contract is a category characterized as a «construction», «institution», «agreement», which is characterized by the dispositive nature of the conclusion in order to achieve a balance of the legal interests of the company's participants. The participants of the corporate agreement, which can be both individuals and legal entities, make a profit. Traditional ideas about a corporate contract have been shunned for a long time in Russia for its practical application, which is why entrepreneurs did not have the opportunity to fully rely on the judicial protection of such contracts and until 2014 there was no single term «corporate contract». The single term «corporate contract» appeared only in 2014 through the unification of the concept under Article 67.2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. A corporate contract is characterized by the nature of an obligation relationship, which means that the rules on obligations under civil law can be applied to it. The article includes sections devoted to the first manifestations of corporate disputes in Russia, the analysis of the theoretical and legal principles of the category «corporate contract», the consideration of a corporate contract as a kind of civil law contract, scientific disputes on the problems of the possibility of applying rules on obligations to corporate contracts. Before the legal consolidation, the corporate contract was positioned by the courts as a violation of public order, which means it could not be concluded on the principle of freedom of contract, which is unfair and incorrect. However, the practice of courts after the «legalization» of corporate contracts shows the same attitude of courts to this type of agreements, which is also important to focus on.

The relevance of the study of the evaluation of innovative projects is due to the need to solve a number of difficulties and problems in this matter. We say that the decision methods for evaluating innovative projects are imperfect, and therefore there is an increase in research in this area. The purpose of the study is to study methods for evaluating innovative projects. Research methodology: analysis of scientific doctrine, as well as the practice of evaluating innovative projects. The novelty of the study is to identify problematic issues in the evaluation of innovative projects.

Based on the author's approach to understanding the concept of "the function of the prosecutor's office", the article substantiates the endowment of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation with a new function of representing and protecting the interests of the Russian Federation in interstate bodies, foreign, international (interstate) courts, foreign, international arbitration courts (arbitrations). Suggestions are made about the expediency of introducing a new academic discipline on this issue when teaching students and improving the qualifications of prosecutors.

Public actions have a significant impact on the formation of public perception of many state-significant processes, in connection with which Russian legislation regulates in great detail the features of organizing and holding various public events. However, members of the public quite often ignore the relevant requirements, and moreover, very subjectively assessing various political situations, they actively engage in illegal public activities. In the context of the aggravated geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the ongoing special military operation in the Donbass, the spread of unlawful behavior aimed at discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has become an actual trend in Russian society. The purpose of writing a research paper is to analyze the responsibility provided for by the current criminal legislation for public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian state and its citizens, as well as to maintain international peace and security. The author comes to the conclusion that the disposition of Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation currently provides for a very broad content, but it seems fair that the institution of responsibility for the analyzed unlawful behavior is oriented towards administrative and legal mechanisms, and in the event of their inefficiency or a significant amount of negative consequences for individuals and society, the criminal law norm is used. The timeliness of the addition of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to Art. 280.3, which needs further detailed interpretation by law enforcement and judicial authorities.

The article presents some results of an independent interdisciplinary scientific study conducted by the author on the criminalistic doctrine of the implementation of special knowledge outside of forensic examination (specialization). The results of the study are based on an empirical basis for 2012-2021.

In the article, the authors point out the importance of ensuring the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of an individual during investigative actions, in particular, during a search. Considerable attention is paid to this problem both in criminal procedure legislation and in law enforcement practice. Particular attention is paid to the problems of ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of the individual in the course of investigative actions, in this connection, the authors in the article would like to touch on this topic in the framework of ensuring guarantees of the rights of the individual involved in criminal proceedings. The authors consider it necessary to consider in the article the issues concerning the psychological mood and emotional state of citizens during the search, in connection with which the persons involved in its production may perceive what is happening in completely different ways. The article emphasizes the importance of ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of the person being searched through the prism of ethics and respect for human dignity and preventing interference in their lives, taking into account the prohibition of actions and decision-making in criminal procedure legislation that degrade the honor and dignity of a participant in criminal proceedings, as well as treatment that degrades his human dignity or creating a danger to his life and health. The authors give reasonable recommendations on the conduct of a search, taking into account the observance of the rights and legitimate interests of persons involved in its production, while considering the feasibility of this investigative action in individual cases. The article analyzes the judicial and investigative practice of conducting a search, taking into account the legislative position on the dominant right of the individual to ensure the right to inviolability of the home. The authors also raise a number of issues of law enforcement practice in conducting a search with the possibility of ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of persons involved in its conduct. The purpose of the study is to study the problems of the production of investigative and other procedural actions in the citizen's home during pre-trial proceedings in a criminal case. The conclusions given in the study are the formulated provisions on the procedural procedure for conducting investigative and other procedural actions in the housing of citizens, with a statement in the authors' own vision.

Currently, one of the most urgent medical diseases that couples face all over the world is the problem of infertility, to solve which states are actively introducing assisted reproductive technologies into the healthcare sector. Among such technologies, surrogate motherhood raises many questions of both moral and ethical and legal nature. In particular, the problem of criminal law protection of assisted reproductive technology has not been resolved to date. The current criminal legislation does not contain direct norms regulating surrogate motherhood, however, in law enforcement practice there are cases of unjustified qualification of the use of surrogate motherhood as a criminal act provided for in Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, i.e. as human trafficking. The author, by analyzing the elements of the composition of the specified crime, concludes that such a qualification of surrogacy is unlawful. At the same time, there is reasonable doubt about the need to consolidate a separate corpus delicti in the form of a violation of the legislation on the procedure for organizing surrogacy. However, the emerging judicial and law enforcement practice in this area proves the need for detailed regulation of the legal regulation of the scope of assisted reproductive technologies.

The article discusses the basic concepts and elements of criminalistic characteristics of crimes of extremist and terrorist orientation. In addition, the significance of this study for the practical bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the investigation and disclosure of crimes is substantiated.

The article deals with the problems of the implementation of the immunities and privileges of diplomatic missions and their personnel. The existing approaches to the definition of the concepts of "immunity" and "privileges" in the science of international law are analyzed. The purpose of the study is to identify existing gaps in the legal regulation of the immunities and privileges of the diplomatic mission and its staff. As a result of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 regulates only the basic immunities and privileges necessary for diplomatic missions and their employees to perform the tasks assigned to them. In addition to the privileges and immunities specified in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, there are still a large number of immunities and privileges granted to employees of diplomatic missions and mutual agreements of partner States, which give a broad interpretation of the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. The authors of the study separately emphasize that the immunities and privileges of employees of diplomatic missions should be considered not as personal immunities given to them, but as immunities and privileges given to the accrediting State and extended to employees of its diplomatic missions. Confirmation of this theory is the fact that immunities and privileges do not apply to employees of diplomatic missions who are citizens of the host country or permanently residing in the host country.

Purpose of the study. This article is devoted to the study of the concept and essence of the indigenous peoples’ right to sustainable development. Results. During the consideration of the various international law provisions that enshrine specific norms of this concept, it is found that homonymous rights of indigenous peoples form a very complicated system that combines various rights that are closely related to the self-determination right. Thus, this study aims to show a somewhat alternative approach to understanding the essence of the right under consideration mainly as a part of the self-determination right that perceived by the author as a «cornerstone» of all the modern policies in the field of sustainable development of these peoples. Of particular interest is the author's position on the non-interference of the state and large business in the affairs of these peoples’ communities. As a result of the analysis, it is summarized that these peoples themselves should play a key role in the indigenous sustainable development process. Due to this fact, it is noted that the assistance offered by states and international organizations to indigenous peoples’ sustainable development should be carried out by providing them with freedom of choice and expression of their own opinion regarding their political, economic, social and cultural status. It also should provide diversified support measures, as well as expand their opportunities to live in accordance with their own needs and interests, being integrated into today’s civilization processes. The latter, according to the author, will contribute to the preservation of these peoples as separate ethnic communities, as well as their sustainable development on the terms they choose.