The article examines the path of development of public associations in the USA, Great Britain and Germany. Areas of legal regulation that are at the initial stage of development in Russia are highlights. It is proposed to study the experience of foreign countries that have passed this path earlier. The main feature that unites the experience of the four states under consideration is the gradual transfer of social services to public associations.

The article is devoted to the study of the issue of the relationship between the norms of tax and civil law on certain issues of regulation of entrepreneurial activity. The issues of exclusion of inactive legal entities, filing of civil claims, priority of satisfaction of creditors’ claims were considered.

The author touches upon the issues of prosecutor’s supervision over the correct qualification by the preliminary investigation bodies of criminal cases in two competing offenses: theft committed from a bank account, as well as in relation to electronic money and fraud using electronic means of payment; analyzes specific criminal cases and statistical data on the crimes of this group.

The article defines the concept of preliminary voting (primaries) and considers the regulatory framework for its conduct, analyzes the procedure for conducting preliminary voting in electronic form, considers the practice of using electronic preliminary voting and the prospects for the further development of electronic voting in elections.

The article draws attention to some problems of contractual relations in the operation of a public railroad track. The existing court practice in disputes related to the operation of a public track, including in the absence of direct access to the public track of the siding track owner is analyzed.

The institute of independent anti-corruption expertise has existed for quite a long time, but it is permanently characterized by low efficiency. The analysis of reasons for this state of affairs and recommendations on activating the activity of independent anti-corruption experts became the subject of the present research.

The modern understanding of crime is static - it is a certain set of signs. Such an approach does not allow us to fully understand the nature of crime, which is a process, a process of information processing by a certain set of interacting elements to achieve a socially dangerous goal. These circumstances make it impossible for an effective criminal law to influence a crime, its elements, when solving the tasks of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The article provides a characteristic of the electronic information of electronic messages as a source of evidence in criminal proceedings, analyzes the development trends of the concept of evidence in criminal proceedings, examines the issues of withdrawing electronic information from electronic messages within the framework of existing procedural actions, studies the possibility of using metadata in the process of proving in criminal cases.

The article provides a legal characteristic of highly automated (unmanned) transport, as an element of the transport system of Russia, and as a cyber-physical system, assesses the prospects for legal regulation of this category in the system of normative legal acts of Russia. The question of the ratio of high-tech and highly automated transport is investigated, the issues of possible options for the classification of highly automated transport are being studied.

This article analyzes the Draft Federal Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in terms of organizing work to assess the risk of involvement of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs in conducting suspicious transactions and using this information." The authors highlight private and public interests that are planned to be protected by this bill. At the same time, they highlight contradictions and gaps in legal regulation that violate private and public interests.