The article presents the results of an analysis of the impact of information, communication and digital technologies on social relations regulated by the institution of copyright, and also substantiates the need for conceptual changes in the mechanism of copyright protection. It is concluded that a number of criteria, according to which the results of intellectual activity are granted legal protection, in some cases have lost their significance. The use of digital technologies to create works, as well as the creation of copyright objects by artificial intelligence, cast doubt on the viability of the criterion of creativity as a condition for copyright protection.It is proposed to revise the existing rule on the absence of a requirement for copyright registration. It is substantiated that in modern life the conditions that were originally the prerequisites for the introduction of such rules into international acts and national laws have changed significantly. It is also proposed to use digital technologies (blockchain) in the relevant registration procedures.

   The article is devoted to the study of the digital space as an environment for the formation and dissemination of an ideology of extremist orientation. The article provides statistical data on terrorist and extremist crimes; analyzed the forms of use by terrorist and extremist organizations of the digital space – the global network, instant messengers and social networks for the radicalization of youth, recruitment and dissemination of the ideology of terrorism and extremism. The necessity of new solutions, the active use of high technologies and modern tools for combating cybercrime, improving the strategy and tactics of counteracting these destructive influences is substantiated.

   This article is devoted to the ethical and legal views of Nil Sorsky,a prominent representative of the nonpossessive school. A critical review of the philosophical ideas of the Russian thinker is given, based on an analysis of the social and legal conditions of the second half of the 15th – early 16th centuries. The authors focus on the philosophical and legal issues of the motivational mechanism of the moral and lawful behavior of individuals in his teaching, and theoretical attempts to explain the purpose, goals and essence of Nil Sorsky’s ethos. Conclusions are drawn about the main features of his understanding of statelegal phenomena.

   The global political, economic and social changes that have taken place recently in the country and the world have inevitably influenced the transformation of social institutions. In such changing conditions, a person and a family lose social guidelines, the processes of adaptation to new realities become more complicated.

   The purpose of the study is the family as a socio-legal category in the context of global globalization.

   The purpose of this article is to review Russian and Chinese waste legislation.

   Although there are political and institutional differences between the two countries, they converge with each other in terms of internationalization, regionalization trends, geographic relations, customs and habits. In addition, international cooperation has been established between China and Russia in the field of solid waste disposal, therefore it is very important to study the rules at the international level regarding the import and export of solid waste, as well as the disposal of waste hazardous to human health and the environment.

   Currently there has been an expansion of economic and other activity in the Arctic region, including the extraction of mineral resources on the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean. It is important to understand the extent of research concerning the mechanism of legal regulation of environmental protection of the Russian Arctic zone. In the science of environmental law there are two approaches aimed at protectionof the environment in the Russian Arctic, the first of which argues in favor of development and enactment of a specific law concerning the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, the second argues for the necessity of reflecting the distinguishing characteristics of the Arctic in existing legislation. As a result of determining the distinctive environmental features of the Russian Arctic zone and their reflection in Russia’s current environmental legislation, the study offers an improvement of existing mechanisms and a development of new legal protective measures with the environmental distinctions of the Russian Arctic zone being taken into account.

   Currently, there is a revision of views on the development of the Russian armed forces in the historical literature. The long-standing assertion about the lack of independence and backwardness of Russian military art in the pre-Petrine period, as well as about borrowing the foundations of military organization from other peoples, is being subjected to a more comprehensive and critical study. Based on this, the authors examined the composition and internal structure of the armed forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the second half of the 16th – 17th centuries.

   This article discusses the trial in the late 19th– early 20th centuries in Siberia, in particular in the Yakutsk region, which underwent significant changes as a result of the 1864Judicial Reform. Based on a wide range of sources and archival materials, the features of the trial in the Yakutsk region are revealed. This work is intended to consider the civil and criminal process in legal relations in the Russian Empire on the example of the Yakutsk region in the late 19th– early 20th centuries.

   The article studies the current state of collective memory of the monuments of the Great Patriotic War, identifies challenges and ways to address them, following the opinion poll. To elicit the phenomenon of collective memory, the authors rely on well-known studies by M. Halbwachs, P. Nora and A. Assmann, and those of Russan researchers such as L. N. Mazur, L. P. Repina, etc. Based on their study, the authors give recommendations on how to preserve the collective memory, and how to protect and develop urban environment.

   The article is devoted to the evolution of the ideas of civil society from Antiquity to the present day and the analysis of the interpretation of the state in contact with the idea of a social society. The problem of distinguishing between the categories of civil society and the state is investigated, and common features of these categories are highlighted. It is concluded that the final separation of these two concepts did not take place, it is necessary to study this issue of legal science using modern scientific methods.