Barnaul Law Institute of the Russian Interior Ministry

Purpose. Tools are an important element of the life support system of ancient and medieval societies, the analysis of which allows us to comprehensively characterize the features of economic activities of the society under study, the established level of processing various materials, the specifics of the production of specific products. The article concerns the systematization and analysis of a representative collection of tools from the burials of the Gorny-10 necropolis in the northern foothills of Altai.Results. The collection of tools includes 40 knives, five awls, five needles, three adzes, a flint, a file, a hammer-file, a part of a whip, an item with an unspecified functional purpose. A morphological and classification analysis of these finds was carried out, as well as their comparison with similar materials from synchronous complexes of Northern and Central Asia. General and specific characteristics of the products are highlighted, and the uniqueness of the Г -shaped hammer-file for the Altai monuments is noted.Conclusion. It has been established that the existence of most types of the considered products from the objects of the Gorny-10 necropolis dates back to the initial period of the early Middle Ages, mainly coinciding with the period of the existence of the Turkic Khaganates (the second half of the 6th – first half of the 8th centuries AD). The state of available material sources, despite the presence of a certain number of analogies, does not yet allow us to unambiguously consider the genesis of most categories of the considered tool complex in the context of the processes of intercultural interaction of the population of the northern foothills of Altai with the Turks, as well as with the peoples of the Upper Ob region and the Kuznetsk Basin.

The genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 is represented in China by five species, all keyed and mapped, including Skleroprotopus securifer Mikhaljova sp. nov. Taxonomic and distributional remarks are provided for all of the species.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between stress and mental health of teachers of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The subject of this study was the mental health of teachers of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The study was carried out on the basis of the cultural-historical, activity-based and resource-based methodological approaches of psychology (L. S. Vygotsky, A. N. Leontiev, P. Ya. Galperin, D. B. Elkonin, etc.). In the process of conducting the research, the following methods were used: formal logical analysis, generalizations, diagnostic (psychological test methods for assessing stress resistance and neuropsychic adaptation), quantitative (statistical) and qualitative (differentiation of material by groups, options), as well as methods of mathematical statistics with using computer statistical packages of the SPSS program. The respondents were 40 representatives of the teaching staff of educational institutions of higher education aged 30-45 years with 10-20 years of work experience. It has been revealed that the mental health of teachers is determined, first of all, by their susceptibility to organizational stress, which affects the manifestation of a state of maladjustment and mental discomfort. The study determined the characteristics of susceptibility to organizational stress of teachers of the educational organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia; Differences were identified in the degree of exposure to the negative consequences of stress between certified teachers and civilian teachers. A significant connection between the level of neuropsychic adaptation and the level of assessment of organizational stress was revealed. The training program for preserving mental health and self-development of the teaching staff of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is justified; It has been shown that susceptibility to organizational stress, the level of psychological stress, and the severity of stress factors are higher in the group of teachers at civilian universities; in terms of the degree of exposure to the negative consequences of stress, the groups of certified teachers dominate the group of civilians; The mental health of professionals is determined, first of all, by their susceptibility to organizational stress, which affects the manifestation of a state of maladjustment and mental discomfort.

Introduction. The specificity of tasks set for law enforcement agencies is characterised by excessive psychophysical tension. These strains increase fatigue, reduce mental and physical efficiency and, as a result, lead to decrease in the effectiveness of activity. Physical training is important for employees of all law enforcement agencies. Thus, physical training of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the process of professional activity contributes to the formation of special motor skills, improvement of the most important mental and physical qualities. One of the most significant components of professional training is to ensure the necessary level of psychophysical competency. The relevance of the current research is due to the shortcomings in the organisation of physical training for cadets of educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The experience of law enforcement activity shows that the lack of understanding of the importance of physical training of personnel often leads to injuries, wounds and deaths of police officers while performing their official tasks. It is important to identify the most significant problems and ways to solve them to optimise the physical training of future employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Research methods. Analysis of normative legal acts regulating the issues of organisation of physical training for cadets of educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, survey of specialists, research and synthesis of data of special scientific and methodological literature, monitoring of information resources of the Internet. Results. The research deals with the legislative regulation of the issues of physical training of cadets of educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, reflects the views of scientists on the current problems of physical training of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, analyses the indicators of their physical competence. On the basis of the research, specific measures to solve the problems of physical training of cadets of educational organisations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia are proposed.

The article examines such negative trends in modern society as weak family ties, the withering of traditional family values, and the decline in the role of marriage, which act as determinants of repeated crimes committed by convicts serving sentences without isolation from society. A number of preventive measures of different levels are proposed. There are general social preventive measures aimed at solving the problems of the institution of the family, as well as special criminological measures to combat the causes of repeated crimes among convicts of the studied category who have problems in family relations. It is concluded that strong family ties can have a positive preventive effect on repeat crimes among convicts, reducing their level.

The present paper provides the description of a new species of the genus Karschiola Gaede, 1926 from central Mozambique and Zimbabwe: K. ndzou sp. n. The pairwise genetic distance between the two Karschiola species is calculated and a neighbour-joining tree based on DNA barcodes of two K. holoclera and five K. ndzou sp. n. specimens is provided. The paper is illustrated with eight colour photos of adults and 18 genitalia images, a distribution map and two habitat photos.

The Cyana adelina (Staudinger, 1887) species-group is established and reviewed. Three new species and one new subspecies are described: Cyana yunnanensis regia ssp. n. (Northern Thailand and northern Laos), Cyana dubernardi sp. n. (China: Yunnan), Cyana khami sp. n. (central Laos), and Cyana karsticola sp. n. (northern Laos). Two new synonyms are established: Cyana yunnanensis yunnanensis (Hampson, 1903) (Chionaema) = Chionaema hoenei Daniel, 1952, syn. n., and Cyana griseilinea de Joannis, 1930 = Cyana succincta ern, 2016, syn. n. Lectotypes are designated for Bizone adelina Staudinger, 1887 and Bizone pratti Elwes, 1890. Adults, male and female genitalia are illustrated.

Genitalia of the female holotype of the Central Asian species Furcula terminata (Wiltshire, 1958) (TL: northeastern Afghanistan) were studied for the first time. They showed a clear similarity with the genitalia of Furcula gorbunovi Schintlmeister, 1998 (TL: Gissar Range, Tajikistan) and Furcula mimonovi Schintlmeister, 1998 (TL: Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan). Males of F. terminata from Afghanistan were not found in the collections. However, the specimens from neighboring Tajikistan and topotypes of F. gorbunovi and F. mimonovi were studied and all of them have pointed apex of the costal process of valva specific for the bifida-group, not the furcula-group as suggested previously. Considering the morphological similarity and overlapping distribution areas of the three studied taxa, two new synonyms are established for F. terminata: F. gorbunovi syn. n. and Furcula mimonovi syn. n. The population of Tian Shan and Alay Range in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, previously regarded as F. terminata, are described here as a new species based on differences in the genitalia of both sexes.

The name Striatochrista nom. n. is introduced as replacement for Striatella Volynkin & S.-Y. Huang, 2019. A new genus, Letrasilta S.-Y. Huang & Volynkin gen. n. is erected to include the Striatella cernyi species-group with the new species, L. ratnasambhava S.-Y. Huang, Volynkin & Yin sp. n. from Xizang, southwestern China designated as the type species. Based on the molecular phylogenetic analysis, the new genus is found to be sister to the clade (Aberrasine + ((Indiania + Idopterum) + Striatochrista nom. n.)) but is distinguished from all the relevant genera by the unique genitalia features. Letrasilta cernyi (Volynkin, 2018) comb. n. is also reported from India for the first time. Adults and genitalia of the aforementioned taxa are illustrated. A checklist of the genus Striatochrista is also provided.

The article is devoted to urgent issues of law enforcement activities related to the study of the testimony of operational origin received from witnesses. At the same time, true information about the identity of such witnesses constitutes a state secret. This circumstance, as shown by an empirical analysis of judicial practice, puts the defense side before the need to treat such testimony with sufficient caution. As a result of the analysis of legal prescription that fi x the procedure for examining the testimony received from secret witnesses, the author comes to the conclusion that, by and large, they contain only some kind of formal access possibility for the defense to their research, leaving the decision of this issue exclusively to the court. The Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation «On the practice of applying the law in the consideration of criminal cases in the court of first instance (general procedure of court proceedings) does not put a final point in the resolution of the issues. The explanations set out therein, contrary to the principles of adversarial and equality of arms, do not allow the defense to conduct a full examination of the testimony of anonymous witnesses. Moreover, the criminal procedural legislation does not contain a special basis justifying the presence of a real threat to the safety of a witness, if they assist the bodies of inquiry in the implementation of operational-search activities. The author formulated proposals aimed at solving these problems. It is necessary to create conditions in the courts in which it is possible to keep secret the identity of the confidential witness and take into account the interests of the parties. It is proposed to expand the list of grounds set out in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation as an additional special ground allowing for a reasoned approach to providing an opportunity to witnesses who have previously provided assistance to bodies of inquiry in the conduct of operational activities to carry out the security measures guaranteed by criminal procedure law.