Zapad i Vostok na poroge XXI veka

Papers from a professional conference entitled "The West and the East on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century," held in Khabarovsk on September 7-8, 2000. The conference concerned a wide spectrum of current problems of juridical science and practice. Among the topics of discussion were legal problems in the Federal system of the Russian Federation; coordination of Federal and regional legal activities; the jurisdiction of constitutional courts; problems of local government in the Russian Federation; public monitoring in the sphere of local government; problems for the development of the Russian Far East in the 21st century; land-ownership legal issues; legal regulation of mortgages; appraising the value of insured property; real and personal property in the American legal system; compensation for nonmaterial damage in the Russian Federation and Germany, a comparative analysis; the marriage contract and spousal property relations (legal and socio-cultural aspects); education programs to prevent corruption.