Nadezhda S. Nizhnik

Lydia A. Nudnenko

• Occupation: Professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
• Affiliation: The Russian Academy of national economy and state service under the President of the Russian Federаtion
  
• Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

In the year of the 300th anniversary of the Russian police, the St. Petersburg University of the Russian interior Ministry hosted the jubilee international scientific conference "Russian police: three centuries of service to the Fatherland". Among the main discussion issues of the conference were: the formation of the police-legal theory and its place in the history of the exercise of law and the state; the characteristic of the Russian police as a body of internal Affairs of the state; a retrospective analysis of the organization and activities of the police of the Russian Empire, the provisional government and the Soviet police; characteristics of the main activities of the police of the Russian Federation; problems of forming partnerships between the police and civil society; problems of formation of legal culture of police officers; problems of training of police officers; the role of public opinion as a criterion for determining the effectiveness of the police; features of the organization and functioning of police systems of foreign countries; international cooperation of bodies engaged in police activities.