[The propriety of establishing the fact of neonatality based on the examination of the child's corpse].

It is shown based on the historical and legal analysis that the designation of the child's status as a newborn infant throughout the period of its neonatal life till violent death "at or immediately after births" is the exclusive prerogative of the law-enforcement authorities. An original approach has been developed and recommended for the introduction into the expert practice. According to this proposal facts and arguments in the "Expert conclusions" should be formulated so as to avoid mentioning the child as newborn and to indicate only the duration of its extrauterine life. Such an approach leaves it to the law-enforcement authorities to decide in each concrete case whether the child should be designated as a newborn infant or not.

[Psychological aspects of public activity of a forensic medical examiner].

In the recent years, professional activity of forensic medical examiners has been gaining publicity which necessitates knowledge of individual psychologic personality traits, the ability to effectively communicate, and high vocational culture on the part of each specialist. The specific character of professional contacts of a forensic medical expert is self-evident taking into consideration that he (she) has to deal with a great variety of persons including law enforcement officials, law breakers and criminal offence victims, men and women, young and aged people, representatives of different social groups, subjects in a specific emotional state, etc. In order to organize efficacious cooperation with all these individuals, the expert must develop high communicative competence, possess knowledge of psychology of communication, abilities and skills necessary for the establishment and maintenance of professional and business contacts.

[Morphological structure of the domestic cat (Felis catus) hair]. / O morfologicheskikh osobennostiakh stroeniia volos mlekopitaiushchikh vida koshka domashniaia (Felis catus).

Felis catus hairs from different parts of its body were examined. Examination of some hair parameters allow the author to propose the following strategy of cat identification: 1) hair length divides cats into long- and short-haired; 2) identification of the species: a) long-haired--by medullary substance/hair thickness ratio; b) short-haired--by the presence or absence of osteal and transition hairs, by thickness of the osteal hairs. This scheme allows identification of the species of an individual cat.