G. A. Aksenova - Associate Professor, Chair of Civil Law Disciplines, Russian Public Service Academy (Vladimir branch). E-mail: galaks1952@yandex.ru
O. E. Savelyeva - Associate Professor, Chair of Customs Affairs and Civil Law, Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Sloletovs. E-mail OES57@mail.ru

Mediation procedure, or conciliatory mediation, since 2011 became in Russia lawful way of a resolution of conflicts. Mediation is extrajudicial or alternative judicial a way of settlement of disputes with participation of the third neutral party - a mediator. Principles of mediation: voluntariness, confidentiality, mutual respect, equality of the parties, impartiality and independence of a mediator, transparency of procedure, insignificant time and material inputs. Despite obvious advantages of the specified conciliatory procedure, it didn't find while for us broad application. The reasons, most likely, social - unavailability of society to civilized methods of settlement of disputes and the conflicts.