Certain problems of crimes qualification related to abuse and excess of authority

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-215
Author(s):  
Svetlana Vorobyeva ◽  
Ilya Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The work indicates that the Russian Federation is improving the norms of criminal legislation aimed at countering acts that infringe on public relations, ensuring the interests of the state, public service and service in local government bodies. However, the analyzed offences – abuse of authority (article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and excess of authority (article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) contain such effects as a significant violation of rights and legitimate interests of citizens, organizations or legally protected interests of society or the state, which emphasizes their public danger. While analyzing these compositions of acts, we indicate both general and distinctive features. It is emphasized that the problem of their differentiation is expressed, first, in the fact that their technical and legal design is based on evaluation features, and second, on the basis of the existing distinctive features, the same act in different cases is qualified differently – under article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation or under article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. We divine that in matters of the types of crimes qualification under consideration, it is of paramount importance to establish the limits of authority, the motive for committing the crime, as well as the connection with official activities.

The necessary defense and excess of its limits: legislative improvement opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-117
Author(s):  
Andrei Nikulenko ◽  
Maksim Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Improvement ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The article is devoted to the necessary defense as a circumstance that precludes the criminality of an act in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. The significance and importance of the existence of this norm is proclaimed both in the criminal law and in the Basic law of the state – the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The existence of a rule on necessary defense in the state emphasizes the development of its legal system, allowing citizens to defend their own interests and protect the interests of others, in ways not prohibited by law, thereby preventing exceeding the limits of necessary defense. A number of issues related to the application of the norms provided for in article 37 of the Criminal code of Russia, as well as the norms of the Special part of the Criminal code of Russia, which provide for liability for crimes committed when exceeding the limits of necessary defense, were raised. The study of the relevant norms makes it possible to identify the advantages and disadvantages of legal regulation of circumstances that exclude the criminality of an act, including the shortcomings of judicial and investigative practice. The author criticizes the existing approach and suggests ways to resolve these problems, including by correcting the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated September 27, 2012, № 19 «About application by courts of legislation on necessary defense and causing harm when detaining a person who has committed a crime». Because of the ambiguous and often inconsistent application of norms of the criminal legislation on necessary defense, the authors give the recommendations (in further reconstruction of the relevant provisions of article 37 of the Criminal Code) to use an enumeration approach of presenting the legal formulation of these rules that allow the defender to cause any harm to an attacker. At the same time, it creates the most understandable, for citizens, formulation of the norm that allows lawfully causing harm to public relations protected by criminal law.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF LEGISLATIVE REGULATION OF THE MURDER OF A NEWBORN CHILD BY A MOTHER (ARTICLE 106 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-646
Author(s):  
E.R. Gafurova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Newborn Child ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Structure ◽  
Criminal Legislation

This article examines the features of the Russian criminal law norm that provides for liability for the murder of a newborn child by a mother. We analyzed the data of the Judicial Department on the statistics of convicts for 2016 and 2019 under Article 106 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to the indicators of other privileged elements of murder, indicating the latency of this type of crime. The article also examines some features of the legislative structure of Article 106 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, accompanied by examples of judicial practice. The article examines the criminal law norms providing for responsibility for infanticide, the legislation of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Denmark, and highlights the distinctive features of Article 106 of the Russian criminal legislation. The article presents proposals for possible improvement of the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on responsibility for the murder of a newborn child by a mother, confirmed by the indicators of a sociological study.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN RUSSIAN CRIMINAL ANTI-CORRUPTION LEGISLATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Andrey Sergeyevich Burtsev ◽  
Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Semenyakin
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Minimum Size ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Modern Russian

We consider development of modern criminal legislation features in the anti-corruption sphere. The urgency of the fight against corruption in the Russian Federation and the difficulties standing in its way are emphasized. Noted the specificity of the Russian legislation in the anti-corruption sphere, which consists in the fact that the modern Russian criminal law mechanism of combating corruption is firmly based on international legal acts. The main stages of development and formation of modern anti-corruption legislation, its connection with international law are considered. The role of legal norms in strengthening the security of the state, increasing its authority in the world is revealed. A large number of sources of corruption law are analyzed, including the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Federal laws, the Decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation. Changes made to the legislation in different years concerned the subject structure, the minimum size of a bribe, nature of commission of crime, etc. In the course of the analysis of anti-corruption norms of criminal law traced their relationship with the non-criminal legislation in force in this area, noted their mutual influence. It is concluded that the current anti-corruption criminal legislation has been formed in the Russian Federation, but the process of its development due to the ongoing socio-economic transformations of society is not completed. The necessity of an effective legal mechanism regulating public relations arising in the case of a corruption-related crime is noted.

scholarly journals Current state of criminal legislation on liability for crimes committed exclusively by women

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Larisa A. Kudaeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The article attempts to analyze the state of modern criminal legislation on responsibility for crimes committed exclusively by women. The article examines the problems of privilege of the composition contained in Article 106 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author's conclusions are confirmed by the results of a social survey conducted among 400 female respondents.

scholarly journals Suppression of Crimes Against the Security of Fixed Platforms Located in the Waters of the Russian Federation (International Law Basis)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-326
Author(s):  
Alexander Vylegzhanin ◽  
Sergey Lobanov ◽  
Alexandra Skuratova
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
International Law ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The Russian state exercises sovereignty over its waters and has exclusive criminal jurisdiction with respect to crimes infringing on the security of oil, research or other stationary platforms in these waters, although their status may differ, for example, Lake Baikal; part of a continental water body (the Caspian Sea); marine internal waters (the Peter the Great Gulf); the territorial sea of the Russian Federation. Despite certain differences in status, all these waters are united by being part of the Russian territory. They differ from the waters that are not part of the territory of the state, but are above the continental shelf of the Russian Federation; these are the waters of the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation, and the open sea waters start beyond the 200-mile distance from the baseline. Even in the latter case, since a platform is stationary on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation, it is within the exclusive criminal jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. Counteraction to crimes infringing of the security of platforms fixed to the seabed includes a wide range of legal and organizational-legal measures. Besides, an important part is played by the special norms of international and national laws, including the criminal legislation of the state that has jurisdiction over the water body where a fixed platform is located. This article presents suggestions on improving Russian criminal legislation taking into account Russia's participation in the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf of 1988, other applicable norms of international law, the necessity to observe international law obligations and protect the national interests of the country. The authors suggest that unlawful acts of seizing a fixed platform or other violent actions infringing on the security of this object, the security of personnel operating it, aimed at forcing a state or an organization which is legally operating this object to perform or abstain form certain actions, and resulting in the intimidation of the population should be specifically included in the national criminal law as a separate type of terrorism crimes. The authors also recommend to add the norms on criminal liability for other unlawful, criminally punishable acts (which are not acts of terrorism and do not have the features of terrorism), including the attempts of illegal entry into a fixed platform or hindering its operation, to Chapter 24 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation «Crimes against Public Safety» as a separate Article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation among the norms regarding crimes that violate the security of the functioning of potentially dangerous objects (potentially dangerous operations). They recommend to use the most successful international legal experience to improve corporate acts within the framework of Russian legislation through the content specification of the scope and type of rights and obligations of business entities, including the relationships of the fixed platforms personnel with the law enforcement bodies with the purpose of a more effective inclusion of business entities in the system of measures of preventing and suppressing illegal interference in the functioning of fixed platforms in the Russian waters.

scholarly journals LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE GENERAL CRIME IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: STATUS AND TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Vadim A Avdeev ◽  
Ekaterina V Avdeeva
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
The Russian Federation

The current conditions of the ongoing intra-state socio-economic and political-legal transformations inevitably affect the state, structure and dynamics of ordinary criminal mercenary criminality. The conducted legal analysis confirms the urgency of the development and implementation of new, more sophisticated measures to counter theft, fraud, robbery, robbery and extortion, taking into account the development trends of these crimes against property. The renewed renovation of the Russian state system is accompanied by the adoption of the Concept of Long-Term Social and Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, which predetermine new directions of the criminal legal policy in minimizing the criminalization of public relations to ensure the security of various forms of ownership. The globalization of law, the changing polycentric world predetermine the expediency of following the universally recognized principles and norms of international law, including those aimed at effectively countering ordinary criminal mercenary criminality. Throughout the evolution of social development, the priority task of each state was the inviolability of property interests. Analysis of the state, structure and dynamics of crimes against property, regulated by Art. 158-1596, 161-163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, allows us to note the dominant position of ordinary criminal mercenary criminality. In this connection, conclusions are drawn on the trends in the development of the criminal situation, and the estimation of the illegality and collision of modern criminal legislation with regard to the construction of criminal law norms is given. The main directions of the criminal and legal policy in the sphere of novelization of the criminal law on counteracting common criminal mercenary criminality are to be understood. The topical issues of legislative and organizational-practical nature in the field of countering common criminal mercenary criminality are considered.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW IN CONTRACTING SYSTEM AND STATE DEFENSE ORDER VIOLATIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Victor Nikolaevich Borkov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Official Position ◽  
System Method ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Defense

The subject. The article is devoted to analysis of court practice concerning crimes in public procurement.The purpose of the paper is to solve the problem of delimitation of theft committed by the perpetrator with the use of his official position, from abuse of official powers and official forgery is topical.The methodology. General scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison were used. The system method allowed to consider misdemeanors and a set of rules providing for responsibility for their commission, in conjunction with public relations, which need criminal law protection. The functional approach made it possible to address the issues of qualification for official crimes against the contract system and the state de-fense order, taking into account the forms and methods of activity of the subjects of con-tractual relations.Results and scope of application. An important role in improving the effectiveness of public procurement is played by officials who, in dealing with suppliers of goods and executors, are called upon to defend public interests. The public danger of crimes committed by offi-cials in this sphere is manifested in the destruction of the material basis of the functioning of the state, undermining its defensive capacity and reducing the level of security. Judicial practice testifies to the lack of uniform approaches to the qualification of crimes committed in the sphere of execution of the state and municipal contract.The article proposes criteria for delimiting the encroachments of officials on the expendi-ture of budgetary relations, taking into account the addition of the criminal law to norms that provide for responsibility for abuse in the performance of the state defense order (art. 201.1 and 285.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the qualification of crimes committed in the sphere of contractual relations, and the application of art. 201.1 and 285.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are proposed to be guided by the recommendations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the delimitation of abuse of official powers from embezzlement.Conclusions. It is necessary to proceed from the existence of two lines of activity of the customer. The first is the acceptance of the delivered goods, the work performed, the ser-vices rendered. The second is payment for goods, work and services.

scholarly journals SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF COUNTERACTION TO THE ILLEGAL ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCTING OF GAMBLING IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Z.I. Sagitdinova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
The State ◽  
Illegal Activity ◽  
Illegal Gambling ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The evolution of the legal ban of the illegal gambling in Russia is considered in this article. The author analyzes the standards of the administrative and criminal legislation of the Russian Federation fixing the corresponding form of the responsibility for the organization and (or) conducting of gambling. Special attention is paid to the analysis of punishability of the crime provided p.1 by Art. 171.2 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation and Art. 14.1.1 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences. The toughening of the state assessment of illegal activity in the sphere of gambling, according to the results of conducted analysis, has led to a decrease in efficiency of the state counteraction to illegal gambling.

scholarly journals Security of digital technologies in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
Tat'yana V. Pinkevich ◽  
Andrey V. Nesterenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The article deals with the problematic issues related to the security of digital technologies in the Russian Federation, as well as the differentiation of the concepts of "computer", "information" and "digital" technologies. The authors come to the conclusion that computer and information security do not provide adequate protection of the digital environment in Russia, which requires serious study of the criminological risks of the introduction of digital technologies and amendments to a number of regulations, including Chapter 28 of the criminal code, both in terms of its name, and in the introduction of a number of new offences providing for criminal liability for unlawful acts that infringe on public relations in the field of security of digital information, technologies, systems and devices.

Budgetary Regulation in the Context of Preventing the Consequences of the Spread of a New Coronavirus Infection in the Russian Federation

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
R. V. Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Budget System

The paper is devoted to the examination of issues related to the increasing importance of budgetary regulation for the proper functioning of a modern innovative society. The key role of the budgetary regulation in the financial process of the State is particularly acute in the context of systemic crises that include socio-economic consequences caused by the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in Russia. In the course of the study, the features of changes in the state financial policy caused by the above-mentioned crisis phenomena are highlighted. The paper describes various approaches to the interpretation of the budgetary regulation as a category of financial law, explores various types and legal forms of methods of the budgetary regulation, analyses mechanisms and the impact of the State on the budget system through the existing legal structure of the budgetary regulation. It is determined that the rules of financial law governing the whole complex of public relations concerning the distribution and redistribution of the national product between the levels of the budget system of the Russian Federation constitute the institution of financial law, namely: the budgetary regulation. The author concludes that the approach based on the concentration of basic powers in the financial field at the federal level significantly slows down the dynamics of development of economic activity in the majority of regions of Russia, while the need for breakthrough innovative development of Russian society determinates the expansion of long-term tax sources of income for regional budgets. In this regard, it is proposed to consolidate additional regulation for revenues gained by regional and local budgets in the form of targeted deductions from federal taxes on a long-term basis.

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