CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY DETERMINATION AS A LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TYPE: ON THE ISSUE STATEMENT

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
N.E. Sadokhina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
The Stability

The relevance of the research topic is due to the uncertainty of the provision of constitutional responsibility in the system of legal responsibility types. The study purpose is to the legal nature analysis of constitutional and legal responsibility, allowing it to be viewed as a form of legal responsibility. The conducted research is based on general scientific analysis methods, deduction, and also private law – the formal legal method. So, on the basis of the analysis of the current legislation and law-enforcement practice, we conclude that the political and legal nature of constitutional responsibility is special. On the one hand, it is a form of legal responsibility and is applied to subjects of constitutional responsibility in cases provided for by constitutional norms. On the other hand, it helps to regulate relations that arise in the sphere of public administration, ensure the stability of the functioning of the state apparatus. It is established that this feature explains also the fact that constitutional responsibility can occur not only in case of an offense, but also in case of lawful behavior. It is determined that for consideration of the constitutional responsibility as a special kind of legal responsibility it is necessary to introduce a special procedural order of calling to account, including in particular the procedure for appealing the dissolution of the State Duma, giving the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation the powers to consider such cases. And it is also necessary to fix a list of circumstances that may form the basis for a decision on mistrust in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The conclusion is made that these legislative changes will underline the specificity of constitutional and legal responsibility and leave no doubt about its status as a kind of legal responsibility.

scholarly journals The principle of the executive power unity in the contemporary Russian federative model

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-160
Author(s):  
V. M. Platonov
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The State ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Vertical Division ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Federal Center

The article considers the unity of executive power in the federative model of contemporary Russia to show that a single system of executive power within the Russian political-legal culture presupposes a hierarchical relationship between executive authorities of different levels. Such specifics of the relationship between the federal executive bodies and executive bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation contradicts the idea of a vertical division of powers. The Russian model of federal relations is based on the fact that if the interests of the federation and its subjects are intertwined the best decision is not to isolate or separate the levels of power but rather to help them to interact, to provide a joint solution to the challenges of the state and its constituent parts. The author studied the federal legal acts and the practice of the Constitutional Court, in which the principle of the unity of the executive power was reinforced and evaluated. The article is based on the culturological approach as a kind of the system-structural analysis of law and other elements of social reality. This approach allows to consider the specifics of the Russian federalism as a special model of public administration in dynamics, and the corresponding institutions in their constant interaction and development. The formal-legal method allowed to identify the legal content of the principle of the state power system unity as the ‘cornerstone’ of the Russian federative structure. As a result, the article presents the following cultural-historical model of the Russian federative relations: it allows for widespread decentralization in the political sphere (by providing a list of objects of joint jurisdiction of the federal center and the subjects of the Russian Federation, and also - by residual principle - the exclusive legislative competence of the subjects), while the federal center strengthens centralization mechanisms in the administrative sphere (through the distribution of powers within the joint jurisdiction), thus, ensuring political competition under the tough statist principles in public administration.

scholarly journals Administrative offences law (constitutional prospects of codification).

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Sergey D. Knyazev ◽  
Konstantin V. Aranovskiy ◽  
Yuri M. Danilov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Pass Through

The subject of the research is the problems of constitutional law enforcement of administrative offences legislation, taking into account the prospects for its new codification. The purpose of the article is confirmation or confutation of the hypothesis that the effectiveness of the new Code of administrative offences depends on whether the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the principles of administrative responsibility will be taken into account when drafting it. The authors use methods of complex analysis, synthesis, as well as formal-legal method of interpretation of Constitution, legislation on administrative offences and judicial decisions of Russian Constitutional Court. The main results and scope of their application. The administrative torts law in Russia is expected to pass through the total review up to the grounds of its codification in close future. The article presents initial positions of that changes within basic frames produced by Russian Constitutional Court. Its case-law has already invaded into many spheres and details in respective sphere of legal rules and also prescribed a lot for their future. This case-law yet is necessarily made within its inherent range for it is ever constrained procedurally by content of actions and cases to be settled. However Russian administrative torts law is destined for reformation in new code-making in view of constitutional case-law and in order to do better with neighbor spheres of legal responsibility. Disputable matters of administrative liability, the company’s responsibility with psychical fiction on its fault (corporative thinking, wishing, desire, diligence), substantial and procedural equity etc. are described and discussed in the article as to the administrative law of torts on in its constitutional dimension. Conclusions. The Code of administrative offences of the Russian Federation does not fully meet the legal needs of society. Work on real improvement of this code will continue, therefore, legal science should be more strongly and persistently to implement in legislative practice constitutional ideas about improvement of codification and ensuring unity of legal space of the country. In particular, it is necessary to settle the debatable aspects of tort liability, the guilt of legal entities when it is addressed by fiction to the phenomena of the psyche (thinking, goals, will, caution), the constitutional and legal foundations of justice in the field of administrative penalties, procedural enforcement of rights and freedoms, etc.

CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL VALUES: CONCEPT, TYPES, AND HIERARCHY

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. AVDEEV
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
State Security ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Russian Federation

Constitutional values are fundamental factors in determining the vector of development of the domestic state and law. Analyzing the law enforcement practice, as well as the interpretative activity of constitutional justice bodies, primarily the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, it is possible to trace which values in the event of legal conflicts receive priority over others. This, in turn, allows most researchers to talk about the hierarchy of constitutional values. What constitutes constitutional values and what should be considered as such is highly controversial in the legal literature. In this article, the author considers constitutional values, analyzes their legal nature and place among other legal values. It offers an author’s vision of understanding constitutional values and their difference from constitutional principles and other provisions of a constitutional nature. It is proposed that the constitutional values include legal freedom, property relations, public order and state security. Constitutional values should not be confused with other provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The author analyzes the opinions expressed regarding the classification and hierarchy of constitutional values. The problems of their institutionalization at present in the Russian Federation are substantiated, as well as some possible ways of overcoming their speedy implementation in contemporary social reality are expressed. It is concluded that the implementation of constitutional values entirely depends not only on social and economic conditions, but also on the system of public authorities created in the state whose activities should contribute to the realization of individual legal freedom, protection of various forms of ownership, ensuring public law and order and state security. The research methodology is based on the dialectical method, which made it possible to identify the features of constitutional-legal values and their place in the system of socially significant values of public order. The use of the comparative (comparative legal) method contributed to the determination of the properties of those values that may be called constitutional, and to find differences from other legal values. With the help of historical and prognostic methods, the invariability of constitutional and legal values was substantiated and proved regardless of the historical development of the state and law, which indicates their universal (general) nature.

scholarly journals CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIMES AGAINST STATE UNITY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF RUSSIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Svyatoslav Vyacheslavovich Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Russian Federation

The subject. The article is devoted to the issues of constitutional legal responsibility for crimes against the state unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.The purpose of the article is to reveal the actual problems of constitutional legal responsi-bility for crimes against the state unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.The methodology of the study includes general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, com-parative method, description) as well as particular academic methods (formal-legal method, interpretation of legal acts).Results, scope. The article contains the analysis of the position of the state unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation among the objects of constitutional legal and crim-inal legal support. The specific features of constitutional legal responsibility for crimes against the state unity and territorial integrity of Russia are determined. Actual problems of constitutional legal responsibility of the President of the Russian Federation, Russian cit-izens, refugees, electoral candidates for crimes against its state unity and territorial integ-rity are revealed.Conclusions. It is necessary to improve the current constitutional legislation in order to elim-inate the existing problems of constitutional legal responsibility for crimes against the state unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. For this purpose it is necessary to add the grounds for impeachment of the President of the Russian Federation by the fact of commission of crime against its state unity and territorial integrity. It is also necessary to eliminate the legal inequality of citizens formed as a result of the introduction of constitu-tional and legal responsibility of naturalized citizens for committing crimes defined by law.

scholarly journals Confiscation of property as a criminal punishment

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
М.Ф. Гареев
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Legislative Regulation ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

В статье рассматривается и обосновывается необходимость возобновления в уголовном праве института конфискации имущества в качестве уголовного наказания. Необходимость его возобновления обусловлена наличием ряда преступных деяний, представляющих угрозу обществу, государству, национальной безопасности Российской Федерации. В настоящее время законодательная регламентация конфискации имущества в качестве иной меры уголовноправового характера, вызванная неопределенностью его сущности, целевых установок и механизма назначения, не выполняет предупредительную задачу, установленную уголовным законодательством. The article discusses and substantiates the need to renew the institution of confiscation of property in criminal law as a criminal punishment. The need to resume it is due to the presence of a number of criminal acts that pose a threat to society, the state, and the national security of the Russian Federation. Currently, the legislative regulation of the confiscation of property as another measure of a criminal-legal nature, caused by the uncertainty of its essence, targets and the mechanism of appointment, does not fulfill the preventive task established by the criminal legislation.

scholarly journals Right to life and possible interference in its implementation: Constitutional and legal aspect

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-457
Author(s):  
Marina L. Voronkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Embryos ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right

Introduction. The problems of realizing the right to life are relevant to varying degrees in all countries of the world. Their importance can hardly be overestimated, since the preservation of a full-fledged family, society and the state as a whole depends on their solution. The article examines the problems associated with abortion, surrogacy, the development of biotechnology, death penalty, and analyzes the legislative experience of various states and Russia in these areas. The purpose of the study is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the problems arising in connection with the realization of the right to life and its possible restrictions. In the course of studying the problems, both general scientific and special legal methods were used: historical and dialectical methods, methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as the comparative legal method. Theoretical analysis. Russia (RSFSR) was the first country in the world to legislate in 1920 to allow abortion. According to the author, artificial termination of pregnancy solely at the request of a woman (without taking into account medical and social factors) causes irreparable harm to society, especially given the difficult demographic situation in modern Russia. In addition, this does not correspond to the guiding thesis of responsibility to future generations, enshrined in the preamble to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In the context of realizing the right to life, each state faces a problem related to death penalty. Can a state, where the right to life is guaranteed, take the life of criminals? Apparently, each state should decide this issue based on the extent to which a particular crime poses a threat to society, a threat to life and health of people. Results. In our opinion, in countries with liberal legislation in relation to abortion, such as Russia, it is necessary to prohibit abortion at the request of a woman, since in this case the woman’s desire violates the right to life of an unborn child. The state should protect the right to life from the moment of conception, not birth, but this is a long process that should lead to an extensive interpretation of Part 2 of Art. 17 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. In addition, Russia needs to pay attention to the legislative experience of Germany and France in relation to surrogacy. In these countries, the legislator has clearly substantiated why surrogacy is in fact a crime against the family. In these countries, surrogacy is criminalized. Also, with the development of biotechnology all over the world, the problems of IVF and cryopreservation of human embryos are acute. This problem can also be solved at the level of legislation by allowing IVF only to married couples (man and woman) who cannot give birth to a child, and by limiting the number of fertilized eggs to a minimum, so that later the issue of destroying unclaimed embryos is not resolved. In general, it seems that in a mature society that wants to develop and tries to prevent the destruction of its state, it is necessary to protect the right to life by all possible legislative methods.

scholarly journals Sovereignty in a Federal State: Theoretical and Legal Bases and Practice of Implementation in Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Andrei V. Bezrukov ◽  
Andrey A. Kondrashev
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
The State ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right

The article raises the issue of state sovereignty in a federal state and reveals its legal nature. The authors draw attention to the diversity of approaches to the concept and essence of sovereignty, reveal its correlation with related categories, describe the concepts of unity and divisibility of state sovereignty. The paper proves that sovereignty is not a quantitative, but a qualitative characteristic of a state, which is either present or not. The authors substantiate the exclusive possession of state sovereignty by the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis of the doctrinal, regulatory sources and the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the authors show that the Russian constitutional model explicitly outlines the principle of solid and indivisible state sovereignty spreading throughout the whole territory of the Russian Federation. Recognition of the principle of state sovereignty of Russia presupposes a clear definition of the scope of rights that the Federation should possess in order for its sovereignty to be ensured. The article examines the main features of the state sovereignty of Russia enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, among which are the supremacy of federal law over the law of the subjects of the Federation, the inviolability of borders and territorial integrity, the unity of the economic space, fiscal, banking and monetary systems, common army (Armed Forces), the right of the state to protect its sovereignty and rights of citizens. Despite the unequivocal decision on the integrity of state sovereignty of the Russian Federation expressed the Constitution of the Russian Federation and by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, this fundamental principle is not completely ensured since the idea of the sovereignty of the republics as components of Russia continues to retain its potential threat to Russian federalism, taking into account the provisions of Art. 73 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation that provide for the full state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation

scholarly journals Terror as a Tool of Stalin’s Rule Book Review: Syrykh VM. The Legal Nature of Stalin’s Terror: In Compliance with the Directives of the Party, but Contrary to the Law. Moscow: Yurlitinform Publ.; 2020

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
V. G. Baev ◽  
A. N. Marchenko
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Theorist

The paper provides for a critical analysis of the monographic work by famous Marxist legal scholar, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Vladimir M. Syrykh. As known, there are a lot of works investigating the crimes of Stalinist politics based on open sources that have become available to scientists. Prof. Syrykh cultivates a different, legal view of the activities of Stalinist leadership. As a legal theorist and methodologist, he set himself the goal of analyzing the legal nature of Stalin’s repressive policies and his associates in the 1930s-1950s. The researcher concluded that Stalin’s leadership in the process of building the socialist state turned away from the requirements of the constitution and Soviet legislation, acted contrary to law, replacing it with Directives, which can be qualified as undermining the state system.Reviewers praise the work by Vladimir M. Syrykh, sharing many of his submissions. As reviewers see, the author’s intention was to purge the very idea of socialism from the distortions and perversions brought by Stalin. According to the author, Stalin perverted the creative nature of Marxism and Lenin’s legacy. However, the authors of the review indicate that the policy of terror against the Soviet people coincides with the period of Stalin’s rule, which gives grounds to Prof. Syrykh opponents to claim: 40 years of socialist construction involved violence, coercion and killing thousands of people. The book under review is written to counter such claims.

The Subject of a Crime Under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
E. G. Bykova ◽  
◽  
A. A. Kazakov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Administrative Code

The change in the disposition of Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation led to questions from law enforcement officers about from what moment a person is considered to be held administratively liable and what to mean by the commission of a similar act. The article carries out a systematic legal analysis of the provisions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the position of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in order to formulate proposals for solving the indicated problems. The fundamental method was dialectical. The formal legal method was used in the study of regulations governing certain aspects of the legal assessment of unlawful acts that take into account administrative precedence. Using a comparative legal method, a distinction was made between situations where a person was ordered to be held administratively liable and an administrative penalty was imposed. Scientific publications on the subject were analyzed. It was concluded that the current version of Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, containing a formally indefinite legal category, raises the problem of calculating the one-year period during which a person can be prosecuted under this norm if there is an administrative precedence. In addition, it is justified that a «similar act» should be understood only as an administrative offense, responsibility for which is provided for in Art. 20.3.1 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. The use of criminal law by analogy is unacceptable, therefore, it is proposed to amend the disposition of Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code to eliminate the identified gap. The problem identified could be the basis for further scientific research. The practical significance is due to the fact that the positions formulated by the authors can be taken into account in the process of improving criminal law, when amending the relevant explanations of the highest court in this category of cases in order to form a unified practice of applying criminal law.

scholarly journals Topical problems of legal regulation of the institution of conflict of interest in the state civil service in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Sergey P. Koval’ ◽  
Oksana Yu. Taibova ◽  
Mikhail Yu. Tsvetkov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article examines theoretical issues related to understanding and important problems of legal regulation of the institution of conflict of interest in the state and municipal service, it analyses the category of “personal interest of an employee”, and also conducts a comparative study of the application of administrative and disciplinary responsibility to a civil servant in this conflict situations. The activity of the commissions on compliance with the requirements for official behaviour of civil servants is analysed. The authors analyse the specifics of the conflict of interest based on the current legislation. Particular attention is paid to the issues of increasing the efficiency of practical activities of state bodies to identify and prevent these conflicts. Gaps in the provisions of the laws of the Russian Federation related to conflicts of interest are investigated. There are proposals for the effective resolution of conflict situations in the civil service. Analysing the changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation, considering the opinions of scientists on combating corruption, the authors draw their own conclusions. The key position of the authors on this issue is that improving the measures of legal responsibility of civil servants in a situation of conflict of interest is a necessary task of the science of administrative law, an effective means of preventing offences and strengthening executive discipline in the state apparatus.

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