Keyword: «criminal law»

The paper is dedicated to historical and legal analysis of legal sanctions applied to corrupt officials in Russia. The author is convinced that tightening of criminal penalties is useless if it is not ensured with a ripe sense of justice and effective anticorruption standards.

The article is devoted to changes in the Penal Code, under which a person who has committed a crime of small or average gravity may be released from criminal liability (Federal Law of July 3, 2016 № 323-FZ "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Criminal -protsessualny Code of the Russian Federation on the improvement of the grounds and order of exemption from criminal responsibility ").

In article the substantiation of the principles of information rights as a cross-sectoral concept, in particular, the updated correlation with the criminal law.

The article analyzes the draft law providing for the administrative prejudice for hatred or enmity incitement (article 282 of the Russian criminal code). Based on the results of a comprehensive historical and legal study, the author formulates recommendations that can improve the effectiveness of fighting against extremism in Russia.

This article, using the comparative legal method, studies the system of punishment based on the criminal codes of such countries as the Russian Federation and Germany. The author draws our attention to the following facts: the absence of punishment concept in the German criminal law, the specifics of a number of criminal legal institutions of the German law, extended list of punishments in the criminal code of the Russian Federation in comparison with the punishments under the criminal code of Germany, as well as the absence of the specialized punishments in the criminal code of Germany that can only be inflicted on special subjects of crime.