The article deals with the historical causes and conditions
of corruption in Russia and some foreign countries. The
concept of corruption in terms of the current legislation is
briefly studied with the aim of proposing legislative
initiatives in future to expand the definition of concepts:
corrupt behavior; corruption; corruption offense and a
crime. The work outlines the key features of act of
corruption, its devastating impact on the sovereignty and
security of the state. Particular attention is paid to the
spiritual and moral component of occurrence of corrupt
behavior in society, as well as its impact on social,
political and economic development of the state. The
study determines the destructive force of corruption as a
factor of destabilization of the economic and political life
of the society and the country, as well as the impact of
this effect on the international credibility and external
security of the state. In the article on the example of the
political events taking place in the countries of near and
far abroad, it is stated that corruption is the main cause of
internal and external wars. The article identifies
proposals for the improvement of the current anticorruption
laws of the Russian Federation, taking into
account the basic principles of the rule of law, in order to
prevent internal and external destabilization in the
country, as well as to strengthen security and the
international prestige of the state
There are quite few scientific researches covering the problems of organizing and tactics of investigation in court procedure, which meet the requirements of the Procedural Criminal Law of the Russian Federation in the legal literature. The studies of the ways of sur-mounting counteraction in court hardly exist. There-fore, the authors consider the matters of counteraction in the course of investigation in court paying attention to the existing theory and practice of counteraction in the criminal court procedure. They have developed some scientific recommendations upon the measures for surmounting counteraction to investigation in court in various circumstances
In the article, we analyze the measures that the lawenforcement
authorities of the Soviet Russia and the
USSR undertook against the process of bringing the
criminal income into the economy of the country and
using it for the destabilization of the economy and
supporting criminal activities. This work reveals the
true essence of criminal funds and the degree of its
danger to the state and society. The author suggests
that the present-day crisis in the state and political
order is, largely, related to the criminogenic
component of the country development, i.e. the
criminal revolution in Russia in the mid 90-s of the
XX century. The criminality has always been a serious
problem for the society, but only in some countries it
reached the level when it became a threat to national
security. The factor contributing to such situation is, in
the first place, the lack of action on the part of the
society and the state. This allows the criminality to
penetrate in all social and public institutes and create
the political and economic chaos. For obvious reasons,
such social context results in the dissolution of the
state and the formation of smaller state structures, the
introduction of external control, the loss of sovereignty
and the annexation of its territories by more powerful
states
The estimation and check of reliability of indications of the victim is possible only under condition of a recognition of the last admissible and attribute proofs. Therefore inadmissible or not attribute indications of the victim are simultaneously doubtful proofs. Value of indications of the victim is caused by what the data directly concerning materials of criminal case contain. The given circumstance should force authorities of criminal legal proceedings to concern check and an estimation of the received information more attentively and critical, therefore the circumstances excluding responsibility accused, or, on the contrary, guilt in fulfillment of a crime can be established
In the article the authors analyze the state of crime
prevention in special legal literature, with analyses
certain provisions of the criminal procedure code of
Russia, allowing carrying out the preventive activities
of the investigator during the investigation of criminal
cases. In particular, the authors discuss the actual
activities of the investigator in relation to the
investigation of illicit trafficking in drugs. In the
scientific article we have taken into account the views
of famous scientists: R. S. Belkin, S. A. Solunskogo,
A. N. Kolesnichenko, I. A. Vozgrin, I. I. Ivanov and
others
The article describes typical investigatory situations on
initial stage of the investigation, we have given the
peculiarities of the situations in crimes against the
family and the structure of the investigative action on
each of them
The scientific article: "The crimes committed by legal persons in foreign countries and penalties applied to them (a systematic review of international practice)" encompasses a statement of practices in sentencing in foreign countries for crimes committed by legal entities. The article reflected the author's consistent position on the feasibility of the introduction of the Russian criminal law liability of legal persons, which is justified by reference to the experience of the institution of criminal liability of legal entities in several foreign countries, and forsake not the position of the Investigative Committee of the country, nominated in 2011, the idea of criminal liability companies. The content of the article is aimed at an exchange of views on the problems of introducing criminal liability of legal persons in the Russian criminal law. Analyzed experience in combating crime entities reasoned position as the leading experts in this area and materials jurisprudence allows fully justified to assume a legal entity as a full subject of criminal activities in Russia. In addition, the chronological period law enforcement and pluralistic views of members of the judiciary of England and the United States, determine the inevitable process of globalization of the world legal community in which Russia now occupies a prominent place
The article analyses the criminal and budgetary
legislation in the field of non-targeted spending
of budgetary funds. Research of the official
statistics provided by the General Prosecutor’s
Office of the Russian Federation from 2003 to
2014 showed a decrease in the facts of nontargeted
spending of budgetary funds, that,
according to the authors, is a sign of high level
of latency, because law enforcement and
financial control authorities are facing
difficulties at a stage of identification of this
crime and proof of data obtained during the
investigative measures. The authors of the article
paid special attention to the analysis of the
elements of the non-targeted spending of
budgetary funds. The different points of view of
the object of this crime are considered. At
disclosure of objective features, the authors point
to the terminological differences between the
Criminal code of the Russian Federation and the
Budgetary code of the Russian Federation that,
undoubtedly, in practice disturb the correct
qualification of the actions. By consideration the
subject of non-targeted spending of budgetary
funds, materials of criminal cases have been
studied which allowed to reveal obvious gaps of
the criminal law in this sphere. The authors
formulated the proposals for improving the
legislation by inclusion of the qualifying features
and addition the third part of article that,
certainly, has to be reflected in differentiation of
criminal responsibility
Discussion and problem questions of criminal-legal
struggle with terrorism are considered. Terrorism as a
phenomenon of our society was analyzed. The
assessment of criminal legislation and the bill on
property and criminal responsibility of relatives of
terrorists is given
The article provides an overview of the resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, reflecting different approach to qualification of multiple offenses