title: Administrative liability for ‘disrespect’ to the authorities in Russia: Gross defects in legislative regulation and enforcement
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metadata.value: Kondrashev, Andrey A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-02-09T13:43:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-02-09T13:43:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kondrashev, Andrey A. 2021. “Administrative liability for ‘disrespect’ to the authorities in Russia: Gross defects in legislative regulation and enforcement”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 965–983.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2021.410
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/34789
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes the new composition of an administrative offense introduced in Art.
  20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation in 2019 on the initiative
  of several well-known senators and deputies, which received the name in public discourse —
  “liability for disrespect to the authorities”. The author, using the practice of the Supreme Court
  of the Russian Federation and the ECHR, proves the legal inconsistency of the introduced
  measure of liability, both from the point of view of its inconsistency with constitutional
  principles, and from the standpoint of contradiction with international standards for the
  implementation of freedom of speech, developed by the ECHR and binding on Russia.
  Moreover, the article notes that in democratic European countries there is a tendency to
  exclude or not apply criminal liability for insulting the head of state, at the same time in nondemocratic
  countries there is an opposite trend: the expansion of the list of sanctions and
  their tightening in relation to citizens insulting the highest official of the respective state. The
  article analyzes that the evaluative formulations chosen by the legislator: “an indecent form
  that offends human dignity and public morality” and “a clear disrespect for society, the state,
  official state symbols of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation
  or bodies exercising state power”, during a short judicial application (several months), have
  already led to the emergence of controversial situations in the application of this norm and
  the issuance of not entirely substantiated judicial acts against Russian citizens. The author
  proposed to the legislator to exclude from the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian
  Federation parts 3–5 of Art. 20.1 and also consider the exclusion of Art. 148, 297, 319, 336 of
  the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation since they violate the provisions of Articles
  19 and 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. These two articles of the Constitutions
  establish excessive, disproportionate and discriminatory guarantees for the legal protection of
  certain categories of Russian citizens (civil servants, law enforcement officials, judges, military
  personnel), to the detriment of the general legal constitutional principle of equality of all
  before the law and court.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 12; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: insulting the head of state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: petty hooliganism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: insulting state symbols
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: freedom of speech
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: indecent form
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: obvious disrespect
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Administrative liability for ‘disrespect’ to the authorities in Russia: Gross defects in legislative regulation and enforcement
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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