To conduct a legal analysis, it is necessary to refer
to the general law regulations of Article 45 of the
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This type
of punishment in accordance with part 2 of Article 45
of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation can
be assigned both as the main type of punishment and
as the additional type of punishment. Having studied
the sanctions of Articles 264 and 2641 of the Criminal
Code of the Russian Federation, we have concluded
that this type of punishment is specified by the
legislator as an additional punishment. In various
parts of Articles 264 and 2641 of the Criminal Code
of the Russian Federation, the considered type of
punishment is assigned as mandatory or not
mandatory to the main type of punishment for a
period of up to three years. This term does not
contradict the conditions specified in part 2 of Article
47 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
According to which, the considered type of
punishment can be imposed for a period from six
months to three years. Due to a direct indication in the
law, the type of punishment under consideration may
be imposed for a period not exceeding three years.
Upon further consideration of Part 2 of Article 47 of
the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, we can
find an indication of the fact that if the sanction of the
article of the Special Part of the Criminal Code
specifically indicates the possibility of assigning
deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or
engage in certain activities, then in this case the court
may impose this type of punishment for up to twenty
years (Inogamova-Hegai L. V., 2016). It is not by
chance that we have focused our attention on this
circumstance. After the analysis of the practice of
assigning this type of punishment, we will return to
the idea of increasing the term of assigning the
additional type of punishment for longer terms, taking
into account the law regulations of Article 47 of the
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
We will analyze the number of persons brought to
criminal responsibility and assigned types of criminal
punishment for the 1st half of 2019 and for the 1st
half of 2020 in accordance with Form No. 10.1 (semi-
annual), which was approved by Order No. 65 of the
Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the
Russian Federation of 11.04.2017 (as amended by
Order No. 108 of 30.05.2019) (Report on the number
of persons brought to criminal responsibility and
types of criminal punishment for the 1st half of 2019
and for the 1st half of 2020. Form No. 10.1 / /
[Electronic resource]: URL:
http://www.cdep.ru/index.php?id=79 (accessed
12.03.2021)).
As a result of the analysis, it was found that under
parts 1 and 2 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of
the Russian Federation in the 1st half of 2019, a total
number of 2,729 people were convicted on the
territory of the Russian Federation, where 1,556
convicts were sentenced to deprivation of the right to
hold certain positions or engage in certain activities.
Thus, this type of punishment was not assigned to
1,173 convicts. Also, according to parts 1 and 2 of
Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation, in the 1st half of 2020, a total number of
1,969 people were convicted on the territory of the
Russian Federation, 1,140 were sentenced to the
punishment we are considering. Note that this type of
punishment was not assigned to 829 convicts. We are
trying to find an explanation for this fact. Since the
sanction of part 1 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code
of the Russian Federation allows to assign the type of
punishment or to come to a conclusion about not
assigning it. Or the court applies the regulations of
Article 64 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation. We believe that these circumstances are
sufficient to justify not assigning the considered
punishment to all convicted persons under parts 1 and
2 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation. It should be noted that the punishment in
the form of deprivation of the right to hold certain
positions or engage in certain activities in two cases
is assigned as the main type of punishment. The
imposition of this type of punishment as the main one
is associated with the application of the law
regulations of Article 64 of the Criminal Code of the
Russian Federation. But in this case, the court has no
legal basis for assigning the same type of punishment
as an additional one (Bondarev S. P., Bokhan A. P.,
2017).
According to parts 3 and 4 of Article 264 of the
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in the 1st
half of 2019, a total number of 1,652 people were
convicted on the territory of the Russian Federation,
only 1,441 convicts were assigned the sentence we
are considering. This type of punishment is not
assigned to 211 convicts. At the same time, according
to parts 3 and 4 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code
of the Russian Federation, in the 1st half of 2020, a
total number of 1,171 people were convicted on the
territory of the Russian Federation, 1,043 were
sentenced to deprivation of the right to hold certain
positions or engage in certain activities. This type of
punishment was again not assigned to 128 convicts.
It is difficult to explain the facts of not assigning the
considered type of punishment to 128 convicts, when
the appointment of this type of punishment is
mandatory! We link these cases of non-imposition of