To the ISSUE of the punishment in THE form of forfeiture of a position or the right to be engaged in a definite activity

The concept and a content of such type of punishment as deprivation of the right to take certain positions or to be engaged in the certain activity has been examined in the article; the order of its execution with regards to the recent revisions of the criminal and criminally-executive legislation has been analyzed, as well as the ration of the given type of punishment with the principles of the criminal law. The conclusion has been made that in fact article 47 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation deals with two independent kinds of punishment. The article has provided justification to the author’s proposal regarding the necessity to recognize this kind of punishment as only the supplementary one, which can be imposed only in combination with the main one.

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