On The Guard of Russian Authorities

The review examines the monograph by T.K. Aguzarov, Yu.V. Gracheva and A.I. Chuchaev "Criminal Legal Issues of Protection of the Authorities (Past and Present): Moscow: Prospect, 2016. 336 p." and notes its comprehensive nature and timeliness of the publications. The study on the one hand, was conducted in the academic way - it touches upon the historical aspects of the development of norms on crimes against State authorities, provides criminal characteristics of individual offences, etc. On the other hand, reviewed work possesses unquestionable originality, which manifests itself in a number of areas: firstly, the monograph discloses the nature of the gnoseological nature of the historical method, and it then applies to the perception of the crimes encroaching on power; the authors have paid serious attention to comparativistics setting out its methodological bases, and then using them in examining the legislation of foreign countries. They conducted a comprehensive assessment of the criminal legal mechanism of protection of the State power. A special attention is given to interpretation of the problems of social conditionality of the relevant criminal law; the work inherent in a harmonious blend of theory and practice, due to the uniqueness of the authors having had a solid theoretical and practical experience (e.g. copyright considerations for optimizing the criminal legal protection authorities denied any illusory). The review also specifies the separate polemic positions of the monograph. It is concluded that the authors prepared a useful fundamental work enriching the theory of criminal law.

criminal legal problems, protection, State power, T.K. Aguzarov, Yu.V. Gracheva, A.I. Chachaev, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, improvement, crimes against State power, historical method, comparative literature, the criminal legal framework, social conditionality of prohibitions, theory, practice, fundamental work, the qualification of the offence, the new chapter of the Criminal Code

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