Prokofiev, K.G. Subjects of administrative responsibility for the violation of procedure for the organization and holding of gatherings, meetings, demonstrations, walks and picketing.

Abstract: The development of democratic principles an institutions of people’s rule takes place in a complicated and contradictory situation. That is why, the state needs to take maximum effort in order to guarantee public order, and to protect the right of people in the process of public political events. In the conditions of political instability in the Russian society the separatist and extremist tendencies are growing. That is why, formation of additional legal and organizational mechanisms for minimizing the defects in the development of the Russian political system is especially topical. The right to organize, hold and participate in meetings, gatherings, demonstrations, walks and picketing is a general democratic an constitutional value. It allows citizens and their associations to take part in the political life of the state, to show their demands to the state and to support their interests within the wide range of social issues. The methodological basis for the scientific article was formed by the current achievements of the theory of cognition. In the process of studies the author used general philosophical, theoretical and empiric methods (dialectics, systemic method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods ( formal logic method), and methods typical for specific sociological studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.). Taking into account the gravity of some administrative offences taking place when holding meetings, gatherings, demonstrations, walks and picketing, it is offered to amend Art. 4.3 “Circumstances aggravating administrative responsibility” of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation, and include p.7, where it should be stated that an aggravating circumstance for the participant of a public event is use of Nazi attributes and symbols or public demonstration of attributes or symbols of extremist organizations in the course of relevant event.

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