Popova N.F. On the Question of the Appliance of Enforcement Measures to Government Officials

Abstract: The article reveals the differences in bringing to disciplinary, financial and administrative responsibility of civil servants, military personnel and government officials with special ranks, and law-enforcement officials. In her article Popova provides data regarding law enforcement practice of bringing to administrative responsibility. Thus, during the first half of 2014, 133 officials working at state and municipal control (supervisory) agencies got a notice and 67 officials were subject to fine for a failure to observe the legal requirements for state control (supervision) (Article 19.6.1). In the process of writing this article the following research methods have been used: hermeneutical method, systems method, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparative law method and other methods that are usually used in legal research. The results of the analysis of legal practice demonstrate that government officials are rarely disqualified for their failure to observe legal requirements. The Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences has Article 19.1 that specifies the universal crime components of 'usurpation of power'. According to the Article, all civil servants can be brought to administrative responsibility but not only persons who have a special status of a government official. 

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