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Legal Analysis of Ecocide in the Russian Criminal Law
Grechenkova Oksana Yurevna, Bondarenko Lubov Viktorovna and Valuiskov Nikoli Viktorovic
Institute Services and Entrepreneurship, (Branch Don State TechnicalUniversity in Shachty, Rostov Region, Shachty the Rostov Region, St. Shevchenko, 147, 346500
ABSTRACT:
The view that the essence of the crime as a socially dangerous act is infringing on legally protected public relations was dominant although it was not the only in the theory of Soviet criminal law. Assault is considered to be the act either causing damage to this relationship or implying the possibility of causing damage. The composition of ecocide in the criminal code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter-CC) (Art. 358) in its legislative design is formulated as a formal material. On the basis of a comparative analysis of international law and Russian criminal legislation in the proposed wording consequences in the form of “mass destruction of flora or fauna, poisoning the atmosphere or water resources” as an alternative to the criminal consequences, but also formulated the concept of “other action” as an alternative acts constituting the act of ecocide (Constitution of the Russian Federation).
KEYWORDS:
Ecocide; criminal law; crime; assault; public danger; ecological disaster
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