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Размышления о критериях наложения взысканий государственным гражданским служащим за коррупционные правонарушения
This article is devoted to an urgent topic-the definition of the criteria for imposing penalties on state civil servants for corruption offenses. Disciplinary responsibility, as a type of legal responsibility, prevails in the system of public administration and occupies an important place in the state civil service. In 2011, Federal Law “On the State Civil Service of the Russian Federation” introduced the term “corruption offense”, penalties were established for violating anti-corruption requirements for official behavior. However, the very concept of “corruption offense” has no legislative consolidation. Also, the legislation does not contain a classification of corruption offenses themselves and differentiation of penalties for their commission. In this regard, the law enforcement officer has difficulties in assigning a measure of responsibility for committing a corruption offense, especially, this concerns dismissal due to loss of trust. The situation became even more complicated when a provision appeared in the legislation that a corruption offense can be insignificant with the establishment of a specific penalty in the form of a remark. Therefore, the mechanism of bringing to disciplinary responsibility for corruption offenses should be maximally defined in the legislation, taking into account the development of criteria for bringing to a certain type of penalty, as well as the circumstances of committing a corruption offense. These circumstances objectively determined the choice of the topic of the article, the object and subject of the study. The purpose of the work is to formulate general approaches to determining the criteria for imposing penalties on state civil servants for corruption offenses based on the analysis of legislation and the practice of its application. To achieve the stated goal of the study, the author used the formal legal method of scientific research, as well as the method of system analysis. The new results obtained include the identification of common approaches to determining the criteria for imposing penalties on public civil servants for minor corruption offenses and for offenses that entail dismissal due to loss of trust. The results of the study can be used to improve the legislation on combating corruption.