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КОНФИСКАЦИЯ ИМУЩЕСТВА КАК МЕРА ПРОТИВОДЕЙСТВИЯ КОРРУПЦИИ
Introduction: the article considers a controversial issue about introduction of such type of punishment as confiscation of property as a measure of combating corruption-related crimes. Purpose: the authors analyse and compare different approaches to defining legal nature of confiscation of property. Methods: the methodological framework of the research is based on a set of methods of scientific cognition, among which the dialectic method is the major one. The authors use general scientific methods (dialectics, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization) and methods specific to legal science (technical, comparative legal). Special attention is paid to the comparative and systemic methods of research. Results: the authors view corruption as a serious threat for the system of public authority in the Russian Federation. Corruption does not only mean primitive kinds of bribery and elementary abuse. Combating corruption-related crimes requires taking complex measures of different character, including improvement of criminal legislation and enforcement practice, particularly improvement of the effectiveness of administering punishments for persons guilty of committing such crimes...