QUESTION OF CRIMINAL AND LEGAL PROTECTION OF HONOR AND DIGNITY IN THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION
The article represents research of the ques-tion concerned with criminal and legal protection of honor and dignity in Russian Federation. Pointed the opinions concerning the possibility of criminalization of the defama-tion which are in Russian legal literature. Analyzed provi-sions of draft law d.d. 01.07.2009 about de-criminalization of slander and insult.