THE NEW IN THE DEFINITION OF THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY LIMITS: PROGRESS OR REGRESS
The present paper conducts a critical analysis of new regulations in the Russian criminal and labour law that stipulate permanent and unconditional restrictions of labour rights in education, childcare, child development, medicare, recreation of children, social work and sevices, sports and culture not only for people with criminal convictions but also for those whose criminal records were canceled or expired. The author discloses the contents of legislature that provides restrictions, analyzes the cause оf violations of basic principle of the criminal law by the new statements of labour law, reviews the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Russian Federation that contains verification of the constitutionality of questionable legal provisions. Moreover, the author calls into question the trends in the changing Russian legislation that introduce unlimited-in-time crime responsibility. The author is convinced that so far there have been no objective needs to spread the limitations for the persons, whose criminal records were annulled, and provides examples from the Criminal Code of China which demonstrate a different, completely opposite approach towards this questionable problem.