O.L. Dubovik On the Necessity of Elimination of the Misbalance between the Evaluation of the Social Danger and the Punishability of Ecological Crimes according to the Chapter 26 of the Criminal Code of RF

Abstract: the author says about the problems of environmental protection by criminal legal means. The author makes the analysis of a new criminal legislation of Russia, aimed at the prevention of violations the rules of environmental protection within action, violation of rules of ordinance of hazardous substances and wastes, land devastation, destruction of critical habitats for the organisms, noted into the Red Book of the Russian Federation, violation of the regime of specially protected natural territories and natural objects. These innovations are critically refl ected.

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