TOPICAL ISSUES OF ANTICORRUPTION ENLIGHTENMENT AND ANTICORRUPTION EDUCATION

Objective: to familiarize a wide range of interested persons with the results of the 2nd Siberian Anti-corruption Forum with international participation “Topical issues of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education” held on 15-16September 2016 at the Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk).Methods: in the preparation of their presentations, the forum participants used the scientific method of dialectical cognition, and a number of specific scientific methods: historical-legal, systemic-structural, comparative legal, formal logic (deduction, induction, definition and division of concepts), etc.Results: elaboration of proposals on improvement of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education. In the forum took part the Vice-rector for social Affairs of SFU, Doctor of Economics, Professor S. I. Mutovin, Director of the Law Institute of SFU, Doctor of Law, Professor I. V. Shishko and Head of Research and Development Department of International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO (France), PhD in Education M. Poisson, Head of the Department of Delictology and Criminology of the Law Institute of SFU, Doctor of Law, Professor N. V. Shchedrin, Director of the Center for anti-corruption technologies (Tomsk), PhD in Law S. M. Budatarov, Head of the Center for the Russian Law Studies, Professor of the Heilongjiang University of Harbin (China), PhD in Law Pan Dunmay, Director of the Center for combating corruption and legal expertise of SFU, Associate Professor of the Deparment of Delictology and Criminology of the Law Institute of SFU, PhD in Law I. A. Damm, as well as representatives of public authorities, local governments, civil society institutions, and mass media.Scientific novelty: the forum held interdisciplinary scientific-practical discussion of the key issues of formation of public intolerance towards corruption behavior by means of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education. Practical significance: in the ensued scientific discussion, the forum participants put forward a number of proposals for improvement of legal regulation and organization of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education in the light of the accumulated experience, including in foreign countries

SECURITY MEASURES AS A MEANS OF CORRUPTION PREVENTION WHEN FINANCING ELECTION CAMPAIGNS

Objective: to prove the necessity to increase the efficiency of legal relations protection in the sphere of financing of election campaigns by implementing security measures. Methods: analytical, formal-logic (deduction, induction, defining and division of a notion), and comparative-legal. Results: basing on the analysis of the existing national and foreign election legislation, the author determines corruptive actions when financing election campaigns and suggests means for preventing such actions, such as the institution of election deposit and institution of candidate’s expenses compensation. Scientific novelty: for the first time such determinants of corruptive actions when financing election campaigns are defined as the possibility for the candidate to refuse from participating in voting without forcing circumstances, as well as the lack of efficient measures to prevent such refusal. The legislation states the norms creating conditions for committing corruption crimes, namely the possibility for the candidates to use guarantees of passive election right for sordid motives. Practical value: the theoretical provisions formulated in the research can be used in law-making activity, in particular, to serve as the basis for reforming the existing election legislation of the Russian Federation

The mechanism of corrupt conduct of the election committee member at individual level

Своевременное предупреждение коррупционных действий, бесспорно, способствует значительному снижению степени вредоносного влияния данного социального явления. Без изучения механизма коррупционного поведения невозможно построение эффективной системы мер, направленных как на профилактику преступного поведения, так и на удержание потенциального коррупционера в рамках правомерного поведения. Поскольку избирательный процесс на сегодняшний день достаточно сильно подвержен коррупции, рассмотрение общих положений о механизме коррупционного поведения применительно к деятельности члена избирательной комиссии представляется весьма актуальным.Opportune prevention of corrupt actions undoubtedly promote considerable decrease of the harmful influence degree of this social phenomenon. It is impossible to construct the effective system of measures aimed as to prevention of the criminal conduct, as to retention of the potential corrupt person in the frame of legal conduct, without research of the mechanism of corrupt conduct. Since the election process is strongly influenced by corruption nowadays, consideration of the general provisions on the mechanism of corrupt conduct with reference to the activity of the election committee member seems to be extremely relevant