Purpose of the study: The article analyzes constitutional and legal responsibility binding federal executive authority officials of the Russian Federation: federal ministers, heads of federal services and agencies. Special attention is paid to features of entrenching responsibility of the specified persons in the Russian legislation.
Methodology: On the basis of such an analysis, on the example of the legislation of the Russian Federation, authors investigate problematic aspects of legal regulation and responsibility. The authors raise the questions connected with the lack of specific entrenchment of the legal status born by officials. Presently it remains unclear whether equating the constitutional legal status of the federal services and agencies officials with the status of the federal ministers and identification of responsibility is guaranteed.
Results: Authors formulate a conclusion that constitutional and legal responsibility of federal executive authority officials is a voluminous yet scarcely studied legal phenomenon that does not possess sufficient legislative regulation.
Applications of this study: This research can be used for the universities, teachers, and students.
Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the model of the Constitutional and legal responsibility binding federal executive authority officials in the Russian Federation is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.
The article draws our attention to legal responsibility as a key legal phenomenon. Theoretical aspects of a legal responsibility concept, its prospective (positive) and retrospective (negative) components and contents are considered. Authors discuss issues connected with lack of uniform approach in determining the legal responsibility and the reasons the term is not understood clearly. Discovering key components of legal responsibility, the author's vision of the problem's solution and key definition is offered and a definition of a legal responsibility concept is formulated as authors see it. On the basis of such analysis and on the example of the legislation of the Russian Federation, authors reveal some establishment features and solutions of legal regulation as well as offer the ways of implementing their vision. Authors formulate a conclusion that the legal responsibility is currently a rather voluminous, yet contradictory legal phenomenon which is not possessing sufficiently in legislative regulation.
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