REGULATION OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR VIOLATION OF THE ORGANIZATION OR ORGANIZATION OR PUBLIC EVENTS
In recent years, the right of citizens to conduct and participate in meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets has been very actively implemented at the constitutional level, the number of unconstrained public events and the number of violations admitted in the course of their conduct, which are the basis for bringing them to legal responsibility organizers and participants. The article analyzes the specific features of various forms of public events. At the same time, the authors attempted not only to characterize their organizational and legal foundations. The main purpose of the article is to identify some conflicts and gaps in the legal regulation of administrative and criminal responsibility for violating the established procedure for organizing or holding public events, identified and assessed from the constitutional point of view by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Attention is drawn to the evolution of Russian legislation in the sphere of regulation of the issue of their organization and conduct, including the correction of Art. 20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation and the introduction in 2014 of a new composition in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Article 212.1), providing for criminal liability for repeatedly violating the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing. The conducted monitoring of the constitutional practice allowed to state that the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the legal positions formulated in them have a significant influence on the process of legislative adjustments in the area studied by the authors. The conclusions drawn are clearly supported by statistical data and examples from law enforcement.