Criminal-executive legislation of Russia and international legal acts dealing with treatment of prisoners
This article deals with the relations of the penitentiary legislation and international legal acts in the sphere of execution of punishment and treatment of prisoners. Showing kinds of international legal instruments, the article addresses the issue of the obligation of their application, stresses the idea of the necessity to implement the provisions of international instruments into national legislation, taking into account the socio-political, economic and other circumstances that characterize national identity.