On improving the institution of administrative liability for violations of the legislation on publishing activities
The article substantiates a rather conditional classification of administrative and legal violations in publishing, according to which offences are divided into two groups: offences, the objects of which are social relations emerging in the publishing sphere, and offences, the objects of which partially go beyond publishing activities. Special attention is paid to the specificity of administrative violations of the publishing and printing process. The author of the article points out that the articles, introducing liability in the field of publishing activities, apply only to the sphere of mass media publication, and such an important principal component of publishing activities as book publishing currently remains outside the field of legislative regulation. The article pays attention to the fact that, in the absence of a social legislative act regulating publishing activities, the main issues of the publishing of periodic and book production in the Russian Federation are coordinated by the norms of the Law of the Russian Federation “On mass media”; it also emphasises that, despite the fact that the norms of this legal act apply only to the activities of periodicals, in practice, within the compelled filling of the legal vacuum, provisions of this law being also applied in the field of book business.