The taking measures of criminal responsibility for encroachment upon the forest in the Russian Federation
This article presents certain analysis of legal problems taking place the usage of criminal responsibility for encroachment upon the forest in the Russian Federation. Encroachment on forests, damages not only the economy of the country but it also threatens the environmental situation in general. It is the crimes connected with illegal cutting down of the forests and the destruction of wildlife in many regions that takes a great deal in the whole structure of environmental crimes. The author stresses the fact that the politic of the state in sphere of guarding of forest resources is estimated by many experts as insufficiently determent and insufficiently firm.