Administrative sanctions: concept and types
Administrative sanctions Russia imposed on citizens, officials and legal entities in accordance with the Code of the Russian Federation on administrative offences and administrative laws of subjects of the Russian Federation. Last as punishments may provide only a warning and a fine. The content of administrative penal- ties is determined by its objectives and according to the administrative code is applied in order to prevent administrative offences both by the offender and other persons. Administrative punishment, expressing a negative assessment of the state of the offence of causing harm (moral, material) the perpetrator is not of a repressive nature and is devoid of such appointment, as a punishment (the term “kara” is not used in relation to punishment in the Russian Federation, because human rights and freedoms is the Supreme value of the state). Therefore, the functions of punishment is not punitive, but preventive, the objectives of which is edu- cation. At insignificance of a perfect offence, the person may be exempted from administrative punishment.