On the issue of criminal law measures to combat corruption: an analysis of one legislative initiative

The present article is intended to raise the issue of improvement of criminal-legal measures in the field of combating corruption on the example of the draft law on strengthening criminal liability for petty bribery and petty commercial bribery. The author set the task to determine the degree of expediency of this direction of increasing the effectiveness of anti-corruption. Dialectical, systemic, comparative-legal, statistical, predictive methods, as well as modeling methods were used in the work. Based on the analysis of the current criminal legislation and the draft federal law on strengthening criminal liability for petty bribery and petty commercial bribery, scientific works of well-known Russian and foreign experts in the field of anti-corruption, as well as statistical information, the author made reasonable conclusions about the inexpediency of adopting this law, and made specific proposals for further improvement of the relevant criminal law norms.