. Legislative innovations in the regulation of punishment in the form of restraint of liberty in the Criminal Code of the RF

On the 10th of January, 2010 the Criminal Code and the Penitentiary Code provisions of punishment in the form of restraint of liberty were enacted. At the same time, the general provisions of this form of punishment, compared to their original version, were fundamentally changed. In fact, a conceptually new type of punishment was introduced in the Criminal Code and Penitentiary Code, with the old name left only - "restraint of liberty". The author reveals the contents of this form of punishment, high-lights some theoretical and practical problems associated with deficiencies in the regulatory prescriptions of the punishment in the form of restraint of liberty.