Overview of the institute of amnesties and pardons according to the legislation of the Russian Federation

The problems of Amnesty and pardon are fundamental problems of criminal legal science, which deserve obvious attention. Since the resolution of these ambiguous problems from many sides will determine the degree of legality and effectiveness of law enforcement agencies, the legal status and the degree of legal protection of a person and a citizen from criminal encroachment by other members of society and from arbitrariness on the part of the state. In General, their implementation is determined by the nature of criminal law policy. From the history of the formation of domestic criminal legislation can be seen that as its development all the time expanded measures applied to persons who have committed crimes. Regardless of the fact that criminal penalties as legal consequences of crimes remained unshakable all the time, between them and crimes in the criminal legislation gradually arose measures, the use of which either did not allow the use of penalties, or entailed exemption from punishment, or a change in the mode of use. As a special Institute of the Amnesty and pardon in ancient times are of interest to researchers. The problems of the Institute of Amnesty and pardon in Russia were to be studied constantly, and in ancient times, and in the Soviet period, and now.