Modern interpretations of the theory of criminal misdemeanorin administrative law of Russia

The article examines in historical retrospect the experience and tendencies of parallel development of criminal and administrative responsibility in domestic jurisprudence and legislation from the 19th century to the present day. The Authors criticize the attempts to return administrative offenses to a three-tier system of criminal delicts on the basis of the concept of the Criminal Code of 1903. It is condemned not so much as an attempt to “reanimate” criminal misdemeanor by representatives of criminal law science, but similar attacks on the independent species status of administrative responsibility on the part of individual colleagues-administrativists.