Theoretical aspects of bringing officials to legal responsibility

In modern conditions, the theoretical aspects of bringing officials to legal responsibility are especially updated. The article is devoted to the study of those features of bringing officials to legal responsibility, which are not associated with the imposition of criminal or administrative measures, but are mediated by the official’s legal position. Purpose: to analyze the conditions for obtaining a position imposed on officials of state bodies, comparative characteristics of such legal categories as «prohibitions», «restrictions» and «duties», the wording of their definitions. Methods: the authors use such methods as dialectical logic, descriptions, system and structural analysis, comparisons and generalizations. Results: classifying the immoral acts that give rise to disciplinary measures against an official, determining a range of acts incompatible with the position, the commission of which may be sanctioned by its loss.