Criminal and administrative liability for air pollution: mixing to the level of identity (reflections on the quality of laws in Russia)

Atmospheric air is one of the natural goods without which humankind cannot exist, and therefore it is protected by both administrative and criminal law means. However the parameters of this protection are extremely unclear, and neither highly qualified practitioners nor criminal law scholars are often able to separate the offence from the crime. Despite the fact that the legislator uses different terminology, the essence of deviant behavior in both administrative and criminal law is related to two groups of actions: 1) emissions into the atmosphere or other harmful physical impact on it; 2) violation of the rules of operation of various treatment facilities.