Zaykovsky Victor N.

Based on the analysis of the current Russian legislation and the results of law enforcement practice, the article characterizes the nature and role of the Institute of ‘minimization and (or) elimination of the consequences of corruption offenses' in the mechanism of implementation of anti-corruption policy in modern Russia. As a result of the study, a number of proposals to improve the organizational and legal framework of the domestic anti-corruption mechanism were formulated. Any offense is characterized by a certain composition, the elements of which are: the object and the subject of unlawful encroachment, as well as its objective and subjective side. Consequences of offenses can be complex, that is, to cause property damage to the victim simultaneously with infliction of moral damage to him and substantial restriction of his constitutional rights. Depending on the areas of society to which the relations that are harmful belong, we can talk about the political, humanitarian, economic, organizational, social (in the narrow sense), moral, reputational and other consequences of corruption.

The essence of corruption and its main causes are investigated in the article; the differences of those causes from the conditions conducive to the commission of corruption offenses are characterized. The construction method of the so-called «principal-agency» relationship model is used by the authors. On the basis of the obtained results, some proposals have been formulated to improve the domestic anti-corruption mechanism. Corruption is a double-sided phenomenon. Corrupt officials will receive undeserved benefits, take bribes, etc. till they are bribed by ordinary citizens and businessmen (corrupters). Only the country in which citizens basically do not give and do not provoke bribes, and officials do not take and do not extort them on conviction (the emphasis on the bribe is made because of its greatest prevalence in the structure of corruption criminality) can be «clean» from corruption. The main priority of the state anti-corruption policy should be the formation in the society of principal and active rejection of corruption by all citizens regardless of their social status. Taking into account the mentioned circumstances educational measures must be put forward in the national system of anti-corruption. To tell the truth, they will not produce an effect at once, but will be effective later.