Аннотации:
The article reveals comparative legal analysis of regulations on transportation of goods through the customs border of Russia during the XVII-XXI Centuries. Special attention is paid to legal regulation on contraband traffic of goods since 1990s till now. This period is considered as liberalization of criminal law related to this phenomenon. Author states that for a long time there have been competing administrative and criminal regulations on responsibility for contraband traffic. There used to be administrative as long as criminal responsibility. The main reason for division of these two types of responsibility was the amout of good been illegally trafficked. Law enforcement problems arose as result of no official definition of contraband goods trafficking. Only in 2008 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation cleared the situation. Many types of crime have been decriminalized recently (contraband traffic has also been decriminalized in Russian Federation). It is only administratively punished irrespectively of the amount of goods trafficked.
