Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 527-532 ~ ~ ~ УДК 347.13 Justifi cation of the Tortious Legislation by the RF Constitution Requirements Valentina I. Plokhova* Altai State University 81 Krasnoarmeiskii, Barnaul, 656031, Russia Received 07.08.2014, received in revised form 17.10.2014, accepted 22.11.2014 Constitutional requirements to form and content of the law restricting human rights and freedoms, including the law of torts, are referred to and shortly characterized in the article. <...> Characteristic features of the legal law, constituting the notions of the law supremacy, its correlation to formal and substantial requirements to the law are dwelt upon. <...> The relevance of the topic is determined by the changes in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation which are often spontaneous and unsubstantiated and both reinforcing criminal repression and softening it. <...> On October 21, 2014 the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation considered the case about the constitutionality verifi cation of, for example, Article 159.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. <...> It was initiated by the request of the Salekhard municipal court of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. <...> The applicant believes that the contested norm unreasonably provides entrepreneurs and employees of commercial organizations with signifi cant incentives, placing the rest of the citizens in the position of inequality. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: VPlohova@yandex.ru # 527 # applicant states that the debatable provision violates the victims’ rights, limiting their right to access to justice and indemnifi cation. <...> Basing on this, he considers the norm to be nonconforming to articles 19 and 52 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. <...> Article 15 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation secures the superior legal force, direct effect of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and its application on the territory of the country. <...> According to it, the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, generally recognized principles and norms of the international law, international treaties of the Russian Federation, interpretation of the ECHR convention provisions are included in the Russian legal system. <...> Justifi cation of the Tortious Legislation by the RF Constitution Requirements Thus, constitutional and international norms, generally recognized principles of the international law, their interpretation by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, ECHR must be transformed into the Conception of the criminal law development, taken into consideration at criminalization, decriminalization of acts <...>