To conduct a legal analysis, it is necessary to refer 
to  the  general  law  regulations  of  Article  45  of  the 
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This type 
of punishment in accordance with part 2 of Article 45 
of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation can 
be assigned both as the main type of punishment and 
as the additional type of punishment. Having studied 
the sanctions of Articles 264 and 2641 of the Criminal 
Code of the Russian Federation, we have concluded   
that  this  type  of  punishment  is  specified  by  the 
legislator  as  an  additional  punishment.  In  various 
parts of Articles 264 and 2641 of the Criminal Code 
of  the  Russian  Federation,  the  considered  type  of 
punishment  is  assigned  as  mandatory  or  not 
mandatory  to  the  main  type  of  punishment  for  a 
period  of  up  to  three  years.  This  term  does  not 
contradict the conditions specified in part 2 of Article 
47 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. 
According  to  which,  the  considered  type  of 
punishment  can  be  imposed  for  a  period  from  six 
months to three years. Due to a direct indication in the 
law, the type of punishment under consideration may 
be  imposed  for  a  period not  exceeding  three  years. 
Upon further consideration of Part 2 of Article 47 of 
the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, we can 
find an indication of the fact that if the sanction of the 
article  of  the  Special  Part  of  the  Criminal  Code 
specifically  indicates  the  possibility  of  assigning 
deprivation  of  the  right  to hold  certain  positions  or 
engage in certain activities, then in this case the court 
may impose this type of punishment for up to twenty 
years  (Inogamova-Hegai  L.  V.,  2016).  It  is  not  by 
chance  that  we  have  focused  our  attention  on  this 
circumstance.  After  the  analysis  of  the  practice  of 
assigning this type of punishment, we will return to 
the  idea  of  increasing  the  term  of  assigning  the 
additional type of punishment for longer terms, taking 
into account the law regulations of Article 47 of the 
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. 
We will analyze the number of persons brought to 
criminal responsibility and assigned types of criminal 
punishment for the 1st half  of 2019  and for  the 1st 
half of 2020 in accordance with Form No. 10.1 (semi-
annual), which was approved by Order No. 65 of the 
Judicial  Department  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Russian  Federation  of  11.04.2017  (as  amended  by 
Order No. 108 of 30.05.2019) (Report on the number 
of  persons  brought  to  criminal  responsibility  and 
types of criminal punishment for the 1st half of 2019 
and  for  the  1st  half  of  2020.  Form  No.  10.1  /  / 
[Electronic  resource]:  URL: 
http://www.cdep.ru/index.php?id=79  (accessed 
12.03.2021)). 
As a result of the analysis, it was found that under 
parts 1 and 2 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of 
the Russian Federation in the 1st half of 2019, a total 
number  of  2,729  people  were  convicted  on  the 
territory  of  the  Russian  Federation,  where  1,556 
convicts were sentenced to deprivation of the right to 
hold certain positions or engage in certain activities. 
Thus,  this  type  of  punishment  was  not  assigned  to 
1,173 convicts. Also,  according to  parts 1  and  2 of 
Article  264  of  the  Criminal  Code  of  the  Russian 
Federation, in the 1st half of 2020, a total number of 
1,969 people were convicted on  the  territory of  the 
Russian  Federation,  1,140  were  sentenced  to  the 
punishment we are considering. Note that this type of 
punishment was not assigned to 829 convicts. We are 
trying to find an explanation for this fact. Since the 
sanction of part 1 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code 
of the Russian Federation allows to assign the type of 
punishment  or  to  come  to  a  conclusion  about  not 
assigning  it.  Or  the  court  applies  the  regulations  of 
Article  64  of  the  Criminal  Code  of  the  Russian 
Federation. We believe that these circumstances are 
sufficient  to  justify  not  assigning  the  considered 
punishment to all convicted persons under parts 1 and 
2 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian 
Federation. It should be noted that the punishment in 
the  form  of  deprivation  of  the  right  to hold  certain 
positions or engage in certain activities in two cases 
is  assigned  as  the  main  type  of  punishment.  The 
imposition of this type of punishment as the main one 
is associated with the application of the law 
regulations of Article 64 of the Criminal Code of the 
Russian Federation. But in this case, the court has no 
legal basis for assigning the same type of punishment 
as an additional one (Bondarev S. P., Bokhan A. P., 
2017). 
According to parts 3 and 4 of Article 264 of the 
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in the 1st 
half  of  2019,  a  total  number  of  1,652  people  were 
convicted on the territory of the Russian Federation, 
only  1,441 convicts  were  assigned the  sentence  we 
are  considering.  This  type  of  punishment  is  not 
assigned to 211 convicts. At the same time, according 
to parts 3 and 4 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code 
of the Russian Federation, in the 1st half of 2020, a 
total number of 1,171 people were convicted on the 
territory  of  the  Russian  Federation,  1,043  were 
sentenced to deprivation of the right to hold  certain 
positions or engage in certain activities. This type of 
punishment was again not assigned to 128 convicts. 
It is difficult to explain the facts of not assigning the 
considered type of punishment to 128 convicts, when 
the  appointment  of  this  type  of  punishment  is 
mandatory! We link these cases of non-imposition of