Certain Application Issues of the Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

The article considers some issues of application of the Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The number of convicts under this article has been exhibited in this work, and it also identifies a number of reasons why this Article, in the author´s opinion, has almost never been applied in practice. In particular, the reasons for non-application of the Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in practice are: unwillingness of pregnant women to protect their rights in criminal process; difficulty in proving unjustified refusal to enter into an employment contract with a pregnant woman; an evaluative character of an indicia — “unreasonable refusal”; differentiation problems of crime components under the Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the administrative offences’ components provided for by the Article 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. It is also identified that there is discriminatory provision due to absence of guidance in the Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation about such a victim, like a man who has a child under the age of three years old. The conclusion defines the necessity to decriminalize a crime under the Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.