Medina L. The Criminal-legal Characteristic Liability of Crimes Against Electoral Rights of Citizens of Ukraine.

The thesis is a complex research into the issues of criminal liability for crimes against electoral rights of citizens of Ukraine. The extent and social danger of these infringements have been scrutinised as well as issues considered which pertain to the improvement of the norms envisaging liability for crimes against electoral rights. Legal analysis of the features of the components of these crimes has been effectuated. Foreign and international legal experience of counteracting violations of electoral legislation has been generalised. The content of electoral legal relations that arise at all stages of electoral process during the realisation by citizens of Ukraine of their electoral rights has been analysed, the mechanism of damage infliction both on electoral legal relations as a whole and on their individual elements has been investigated and concrete proposals made with regard to the improvement of the relevant norms of both the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the mechanism of criminal legal protection of Ukrainian citizens' electoral rights as a whole.