Abstract:
Актуалізовано проблему конституційно-правової відповідальності колаборантів,
теоретичне осмислення якої є необхідною передумовою вдосконалення національного
конституційного законодавства, а також практичної реалізації його норм суб’єктами
правозастосування, наділеними юрисдикційними повноваженнями. The
purpose of the article is to actualize the problem of constitutional and legal liability of collaborators, the
theoretical understanding of which is a necessary prerequisite for the improvement of national
constitutional legislation, as well as for the practical implementation of its norms by law enforcement
entities endowed with jurisdictional powers.
It has been noted that, in the author's opinion, the constitutional and legal liability of
collaborators should become a powerful safeguard against various manifestations of separatism and
collaborationism, along with the military successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and not as an
alternative to criminal liability, but as its complement. Such a proposal does not contradict the
prescription of Part 1 of Art. 61 of the Constitution of Ukraine, according to which no one can be brought
twice to the same type of legal responsibility for the same offense.
Adverse consequences for subjects of constitutional and legal responsibility are mainly
characterized by limitations of an organizational nature, but do not exclude limitations of a personal nature.
These include, in particular, termination of Ukrainian citizenship or deprivation of the right to participate in
the management of state affairs, in all-Ukrainian and local referendums, to freely elect and be elected to state
and local self-government bodies (Article 38 of the Constitution of Ukraine). Therefore, the application of
such restrictions as the manifestation of constitutional and legal responsibility is possible only after making
appropriate changes to the Basic Law of the Ukrainian State, as well as other legislative acts.
