Features Personal Constitutional and Legal Responsibility of the Russian Government Officials

This paper deals with one of the key concepts – that components of the constitutional and legal responsibility – the personal responsibility of government officials. The author considers domestic and foreign research on the content of the concept of personal responsibility. On the basis of their analysis, on the example of the legislation of the Russian Federation, the author reveals some features of personal responsibility of officials of the Government of the Russian Federation, analyzes the problem aspects of its legal regulation and implementation. The author touches on the problems associated with the absence of a specific legal mechanism for the implementation of constitutional and legal responsibility between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Federal Assembly, as a result of which there are no clear levers of influence on officials of the Government of the Russian Federation. The author believes that the President of the Russian Federation has a leading position regarding the personal responsibility of officials of the Government of the Russian Federation, thereby accentuating his dominant position in the sphere of influence on the executive branch. The author formulates the conclusion that the personal constitutional and legal responsibility of officials of the Government of the Russian Federation is a sufficiently large, but little understood concept that does not have sufficient legislative regulation that allows them to perform their duties in a clear manner.