Have the Honour: the Right of Public Entities to Protection of Business Reputation.

The article examines the reasons for the singularity of the nature of the protection of the business reputation of public entities, authorities of the Russian Federation, largely due to the specifics of the legal personality of these legal entities, as well as the historically established approach to the issue of compensation for damage caused to the business reputation of public subjects of law. The subject of the work is methods, procedural algorithms for protecting the business reputation of public entities, authorities, considered, among other things, for the objective assessment of relevant proposals for the creation of an appropriate regulatory framework and analysis of counter-interests of the legal community and business, ensuring at the same time effective and fair functioning of the institute of civil rights and freedoms. The purpose of the study is to formulate proposals for the development of regulations and parameters of legal regulation of methods, mechanisms for protecting the business reputation of public entities; to develop recommendations for amendments to a number of regulatory legal acts aimed at overcoming legal entropy in the absence of named permissible methods and procedural protection algorithms. The early examples of legal norms regulating the business reputation of the Russian state and its representatives are analyzed; Soviet and modern regulatory framework, judicial doctrine, law enforcement practice, including international one, on this issue. The evidence base has been collected and provided, indicating the existence of the powers and the need for domestic public entities to protect their business reputation in a civil order. Modern sources of reputational harm are investigated; proposals are formulated to modify the current legislation and the permissible degree of reception of international legal norms; decriminalization of approaches to protect the reputation of authorities and expanded application of civil legislation in matters of compensation for losses caused to public entities as a result of damage to business reputation, including by their officials, representatives.

business reputation, public entities, defamation, tort responsibility, representative of a legal entity, legal capacity of public entities, compliance, reputational risk, defamation suit, sanctions procedure