Compulsory Employment as a Criteria for Debt Relief

The article analyses the problem of whether a citizen deserves freedom from debt. The author has analysed German law on the issue of a debtor’s obligation to earn money and Russian judicial practice of refusing to release debts due to refusal to work or concealing income and comes to the conclusion that the inclusion of such a basis for non-exemption is permissible based on the interpretation of the standard of an honest citizen-debtor, but its acceptance is primarily a political issue.