Legal Bulletin (Oct 2023)
CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR AN ACT PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 207.3 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT ISSUES
Abstract
The relevance of the article is determined by the inclusion in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of Article 207.3, which establishes liability measures for the public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the performance by state bodies of the Russian Federation of their powers, the provision of assistance by volunteer formations, organizations or persons in the performance of tasks assigned to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The appearance of this norm in the criminal law is largely explained by the conduct of a special military operation by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation since February 2022. The purpose of the work is to characterize the signs of the corpus delicti provided for in Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the practice of its application. Based on the analysis of normative legal acts and literary sources, law enforcement practice, the legally significant signs of the specified corpus delicti, as well as issues of its qualification, including delineation from the corpus delicti provided for in Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, are considered. Such research methods as legal analysis, comparative and statistical were used. Examples from judicial practice of the application of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are given, its problematic aspects are indicated. In the final part, conclusions are drawn on the topic of the study.
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