Arranging the Activities of a Terrorist Organization and Participation in These Activities (Art.2055 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)

Abstract

Criminal responsibility for organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and involvement in such activities in the Russian Federation is set in Art. 2013, 2012. During the past three years this norm (art. 2055 CCRF) has seen the changes in its wording twice. Instability of the Act is also reasoned by the lack of clarification on the application of a number of important provisions of the new rules. In this regard, the proposal is made on the use of the relevant provisions of the plenum of the Supreme Court of Justice of 28/06/2011 # 11 "On judicial practice in criminal cases involving crimes of extremist orientation." This is justified by the fact that the core federal law ("On counteracting extremist activities”) terrorist activities has been recognized as "a kind of extremist activity". When considering controversial points of view about which variety groups (listed in article 35 of the CC) is a terrorist organization, the author concludes that the terrorist community and terrorist organization, in fact, are the same thing. Analyzing the profile of federal law standards, the author concludes that in drawing up the list of offences, which are the basis for the recognition of an organization as a terrorist organization, it is important to indicate this condition as their commission with "terrorist purposes".