Criminal legal characteristics of public dissemination of knownly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the execution by state authorities of the Russian Federation of their powers

Abstract

Subject of research: the norms that provide for criminal liability for the public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the exercise of their powers by state authorities of the Russian Federation.
 Purpose of research: to analyze the legislative structures of the main, qualified and especially qualified offenses under Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, identify the shortcomings of the regulation of this norm and propose ways to eliminate them.
 Methods and objects of research: the methodological basis of the study was the systematic method, analysis and synthesis, the formal legal method.
 Main results of research: on the basis of the study, a criminal-legal characteristic of the offenses under Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The failure of the placement of the norm in question in the structure of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is noted; its insufficient preventive capacity due to the limited range of information constituting the subject of the crime; some errors in legal technique. Based on the results of the study, a new version of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.