CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR CORRUPTION CRIMES UNDER THE CURRENT RUSSIAN LEGISLATION

In 2016, the liability for corruption crimes underwent substantial transformations. It resulted in adding greater punitive measures for some types of corruption crimes and including new elements of corruption offenses in criminal legislation. Despite the common judicial practice and the existence of the Resolution of Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation containing the interpretation of corruption crimes, still, there are many controversial issues demanding discussion and solution taking into account modern life realities. The research determines the basic statements related to the formation of the concept of corruption crimes and their main attributes, analyzes the controversial theoretical and practical issues of classification of a corrupt payment, bribery, official misconduct, as well as forgery in the office associated with bribery taking into account last amendments to criminal legislation. The author carried out the general analysis of corruption offenses, as well as paid attention to some corpora delicti, in particular, to minor corrupt payment and minor bribery included in the Criminal code of the Russian Federation based on the Federal law of July 3, 2016, No. 324-FZ. The paper focuses on the characteristics of special recidivism included in the structure of classified types of minor corrupt payment and bribery. By results of the research, the author makes the proposals on change of the disposition of abuse of authority (Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the update of contents of the Resolution of Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation “Concerning the judicial practice on cases of bribery and other corruption crimes” regarding the interpretation of special recidivism and forgery in office.