The Real Range of Sources of the Russian Criminal Law

Abstract

The article examines the issue of the range of sources of criminal law of the Russia. The positions of scientists who attribute the Constitution of the Russian Federation, international treaties of the Russian Federation, normative acts of other industries, decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to these sources are critically assessed. According to the author, today the real range of regulations containing criminal legal regulations is represented by the following documents: the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; criminal regulations contained in the Penal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation; resolutions of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on amnesty; by-laws of the Russian Federation, which disclose the signs of crimes for the purposes of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; Federal Law of June 24, 2023 No. 270-FZ “On the peculiarities of criminal liability of persons involved in participation in a special military operation”.