Controversial issues of interpretation of the features of the objective side and the subject of coercion to testify evidence (Article 302 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)

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The article is devoted to certain problematic issues of the objective side and the subject of the crime provided for in Article 302 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The article reveals the concept of illegal coercion. The main direct object of the crime provided for in Article 302 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is revealed through the prism of the concept of the plenitude of judicial power, which is not given enough attention in the domestic procedural doctrine. The article also considers certain problematic issues related to the amendments to Article 302 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation introduced by Federal Law No. 307-FZ of July 14, 2022 “On amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”.

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Eugene A. Melnikov

Lomonosov Moscow State University

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Email: evgmelnikov.1985@mail.ru

PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Economic and Financial Investigations of the Higher School of Public Audit

Russian Federation, 1, bld. 13 Leninskie Gory, 119234 Moscow

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