PROBLEMS OF CRIMINAL - LEGAL ASSESSMENT OF REHABILITATION NAZISM AS AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of international law and criminal law related to the establishment of criminal liability for attempts to "rehabilitate Nazism" and the definition of signs of the corpus delicti for in Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In the article there are analyze correspondence of the signs of the corpus delicti by the nature and degree of crime public danger, and also concludes about necessary to conclude an international cooperation agreement for countering Nazism, adopt a national law defining the basic concepts and directions for such counteraction, as well as change the content of Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in order to bring the nature and degree of public danger into line with those that a crime against the peace and security of mankind should possess, and that the scope of application of this article in attempts to rehabilitate Nazism was not limited only to the content of the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, which, for all its indisputable significance, is not the only one international and court act condemning the crimes of the Nazis and their accessories.