Qualification of Crimes Committed with Public Demonstration

 The article deals with the issues of qualification of crimes committed with public demonstration, including in mass media or information and telecommunication networks (including the Internet). The author studies the explanatory notes to the draft laws aimed at countering the dissemination of destructive content in the information space, explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, judicial practice in cases of crimes committed with public demonstration.

On the basis of the conducted research, the author concludes that the commission of a crime with public demonstration implies not only the broadcasting of the crime committed live, but also the commission of the crime in the presence of third parties, as well as the subsequent placement of the process of committing the crime in information and communication networks.