Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The criminal legislation of the Russian Federation, the legal base is the Constitution of the Russian Federation clearly expresses a new concept of the object of criminal law protection. Although the criminal law is not explicitly said about the object of a crime, it is easy to see when thinking about the content of art. 2 of the Criminal Codex. This is human rights and freedoms and civil rights, property, public order and public safety, the environment, the constitutional system of the Russian Federation, peace and security of mankind, i.e., Criminal law provides a list of autonomous objects of abuse

Active development of public relations entails its reflection in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. Currently, the issue of improving the criminal law remains relevant. In this regard, this article focuses on one of the most important tasks - structuring the legislative system of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, ordering criteria for identifying extremist crimes relative to the object of criminal law protection. Author considered necessary and legislative decision ordering the crimes of extremist orientation within a separate section of the Criminal Code which doesn’t reducing the status, the social danger of the crime and other crimes of extremist orientation