GAMBLING: CONCEPT AND CHARACTERISTICS
The article is devoted to legal regulation of gambling in the Russian Federation. Author analyzed interpretation of legal definitions of particular relevance for law enforcement authority. The article describes the difficulties in applying the reference rules for criminal law, reviewed different views on the definition of the game in science, the main problems of statutory interpretation, «gambling», including the inapplicability of the existing definition for the purposes of the criminal law. Main characteristics of the notion of «gambling» are made illustrated by practical examples.