Russian legislation on the issue of criminal liability for infection with socially dangerous infectious diseases
The article analyzes the problems of determining the punishment for infection with socially significant infectious diseases in Russian criminal legislation. The author examines different sides of the problem in terms of its criminal law regulation, traces its general genesis, starting from Soviet times, justifies the need to comprehend and revise the legal norms in force in this area, to actualize the issue of criminalizing the fact of infection with one or another socially dangerous disease, especially in the period of the global pandemic COVID-19, as well as the requirements to consolidate this responsibility to society in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.