GROUNDS OF THE CRIMINAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF DOPING IN RUSSIA
Based on the analysis of the norms of international and domestic law on countering doping in sports, the authors argue that the subject of the crimes related to the use of prohibited substances and methods in sports does not have a species relationship with narcotic drugs, psycho tropic substances and their analogues. Substances prohibited for use in sports, by their natural purpose, are drugs, therefore they do not pose a danger to the health of the population, unlike narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Therefore, the criminalization of doping in sport is not a social (public danger), but a regulatory basis, due to criminal-political considerations. Objectively stipulated criminal law prohibition of doping in sport is another argument in favor of the expediency of the formation of a new sub-sector of criminal law, medical criminal law and medical sports law as its institution.