International treaty as the foundation for recognizing acts as criminal
The object of studies involves international treaties, serving as grounds for recognizing conventional crimes as criminal deeds, these are the treaties involving obligations of implementation of their provisions into the text of the provisions of the criminal law of Russia. The article includes the definition of the conventional crimes. Then the author analyzes the definition of an international treaty according to the Russian law and international provisions, studying their types, ratification procedures and some issues regarding their implementation. The methodological basis for the study was found in the dialectic cognition method for matters and processes in the objective reality. The author also used modern general scientific, specific scientific and specialized methods: comparative, systemic-structural, normative-logical, historical, etc. The scientific novelty is characterized with the wide range of issues being analyzed with due consideration to the modern approach to elements and nature of conventional crimes. The article includes a definition of conventional crimes, the author studies the definition of an international treaty based upon the Russian legislation and international law provisions, taking into consideration their types, ratification procedures and some issues regarding their implementation. The article involves a number of conclusions and proposals for the improvement of the current Russian legislation.