Fraud and breach of trust as the means of committing a crime under Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
The paper discusses various views on the concept of deception and abuse of trust as a means of committing a crime under article 165 of the criminal code. The ambiguity in the distinction between these methods lead to different understanding of their essence, a matter of controversy not only among the representatives of the science of criminal law, but also practitioners. To avoid contradictions in the understanding of the signs of cheating and breach of trust, and errors in the classification being considered a crime, it is proposed to define these methods for the purposes of article 165 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation in decree of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation from December, 27th, 2007 n 51 «About court practice on Affairs about swindle, assignment and waste».