ISSUES OF CRIMINAL LEGISLATION IMPROVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF COUNTERMEASURES TO ILLICIT TRAFFIC OF NEW POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
The criminal provision of law effective since February 2015 regarding responsibility for the illicit traffic of new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances became an adequate reaction of legislators to the uncontrolled circulation of such substances what caused thousands of intoxications and hundreds of lethal outcomes in our country. Furthermore the lack of information concerning facts of initiation of criminal cases on corpus delicti basis according to the Article 234.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is an evidence for an imperfection of this article revision approved. In addition, legislators paid no attention to the matter of criminal responsibility determination for commission of any act connected with illicit traffic of new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances. It is attempted in this article to analyze imperfections of the valid revision of the Article 234.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as well as acts related to such substances which have an increased hazard rate and cause in this regard the criminalization.