Implementation of legal principles determining territorial applicability of criminal law

The article studies the implementation of legal principles that determine territorial applicability of criminal law in Russia with the focus on the penal provisions that regulate the territorial applicability of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Drawing on the information base, results obtained by Russian researchers, the representative base of investigative practice and using comparative legal, formal logical, and content analysis, the author analyses practices of implementation of the penal provisions specified in Art. 11-12 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to show the relationship between penal provisions and the principles that determine their territiral applicability. He concludes that the territorial principles of criminal law and penal provisions specified in Art. 11-12 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are correlated in the process of law enforcement by Russian state bodies.

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