Official as a special subject of crime in the legislation of the countries of the Asian and Pacific region

He article gives the representation of the term of the official under Russian legislation, including in historical context. There are highlighted the general approaches on determination of special subjects of official crime in the legislation of foreign countries, carried out comparative legal analysis of experience of the Asia-Pacific region countries. Comparative characteristics of existing representations of the term «official» as a special subject of official crime in legislation of the USA, China, Japan and Mongolia is also given in this article. There are allocated general factors with an emphasis on the possible perspective of succession for the legislation of the Russian Federation. The authors make special focus on liability differentiation for official crimes depending of the characteristics of the special subject applying in Japan. A number of proposals are offered to the Criminal Code RF with regard to collective term of an official with its classification into types.