Characteristics of the evaluation feature "mass character" in the qualification of an act under article 236 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

This article examines the issue of an ambiguous approach to understanding the sign of "mass character" contained in the crime under Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Examples of ambiguous interpretation of this feature by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation are given. The ways of solving the problem of leveling the abstractness of the above term are proposed.