On the question of the concept of plurality of crimes in Russian criminal law

The purpose of this article is to study the concept of plurality of crimes in Russian criminal law through the prism of theoretical and comparative aspects. Initially, the author conducts a historical excursion into the formation and development of the institution of multiple crimes in the criminal law of Russia. It has been established that the multiplicity of crimes, as a criminal phenomenon, has been known since ancient times, since the XIV century. However, it is stated that the legal concept of multiple crimes has never been fixed in the entire history of the development of domestic criminal legislation. The desired concept has been developed exclusively in the doctrine, in connection with which the article presents various points of view of scientists in the field of criminal law, which reflect the definitions of the multiplicity of crimes in their own way. Also in the article, in addition to the domestic science of criminal law, the concept of multiple crimes is analyzed in the context of the criminal legislation of six foreign countries. As a result of the research, the author deduces the signs characteristic of the multiplicity of crimes, on the basis of which he formulates his author's definition, which can form the basis for the construction of one of the articles of Chapter 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.