Smuggling of cultural property owned by persons recognized as foreign agents on the territory of the Russian Federation

The protection of cultural values of peoples is an important area of criminal policy in the Russian Federation. These objects include all the cultural heritage of the country, including historical and cultural monuments, art, painting, architecture and much more. Cultural values contribute to the formation of public consciousness, strengthen the identity of the nation, play a huge role in the education of future generations and the transfer of accumulated experience from previous generations. The main task of the State is to create conditions under which the proper protection of cultural property from outside encroachments will be respected. The research topic is conditioned by the need to preserve the cultural heritage of the nation, to cover all possible measures to prevent and suppress crime in this area. With this in mind, the author proposes to consider a separate entity, a foreign agent, as the subject of crimes committed in the field of cultural values of peoples and to develop a number of specific criminal law measures to combat crime. The need to identify a separate subject of crimes in the field of protection of cultural property is due to the current situation in the Russian Federation and in the world, as well as in connection with the expansion of the list of persons recognized as foreign agents in the country.