Ensuring the security of the state: about some problems of criminal law regulation

Highlighting and analyzing the existing shortcomings of legislative measures to counteract crimes against the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the state, the author defines the aim of his research as the development of scientifically justified measures aimed at improving criminal legal norms providing for responsibility for relevant criminal acts. This article is devoted to the study of an urgent problem, which consists in clarifying the social and legal validity of the addition of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with a new Article 280.4 on responsibility for making public calls to carry out activities directed against the security of the state. Dialectical, systemic, comparative legal, predictive methods, as well as modeling methods were used in the work. The author analyzed the content of this criminal law norm, including taking into account its reflection and justification in the draft of the relevant federal law, formulated conclusions and proposals aimed at improving the legislative regulation of criminal liability for these public appeals.