Peculiarities of application of retroactive effect of the criminal law at the present stage of the development of criminal policy in Russia

The article examines the issues of application of the rules on the retroactive effect of the criminal law as an inevitable consequence of the reform of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the implementation of new, humane criminal policy in the Russian Federation. The subject of the study is presented in the form of a certain range of norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which have undergone changes over the past ten years. The authors define general trends in the tightening of the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, analyze a number of the most significant changes in the reform of criminal policy and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation over the past few years, highlight the main problems between the motivation and results of reforming the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and criminal policy in general, propose the ways to solve the existing problems both of theory and practice of reforming criminal policy by adapting such changes through the prism of the retroactive effect of the criminal law.