Peculiarities of using the terms “грабеж” and “robbery” in Russian and English criminal law

The article analyses peculiarities of using the terms “грабеж” and “robbery” in the Russian and English criminal law, considers different variants of translating some terms concerning particular kinds of crimes against property, deals with the main distinctions between the criteria of classification of these kinds of property offences in the Russian and English criminal law (use of force; threat of use of force or attempt to use that threat; open or clandestine seizure of property; factor of time and place etc.), considers such a specific institute of the English and American criminal law as “burglary, as well as performs the comparative analysis of punishments for these kinds of property offences provided for in the English and Russian criminal law.