Representative of the public authorities as a subject of a crime and a victim of a crime

Addressing the problem of insufficient regulation and difficulties in interpreting in practice the provisions of criminal legislation on liability for crimes in which the representative of the public authorities acts as a subject or a victim, in the article the author first of all considers problematic issues related to the representative of the public authorities as a subject of crime, paying more attention to the existing uncertainty of the criminal-legal concept of the representative of the public authorities as a subject of white collar (official) crimes, and comes to a reasonable conclusion. The work uses dialectical, systemic, analytical, comparative legal and other methods. Based on the study of the works of famous Russian scientists, analysis of the resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, materials of judicial practice, the author formulated proposals for further improvement of these provisions of the criminal law and the practice of their application.