Problems of qualification of the public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the RF, the performance by state bodies of the RF of their powers, the provision by volunteer formations, organizations or persons of assistance in carrying out tasks assigned to the armed forces of the RF or the troops of the national guard of the RF

The article reveals the problems of qualification of the crime provided for in Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The relevance of studying this topic is confirmed by the difficulties of applying this legal novel associated with the presence of evaluative features and competing formulations. The subject of the study is criminal law norms providing for liability for this crime, as well as the practice of its application. The purpose of this article is to formulate, based on the analysis of the signs of the crime in question, specific proposals for changing criminal legislation and the practice of its application. The methodological basis of the work was formed by formal legal, system-structural, statistical and other methods of cognition in their combination. The paper concludes that it is necessary for the highest court to interpret the main features of the composition of this crime, as well as the issues of its separation from related compositions.