The protection of circulation of data contained in public registers under criminal law in the context of digitalization

At the present stage of development of the state in the Russian Federation, there is a need for reliable protection of data contained in various public registers (e.g. the Unified State Register of Real Estate, the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and others) under criminal law. At the same time, the rapid digitalization of institutions for registering rights and mechanisms for committing crimes has a significant impact on the application of criminal law provisions on the protection of information in public registers. This article discusses the most significant theoretical and practical issues caused by the digitalization of circulation of data contained in public registers: the issue of characterization of electronic digital elements of the corpus delicti of crimes; the issue of the validity of new classification criteria for grouping electronic digital crimes (both in studies and in legislation); various issues regarding law enforcement (e.g. blockchain technologies in public registries, etc.).