About the book: 2017 / The publication contains the full text of the General and Special parts of the Criminal Code in edition, effective in 2017, taking into account newly adopted federal laws, taking into account the latest clarifications of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, methodological recommendations of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, with detailed article-by-article comments. The comments examine the most complex issues of criminal law and are aimed at facilitating the practical implementation of the provisions of the Criminal Code. Since the application of a significant part of the norms of the Criminal Code is impossible without reference to other normative and legal acts, the comments to a number of articles of the Code indicate which normative and legal acts regulate the relevant relations. If necessary, the comments provide certain legislative norms regulating the relevant legal relations, with reference to a specific law or by-law. The comments take into account the judicial practice developed during the operation of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the application of specific norms of the Criminal Code, reflected in the decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court. For a wide range of readers: judges, law enforcement officials, prosecutors, justice authorities, lawyers, and also students, graduate students, teachers of law schools. 2nd edition.