Features of responsibility for conventional crimes committed for the purpose of transplantation human organs and tissues in Russia and the Republic of Belarus

Purpose: To investigate the features of liability for conventional crimes committed with the aim of transplanting human organs and tissues in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in order to identify and use positive foreign experience in order to counter such crime. Methodology: General scientific, formal and legal methods were used, as well as a comparative legal approach. Results: The article discusses the norms of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on combating trafficking in human beings, and also analyzes international regulatory acts in this area. In the process of the study, it was concluded that the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation on combating trafficking in persons generally complies with the principles laid down in the Palermo Protocol «On Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. The shortcomings that jurists emphasize in Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are not an insurmountable obstacle to the application of this norm...