Problem issues of corpus delicti legislative consolidation «Mediation in bribery» in the criminal code of the russian federation

Purpose: Analysing the standards consolidated in Article 291¹ of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code and developing some proposals related to its improvement. Methodology: Historico-legal, formal legal and systemic methods of scientific cognition, description, comparison, analysis and synthesis have been used. Outcome: The article characterises the legal nature of the notion of mediation in bribery, outlines the problems related to qualifying the mediation in bribery and proposes the ways to tackle these problems by altering some individual standards of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code. Novelty/Originality/Value: is in the fact that the author has analysed the legislator’s innovation consolidated in the standards of Article 291¹ of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code, as well as provided some recommendations to be followed within the process of improving the Russian criminal legislation and law-enforcement practices in the area of regulating the standards, norms and legal relationships looked into in the work.