Interfering with Exercising Electoral Rights or Operations of Election Commissions: The Crime Object

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The article reviews the essence of interfering with exercising electoral rights or operations of an election commission. The author studies in detail the object of the indicated crime that is defined in the law as electoral right. The article analyzes various thoughts on it. The author believes that it is not the electoral right that should be acknowledged the object of a crime stipulated by Art. 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as is defined by the legislator, but social relations that characterize the terms and conditions of legitimacy of public government formed as a result of free expression of will of citizens of the state.