Liability for Terrorism Financing: Areas of Potential Improvement in Russian Criminal Legislation

The article considers the existing approaches in legal science to the issue of allocation of an independent corpus delicti of terrorist financing in a separate article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author analyzes the arguments justifying the expediency of making changes to the criminal legislation and proposes a draft of a new article 205.7 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Terrorist Financing”. Taking into account the priorities of international cooperation of the Russian Federation with the BRICS states, the provisions from the anti-terrorist legislation of these states, in which there are separate norms on liability for terrorist financing, are given. The implementation of the proposal to criminalize the financing of terrorism in an independent article will make it possible to establish a unified approach to liability for the said act and increase the level of compliance with international standards in this area.