IMPROVEMENT OF CRIMNAL LEGISLATION ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY (BY THE EXAMPLES OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)

The article studies issues of necessity for criminal legislation improvement in terms of regulation of responsibility for different types of organised and international organised criminal activity. New trends of international organised crime development are discovered. These trends define its development and new forms. The authors study contacts between international and Russian criminal law in terms of international organised crime counteraction. This cooperation of member-states is socially defined by necessity of ensurance of national security, each state's sovereignty and by civilization and human security. The authors point that effectiveness of counteraction to international organised crime depends on member-states' unity level, their actions' concentration level and on legal certainty of terms related to the targeted object of world community. The article studies the unification process of organised criminal group term in Russian criminal law. The term was defined by Palermo Convention. Comparing statutable features of organized group and criminal organization leads to the conclusion that legislator failed to clearly define these features and divide ones from others. This leads to serious difficulties in law-enforcement activity. Authors assume that definition given in Model Criminal Code of CIS is preferable: irrespective of gravity of offence, but considering objective of "direct or indirect financial or other material gain". The authors suggest correcting definitions of organised and international organised criminal group (p. 3, Art. 31 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, p. 4-1, Art. 31 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), international criminal community (organization) (p. 4-2, Art. 31 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) considering the objectives of criminal activity and particular features of relevant organized criminal groups.