статья англ

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THEME OF THE RESEARCH
The theme of my research is: "Hidden Homicide and the Monetization of
Death: Paradoxes of the Criminal-Law Qualification of
Involvement in Suicide (Article 110.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation) in the Digital Age."

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SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR
This research was conducted under the scientific
supervision of Doctor of Law, Professor Popov N.A.

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TOPICALITY
The topicality of this research is dictated by a fundamental shift
in the nature of violent crimes caused by rapid digital transformation. Today,
we are facing a demographic shock: official Rosstat data shows 11,400 registered
suicides in Russia in 2023. What is most alarming is the vulnerability of
minors—in just the first half of 2025, 395 teenagers committed suicide.
Historically, suicide was viewed as an individual tragedy. However, the Internet
has mutated it into an "infovirus" and a highly profitable digital product. The
emergence of the "trash stream" format, where abuse and suicide are broadcasted
live for financial donations, exposes the complete inadequacy of current legal
norms. Existing criminal law is conceptually blind to the commercialization of
death, making the modernization of legislation a matter of national security.

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AIM AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this research is to analyze the dogmatic
paradoxes in the application of Article 110.1 of the Criminal Code of the
Russian Federation and to develop mechanisms for a radical modernization of
criminal law in the context of the digital "death industry."
To achieve this aim, the following objectives were set:
- To evaluate the legal nature of a minor's consent in cases of cyber-suicide;
- To identify the paradoxes and imbalances of criminal sanctions between
"inducing" and "assisting" in suicide;
- To analyze the emergence of financial (mercenary) motives in modern digital
violence;
- To formulate specific legislative proposals for amending the Criminal Code.

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RESEARCH METHODS
The study is based on a complex methodology. We used general scientific
methods such as analysis, synthesis, and deduction to understand the
phenomenon of cyber-suicide. The core of the study relies on specific legal
methods:
- Formal-dogmatic method to analyze the construction of Articles 105 and
110.1
of the Criminal Code;
- Criminological and statistical analysis to evaluate the data provided by the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and the World Health Organization.

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RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH As a result of the study, we came to several critical
conclusions:
- First (The Concept of Indirect Murder): We established that minors manipulated via digital gaming quests
fundamentally lack an autonomous will to die. Therefore, driving a child to step out of a window under the illusion of
a "game restart" should strictly be qualified not as involvement in suicide, but as indirect perpetration of murder
(Article 105, Part 2, Clause "v" of the Criminal Code) using the child as a "living weapon."
- Second (Eliminating the Sanction Imbalance): We uncovered an absurd disproportion in current law where
"assisting" a suicide is punished more strictly than "inducing" it. We propose recognizing "inducing" as an equally, if
not more, socially dangerous form of involvement.
- Third (Legislative Modernization): We substantiate the undeniable necessity of introducing new aggravating
elements into Articles 110, 110.1, and 110.2 of the Criminal Code. Specifically, crimes committed "out of mercenary
motives" (for profit) and those involving "public broadcasting on the Internet."
- Fourth (Enforcement Guidelines): There is a critical need for guiding clarifications from the Plenum of the
Supreme Court to unequivocally stop the practice of applying lenient "suicidal" articles to complex, remote killings of
children.