The article is devoted to the problems of understanding and correlation of the criminal law categories «representative of authority» and «official». The understanding of the meaning of the terms and their mutual correlation is based on the study of theoretical material and judicial practice. The issues of terminological inconsistency, the definition of the scope of the two definitions are considered, options for resolving the identified legal imbalance are proposed.
government representative, official, official authority
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