В статье исследованы в наибольшей степени актуальные вопросы квалификации взяточничества, разрешение которых поможет обойти ошибки в работе судов.

The article examines judicial qualification of mediation in bribery on the basis of decisions of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, cassation and appellate courts. It focuses on objective elements, completion, requalification, attempted mediation, fraud, promise or offer of mediation, and typical arguments accepted or rejected by courts.

The article analyzes the options for the qualification of continued commercial bribery, when, as a result of the nationalization of a legal entity, the status of the organization's manager is transformed into the status of an official, and the object of criminal law protection is changed. In this situation, a discussion arises regarding the criminal assessment of continued bribery, when the manager of the organization received part of the illegal remuneration before the nationalization of the business, and the manager received the other part of the pre-agreed amount from the same briber after the nationalization, being in the status of an official.