Legal regulation of the railway freight transportation and criminal liability for disabling communication lines or transport in Russia

The purpose of the study is to consider the legal regulation of railway freight transportation (on the example of Russia and some European countries), as well as study the peculiarities of criminal prosecution for disabling communication lines or transport on the example of the legislation of the Russian Federation. The leading method was the deductive. The method of systems analysis, the historical method, the method of induction, etc. were used. The study concludes that today, an increase in transport significantly increases the prevalence and danger of crimes that encroach on the functioning of transport that is safe for people and society. The chapter uniting these crimes is located in Section IX of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: “Crimes against Public Safety and Public Order”, placed in third place after the section on crimes against the person and in the economic sphere