Novitskaya Natalia Vladimirovna, doctoral candidate of the Department of Criminal Law of the Moscow State Law University (Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy). 9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Str., Moscow, Russia, 123995. E-mail: 16011978@bk.ru

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In this article the author explores an attribute «puberty» in non-violent sexual assaults which was implemented in part 1 and 2 of the Article 134 and part 1 of the Article 135 to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation by the Federal Law as of 29.02.1012 No. 14-FZ ‘On the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts in order to harsher the punishment for sexual assaults against minors’. In the present times the notion of ‘puberty’ is absent in the legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as the methodology of its establishment, hence part 1 and 2 of the Article 134 and part 1 of the Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are not the operative rules. Therefore, such attribute of a victim as ‘puberty’ in non-violent sexual assaults is to be excluded.