RESPONSIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE ORGANIZED GROUPS AND CRIMINAL ASSOCIATIONS (CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS) Yankovsky Dmitriy Andreevich, postgraduate student. <...> Place of study: The Russian state university of justice. <...> The causes of the preparation of the article are the difficulties in the qualification of the actions of the participants of the organized groups and criminal associations which were exposed in the result of the analysis of the law enforcement including the difficulties which were connected with the lack of coordination between the Criminal . <...> Code of Russia and the legal positions of The Supreme Court of Russia. <...> The study was performed with the formally juridical and relatively legal methods and with the functional approach and analysis and synthesis methods. <...> Analyses of the Criminal Code of Russia and other states, of the practice of The Supreme Court of Russia and of the scientific literature shows that actions of all participants of the organized groups and criminal associations should be qualified as actions of joint perpetrators regardless of their role in the committed crime. <...> The author offers in store to examine a question if it is the possibility to fasten at the legislative level concerned legal position of The Supreme Court of Russia to qualify the actions of all participants of the organized groups and criminal associations as the actions of joint perpetrators. <...> The study is destined for the law enforces in the field of criminal law, for the scholars and for the postgraduates and students of law universities with the aim of more thorough study the qualification rules of the organized groups and criminal associations action. <...>