CATEGORY "COMPETITION" AND "ALTERNATIVE" IN THE CRIMINAL LAW Churinova Maria Alexandrovna. <...> Place of employment: Nizhniy Novgorod Academy of MIA Russia. <...> Department: professional activities of the staff departments of public order protection. <...> E-mail: na@mvd.ru Annotation: The author conducted a comparative study of the two legal categories of competition and an alternative, in order to identify their common and distinctive features, with respect to criminal law. <...> Are distinguished features of alternatives and competition, compares them. <...> Автором проводится сравнительное исследование двух правовых категорий конкуренция и альтернатива, с целью выявления их общих и отличительных признаков, применительно к уголовно-му закону. <...>