Market Manipulation
Market manipulation — that is, the deliberate dissemination through mass media, including electronic ones, information and telecommunication networks (including the "Internet") of manifestly false information or performing operations with financial instruments, foreign currency and/or goods, or other deliberate actions prohibited by Russian Federation legislation on counteracting unlawful use of insider information and market manipulation, if as a result of such unlawful actions the price, demand, supply or volume of trading in financial instruments, foreign currency and/or goods deviated from or were maintained at a level significantly different from that which would have formed without taking into account the aforementioned unlawful actions, and such actions caused significant damage to citizens, organizations or the state or are associated with obtaining undue income or avoiding losses in a significant amount (ceased to be in force as of 2019-04-12)1.
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation dated 13.06.1996, as amended on 2018-12-27, art. 185-3, para. 1, ceased to be in force from 2019-04-12 // RSZ RF. 1996. No. 25. Art. ↩