There are hundreds of articles on RuNet describing the creation of viruses. Doesn't this fall under Article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation?

Question

Malware

Article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs.

Isn't the publication of an article in which the source code of the virus, information on its creation and application is laid out, considered distribution?

Answer 1

Formally - no, because the product itself is not laid out, but simply tells how to create it.
Similarly, with the description of weapons, explosives, chemical compounds, etc.
However, you can still be imprisoned. Even if you didn't do anything.
Moreover, they usually do this: according to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the most “popular” turned out to be the weight of drugs, which is just enough to initiate a case, proof https://www.rbc.ru/society/28/09/2017/59ccbc489a79...

Answer 2

Article 273 is not as rubbery as Article 282.
By itself, the source code of the so-called Proof of Concept of a vulnerability or even the source code of a virus is not a distribution of malicious computer programs.
But here are the instructions for compiling the source code, resulting in the very same malicious computer program that could well fall under this article.
Anyway, MIA switched to a more "sweet" article for performing statistics a long time ago (see first sentence).

Answer 3

"... the distribution of malicious computer programs" but it is not the program that gets distributed, but the concept of the program and quite possibly the source code. But a text file cannot perform any destructive actions on its own, for this you need to carry out a series of actions aimed at creating this very software. Is not it so?