From all the amount of legal conflicts, the cases related to journalistic activities are remarkable for their specificity. It implies both a special category of persons participating in such conflicts and the legal dispute subject. Moreover, this specificity applies to both civil and criminal cases. But if civil cases occurring in connection with journalistic activities have some scientific coverage, similar criminal practice usually does not go beyond publicism interests. Though it is just criminal prosecution that journalists both in Russia and in Belarus tend to mostly suffer from. However, legal conflicts caused by journalistic activities are characterized by relative easiness with which they cross the distinction line between civil and criminal areas. Journalists tend to make equal mistakes at the prejudicial stage, too. One can only be amazed at how frequent and persistent these mistakes are. In fact, time after time journalists tend to find themselves in similar legal traps.