Legal Nature of Terrorist Crimes in Russian Legal System

  • Arseniy Georgievich Babichev Kazan Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Kazan, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-3449
  • Elmira Robertovna Khakimova Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Ufa, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6810-0276
Keywords: Counteraction, Russian Criminal Legislation, Legal Nature, Punishment, Terrorist Crimes

Abstract

The article examines the legal nature of terrorism from the Russian legal system point of view. The relevance of the research stems from the large scale, sophistication, and cruelty with which terrorist crimes have been committed over the recent decades. Terrorism has nowadays become a global threat, and any government, including government of the Russian Federation, must take it into consideration when formulating its domestic and foreign policy. In countering terrorist crimes, current regulations of the Criminal Code of Russian Federation take rather important part. Punishment differentiation, depending on corpus delicti and consequences, as well as correct qualification of terrorist crimes, are the most important conditions of those regulation’s efficient application. This problem is in fact interdisciplinary one, which is proved by researchers from other scientific fields: not only law scientists, but also psychologists, historians, political scientists. All the listed illustrates relevance, timeliness, and expediency of researching the problems mentioned. The purpose of the study is formulating recommendations for solving the above-mentioned issues of improving the existing criminal (and other) measures and developing new viable and practically applicable criminal measures for countering terrorist crimes.

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Author Biographies

Arseniy Georgievich Babichev, Kazan Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Kazan, Russia)

Doctor of Law. Associate Professor. Professor of the Department of Criminal Law of the Kazan Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Kazan, Russia).

Elmira Robertovna Khakimova, Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Ufa, Russia)

Legal Sciences Ph.D. Associate Professor. Deputy Head of the Department of Criminalistics of the Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Ufa, Russia).

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Published
2021-12-21
How to Cite
Babichev, A. G., & Khakimova, E. R. (2021). Legal Nature of Terrorist Crimes in Russian Legal System. Ius Humani. Law Journal, 10(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.31207/ih.v10i2.286