Truntsevskiy Yu.V., Sukharenko A.N. Russia-South Ossetia cooperation in the sphere of struggle against organized crime

Abstract: The article focuses on the problems of transnational organized crime which poses a serious threat to international security and strategic stability. Therefore, international cooperation in preventing it is Russia's foreign policy priority. This article contains the analysis of the provisions of treaties between Russia and South Ossetia "On alliance and integration" and "On mutual assistance in criminal cases", ratified in 2015. Special attention is paid to the issues of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of struggle against organized crime.The main attention is paid to the development of methods and methodologies of preventing various forms of organized crime. Besides, the article provides the theoretic and legal analysis of the concepts of development of the legislation on preventing economic crimes. The paper demonstrates the authors' position on the interpretation and legal regulation of these categories. The research methodology is based on the recent achievements in epistemology. The authors apply general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal logical), and special methods of sociology (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.).The authors conclude that at present, in order to ensure law and order in the economic sphere, it is necessary to improve forms and methods of struggle against organized crime. The authors state the necessity to develop legal regulation of economic security. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the proposals about the development of forms and methods of struggle against organized crime. 

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