National Security - rubric Rapid response and tactics

Abstract: The article is devoted to analysis of the structures of organized criminal formation (OCF) “djaamats”, their typical methods and means of terrorism activities. The author studies the diversion and terrorism acts, which were both executed and prevented at the objects of railroad transportation, as well as on the territory of operative service of the ATM of the MIF of the Chechen Republic, he points out the key directions of activity of the law enforcement bodies and military personnel against OCF. The author also studies statistics on wounded and killed militia and army staff, and comes to a conclusion that armed element in the Northern Caucasus region shall retain its topicality, and so would the various ways of preparation of military staff to service at the new conditions of active fight against OCF of terrorist character. Keywords: armed forces, Chechnya, knowledge, handmade explosive units, jihad, counter-terrorist operations, mercenary, hideouts, financing, preparation

Abstract: The author of the article analyzed the modern perspectives of optimization of preventing illegal drug distribution in the places of leisure and youth activity. Until now there has been mostly the position of penalty treatment of heads of such places in order to stop drug distribution there. The article contains the results of the opinion surveys of safeguards and security officers of such organizations (in St. Petersburg and Surgut) and suggestions on how to improve the state policy in this sphere.

Keywords: studies of law, drug offense, youth, discos, night clubs, safeguards, draft law, activities, interaction, efficiency

Abstract: The article develops the problems of prevention of terrorist financing in North Caucasian region, Russia. The author showed the Russian normative legal base as well as positions of the Model Law on Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CIS), quoted data from a Report by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Form on Combating the Financing of Terrorism (United Nations, October 2009), made certain suggestions on improvement of the existing legislation on combating the terrorist financing and rewarding the persons rendering help in deduction, prevention, stopping and investigation of financing of a terrorist action and deduction and arresting the persons preparing, committing or having committed financing of such an action.

Keywords: economics, terrorist financing, prevention measures by law enforcement agencies and special services struggling with terrorist finan, effectiveness of struggling with terrorist financing, proposals on improvement of existing legislation on war on terr

Abstract: The article describes the modern conception of the political regulation of information and psychological war

Keywords: psychology, national security, information war, information technologies, psychological operations, psychological war, conflict regulation, international relations, information policy, information confrontation

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of adequate reaction to fi nancing of organized terrorist activity. The author provides specifi c examples of fi ghting the fi nancing terrorism in the Ingushetia Republic and Dagestan, Chechen Republic in fi rst six months of 2010. The author offers to improve the normative legal basis for dealing with this activity.

Keywords: jurisprudence, fi nancing of terrorism, channels of fi nancing terrorism, sources of fi nancing terrorism, international cooperation, improvement of normative basis, Rusfi nmonitoring, polling investigators, tactical means, diffi culties in uncovering

Abstract: The article shows a complicated structure of financing terrorism in Russia, including foreign sources, causes and difficulties in finding evidence on criminal cases regarding financing of terrorism. The author provides analysis of international experience and problems of its implementation, then offers to make specific amendments of existing legislation in order to fight financing of terrorism.

Keywords: jurisprudence, financing of terrorism, channels of financing, sources of financing, foreign sources of financing, problems of breaking the channels of financing, conspiracy, specialized investigation divisions, cooperation and interaction

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2024.2.36142

Abstract: The subject of the study is informatization in military affairs, the object of the study is possible ways to control the enemy through intentional and targeted distortion of information about their troops, goals and conditions of action. The author examines in detail such aspects of modern warfare as multi-domain, with a significant shift in emphasis in the sphere of information warfare. As the experience of local wars and armed conflicts of the last decade shows, the forms of their conduct differ significantly from the "classic" wars waged until the end of the XX century. The informatization of the battlefield made it possible to switch to such form of use of troops (forces) as network-centric actions. But the expansion of capabilities, the improvement of technologies of warfare, in accordance with the laws of dialectics, generates certain vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities manifest themselves in the same area where the strengths are located – in the field of informatization of military operations. Based on this, special attention is paid to assessing the impact of informatization on the adequacy of decisions, primarily in terms of possible vulnerabilities of the management process. Using general scientific research methods: analysis and synthesis, the author, based on the analysis of the main trends of modern armed confrontation, synthesized a description of possible vulnerabilities when using automated control systems, formulated the task of developing a mathematical apparatus for the formation and evaluation of the reliability of information about the opposing systems. This is not about physically changing information in the automated control systems of the enemy: this task is technically difficult, but relatively simple from the point of view of algorithmization. And not about the trivial misleading of a decision-maker, as it has been done many times before. The article deals with the situation of decision-making management through the management of the directed submission of information using vulnerabilities by its automated processing in the automated control system.

Keywords: management through information, modern military concepts, decision making, command and control of troops, information confrontation, intentional misrepresentation of information, targeted information impact, automation of management, informatization of the battlefield, misleading

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2014.1.10462

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2014.1.63890

Abstract: The article substantiates the topicality of the problem of studying crime in rural areas, which is defined, on one hand, by complicated character of criminal situation in villages, and topicality of problems of organizing countermeasures against crime and its prevention, and on the other hand, by the lack of studies of the criminological issues in the sphere of rural crime. The number of cases involving death or grievous harm to health of village people by criminal attacks is especially alarming to one studying rural crime. The number of deaths of people due to crime in rural areas in Russia remains the same in last three years, and it is over two times larger than the same criterion for the city crime, and one and a half times larger for causing grievous harm to health of people. The methods employed include following from abstract to specific, systemic structural and comparative analysis, historic method, dynamic and statistical methods, as well as specific sociological methods for the evaluation of rural crime. The article for the first time provides structural analysis of rural crime compared to the city crime, as well as regional analysis. The authors of the article point out the complicated character of criminal situation in the villages. The tendency for the lesser registered crimes in the rural areas in 2009 to 2012 does not reflect the real situation, since it is artificially formed in last several years by lowering statistical data. In this article the authors provide full-scale analysis of the tendencies in the modern rural crime in order to guarantee rapid reaction of the state to this problem and finding efficient counteractions.

Keywords: topical aspects of studies, city crime, rural crime, crime dynamics, crime structure, specific features of rural crime, rural crime level, criminal situation, regional crime analysis.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2022.3.38339

Abstract: Annotation. The subject of this article is the existing methods, both abroad and in the Russian Federation, in terms of analyzing the financial stability of banks as one of the factors affecting economic security in general. The modern legislation of the Russian Federation is analyzed in detail in terms of the methods used to analyze the financial stability of banks by the Bank of Russia. Attention is also paid to other existing methods: popular foreign methods, as well as the methodology created by the rating agency of Expert RA JSC. The most important theses on each of the considered methods are revealed, as well as shortcomings that require attention and improvement are revealed. The formal-logical method is used as the basis for the analysis of existing methods for the analysis of financial stability and systematization of the main provisions. A comparative method was also used in order to identify trends and shortcomings in the methods used. The article presents the author's reasoned position on the problem of analyzing the financial stability of a bank as a private factor affecting the overall financial stability of the system, as one of the factors of economic security. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the proposal to improve the methodology of the analysis of the financial stability of the bank in order to early prevent the occurrence of risk factors for the loss of financial stability by the bank, the importance of including the bank's business model in the analysis of accounting is determined. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that the existing methods in the Russian Federation require clarification and refinement, especially in terms of accounting for the analysis of the financial stability of banks of their business models. Taking into account this indicator will make it possible to identify inefficient banks from the point of view of their banking activities, and also raises the question of further development of such banks from a strategic point of view.

Keywords: systemically significant banks, financial stability analysis, economic situation, economic security, rating agencies, financial reliability, Bank of Russia, creditworthiness, business model, bank

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2018.5.27708

Abstract: This article examines the question on possibilities of application of the methods of criminological forecasting with regards to organization of anti-corruption measures and ensuring national security. The author describes the existing methods of criminological forecasting – extrapolation, modelling, and expert evaluation; determines their flaws consisting in the impossibility of calculating the factor of latency in criminal statistics, low level of validity of the initial statistical data, low degree of certainty of the results, as well as subjectivity of forecasting. The conclusion is made on the need for implementing the data of monitoring corruption in criminological forecasting and comprehensive application of the indicated methods. The scientific novelty lies in identification of the merits and demerits of the various methods of criminological forecasting; assessment of potential implementation in the Russian criminology of the neural network for modelling and forecasting corruption, based on the economic and political factors; proposal of the data monitoring system for development of the most accurate forecasting of corruption crime.

Keywords: criminal statistics, a method of expert estimations, modeling, extrapolation, methods of criminological prediction, corruption, national security, complex application, neural model, monitoring corruption

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2015.1.14423

Abstract: The subject of the article is the legislation that establishes the procedure for the function of the payment systems on the territory of the Russian Federation. The article examines the basic concepts, procedure for allowing organizations to implement the functions of the operator of the payment system, as well as the permissibility and civil-legal consequences of a unilateral refusal to provide payment services. The author gives a thorough examination of the aspects such as processes of globalization that introduce new phenomena in the regulation of foreign economic relations in the world as a whole, and in separate states. Special attention is given to the issues such as increasing cross-border payments and the inclusion of foreign persons into the process of provision of payment services. When writing of the work we used the following General methods research: comparative law, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis of the dialectical method axiology. The threats in the economic sphere have a rather complex nature. This means that economic security is affected by various factors, and not only purely economic. Factors such as geopolitical, social, environmental, and many others have a significant effect upon the economic security. The stability of the national payment system is directly related to the security of the state. Otherwise, the participation of foreign entities in the payment system can be used (and is used) as a means of economic pressure on the state in the political struggle.

Keywords: world trade, foreign economic relations, economic security, national payment system, payment system, operator of the payment system, payment services, civil legal obligations, foreign economic activity, foreign trade law

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2015.1.66133

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2016.1.14730

Abstract: The subject of this research is the certain behavior traits of a person (biometric features) applied in case of identification of a person at the checkpoint, which allows detecting individuals participating in terrorist activities [1]. The object is public relations emerging in the area of realization of the border control and provision of the territorial integrity of the state. The relevance of this topic is substantiated by escalation of the economic and geopolitical crisis in the world and armed conflicts in the Near East (by the borders of the Russian Federation). The authors give a general characteristic to the state border violators who have rusophobian views and participate in terrorist activities. Special attention is given to the visual psychodiagnostics of an individual crossing a state border, which encourage the increase in the efficiency of the state border control. The authors examine such aspects as discernment of the fake information in detection of persons participating in terrorist or extremist activities, as well as factors affecting the identification of the individual. The main threat to the Russian Federation – the work of the organized rusophobian associations of Ukraine – is being determined. The authors’ contribution consists in the justification that the threat to the country’s territorial integrity in the current circumstances is changing under the influence of the global political situation.

Keywords: border control, identification, offenders, identification of persons, lie detection, portrait extremist, violator, terrorist activity, state boundary, national security, pogranicnii kontrol, identifikaciya, narywiteli, viyavlenie lic, raspoznavanie lzi, portret ekstremista, naruwitel, terroristiceskaya deyatelnost, gosydarstvennaya granica, nacionalnaya bezopasnost

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2016.1.67529

Abstract: Protection of the political system of the Russian Federation is an important goal for the society and state within the framework of ensuring political security. Theoretical aspects are quite topical for the political studies as a basis for the applied political technologies. The author provides the results of studies of the condition of public politics in Yaroslav region, as completed in 2009 and 2011 under the auspices of the Russian scientists V.N. Yakimets, and L.I. Nikovskaya.

Keywords: political system of the Russian Federation, political security, public policy, honest and free elections, power, business, society, their interaction.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2019.5.30824

Abstract: This article explores the problem of assessing the terrorists’ choice of strategy for attacking. Particular attention is given to the practices of implementation of tactical innovations to the activity of terrorist organizations. Using the theory of art of destruction, the author provides a brief characteristics to the criteria of innovativeness of the means of carrying out attacks. The first part of the article examines the link between the assessment of tactical innovations, characteristic of weapons, and the purpose of each attack. The results of two-component research allow understanding the nature, difficulty and aspect of tactical innovations. In the course of this work, the author applied the correlation-regression data analysis; factor analysis of the processing of expert opinions; verification of reliability of the scales using Cronbach's alpha. The research results suggest basic assessment of tactical innovations, which may be used for estimating the innovative maturity of terrorist organizations, and serve as the foundation for development of the more adaptive counterterrorism strategies. The author underlines that execution of attacks with high level of novelty of the selected tactic were most likely with the use of explosives, rather than other possible types of weapons. The attacks with high level of tactical novelty and relevance most often target state objects.

Keywords: criteria of innovativeness, tactics, political violence, violent extremism, terrorism, malevolent creativity, innovations, countering terrorism, factor analysis, regression analysis

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2021.6.37056

Abstract: In the conditions of transformation of geopolitical environment and escalating magnitude of natural and man-made disasters, the international humanitarian cooperation becomes one of the priorities on the agenda of all global actors. This substantiated by the fact that the increasing frequency of natural disasters requires the development of new approaches and programs for addressing the humanitarian issues. The goal of this article lies is the analysis of vectors and peculiarities if cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United Nations, as well as systematicity of their interaction in terms of humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction. It is established that one of the urgent problems for the Russian Federation in the context of disaster risk reduction is wildfire prevention. The problem attracts as a global challenge has drawn particular attention of the UN.. Special emphasis is placed on the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, which for the Russian Federation and majority of countries of the world, serves as the methodological guide in the questions of participation and interaction with international partners towards overcoming humanitarian disasters and reducing the risks of anthropogenic hazards. Special attention is given to examination of the vectors and measures of support of the Russian Federation to the countries suffered from disasters. The conclusion is made that within the framework of interaction with the United Nations in terms of disaster risk reduction, the Russian Federation fully conforms to all strategic priorities and key provisions of the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction. The acquired results are valuable for the improvement and development of the principles of international humanitarian cooperation between the countries in the context of formation of the new paradigm of civilizational development.

Keywords: Ministry of Emergency Situations, international cooperation, international relations, safety, Sendai Framework, disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations, Russian Federation, forest fires, environment

Abstract: the cost efficiency of the enterprises there should be a system inter-related characteristics. The author offers a factor-based model for the relation between the cost efficiency of assets, sales and turnover of assets, which later transposes into the method of chain substituting for the factor analysis of the cost efficiency of assets. Much attention is paid to the definition of the financial levers with regard to the comparison between the cost efficiency of assets and of the capital. It is noted that in order to have objective characteristics of the condition of the enterprise, one needs an official calculation of the coefficients for the reproduction and loss of paying capacity, which are currently not recognized as obligatory.

Keywords: economics, cost efficiency, assets, sales, turnover, proceeds, enterprise, analysis, diagnosis, capital.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2013.2.62610

Abstract: In this article the author based on the practical approaches and scientific research of 2011 provides the grounds for the conclusion that fighting terrorism financing is one of the key directions of terrorism prevention. The author analyzes the current legal basis, as provided for in the Program for the Detection and Investigation of Crimes related to the Terrorism Financing.

Keywords: jurisprudence, fighting, financing, terrorism, recommendation, problems, supervision, detection, investigation, crime.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2016.3.19299

Abstract: The subject of the research is the specificity of criminological measures of situational crime prevention from the perspective of a Russian crime prevention theory. The article is devoted to theoretical reflection on space situational crime prevention measures in the modern crime prevention system. The peculiarities of situational crime prevention, recognized as one of the most popular in the world of criminal acts prevention strategies, are reported. It also discusses the concept and types of crime prevention. Particular attention is paid to the study of the relation of situational prevention measures and special criminological prevention of crime. The main research method in the article served as a comparative analysis of the characteristics of situational crime prevention and modern national crime prevention. The author's special contribution into this research should be recognized as proof of the integration of situational preventive measures in modern crime prevention system. The scientific novelty of this study lies in the fact that for the first time carried out in full theoretical understanding of space situational crime prevention in the Russian crime prevention system.

Keywords: reducing crime motivation, security measures, secondary level of prevention, crime situation, special criminological prevention, crime prevention system, situational crime prevention, conditions of committing a crime, preventive practice, crime prevention theory

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2016.3.67886

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2015.3.14299

Abstract: This article examines the criminological characteristics of current trends of crime in the area of illegal sales and distribution of synthetic drugs as a negative social phenomenon, as well as the actions of the government and society towards ensuring effective countermeasures against drug use among population and fight against illegal trafficking of synthetic “designer” drugs. This work presents the relevance of the issue and the special aspects of the crimes in the area of illegal trade of narcotics, psychotropic substances and their substitutes (synthetic “designer” drugs, “spices”), which is defined on one hand by the complexity of detection, investigation, and prevention of these crimes, and on the other – the growth in a number of drug users and increased number of deaths due to drug overdose.

Keywords: criminal liability, mortality from overdose, designer drugs, prevention, synthetic drugs, drug trafficking, early detection, spices, drug monitoring, laboratory

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2015.3.66587

Keywords: criminal liability, mortality from overdose, designer drugs, prevention, synthetic drugs, drug trafficking, early detection, spices, drug monitoring, laboratory

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2014.3.65060

Abstract: The object of studies is terrorism as a socially negative matter in general, and terrorist personality in particular. The studies also involve activities of state and society in the sphere of guaranteeing control over this negative social phenomenon. The goal of the study is to study and define the main criminologically valuable characteristics of the terrorist personality in order to take efficient measures against the spread of terrorism in Russia. The object of studies includes: scientific heritage, current criminal legislation, statistical data, foreign criminal legislation, scientific literature and study manuals in the relevant sphere. In addition to the general scientific cognition methods, the author applied the following special scientific cognition methods: logical, historical, systemic structural, statistical, sociological (polling, interviewing),etc. The methodological basis for this study was formed with the basic categories of dialectic materialism: negation of negation, transformation of quantity of change into quality, philosophical categories of general, special, and singular, causes and effects, etc. Scientific novelty of the work is due to the fact that it reveals some specific features of the terrorist personality in the Western Europe. In addition, the article provides a comprehensive description of crimes and persons committing these crimes. The author reveals new information of the relevant criminological determining factors and terrorist personality. The author also provides for some special approaches towards the terrorism prophylactics, as well as for the typology of terrorist personality in the Western Europe.

Keywords: terrorist personality, social and demographic characteristics, personality typology, terrorism in Europe, individual specificities, comparative analysis, specific personal characteristics, terrorism psychology, threat of terrorism, characteristics of terrorist groups.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2014.5.12143

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2014.5.65575

Abstract: Countering the illegal financial operations, pertaining to transferring money out of our country, along with carrying out the fiscal functions, is one of the main activities of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The author emphasizes the fact that the customs authorities, being agents of the foreign exchange control, conduct currency control across the entire foreign trade turnover of Russia, while not emulating the work of other control agencies. The subject of research of this article is the work of the customs authorities that is aimed at uncovering illegal schemes of transferring money offshore, as well as the difficult issues emerging in the process of doing so. In the process of working on this article, the author uses knowledge gained from personal work in this field, and as a result, offers ways to solve problems arising in the work of the customs authorities, including the legislative vacuum. The scientific novelty of the specific part to which this work is dedicated, consists of the fact that the establishment of the Customs Union has also allowed for creation of new ways of transferring money abroad. The flaws within legislation, as well as the differences of the regulatory acts of the member states of the Customs Union created conditions for an uncontrolled transfer of funds overseas, which destabilizes the economy of our nation. If implemented, the proposed ways of solving this issue would help Russia’s customs authorities rectify the situation.