Modern Terrorism and Extremism as a Potential Threat to State Security

This article examines the development trends and features of modern (international) extremism and terrorism, which currently pose a significant threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of Russia. The author of the work draws attention to the fact that crimes of an extremist and terrorist nature are always highly resonant and pose a direct threat to security to the constitutional foundations of the social and state system, and in turn, this presupposes and requires from the state legal regulation of the fight against these negative phenomena as one of the priority tasks. The scale and geography of crimes of this nature indicate that almost any state can potentially be targeted by extremism and terrorism, and this does not depend on the level of socio-economic development, state and political structure and military power and capabilities of a particular country. The ideology of modern terrorism is represented by radicalist and, as a rule, religiously determined views, supporters of this ideology rely on violence and extremism in resolving social contradictions and implementing social transformations. Extremist and terrorist activities are the actual continuation of the ideas of radicalism, the foundation for which is the religious revival. Therefore, the prevention and fight against manifestations of extremist and terrorist orientation should be based on a nationwide set of measures involving a systematic and permanent nature, covering all the necessary levels of legal regulation, as well as the practice of applying anti-terrorist and anti-extremist legislation. In addition, it is important that when developing the above set of measures to combat these crimes, the international experience of other countries that have also faced extremism and terrorism in any form of their manifestations is used. It should be noted that Russia, through the relevant bodies and services, as well as interaction with international organizations, whose main activity is the prevention and fight against terrorist and extremist crimes, cooperates with many foreign states, which multiplies the effectiveness of countermeasures in the fight against international extremist terrorist organizations. Russian law enforcement agencies are increasingly combining their efforts and cooperating with law enforcement agencies and special services of foreign states, which makes it possible to develop a unified set of preventive measures to prevent, as well as an effective mechanism to counter manifestations of an extremist nature, neutralize international extremist and terrorist organizations. Countering criminal extremism and terrorism can be effective only when it is engaged not only by persons authorized by the Law, law enforcement officers, but the whole society as a whole, including representatives of the scientific world, scientists of various specialties.

terrorism, extremism, extremist organizations, international terrorism, law enforcement agencies, preventive measures, crimes of an international character, territorial integrity, state security, threat to security, sovereignty