RUSSIAN COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY

Introduction: terrorism has acquired very many features of a global phenomenon. Terrorist activity by one and the same organization or by a group of organizations can simultaneously be traced down in several states or territories. It has naturally led to the competition of different law orders in elaborating strategies to counter terrorism and hampered developing unified approaches. Methods: based on law comparative methods, the article focuses on the analysis of factors which have served as the basis for the Russian current strategy of countering terrorism. Analysis: in the authors’ view, «the counter-terrorism strategy implies a set of measures aimed at preventing acts of terror and minimizing damage. Such strategies, as a rule, include political and organization and legal subsystems (criminal, administrative and other law) the content of which is determined by the following factors: 1) historical and social as well as territorial features of terrorism in a state; 2) adherence to certain international instruments in countering terrorism; 3) international terrorist organizations operational in a particular region; 4) working methods of terrorist organizations and of individual terrorists in a region; 5) peculiarities of national legislation on countering terrorism; 6) the political system of a state and a focus of international policy. Results: the research of national strategies serves as a set of methods for elaborating a universal (global) strategy which, at the first stage, should include a legal assessment of new challenges; unification of criminal legislation of different countries of the world on the matters of qualification and penalties for terrorist acts; unification of approaches to recognizing organizations terrorist ones.