Improving Legislation in the Field of Ensuring State and National Security in the Digital Age

The scientific report concerns some areas of improvement of criminal legislation in the field of ensuring state and public security in the digital world. In recent years, there has been an increase in foreign attempts to change Russia's foreign policy through interference from abroad in the affairs of the state, including through the extensive use of digital technology. Such interventions are directed against State and public security. In modern conditions, the activities of the Russian Federation are aimed at strengthening state power, preventing and repelling attempts to interfere in internal affairs. In this format, the effectiveness and efficiency of legislation, especially criminal law norms, is important. Criminal law should serve to create a new national security system within the framework of the strategic interests of the Russian state. In recent years, in order to improve the system of stability, security and integrity of the state, the legislator has supplemented Chapter 29 of the Criminal Code with new norms. Some definitions have sparked discussions in the theory of criminal law. The authors note their point of view and suggest some ways to eliminate gaps.

The choice of the research topic is also determined by the criminological features of financing terrorist and extremist crime in the digital age. The financing of terrorist activities has taken on a more veiled form in a digital society. In order to establish a criminological picture of criminal financing and other criminal encroachments on state and national interests, sociological methods have been widely used.