Forensic Expertise in the Investigation of Crimes Under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
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Among the goals of implementing the Information Society Development Strategy in the Russian Federation for 2017–2030, the tasks of ensuring citizens’ rights to objective, reliable, and safe information are particularly emphasized, as well as creating conditions to meet their needs for continuous development, obtaining high-quality and reliable information, acquiring new competencies, and broadening their horizons. The deliberate distortion of information about events and facts from various areas of state and society, which is presented exclusively in a negative light (and not only in connection with the participation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other law enforcement agencies in the special military operation in Donbass and Novorossiya), creates a false perception among the general public about the actual content and direction of their efforts, as well as the means and methods they use. Materials of investigative and judicial practice on criminal cases on crimes. provided for, including Article 207.7 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, testify to the sufficient prevalence of such actions, including the use of information and telecommunication technologies. According to the author, it is currently necessary to develop a more complete standard private methodology for the investigation of these crimes. The content of which is advisable to be presented in a special methodological manual. It should clearly state the information basis of this methodology, its structure in the form of complexes carried out in a situationally determined sequence of investigative, other procedural, and other actions not prohibited by law, carried out alternately during the pre-investigation verification of information about the signs of these crimes. at the initial and subsequent stages of their investigation. Taking into account the importance of forensic examinations in establishing the signs and proving the circumstances of their commission, as well as exposing the persons involved in them, each of the mentioned complexes should identify the types of examinations that are necessary for the particular investigative tasks to be solved as a result of their implementation. To the investigators. Prosecutors need to know this methodology both to ensure the comprehensiveness, completeness and objectivity of pre-trial proceedings in cases of crimes under consideration, so it is for evaluating its results.

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