Youth neo-Nazi online communities with rhetoric of political hatred: problems of legal assessment and counteraction

Vladimir I. Krasikov; Красиков Владимир Иванович; Elena V. Fomenko; Фоменко Елена Владимировна; Boris V. Yatselenko; Яцеленко Борис Викторович

doi:10.31857/S1026945224030148

Youth neo-Nazi online communities with rhetoric of political hatred: problems of legal assessment and counteraction

Authors: Krasikov V.I.¹, Fomenko E.V.¹, Yatselenko B.V.¹
Affiliations:
1. All-Russian State University of Justice (RPA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia)
Issue: No 3 (2024)
Pages: 147-156
Section: Strengthening of legality and struggle with criminality
URL: https://rjmseer.com/1026-9452/article/view/648991
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945224030148
ID: 648991

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The authors, using general and specific scientific methods, investigated the issues of identifying and countering by legal means the spread of online communities with the rhetoric of political hostility among Russian youth. A legal assessment of such manifestations in the Russian online space made it possible, according to the authors, to develop priority directions for the development of domestic legislation and increase the effectiveness of preventing the commission of illegal acts by individual representatives of youth online communities with the rhetoric of political hostility. According to scientists, such research will make it possible in the future to increase the reliability of existing mechanisms for ensuring state security in the face of modern threats associated with the spread of extremism, terrorism, and other criminal manifestations on the Internet. Purpose of the work: analysis of legal means of countering socially dangerous acts committed by members of online youth communities with the rhetoric of political hostility; identifying the degree of their effectiveness to reduce their activity and identifying directions for increasing the effectiveness of legislation, the practice of its application and the prevention of extremist and terrorist acts among participants in youth online communities with the rhetoric of political hostility.

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youth online communities with the rhetoric of political hostility, prevention of extremism and radicalism, ensuring the security of the state against modern threats associated with the spread of extremism, terrorism, radicalism and other criminal manifestations on the Internet

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Vladimir I. Krasikov

All-Russian State University of Justice (RPA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia)

Author for correspondence.
Email: KrasVladIv@gmail.com

Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher at the Center for Scientific Research

Russian Federation, Moscow

Elena V. Fomenko

All-Russian State University of Justice (RPA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia)

Email: 89266006361@mail.ru

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Chief Researcher at the Center for Scientific Research

Russian Federation, Moscow

Boris V. Yatselenko

All-Russian State University of Justice (RPA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia)

Email: ya.borisvik@mail.ru

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology

Russian Federation, Moscow

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