To a Question about Status of Representatives of Bodies of Military Justice, Being in Zone of Armed Conflict, in Period of Realization of Peace-Support Mission by the Russian Federation
Article deals with the following topical issue - defense of legal status of the officers of bodies of military justice, first -military prosecutor's office and military courts, under the special conditions - in the zone of armed conflict, in the period of realization of peace-support mission by the Russian Federation. For today Peace-Support Forces participate in regulating of several armed conflicts in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Under the contemporary conditions peace building, together with disarmament and reintegration of the former combatants into the civic community, restoration of economic, social and political, communication and other different structures destroyed in the course of conflict, return of the refugees and displaced persons, includes strengthening of legal order, which can be expressed as training of personnel and the reformation of the structure of the local police, conducting the reforms of judicial and penitentiary systems, and also the fastening of traces of military crimes and the assistance to attraction of guilty to responsibility. The analysis of Russian and International legislation indicates not only legality, but also real need of being of the military lawyers in the zone of armed conflict. The author makes conclusions and proposals, concerning the need of the clearer international-legal regulation of the defense of Russian military men, executing law-enforcement functions in the territory of conducting of operations and questions, connected with this problems.