About the legal definition of the term "the terrorist"
The article is devoted to the problem of the definition of the term «terrorist», which is widely used in modern domestic legislation, legal literature, and law enforcement practice. The absence of a legal definition of the term «the terrorist» has been established to date. The analysis of normative legal acts in the field of anti-terrorism is made and numerous cases of the use of the term under study by the Russian legislator are revealed, despite the fact that its definition is not given. The problems of the lack of a legal definition for law enforcement officers, scientists and practitioners are formulated. We have studied the currently available encyclopedic and reference publications, dictionaries and monographs, which give the author's definitions of the term under study. The fact of the existence of the legally fixed term «the terrorist» in the previously existing Federal Law of 25.07.1998 No. 130-FZ «On combating terrorism» has been established. Taking into account the analysis of modern criminal law norms in the field of counter-terrorism, a reasonable opinion was formed that the definition of the term «the terrorist» that was previously available in domestic legislation fully corresponds to modern realities and can be applied in the current Russian legislation by means of its consolidation in the provisions of Federal Law No. 35-FZ of 06.03.2006 «On Counter-terrorism».