REHABILITA TION OF NAZISM AS AN OBJECT OF FORENSIC RESEARCH
An increase in the number offacts of the rehabilitation of Nazism in modern conditions of destabilization of international relations, an increase in the activity of persons pursuing the goals of the revival of fascism, entail the actualization of issues related to the disclosure and investigation of this type of crime. Approaches to the assessment of the rehabilitation of Nazism in the countries of the near and far abroad are characterized. The legal basis of the struggle against attempts to rehabilitate Nazism in the Russian Federation is considered. Some problematic aspects of the investigation of the rehabilitation of Nazism are identified, the need for the formation of a methodology for investigating crimes of this type, including using the capabilities of modern information technologies, is emphasized. The author notes that the criminalistic characteristics of the crime are among the main fundamentally important components of the investigation methodology of the type of crimes under consideration. Attention is drawn to the fact that the insignificant period of existence of the article providing for criminal liability for the rehabilitation of Nazism nevertheless provides a sufficient amount of empirical material that allows forming the foundations of the criminalistic characteristics of the crime. The author reveals the fundamentally significant elements of such a characteristic, among which they include the subject, the method of the crime, tools and means, the situation and traces, clearly illustrating their description with examples of forensic investigative practice.