Institute of prosecutor's supervision over the implementation of anti-extemism legislation

Supervision of the implementation of legislation on countering extremism is an established and proven area of prosecutorial activity. Many crimes and other offenses of this category have been identified, and the perpetrators have been identified, convicted, and brought to legal responsibility as a result of this activity. Despite the fact that the Federal Laws "On the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation" and "On Countering Extremist Activities" do not explicitly mention this area of prosecutorial supervision, it does not mean that it does not exist. The assignment of the duty to oversee compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and other laws to the prosecutor's office, as well as the establishment of a constitutional ban on propaganda or agitation that incites social, racial, national, or religious hatred or enmity, and other manifestations of extremism, clearly indicates that countering these dangerous acts is also a task of the prosecutor's office. A systematic analysis of the content of the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, these and other federal laws, as well as by-laws, allows us to conclude that countering extremism is carried out by the prosecutor's office within its competence and in cooperation with other law enforcement and other state bodies. Orders and instructions issued by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation detail the tasks of prosecutors in organizing and directly carrying out this activity in various areas. The set of normative legal acts of various legal force forms the institution of prosecutorial supervision over the implementation of legislation on countering terrorism as a relatively independent institution of law, the norms of which implement specific social relations. This institution should be considered as a protective and intersectoral institution. Since the prosecutors carrying out this activity are guided by norms related to various branches of law. Further research on this institution, including its place in the system of other institutions of prosecutorial activity, can contribute to the improvement of private theory and the practice of countering extremist crime.