On the main stages of legislation formation to combat organized crime and certain areas of its updating

Based on a comprehensive analysis of regulatory legal acts pertaining to various aspects of the operational investigative activities of internal affairs agencies to combat organized crime since its identification as a phenomenon threatening public order and national security, as well as statistical data characterizing it today, this article concludes that it is necessary to align the legal framework for combating it with the current operational situation. As an alternative, the proposal of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation to adopt the Federal Law «On Combating Organized Crime», discussed at a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation, is supported.