Legal basis for countering corruption as a threat to national security of the Russian Federation

Introduction: corruption is a complex social and legal phenomenon that has a negative, destructive impact on all spheres of society. Influencing directly the order of management, violating established norms and rules, it becomes a serious obstacle to the economic, social, technical and other sectors of the development of society and the state. The article examines corruption as one of the main threats to the national security of the Russian Federation. The study is aimed at analyzing the legal basis of anti-corruption activities and identifying existing problems in the mechanism of legal regulation and law enforcement practice in order to ensure a preventive impact on the development of corruption schemes. Materials and Мethods: еhe regulatory framework of the study consists of international law, Federal laws of the Russian Federation, Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, as well as departmental regulations. During the preparation of the article, the results of law enforcement activities in the field of anti-corruption and scientific works of scientists were also used. The methodological basis of the study is a complex of general scientific methods, such as analysis, synthesis, comparison, and special methods such as systemic-structural, comparative legal. The Results of Study: the analysis of the legislative framework establishing the main legal means of combating corruption allowed the author to conditionally divide them into measures to prevent corruption violations, measures to identify and suppress emerging corruption risks, as well as measures of legal liability and minimization of the consequences of corruption. Based on the results of the consideration, identified during the analysis, problems in legal regulation and law enforcement practice, ways to overcome them were proposed. Findings and Conclusions: in conclusion, the author focused on the continuity of the process of development and reproduction of corrupt practices, in connection with which the conclusion was justified about the need for timely modernization of anti-corruption legislation in order to have a preventive impact on corruption.