Importance of international cooperation for evidential activity in the sphere of criminal proceedings

Purpose: Identify the need for cooperation in the detection and investigation of crime, which goes beyond a single state. Methodology: We used historical and legal, comparative legal methods and the legal statistics. Results: This article deals with the problems of legislative regulation of issues of international cooperation in criminal proceedings the country party to the Convention on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal cases, 1993 (Minsk Convention). Based on the traditions of domestic criminal justice and international cooperation of the judiciary, this article provides the concept of this form of cooperation in combating national and transnational, international crime, its goals and objectives. Novelty/originality/value: Article possesses the high scientific value, as is one of the first attempts to consider the need for cooperation between the countries for the early detection, investigation of crimes, exposing the perpetrators and the search in the countries - participants of the Minsk Convention.