Category Archives: News in English

On 22 October, the Deputy Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), First Class State Councillor of Justice, Vice-President of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists Alexander G. Zvyagintsev received an honorary … Read More →

This year, under the editorship of Oleg Yu. Rybakov, Doctor of Legal Sciences and Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), member of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists, with … Read More →

On 20 October 2021, the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists held a regular meeting of its Bureau. The meeting was chaired by Head of the Bureau Yury I. Skuratov and President of the Union Igor M. Matskevich. The following issues were … Read More →

On 23 September, an international scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal ‘The Nuremberg Trials. The Fate and Role of Besieged Leningrad’ was opened in Saint Petersburg. Russian President … Read More →

On 22 September 2021, the organisational meeting of the Moscow Criminological Office was held at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). At the organisational meeting, students and other interested persons learned: how to write scientific papers; how to conduct criminological … Read More →

On 2-25 September 2021, the traditional XXIII International Conference ‘Legal Technique’ was held in Nizhny Novgorod. In 2021, the conference was devoted to the topic ‘Law-making expertise (doctrine, practice, technique).’ High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana … Read More →

On 8 September 2021, a regular online meeting of the Author’s project ‘Criminal law gatherings at N.A. Lopashenko’s’ was held jointly with the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists’ Office in Saratov. The event was held in the MONO-format and was … Read More →

A bill on toughening responsibility for pedophiles has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation Senator Andrey Turchak, as well as State Duma deputies Pavel Krasheninnikov and Alexander Khinshtein (all of them are members of the United … Read More →

On 10 September 2021, a conference organised by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Lipetsk region was held at Yelets State Ivan Bunin University. President of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists Igor M. Matskevich and Vice-President of the UCC Alexander … Read More →

On 19 August 1990, a group of criminals, desperate thugs, made a daring escape from a high-security colony in Yakutia. The criminals disarmed the guards, seized a plane with passengers at the airport and demanded departure outside the USSR. In … Read More →

The Union of Criminalists and Criminologists and the electronic media ZAKONIA will become discussion platforms on migrant environment decriminalisation and extremism prevention. Kuzminki, Kuntsevo, Naro-Fominsk, Saint-Petersburg, Mytishchi, Odintsovo are the places of recent mass fights between members of various ethnic … Read More →

On 29 August 1942, at night, Petar Brzica, together with other Ustasa (from Croatian Ustaše ‘revenants, rebels’), began the massacre of Serbs. For murdering, serboseki were used – a special device consisting of a leather notch and a small blade. … Read More →

On 4 August 1944, Russian Princess Vera Obolensky was executed by the Nazis In October 1943, the Nazi police detained Roland Fajon, who had come from Normandy. He was in charge of a regional branch of an underground organisation in … Read More →

The Khabarovsk process was completed more than 70 years ago. Japanese monsters were tried. In order to achieve their aggressive goals, they were ready to poison all of humanity. The facts, horrifying in their cruelty and inhumanity, surfaced then at … Read More →

The President of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists commented on the tragedy in Khakassia, where a former convict who had been released from prison for a double murder again committed a murder (killed the whole family). Professor of Lomonosov … Read More →

On 2 August 1996, the last execution in modern Russia officially took place. Sergey Golovkin was executed. He was convicted of a series of murders – deaths of 11 boys between 1986 and 1992 had been officially proven. The murders … Read More →