Category Archives: News in English

The voices of youth for a peaceful and inclusive world 9 December 2021 marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, as well as the … Read More →

On 8 December, the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists Annual Meeting was held at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). Due to the epidemic situation, members of the Union from Russia and other countries took part in the Meeting remotely. … Read More →

On 3 December, a solemn ceremony of presenting the highest legal awards of the Association of Lawyers of Russia was held at the Moscow City Golf Club. Prominent lawyers from all over Russia gathered at the meeting. The Association organised … Read More →

On 7 November 1941 at 8 a.m. on the Red Square in Moscow began a military parade on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the October Revolution. A parade was held during the Battle of Moscow, when the front … Read More →

DISCUSSION CLUB School Shooting: Legal, criminological, sociological and psychological problems On 29 October 2021, the ordinary online meeting of the Discussion Club was held together with the Saratov Branch Office of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists. The participants of … Read More →

26 October 2021. Translated by Elizaveta Ovchinnikova President of the International Police Association Russian Section (IPA RS) Yury Zhdanov supported the signing of the Code of Ethics in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘The adoption of the Code of Ethics for … Read More →

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 →