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Request for legal assistance is one of the key tools of international cooperation of law enforcement agencies of many countries. The Russian Federation actively uses this mechanism in order to obtain the necessary information, to conduct certain procedural, investigative and operative-search actions within the framework of a criminal case, when it is not possible to carry out these or those actions on the territory of Russia (for example, the witness, suspect arrive in another country, property, documents and/or other objects of the material world, on which information is required, are in the possession and/or on the territory of another state). However, the issue under consideration has not been sufficiently studied in the doctrine of criminal procedural law, the empirical basis has not been investigated. The author analyses the law enforcement practice of law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, empirical data, identifies existing problems, errors and shortcomings in the work of specialists when sending requests for legal assistance, as well as points out the main reasons for refusals to execute requests, offering a number of developed recommendations based on international experience.
Zhasmina A. Iskandaryan (Thu,) studied this question.