A Conceptual Approach to Ensuring the Inevitability of Punishment for Genocide and the Rehabilitation of Nazism
- Authors: Kaburneev E.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
- Issue: No 9 (2025)
- Pages: 24-34
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/318306
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225090028
- ID: 318306
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Abstract
Based on the current regulatory framework, judicial and investigative practice, the views of scientists, practical experience and research results of the author using the historical and legal method, as well as the method of included observation, the issues of investigating the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War and the rehabilitation of Nazism are considered in this article. The results of the work of the investigators of the USSR and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the meaning of the concept of “genocide”, modern forms of its manifestation, as well as the facts of the rehabilitation of Nazism are analyzed. Scientifically based conclusions have been drawn regarding the need to change Russian criminal procedure legislation and strengthen preventive work with young people. The results of the study can be applied in the activities of law enforcement agencies and the educational process.
About the authors
E. V. Kaburneev
Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Author for correspondence.
Email: icrf@rambler.ru
3A 1st Frunzenskaya str., 119146 Moscow, Russia
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