Abstract: The subject of this research includes: 1) description and explanation of regular behavioral patterns used by criminals who committed an offence against the political system of the Russian Fedceration as well as reasons of such criminal behavior in order to develop scientifically grounded crime prevention recommendations; 2) analysis of suh important features of individuals who committed an offence against the political system of the Russian Federation as the age, gender, ethnic or national attribution of a criminal, etc.; 3) analysis of statistical data of extermism and terrorism supporters who have already been brought to court. The main research method used by the author is the law comparative method to analyze personality of a criminal who committed an offence against the political system of the Russian Federation, and general research methods such as analysis and synthesis. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that for the first tie in the academic literature the author provides a criminalistic description of the personality of a criminal who committed an offence against the political system of the Russian Federation. The main conclusions are the following: criminalistic analysis of personality traits of a criminal who committed an offence against the political system of the Russian Federation allows to describe such a criminal as a young man without a steady source of income or rich life experience, whose sense of patriotism is either dulled or absent. Such individual has superficial, unsteady or accidental political motives that are formed, as a rule, by a set of circumstances of socio-economic and political nature. 

Abstract: The object of studies includes: a) description and explanation of the patterns of development of crimes against the political system of the Russian Federation based upon the analysis of quality and quantity markers, which are interrelated and interdependent; b) mass media materials, informing about initiation of criminal cases and bringing persons to legal liability for the crimes against the political systems of the Russian Federation; c) the main provisions of the legislative acts regulating prevention of crimes against the political system of the Russian Federation. The main method of scientific studies was the comparative legal method for evaluation of crimes against the political system of the Russian Federation, as well as the general scientific methods (analysis and synthesis). The scientific novelty of the said studies is due to the fact that for the first time in the Russian legal science there was a criminological analysis of the crimes against the political system of the Russian Federation. The main conclusions are as follows: The criminological characteristics of the quality and quantity markers for the crimes against the political system of the Russian Federation shows that at the edge of XX and XXI centuries there are obvious tendencies for the growth of the registered crimes against the political system of Russia, such as public calls for the extremist activities, formation of extremist organizations  and communities.  The statistical data shows that in the Russian Federation in early XXI century the number of encroachments upon the political system is larger than in late XX century.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the legal aspects of prevention of crimes against the political system of Russia. The author analyzed the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the legislation of the Russian Federation on anti-criminal measures, including measures against extremism and terrorism, as well as some legislative norms of the Republic of Tatarstan on prevention of crimes against the political system of the Russian Federation. The author also analyzed the legislation of the Russian Federation on national security, she developed the draft of legal norm and made some suggestions on the improvement of legislation in order to protect the political system of the Russian Federation against criminal encroachments. In this article the author points out that in order to make fighting crimes against the political system of Russia more efficient,  there is need to the improve the norms of other branches of law, as well as criminal law.