freedoms. Therefore, respect in the OSA process is
paramount.
Observance of the rights and freedoms of citizens
consists in the implementation of a set of legal,
organizational and other measures that are designed
to create the necessary prerequisites for the
unconditional implementation of legal requirements,
where unreasonable restriction of rights and freedoms
during OSM is prohibited.
For example, the current legislation does not
provide a clear list of what is meant by the phrase
private life. But, the clarification of the constitutional
provisions is reduced to the fact that this concept
includes personal, family and other relationships of a
person that are not related to official activities. This
also logically applies, for example, the secrecy of
correspondence. This right is guaranteed and
protected by the Constitution of the Russian
Federation in Part 2 of Art. 23. The observance of this
constitutional right of citizens when conducting OSM
is ensured by a court decision, on the basis of which
such a procedure can be carried out.
Thus, the general legal constitutional principles of
the OSA that we examined, although they were
formulated by the general theory of law and are
acceptable for any branch of law, are an integral
attribute of the highest value of law and a guarantee
of ensuring rights and freedoms in the
implementation of the OSA, which in turn indicates
the legal regime in the state.
Observance of the rights and freedoms of citizens
consists in the implementation of a set of legal,
organizational and other measures that are designed
to create the necessary prerequisites for the
unconditional implementation of legal requirements,
where unreasonable restriction of rights and freedoms
during OSM is prohibited.
For example, the legislation current does not
provide a clear list of what is meant by the phrase
private life. But, the clarification of the constitutional
provisions is reduced to the fact that this concept
includes personal, family and other relationships of a
person that are not related to official activities. This
also logically applies, for example, the secrecy of
correspondence. This right is guaranteed and
protected by the Constitution of the Russian
Federation in Part 2 of Art. 23. The observance of this
constitutional right of citizens when conducting ORM
is ensured by a court decision, on the basis of which
such a procedure can be carried out.
Thus, the general legal constitutional principles of
the OSA that we examined, although they were
formulated by the general theory of law and are
acceptable for any branch of law, are an integral
attribute of the highest value of law and a guarantee
of ensuring rights and freedoms in the
implementation of the OSA, which in turn indicates
the legal regime in the state.
A characteristic and very specific feature of
information of operational-search interest is the way
and the possibility of obtaining it. And since the OSA
of authorized state bodies is legislatively defined in
public and private forms, therefore the legislator
determines, although rather sparingly, to its own
sectoral principles, such as conspiracy, a combination
of public and secret methods and means.
The principle of conspiracy, despite the fact that
the law does not disclose its content and complexity,
since the solution of operational tasks seems
impossible without conspiratorial support.
The controversy over what is the secret in
securing the principle of conspiracy seems obvious.
So, for example, N.V. Pavlichenko refers to the
secrecy of information related to state or official
secrets, as well as other information, the
dissemination of which may cause its decryption and
its use against the interests of law enforcement
agencies, to conspiracy (Pavlichenko, 2010).
Another position of the authors and scientists is
based on the understanding of conspiracy as keeping
secret its forces, means and methods, organizational
and tactical aspects of the implementation of the OSA
(Goryainov, Ovchinsky, 2018).
M.P. Smirnov, interprets conspiracy as keeping
secret from criminals the actions of law enforcement
agencies to expose them, protection from
unauthorized access to information about certain
aspects of operational-search activities (Smirnov,
2002).
A.A. Sheludko believes that the principle of
conspiracy is to conduct operational-search activities
in complete secrecy from those being inspected and
developed, as well as from other persons who have no
direct official relation to their organization and
conduction (Sheludko, 2011).
Observance of conspiracy in the OSA provides an
opportunity to prevent and disclose the most
dangerous crimes committed in secret, in disguised
ways, especially those prepared and committed by
members of organized groups and criminal
communities, as well as illegal armed groups
(Gabzalilov, Kuznetsov, Omelin, 2020).
Thus, the variety of definitions and understanding
of the essence of the principle of conspiracy is quite
large both in open literature and in special literature.
The obvious and unfavorable moment is that there is
no common understanding and interpretation of it.
The lack of legislative consolidation of the principle