The given article deals with the issues of fostering fight against youth extremism under present conditions. Recent changes in Russia have been followed by an increase of crime, drug addiction, and terrorism. Among all these dangerous phenomena extremist actions are considered as particularly important. Law enforcement agencies all over the country register increase in the number of extremist actions which have political as well as religious character. The issue of counteracting terrorism is considered as particularly important by all state officials including the President of the Russian Federation. In one of his Annual Messages to the Federal Assembly the President considered growth of extremism as «a serious threat to public security». According to the sociological research religious and national self-consciousness of a number of citizens in modern Russia coincide what endangers stability of the Russian Federation as multiconfessional society. The most noticeable increase of national-religious intolerance is registered among the youth, with several times higher rates than among elderly people. Under conditions of global crisis this is an alarming symptom for the society with unstable socio-economic indicators. According to the world and domestic experience young people in particular are most susceptible to the ideas of radicalism and extremism.
law enforcement system, police, operative-search activities, extremism
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