Criminal-legal counteraction to illegal trafficking of narcotic and psychotropic substances in the Russian Federation

The article substantiates that the existing nationwide system of countering illegal drug trafficking (including psychotropic substances) in Russia needs to be re-evaluated and improved considering the changing situation. The methodological basis of the research was made up of general scientific, private and special methods of cognition. The general scientific dialectical method allowed us to consider the problem of legal relations arising in the field of legal regulation of countering crimes in the field of illicit trafficking in narcotic and psychotropic substances. On the basis of the conducted research, modern general social, individual and special criminological measures were developed to prevent crimes related to illegal (illegal) drug trafficking (including psychotropic substances), the use of which together will lay the foundation for the harmonization of existing domestic legislative acts in order to increase the level of coherence in the actions of state authorities in this area