SUREN BAGHINYAN

Applicant at the Chair of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics

of Yerevan State University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2023.10-12-170

Annotation.

This article examines the challenges that have arisen as a result of changes in the modern military political situation. These changes undoubtedly affected the organization of the activities of criminal justice authorities to investigate criminal offenses against the national security of the country. It is necessary to solve these problems by specialists using criminal law and forensic means, taking into account the security of the state. Taking into account the fact that the current military-political situation has also affected the lives of citizens of Armenia, we examined cases when citizens adhere to the national program, as well as cases of committing a crime directed against the security of the state, namely, the concept of “high treason” is analyzed. Let us note that in the theory of criminal law, the criminal legal protection of state security of the Republic of Armenia does not have a comprehensive, detailed development. In the framework of this study, we examine the structure and content of the forensic characteristics of the concept of “high treason”, a concept in forensic science, and study the composition of this crime and its forms. In particular, we have compiled and presented in the article a classification of types of espionage activities that form the crime of “high treason”, and also consider the types of information that are of interest to persons engaged in espionage, and the types of actions that contribute to the “leakage” of information containing state secrets. As a result, we gave our definition of the concept of “high treason” and presented the types of elements of this crime and the features that unite them, as well as what the commission of such a crime can lead to in terms of the country’s security.

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