Countering transnational organized crime in the context of new challenges and threats to modern State security systems (on the example of the Republic of Belarus and Russia)
https://www.doi.org/10.32523/2791-0954-2024-8-1-33-50
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Keywords:
transnational organized crime, unilateral sanctions, collective (regional) security, national security, challenges and threats, international law, international cooperation on special issuesAbstract
Transnational organized crime occupies an important place among the main threats to the security systems of States. This is especially facilitated by the development of illegal capabilities of modern information and communication technologies (cybercrime, "Darknet"), corruption crimes and crimes related to the legalization (laundering) of criminal proceeds, new methods of conducting armed conflicts in the 2.0 format. - "proxy war" & "business project", etc. The modern practice of applying "double" standards in interstate relations has contributed to the illegal imposition of restrictive measures (unilateral sanctions) by a number of Western countries and their allies against countries they define as "undemocratic".
The efforts of States undergoing sanctions and aimed at minimizing or countering them are often interpreted by unscrupulous actors as international offenses (transnational crimes). The actions of these entities, among which the main ones are NATO member states, contradict the current principles and norms of international law, including the right to development, supported at the UN level.
The Republic of Belarus, which has repeatedly and unreasonably been subject to sanctions restrictions, specifically notes them as threats to national security in the draft updated National Security Concept.
Regional security mechanisms, primarily the CIS, the CSTO and the SCO, of which the Republic of Belarus is (or is about to become) a member, disqualify attempts by other (Western) regional organizations (NATO, the EU) to impose their own criteria for determining the actions of other states (actors) as transnational crimes. At the same time, they are able to purposefully ignore or deliberately violate the standards and procedures of such universal organizations as Interpol, FATF, GRECO, etc.
