To a problem of manifestation of criminal activity of participants illegal paramilitary groups in Russia at the present stage

Purpose: Consideration of features of modern practice of application of criminal precepts of law about responsibility for activity of illegal paramilitary groups and detection of criminological features, characteristic for these crimes. Methodology: The author applied a formal-legal method and a statistical method. Results: The author generalized the conclusions earlier formulated in scientific literature characterizing activity of illegal paramilitary groups, and also modern judicial and investigative practice on this problem is analysed. Novelty/originality/value: Article contains author’s generalizations of rather criminological characteristic of activity of illegal paramilitary groups possessing by a certain scientific novelty.