ON THE SEARCH FOR WAYS TO CONVERT THE RESULTS OF OPERATIONAL AND INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES INTO CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL EVIDENCE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Operational investigative activities are understood as a type of activity carried out openly and covertly by operational units of state bodies authorized by the Federal Law dated July 5, 1995 “On operational investigative activities”, within their authority, through conducting operational investigative measures in order to protect life, health, rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, property, and ensure the security of society and the state from criminal encroachments. Operational-search activities are the most important forms of operational-search activities, and therefore the legal regulation of their conduct, as well as the use of the results obtained, is the subject of scientific research. The review draws attention to the significant results of an interdisciplinary study of the patterns of transforming the results of operational-search activities into criminal procedure evidence in the Russian Federation, and the work done by the author's team was also positively evaluated.