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Dr. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor (State University of Humanities and Social Studies).
Ivanova Elena Vyacheslavovna is a well-known scientist in the forensic examination of narcotic drugs, psychotropic and potent substances. Her research interests include the use of special knowledge in the investigation of crimes, methodological support of expert research, regulatory judicial and expert activities, training of forensic experts.
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Candidate of Law Science, Associate Professor (State University of Humanities and Social Studies).
Research interests: legal regulation of application and use of special knowledge in criminal, civil, administrative proceedings, proceedings on administrative offenses, tax, customs and notarial activities, enforcement proceedings in the Russian Federation and the member States of the Eurasian economic Union.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, honorary worker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the retired Police Major-General, Professor (Russian State University of Justice). Tatiana V. Averyanova is one of the leading scientists in the field of gexteneral theory of forensic examination, its teachings and structure; forensic support of the activities of the bodies of disclosure and investigation of crimes; procedural support of expert activities.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor (Almaty Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan by M. Esbulatov). Research interests: modern problems of criminal procedure and forensic examination, as well as problems of introduction of new technical directions in criminalistics.
Candidate of physical and mathematical Sciences, Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor. Research interests: criminal procedure law, general problems of proof, forensic tactics, general issues of forensic examination and its procedural aspects, ethical problems of criminal law and procedure.
PhD, associate Professor of criminal procedure law, The Academy of criminal And Police Studies in Belgrade, the Republic of Serbia.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor (Kuban State Agrarian University). Research interests: methods of investigation of certain types of crimes, criminal law qualification of corruption, official, foreign economic crimes, tactics of prosecution and defense in criminal proceedings, the use of the results of the operative-search activity in proving criminal cases, applied methods of training of law students and practitioners, comparative law in the in the Asia – Pacific region, legal education of the population, professional strategies of a successful lawyer.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Docent (East Siberian Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia). Research interests: disclosure, investigation and prevention of crimes committed in transport; General theory of criminology; technical and forensic support of disclosure, investigation and prevention of crimes.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor (Volgograd Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia). Research interests: principles of criminal proceedings, evidence and proof, participants in criminal proceedings, the appointment and production of forensic examination, the use of special knowledge in criminal proceedings.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor (Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). Alexander M. Zinin is a well-known scientist in the field of the use of special knowledge in the proceedings of Russia. Sphere of scientific interests: theoretical and practical issues of judicial review, the participation of a specialist in procedural activities, habitoscopy and portrait expertise.
PhD, Romerio universitetas, Vilnius, Lithuania. Snieguole Matuliene's sphere of scientific interests are problems of criminalistics and forensic activities.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor (Moscow University of the MIA of Russia by V. J. Kikotya). Nadezhda P. Mailis is a leading scientist in the development of the theory of forensic examination in Russia and abroad and its constituent teachings, as well as forensic diagnostics, complex examinations, in the development of the theory and practice of forensic trasology and forensic trasological examination, private methods and methods of research of various objects of trasological examination, expert ethics.
Dr. Sci. (Law), candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor. (Russian State University of Justice). The sphere of scientific interests of Tatyana Fedorovna is quite wide - from the study of the problems of forensic expertise, procedural regulation of forensic activities, procedural and legal status of the expert, to the forensic study of traces of human biological origin.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Active member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Active member of the International Association for Identification (IAI USA), President of the Association for Educational Institutions «Forensic Expertise», Director of the Forensic Expertise Institute, Head of the Forensic Expertise Dept. Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). Elena R. Rossinskaya is one of the leading experts in the field of theoretical and practical problems of criminalistics and forensic examination.
Candidate of Law, Professor, Honored worker of the higher school of Russia (Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) The main directions of research: the problems of tactics and methods of disclosure and investigation of crimes, investigation of theft, the production of initial investigative actions.
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor (North-West branch of the Russian state University of justice). The sphere of scientific interests of Stanislav Alimovich consists of problems of criminalistic equipment and tactics, criminal registration, use of new technologies in criminalistics, criminalistic counteraction to terrorism and organized crime.