State economic security as criminal law protection object

The existence of any state is connected with socio-economic and political-legal processes in the world. During the period of global social transformations and major economic and political reforms, Russia finds itself in a socio-political situation of necessity to protect its interests, including economic ones. Therefore, the legislator solves the most important task of legal provision of economic security by criminal legal means. This text aims to examine the theoretical foundations of economic security, analyze the current state of the Russian economy with its level of functional security and identify ways to improve security and criminal law provisions. The methodology of this research is a set of methods, techniques and tools of cognition used in research, both theoretical, empirical and applied. The authors concluded that the main threat to the economic security of the country is economic crimes, the fight against which is impossible without criminal legislation. Therefore, the modernization of criminal policy should be carried out by improving legislation and introducing a well-thoughtout system of law enforcement, which includes a similar valuation of all subjects of economic relations.