Annotation

The article discusses criminal law, general social and special criminological measures to prevent environmental crime in the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (hereinafter referred to as the CIS). It is proved that the effectiveness of the post-Soviet model is determined by the consistency of criminal, administrative, information and natural resource regulation, as well as the ability to identify environmental risk before harm from a crime occurs. The directions of interstate cooperation and improvement of Russian law enforcement practice are formulated.