Problems of legal regulation of a procedure of seizing electronic media and copying information

The research subject is the provisions of criminal law regulating the procedure of seizing electronic media and copying information. The article considers the problems faced by investigators connected with the seizure of electronic media during the investigation, copying the information they contain, and the related changes in the investigation practice caused by the introduction of article 164.1 into the Criminal Procedure Code. The purpose of the research is, based on the analysis of the Federal Law of December 27, 2018 No 533, which had amended the Criminal Procedure Law with the article 164.1 “The peculiarities of seizing electronic media and copying information they contain during investigative activities”, and law-enforcement practice in this field, to define the scope of the most urgent problems and develop the ways how to solve them. The research methodology is based on general scientific and specific research methods of cognition: the comparative-legal and formal-logical analysis, modeling, induction, deduction, etc. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the comprehensive and system-based study of the issues and problems of criminal legislation and law-enforcement practice connected with seizing electronic media and copying information they contain, and in the development of the key suggestions about amending the current legislation.