Currently, an aggressive information policy of a number of states is being carried out to falsify the history of the Second World War and revise its results. In this regard, on the territory of the Russian Federation and the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, there was a need to strengthen criminal legal counteraction to attempts to rehabilitate Nazism, taking into account the positive legislative experience of a number of foreign countries in this area.

Aims and objectives of the study: based on the analysis of the norms of international law and foreign legislation, to identify promising areas for improving Russian criminal legislation in the field of countering the rehabilitation of Nazism; to consider the conceptual approaches of various states to criminalize attempts to rehabilitate Nazism; to identify trends in criminal policy in this area at the national and supranational levels.

A comparative legal analysis of the criminal legislation of foreign countries has shown that the most detailed legal regulation of the issues of countering the rehabilitation of Nazism is contained in Russian and Belarusian legislation. At the same time, a gap has been identified in the Russian legal system regarding the absence of a special indication of the criminality of actions glorifying Nazi criminals. Currently, efforts are continuing to bring together and harmonize the national legislation of the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in terms of criminalizing acts related to attempts to rehabilitate Nazism, distorting historical truth, humiliating the honor and dignity of military veterans, identifying the role of the USSR and Germany in Second World War, belittling the humanitarian mission of the USSR in the liberation of Europe.