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This article analyzes the international legal framework against cybercrime. The international legal framework provides a solution to the problem in three areas: reducing discrepancies between national laws, introducing new powers of authorities, and promoting international cooperation. The study argues that the core documents effectiveness in the field of cybercrime counteraction does not appear to be dependent on the legal applicability of the international measures. Such factors as national security, politics, economics, and public opinion, apparently, stimulate the spontaneous implementation of the international legal framework. The study focuses on the need to develop a system of basic approaches in the field of criminal law cybercrime qualification and consolidate their classification at the supranational level. A qualitatively new approach to cooperation between international relations subjects in combating cybercrime is proposed. The latter is based on all states actions coordination in improving the legal regulation of interaction and implementation of fundamental rules in national legislation, reorganizing the information exchange basics.
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Nukusheva, A., Zhamiyeva, R., Shestak, V. et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Formation of a legislative framework in the field of combating cybercrime and strategic directions of its development. Secur J 35, 893–912 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-021-00304-3
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