THE CRIMINOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Lobach Dmitry Vladimirovich, PhD at law. <...> Place of employment: Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU). <...> Department: theory and history of state and law. <...> Place of employment: Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU). <...> Place of employment: Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU). <...> Department: theory and history of state and law. <...> E-mail: kochubey.oi@dvfu.ru Annotation: The article examines the criminological characteristics of international terrorism, which predetermine the probable directions of development of the given phenomenon of social reality. <...> Substantiates the hypothesis that the modern international terrorism as social and destructive phenomenon in modern conditions is characterized by the following qualitative criminological characteristics: the network nature of international terrorist organizations; intensification of terrorist acts with parallel regionalization of the main non-state actors of terrorism; the multinational nature of terrorism; the development of religious doctrine which justifies quasi-values of terrorists; widespread use of the practice of suicide of terrorism; the symbiosis with organized crime; active use of information technologies for terrorist purposes; the orientation of terrorist organizations in the seizure of weapons of mass destruction. <...> Concludes that in the twenty-first century, international terrorism is a complex multi-level network social and destructive phenomenon, which involve in all diversity of interacting terrorist organizations. <...> Criminal activity of those organizations based on religious-ethnic paradigm and focuses on changing geopolitical spacing of power in the modern world. <...> The methodological basis of the article comprises methods such as statistical analysis, theoretical analysis and expert assessment method. <...> Bloom M. Dying to kill: The allure of suicide terror. <...> Financing of the Terrorist Organisation Islamic State ТЧ IrКq КЧН ЭСО LОЯКЧЭ Д Ж. <...> The Financial Action Task Force (FATF). – : https://www.fatf-gafi.org/topics/methodsandtrends/documents/financing-of-terrorist-organisation-isil.html 13. <...> Horowitz M. Non-state actors and the diffusion of innovations: The case of suicide terrorism / M. Horowitz // International Organization. – 2010. – Vol. 64. – Pp. 33-64. 16. <...> Kouzes R.T. Detecting illicit nuclear materials: the installation of radiological monitoring equipment in the United States and overseas is helping thwart nuclear terrorism / R.T. Kouzes // American Scientist. – 2005. – Vol. 93. – No. 5. – Pp. 422-427. 19. <...> Reports on international terrorism: statistics on incidents <...>