Abstract: The research subject includes legal and organizational problems of cross-border cooperation of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with competent authorities of foreign states in investigative operations aimed at transnational autotheft prevention. The author analyzes international statutory acts and national legislation, related to the investigative activities of internal affairs bodies, aimed at the prevention of autotheft committed by the citizens of bordering states. The author analyzes the statistical data on the thefts committed by the citizens of bordering states in the territories of boundary regions of the Russian Federation. The research methodology is based on modern achievements in epistemology. The author applies theoretical and general philosophical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, and modeling), traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal logical), and the methods of sociological research (statistical methods, expert assessment, etc.). The author concludes about the necessity to develop relations with the competent authorities of bordering states for the purpose of autotheft prevention. The scientific novelty consists in the proposal about the need for legal regulation of a verbal inquiry to a competent authority of a bordering state to exchange information for the purpose of the struggle against crime including autotheft. 

Abstract: The research object is the range of legal and organizational problems of border cooperation of regional agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation with the agencies of foreign states in the sphere of investigative activities. The author analyzes international and domestic statutory instruments, related to border cooperation of Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs with the agencies of foreign states in the sphere of investigative activities, and the organizational issues of its realization by regional agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The research methodology is based on the modern achievements in epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal logical), and special sociological methods (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author states the necessity to develop border cooperation in the sphere of investigative activities. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the proposals about the introduction of the post of liaison officers in regional agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the purpose of cooperation with the responsible authorities of foreign states.