PhD of Philosophy, research member of Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the University of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science. 454001, Miass, Chelyabinsk region, Ilmen National Park. E-mail: SG.Baryshnikov@mail.ru

Baryshnikov Georgy Sergeevich

post graduate student of the Academy of Federal Security of Russia, Russia, Moscow, Michiurinsky Av., building 70. E-mail: SG.Baryshnikov2012@mail.ru

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The article describes the theoretical and methodological fundamentals of the study of terrorism (philosophical and methodological, special methodological, and special scientific fundamentals) which serve as the fundamental scientific principles that define the process of studying and understanding terrorist activities (which is achieving goals and results) and its practical significance. Otherwise speaking, on the early stages of studying terrorism it is necessary to define the scientific approach to the object of the research and the theoretical and methodological fundamentals which allow developing the social and philosophical essence of this social and destructive process, namely the theoretical fundamentals the consequence of which should be the achievement of the objective veracity of the scientific result and its praxeological novelty.