title: Terrorist activity research methodology. Part 1: research basics
abstract: Introduction. The article is devoted to the description of the terrorist activity research methodology. In order to realise the cognitive experience in modern conditions, to reflect the essential characteristics of the studied objects and phenomena, their complexity and specificity of their deployment in the context of current social processes, i.e. as human-dimensional systems, it is necessary to use effective means and mechanisms of cognition corresponding to the cognitive task. The cognition 
journal: Vestnik of the St Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia