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This article, through the description of real experiences, reveals some of the obstacles that arise when applying the international, national, and domestic laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine in the fight against crimes of an international character, and offers alternatives to address them. International legal assistance between States in criminal cases is provided in accordance with international agreements. The instruments of cooperation in the field of mutual legal assistance between States in criminal matters are well known to European judges and prosecutors. However, experience shows that post-Soviet countries have been reluctant to use mutual legal assistance in criminal matters because of the practical problems that often arise. The solutions to these problems are not only found in national or international legal texts and regulations, directives, or conventions. It is concluded that legal assistance among States in criminal cases is essential to extradite offenders facing criminal charges or to execute court sentences, to extradite persons, to transfer convicted persons to serve their sentences and to seize, search for and confiscate the proceeds of crime.

The article is devoted to such a topical issue as the use of electronic evidence in court. The purpose of the article is to determine the basic principles of electronic evidence, study domestic and foreign legislation on the use of electronic evidence in court, determine their place in the system of evidence, and identify problems with evidence in court. It was found that electronic evidence should be understood as factual data that are displayed in digital forms and recorded on any type of media, as well as after processing by electronic computers become possible and accessible to human perception. It has been established that in most of the European countries we study, electronic evidence is unquestionably classified as written and is not singled out. It has been identified that electronic documents have the same legal force in some countries as paper documents. It was concluded that in Azerbaijan the procedure for collecting and examining electronic evidence in domestic proceedings should be improved to avoid various technical errors, as well as to strengthen cybersecurity measures and increase basic knowledge of judges in the field of information technology.