Аннотация:This article is dedicated to criminal law issues of ensuring national security and suppression of terroristic crimes via active use of financial monitoring instruments. Raising frequency of terrorist acts, appearance of new forms and methods of committing such crimes stimulated the legislator to make decisions important for the State. Within a short time period, state measures were developed aimed to prevent financing terrorism. At the same time, analysis of lawmaking and judicial practice based on concrete civil and criminal cases discloses the cases of authorized bodies illegally restricting civic rights when performing anti-terroristic activities. The main aspect emphasized in the article was efficiency of financial monitoring as an instrument aimed to suppress terrorism financing and to protect civic rights in the course of implementing anti-terroristic policy.