Культурное наследие является неотъемлемой и универсальной ценностью любого общества и, следовательно, всего человечества, защита которого выступает как интернациональный долг любого государства. Международным сообществом накоплен достаточный опыт в разработке стандартов в области защиты культурных ценностей и контролю над их соблюдением.

Cultural heritage is an essential and universal values of any society and therefore the whole of humanity, the protection of which acts as an international duty of any state. The international community has sufficient experience in the development of standards for the protection of cultural property and control over their observance. One of the main objectives of the globalization of international relations is the cooperation of all states in order to achieve the highest interests of the international community: defending the legal rights and human freedoms, which ensures respecting of international acts. The strong point in complex studying of vandalism consists in analysis of criminal law and regulations of the other countries, which allow us to make a comparative analysis of our criminal-law rules with foreign ones. The study of comparative criminal law allows to collect best practices from foreign countries and to liquidate gaps in national criminal law.