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Professors’ Valentin Yakovlevich Koldin (Chair of Forensic Science of Law Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Svetlana Arkad’evna Smirnova (Director of the Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice) exchange of opinions is given. The interlocutors address the problems of the present state of forensic expertise in our country, of scientific legal community’s special attention to forensic expertise, development of a coherent state scientific and practical system in this field. The most promising forms of relationship between investigative, judicial and expert technologies of ensuring justice are discussed. Examples illustrating the need to introduce the innovative regulatory mechanisms for forensic expert activity are provided.