The characteristics of the organized crime and terrorism can be distinguis-hed according to the motivation criteria of the execution of such acts and to the methods of victims‟ selection. Terrorism and organized crime, as any other so-cial phenomenon, increased and changed taking new forms, manifestations, and consequently became more and more organized. The effectiveness of the relatio-nships between the members of the terrorist groups and terrorist organizations had raised considerably, the same process being observed between the terrorist organizations and the representatives of the criminal structures.