The principle of adversarial parties in Russian and Armenian law (comparative analysis)
The article provides a comparative analysis of the adversarial principle of the parties in the procedural legislation of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia. The author comes to the conclusion that this principle in Russia and Armenia is normatively fixed at different levels and occupies a different place in the system of principles of national law. From the standpoint of dividing the principles of law into sectoral, inter-sectoral and general legal in the Russian Federation, the adversarial principle is inter-sectoral, and in the Republic of Armenia it is a principle of criminal procedural law. From the position of division the principles of law according to the source of consolidation in Russia, the adversarial principle is one of the constitutional principles duplicated in sectoral legislation, and in Armenia this principle is simply sectoral.