scholarly journals Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation: evaluation of effectiveness and measures for its improvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 868-877
Author(s):  
Boris Gavrilov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Dialectical Logic ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Comparative

Introduction: the article analyzes provisions of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation and its impact on the implementation of key legal institutions designed to ensure respect for the rights and legitimate interests of criminal proceedings participants by law enforcement and judicial authorities. Purpose: having studied effectiveness of the amendments made in the CPC and conducted statistical analysis of the results of criminal cases investigation, the author presents shortcomings in the legislation identified by the scientific community and law enforcement practice and proposes measures to improve both certain legal norms of the CPC RF and its procedural institutions in order to ensure constitutional provisions on the state protection of human and civil rights and freedoms. Methods: the researcher used historical, comparative legal and empirical methods for describing quality and legality issues in the investigation of criminal cases; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Private scientific and legal technical methods, as well as the method for interpreting specific legal norms were applied. Results: the analysis of development of Russian and foreign criminal procedural legislation and law enforcement practice objectively indicates that the absolute majority of the amendments made to the Code contributed to enhancing performance of pre-trial investigation or initial inquiry bodies in implementing the provisions of Article 6 of the CPC. It stipulates protection of the rights and lawful interests of the persons and organizations, who (which) have suffered from the crimes, as well as their protection from unlawful accusations and conviction, and other restrictions of their rights and freedoms. Betterment of the criminal procedural legislation is also aimed at overcoming formalization of its individual provisions and bureaucratization of actions of the inquirer, investigator, prosecutor’s office and judicial community in the investigation and trial of criminal cases. Conclusions: to adapt the modern Russian criminal process to modern realities (new types of crimes and methods of their commission, increased requirements for ensuring legality in activities of pre-trial investigation bodies, their compliance with procedural deadlines in criminal cases and improving investigation quality) it is necessary to make changes in pre-trial proceedings, in particular, to reorganize procedural rules for commencement of criminal proceedings; bringing investigation terms into line with the provisions of Article 61 of the CPC on a reasonable period of criminal proceedings; differentiating investigation forms, etc. All this is focused on improving effectiveness of the fight against crime and its most dangerous types.

scholarly journals Problems of Protecting the Rights of a Private Prosecutor in Defamation Cases

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-660
Author(s):  
Natalya Artebyakina ◽  
Tatyana Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
False Information ◽  
Justices Of The Peace ◽  
The Russian Federation

The growing complexity of public relations creates a need for the criminalization of some acts and de-criminalization of others. Defamation is one of the offenses affected by this trend. Some time after its de-criminalization, the crime of defamation was brought back to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. However, there is no actual legal mechanism in Russia that victims of defamation could use to fully protect their rights. The authors point out a trend for acquittals in criminal proceedings initiated after the complaints of private prosecutors when they concern deliberately false information that besmirches the honor and dignity of other people and harms their reputation, when these complaints are filed with the governmental, including the law enforcement, authorities. They present their research of court statistical data regarding cases heard by Justices of the Peace under Part 1, Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation between 2014 and the first half of 2018. The authors have analyzed the practices of Justices of the Peace in Ulyanovsk Region on criminal cases initiated under Part 1, Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. They use the examples of specific criminal cases to prove that judges use clauses of Art. 33 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Art. 6 of the Federal Law «On the Procedure of Handling Applications of Citizens of the Russian Federation» when deciding cases based on Part 1, Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and protect the right of citizens to appeal to the governmental (including law enforcement) authorities; they point out that an appeal to governmental or local governance cannot be viewed as spreading deliberately false information. In this case, private prosecutors have no opportunity to protect their rights even if it is proven that the information is deliberately false, and they also have to bear additional expenses connected with the recovery of procedural costs. Besides, the research includes a comparative legal analysis of legislation on defamation in a number of foreign countries (the USA, China, the UAE and others) as well as the historical-legal analysis of the development of Russian legislation on liability for defamation.

scholarly journals Digital Currency and Novelties in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: Topical Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-386
Author(s):  
IRINA S. MOCHALKINA
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Dialectical Logic ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Digital Currency ◽  
The Russian Federation

Introduction: the article analyzes the concept and legal nature of digital currency and certainnoveltiesrelated to digital currency, which were put forward in the last few years so as to be introduced in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Aims: to study and summarize legislative initiatives related to digital currency; to define the concept and essence of digital currency; to establish its place in the civil rights system; to analyze the possibility of recognizing digital currency as an object and (or) a means of committing crimes. Methods: historical, comparative-legal, empirical methods of description and interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; legal-dogmatic method, and interpretation of legal norms. Results: having analyzed the development of Russian legislation regulating the legal status of new digital objects of economic relations we see that the features that make up the general concept of digital currency do not allow us to determine the range of objects that fit this legislative definition; moreover, these features do not allow us to define digital currency as an object of civil rights and identify which operations and transactions with it are legal. Due to the above, it is impossible to establish criminal liability for committing acts involving digital currency. Conclusions: we have revealed certain tendencies toward legalization of digital currency on the one hand, and prevention of its use for payment for goods and services, including the imposition of criminal-legal prohibitions, on the other hand. The concept of digital currency needs to be revised: its definition should not contain a reference to the operator and the nodes of the information system. The most correct solution seems to be the introduction of the concept of cryptocurrency to denote a decentralized means of expressing value; as for digital currency, it should be understood as centralized funds, for example the digital ruble. Digital currency must be recognized as an object of civil rights, being classified as other property. This will help to minimize the difficulties in recognizing it as a subject or means of crime and introduce socially determined prohibitions into the criminal law. Keywords: digital currency; digital rights; cryptocurrency; amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; novelties in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; crimes against property; crimes in the field of economic activity; theft

scholarly journals INFORMATIZATION IN SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4-2) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Венера Сайфутдинова
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Dialectical Logic ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Complex Subject

The article is devoted to one of the most important problems - the digitalization of social security law. In theory of social security law, the issue of codification of this branch of law, the creation of the Social Code of the Russian Federation as a way of systematizing the norms of law is still being discussed. This codification is certainly a convenient and necessary way to combine legal norms in this area, including for the purpose of bringing information to citizens. Meanwhile, the law enforcement legislation is quite dynamic, has a diverse, complex subject composition, and is extensive in content, which makes it difficult to create a codified act in this area. Purpose: to analyze the problems of codification and development of digitalization of social security law. Methods: the author uses the methods of comparison, description, interpretation, formal and dialectical logic, interpretation of legal norms. Results: the XXI century dictates new requirements - the accessibility of information, which, in the author's opinion, is possible due to informatization processes that are rapidly entering the legislation of social security law.

scholarly journals FORENSIC THINKING OF AN INVESTIGATOR AS AN INTELLECTUAL FACTOR OF EFFICIENCY WHEN CARRYING OUT AN INSPECTION OF THE PLACE OF EVENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6(72) (3) ◽  
pp. 234-239
Author(s):  
D. A. Safonov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Subjective Approach ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Inspection Of The Scene

The fight against crime in modern conditions of technical progress, requires from law-enforcement bodies of the Russian Federation not only considerable financial cost, physical and moral strength of the officials, carrying out disclosure and investigation of crimes, but also the tremendous intellectual scope of work to ensure the planning and organization of investigation of criminal cases. As shows the analysis of the investigative practice, in most cases, non-obvious crimes are difficult to investigate, the investigator here is experiencing not only a lack of guidance and evidential information about facts and results of an event, but also prone to superficial conclusions and stereotyped (typical) thinking. All this affects the quality and efficiency of the solution of tasks of criminal proceedings. The article attempts to consider the theoretical and methodological foundations of the intellectual support of the investigation of crimes. The author, based on existing scientific works and research by scientists in this field, offers a subjective approach to the concept, meaning and system of forensic thinking in the investigation of criminal cases. Particular attention is paid to the complex of elements that make up the forensic thinking system. The values and functions of the elements of the forensic thinking system are revealed, the particular tasks of each element are considered based on the informational conditions of the investigation. The article also highlights, according to the author, the key elements of the application of forensic thinking during the production of the inspection of the scene.

scholarly journals Initiation of Criminal Proceedings against a Particular Person as the Ground for Recognizing him as a Suspect (para 1, part 1, art. 46 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation)

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
I. V. Smolkova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
The Status ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
The Russian Federation

The paper is devoted to the analysis of a new ground for recognition of a person as a suspect, introduced under the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, namely, the initiation of a criminal case against the person. The ground under consideration has caused controversial debates among criminal process scholars. The author has carried out a retrospective analysis of the legislative regulation of this ground for giving a person the status of the suspect. The paper evaluates various doctrinal approaches to its merits and disadvantages. The author also demonstartes the need for the new ground for recognition of a person as the suspect in law enforcement on the basis of statistical data, according to which more than half of criminal cases in Russia are initiated against a particular person. The study at question reveals an interconnection between initiation of proceedings upon commission of a crime and a particular person. The conclusion is substantiated that the recognition of a person as a suspect in case of initiation of criminal proceedings against him is aimed at ensuring his right to protection from criminal prosecution. However, the issuance of the order to initiate criminal proceedings against a particular person entails the possibility of implementation of coercive criminal procedural measures against him. It is shown that suspicion forms the substantive basis of recognition of a person as the suspect. The author criticises the approach according to which the issuance of the order to initiate criminal proceedings against a particular person forms an allegation that he has committed an act prohibited under the criminal law. Under this approach the assumption is made that can later be either proven or refuted in the course of further investigation. The author criticises the practice of dividing criminal cases into a judicial perspective and lacking such a perspective, which entails violations of the rights and legitimate interests of individuals suspected in committing crimes.

scholarly journals DAMAGES RECOVERY CAUSED BY A CRIME AGAINST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PROCEDURAL ASPECTS

Lex Russica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 80-86
Author(s):  
M. A. Soynikov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Civil Lawsuits ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Improvement ◽  
Procedural Rights

Doctrinal study of procedural aspects of recovery of damage caused by a crime against intellectual property is of great importance both for the resolution of specific criminal cases, and for generalization and uniformity of law enforcement practice, as well as for legislative improvement of existing criminal procedure rules governing the mechanism of compensation for damage caused by crimes. However, the effectiveness of the institution is reduced due to problems of law enforcement and shortcomings of legislation. Proposals to improve the mechanisms of recovery of damage caused by crimes against intellectual property need theoretical justification based on the study of modern law enforcement practice. Courts in civil lawsuits for crimes against intellectual property often allow violations of procedural rights that remain unresolved. the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation contains a number of gaps in this part: specific cases and limits of application of norms of the Civil Procedural Code of the Russian Federation to claims in criminal cases are not specified. They could be defined in the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation through references to specific articles (parts, items) of the Civil Procedural Code. The paper is aimed at conceptualization of procedural aspects of recovery of damage caused by a crime in relation to encroachments on intellectual property objects, which implies a doctrinal justification of the need to make additions to the criminal procedure legislation.

scholarly journals SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE IN CRIMINAL CASES: LEGISLATIVE, DOCTRINAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ASPECTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
O. S. Pashutina ◽  
I. N. Chebotareva
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Forensic Expertise ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
The Russian Federation

A counsel at law has broad advocacy authority to use specialized knowledge in criminal proceedings, which is one of the hallmarks of the adversarial process, in which the officials conducting criminal proceedings are confronted by a defense endowed with all legal arrangements to adjudicate the rights and legitimate interests of the suspected offenders and accused. The paper discusses procedural and non-procedural possibilities for a counsel at law to use the special knowledge in criminal proceedings through forensic expertise and the involvement of a specialist in that field. The author explains why activities of the counsel at law and of these two specialists in criminal cases are inextricably linked and mutually refer to each other. A counsel at law realizes his rights to participate in forensic expertise asking a specialist for help when appointing a forensic expertise, analyzing the expert's conclusion, applying for an additional or repeated expertise and summoning an expert to give evidence. Violation of the counsel at law rights in the process of the forensic expertise may be grounds for the recognition of the evidence inadmissible and cancel the procedural decision. The authors analyze a legal regulation of the counsel’s at law procedural possibilities on participating in a forensic expertise and on involving a specialist, taking into account changes in the Code of Criminal Procedure, introduced by Federal Law No. 73-FZ of April 17, 2017. The authors also summarize the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on problem issues arising in the process of implementation by the counsel’s at law rights granted by law. The article reveals ambiguity of the existing law enforcement practice and contradictory positions worked out by the highest judicial instances.

The Legal Status of Cryptocurrencies in the Russian Federation

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Sidorenko
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Virtual Currency ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Crypto Currency ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Definition Of

The paper focuses on the definition of the legal status of the cryptocurrency in the framework of the current Russian legislation. The subject of the research is the principal scientific and practical approaches to determining the object of civil rights and the object of acquisitive crimes in terms of their adaptability to cryptocurrencies. The purposes of the work were the search for a universal algorithm for resolving civil disputes related to the turnover of the crypto currency, and the qualification of the virtual currency theft (fraud). By using historical, comparative legal and dialectical methods as well as the content analysis method parallels between cryptocurrencies and individual objects of civil rights (a thing, property rights, other property) were drawn, and a number of options for qualifying the actions related to the non-repayable withdrawal of the cryptocurrency were proposed. Finally, the paper analyzes the draft laws prepared by the RF Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and presents the author’s vision of the prospects for legalizing the cryptocurrency as an object of civil rights.

Objectification of the Amount of Compensation for Non-Pecuniary Damage in Claims Against Medical Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
L. A. Shmarov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Enforcement Officer ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Law Enforcement Officer

Based on the analysis of citizens’ claims against medical organizations, as well as on the basis of the analysis of the courts’ consideration of such claims, significant differences were found in the amount of compensation for non-pecuniary damage under various conditions related to both the condition of the victim of medical assistance rendered with defects and on the number of patients. It was shown that it is necessary to further accumulate material in order to obtain a more objective picture of satisfied claims and unification in the Russian Federation. Similar calculations can be carried out for other situations related to the possibility of causing moral harm, for example, disseminating information defaming the honor and dignity of a citizen, or compensating moral harm caused by unlawful actions of a law enforcement officer during criminal proceedings. Using the established average values, the court can, on the basis of established factual circumstances, calculate the amount of compensation for non-pecuniary damage in a particular case.

scholarly journals TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE CONCEPT «PROCEDURAL COSTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS»

Issues of Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
S.M. Darovskikh ◽  
◽  
Z.V Makarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Procedural Costs ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Article 5

The article is devoted to the issues of formulating the definition of such a criminal procedural concept as «procedural costs». Emphasizing the importance both for science and for law enforcement of clarity and clarity when formulating the definition of criminal procedural concepts, the authors point out that the formulation of this concept present in the current Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation is far from being improved. Having studied the opinions on this issue of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, a number of procedural scholars, the authors propose their own version of the definition of the concept of «criminal procedural costs» with its allocation in a separate paragraph of Article 5 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.

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