THE RUSSIAN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: HAVE THE REFORMS FAILED?

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The paper seeks to consider the reform process of criminal procedural legislation in Russia during the 1990s – 2000s. In particular, the paper aims to analyze the main provisions of the Draft of the General part of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (CPC RF) initiated by President B. N. Yeltsin and developed in 1994, and the CPC RF adopted in 2001. Based on a comparative analysis of the Draft and the adopted CPC RF, the author highlights the advanced character of the proposed Draft, and concludes that the implementation of the Draft or, at least, the inclusion of its key provisions into the CPC RF could significantly contribute to the democratization of the Russian criminal procedure.

Keywords

• criminal procedural legislation
• criminal procedural code of the russian federation (cpc rf)
• draft of the general part of cpc rf
• progressive rules of law
• democratization of criminal procedure