The Power of Prosecutors in the Field of Criminal Proceedings in Russia and Abroad

The paper analyzes the regulation of the prosecutor’s powers in the field of criminal proceedings in the legislation of a number of foreign countries. A comparison is made with the powers of the prosecutor in Russian criminal procedure legislation. It is noted that in the overwhelming majority of foreign countries the prosecutor is vested with a greater range of powers. According to Russian criminal procedure legislation, the prosecutor, having a large volume of powers in the conduct of a pre-trial investigation in the form of an inquiry, has a much smaller volume of powers in the conduct of a preliminary investigation, which, in the author’s opinion, is a shortcoming of the Russian criminal procedure law that requires elimination. The author concludes that in order to increase the efficiency of the prosecutor’s supervisory activities in the area of criminal proceedings, it seems quite reasonable to return to the prosecutor some of the powers lost after the 2007 reform, including those related to the initiation of criminal proceedings.

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