The initial stages of criminal court proceeding abroad and Russia's criminal procedure
Analyzing the existing different scientists' works on the issues of criminal prosecution and criminal responsibility the author comes to the conclusion of ambiguous understanding of upper mentioned issues functioning in Russia's criminal procedure. As applied to this theme the analysis of legislation in some foreign countries showed that: firstly, on the one hand, there is some unanimity of the complex of key institutions regulating criminal prosecution at the pretrial stages and on the other hand, there are essential differences between them; secondly, the principle of expediency in modern foreign criminal procedure is much more widespread in comparison with the principle of legality. In conclusion, the author draws the analogy between foreign and Russia's pretrial proceedings and suggest alternative solutions of problems which nowadays exist in the Criminal Procedure Code of Russian federation.