Publicity as a general condition of legal proceedings and as a constitutional principle in criminal proceedings

As you know, the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation distinguishes between the principles and general conditions of the judicial and pre-trial stages of the criminal proceedings. The article analyses publicity as a general condition of judicial proceedings and as a constitutional principle in criminal proceedings, thus revealing its content and features, problems of judicial law enforcement, as well as identifying ways of solving them. It is concluded that the constitutional principle of publicity as a directly applicable law applies in full to criminal proceedings. The transition to e-justice in a pandemic has not been noted to have substantially limited the publicity of criminal cases in the Russian courts: free access for citizens, including journalists, to hearings has been ensured.