The accusation institution: do its procedures comply with modern criminal procedure policy

The article discusses the procedural order of bringing a person as an accused; arguments in favour of excluding this institution from the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation are presented; the Russian pre-revolutionary and foreign legislation is analysed, that considers the accused as a participant of criminal proceedings, in respect of whom there are reasonable suspicions of committing a crime, which today is implemented in article 223.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation.