Criteria of differentiation of basic criminal proceedings

The article specifies the material and procedural criteria which differentiate the forms of the basic criminal proceedings. The necessity to recognize exceptional proceedings for complicated (multi subject) criminal cases has been revealed and explained. The author offers to take a number of central issues to be addressed in every criminal case as a criterion for the separation of basic proceedings, and to divide the considered proceedings on proceedings on simple (simple form) and complicated criminal case (complicated form).