Evaluation of the effectiveness of the investigation in Russia: reflections and conclusions

In the article, when analyzing the implementation of the preliminary investigation in contemporary Russian criminal justice, the authors note acute problems, which have their roots in the remote past, but today are of the utmost importance for the state legal and political life of the country. The authors pay special attention to the evaluation of the investigative power, which in its turn is the reflected light of the entire criminal justice process as a whole, it is the preliminary investigation that actually predetermines the ultimate fate of criminal cases, concentrated in the hands of one entity.