Legal basis for the use of digital technologies in criminal proceedings in Russia

He present study considers certain issues of determining the legal basis for the use of digital technologies in criminal proceedings in the Russian Federation. The purpose of the research is to determine the place of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation among the legal acts regulating the specified use of digital technologies. The relevance of the study is determined by the expansion of digitalization in the criminal process in Russia. The novelty of the research is to identify the legal basis of the criminal process in Russia in the context of the use of digital technologies. In the course of the work, domestic criminal procedure norms regulating these issues, the results of sociological research on introduction of digital technologies in public life, the opinions and positions of leading Russian and foreign (Republic of Kazakhstan) scientists were examined. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the legal basis for the use of digital technologies in criminal proceedings should be the norms of the law contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation and based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation.