Challenging sides of Russian cooperation agreement (pretrial period)

Introduction: pre-trial agreement on cooperation in domestic criminal proceedings, as well as amendments to the legislation, indicate the need to continue the scientific discussion devoted to the analysis of the challenging aspects of Chap 40.1 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. The article investigates normative and practical issues arising in the initial period of criminal proceedings with a pretrial agreement on cooperation. Materials and Methods: the methodological basis of the study is general scientific (general logical) research methods (induction and deduction), as well as private (formal legal and specific sociological) research methods. The materials of the study are the norms of the domestic criminal procedure legislation, scientific works of scientists, materials of investigative and judicial practice, as well as the results of the author's survey of employees of investigative units. Results: the article analyzes some procedural aspects of the application of the Institute of pre-trial agreement on cooperation related to the normative architectonics of Chap 40...