Problems of legal regulation of the participation of translator in criminal proceedings

The article analyzes the norms of criminal procedure legislation providing for the implementation of the principle of the language of criminal proceedings, as well as the problems of the mechanism of attracting an interpreter at the pre-trial and judicial stages of criminal proceedings. The shortcomings of the legal regulation of the translator’s participation in the criminal case are revealed. The question of the language in which criminal proceedings should be conducted has always been of particular importance in Russia, where the destinies of different peoples and their languages have been intertwined as a result of centuries of living together as part of one state. The implementation of the fundamental provisions of the rules of international legal acts the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Federal laws of the Russian Federation in the field of protection of the rights of the persons not owning or insufficiently knowing language of legal proceedings, as the cornerstone raises the problem of a clear definition and appropriate legislative consolidation of the rights of the interpreter in the domestic criminal procedural law.