Problems of implementing decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in criminal proceedings

Introduction: the article deals with some problems of implementing decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in the criminal procedure legislation, identifies the shortcomings of the norms enshrined in the Criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation on a new participant in criminal proceedings - a person in respect of whom a criminal case is severed in connection with making a pre-trial cooperation agreement. Materials and methods: the materials of the research are the norms of the current criminal procedure legislation, individual decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the works of procedural scientists relating to the order of involvement in the proceedings of persons in respect of whom a criminal case is severed in connection with making a pre-trial agreement on cooperation. The methodological basis of the research was the dialectical method of scientific cognition, general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, deduction), methods of scientific generalization, formal legal, comparative legal and other methods were also used...