Prosecutor’s management of criminal prosecution in the form of investigation

This article explores the various views of Russian scientists on the problem of prosecutorial leadership of criminal prosecution in the form of an inquiry, which in the branch theory has received the name of prosecutorial inquiry. The author in detail, with reference to the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, proves that the concepts of “criminal prosecution” and “charge” are not synonymous. At the same time, he questions the possibility of legalizing in the domestic criminal process the experience of police inquiry accumulated in the countries of the Anglo-Saxon and continental legal systems (families), which, in his opinion, is impossible without fundamental changes in the system of law enforcement agencies.