The current state of the institute of bringing a charge in the Russian criminal procedure

The article is devoted to actual problems of the institute of bringing a criminal charge. The authors conclude that many issues related to procedural order of bringing a criminal charge are still unsolved in the legislation; they are debatable in literature and problematic in practice. The authors give ground to the opinion that procedural rules of bringing a charge against a person do not coincide with the system of pre-trial proceedings and they should be changed in accordance with up-to-date inquiry procedure.