The Article 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation as a means of ensuring the protection of legally protected secret information at the pre-trial stages of the criminal process

The article deals with problems of application of the Art. 161 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as a procedural remedy ensuring the protection of information in criminal proceedings. The author justifies the imperfection of provisions of the part 2, Article 161, regulating the notification given by an investigator or an interrogating officer to criminal proceedings’ participants regarding inadmissibility of disclosure of preliminary investigation data.