Criminally-legal counteraction against the obstruction of establishment of truth by parties to a criminal proceeding

His article is considered with the background of the meaning of objective truth in a criminal case as a discretionary object of criminally-legal protection, to the identification of issues in its protection from criminal encroachments and to search for possible ways to overcome them through the example of criminally-legal support of an expert activities as a part to a criminal proceeding. In the light of the foregoing, to the further improvement of the criminally-legal mechanism to counteract the obstruction to establish the truth in a criminal case by individual unfair parts to a criminal proceeding, the following seems appropriate: 1) firstly, to supplement the disposition of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with another criminal act by way of giving a patently false conclusion in the case by an expert; 2) secondly, to develop the disposition of Article 308 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation by including in this one of such illegal act as unlawful refusal of an expert to give a conclusion or testimonies.