The right to defense and its enforcement when considering a criminal report
The article discusses a complex of issues arising to enforce the right to defense at the stage of initiating a criminal case. The focus is on the circle of persons entitled to defense and regulation of their procedural status in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation (hereinafter - the RF CCP). Based on the study, practical and regulatory recommendations are offered. The purpose of the study is to study the legal and doctrinal state of the process of ensuring the right to defense at the stage of initiating a criminal case during verification procedural actions against persons formally not having the status of a suspect or accused. The applied research methods are formal-legal, comparative-legal, as well as systemic research and modeling, historical-legal and logical-legal methods.