FROM THE SEMI-ADVERSARIAL - TO INQUISITION: THE EVOLUTION OF POST-SOVIET CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW
In modern Russian criminal trial revived signs of inquisition. The article analyzes the manifestations of the Neoinquisition in modern Russian criminal trial. There are criticized the decisions of the Constitutional Court, which lead to the elimination of competition. The authors explain what is the danger of the concept of objective truth, and other vestiges of the Soviet theory of evidence. For institutional reform of the criminal process, but it is impossible without democratic reforms.