ON THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INTERESTS IN THE RUSSIAN CRIMINAL PROCESS AND THE MEANING OF THE CATEGORY "CONSENT" FOR ITS HARMONIZATION
The article is devoted to the study of public interests. It analyzes such system-forming features of public interests in criminal proceedings as the ability to reflect the needs of society and the state in the criminal procedure sphere; the focus on meeting these needs; the ability to have public goods recognized by criminal procedure legislation as their object; normativity; the guarantee of their right; their realizability with the help of procedural actions of powerful participants in criminal proceedings who are representatives of public interests; human orientation; interconnectedness with private interests. The definition of "public interests" is proposed. Proposals are being made to correct Article 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation in order to optimally consolidate public interests within the framework of the appointment of criminal proceedings. The classification of public interests in criminal proceedings is possible on the following grounds: the types of goals (tasks) that reflect public interests; the scope of public interests; subjects implementing public interests; the object of public interests. The article substantiates that achieving a balance within the system of public interests, the representatives of which are the powerful participants in the criminal process, will be very problematic without procedural actions associated with the implementation of the category "consent". The coordination of the positions of public entities, as a kind of these actions, contributes to a clearer definition of the interests of the state to be protected in criminal proceedings, and, therefore, the elimination of possible dissonance in the system of public interests itself.