ABOUT THE WAYS OF REFORMING AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE INITIAL STAGE OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
The Russian criminal process is extremely conservative, outdated written proceedings are very resource-consuming and inefficient. The need to improve pre-trial criminal proceedings is being actively discussed by scientists and practitioners. Various ways of reforming pre-trial proceedings and its initial stage are proposed. The authors and supporters of the “Doctrinal Model of Criminal Procedure Evidence” offer to abandon the preliminary investigation, seeing it as a “relic of totalitarianism”. In a less radical form, the ideas of refusing to initiate a criminal case were implemented in the legislation of Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The author believes that the improvement of the initial stage of pre-trial proceedings should be carried out within the framework of existing procedural institutes and the established legal tradition by replacing outdated written office work with technical methods of recording evidence and the widespread use of modern information technologies.