Naumov, A.M. Development of adversary proceedings in the Criminal procedural code of the Russian Federation.

Abstract: Starting with the Ustav on criminal judicial proceedings of 1864 Russian criminal process did not provide for the adversary proceedings prior to the court hearing. The same principle was reflected in the Criminal Procedural Codes of 1922, 1923, 1960. Only within the period between the 1991 and 2001 the tradition of “hybrid” criminal proceedings was changed for the adversary proceedings, based upon the principles of the Anglo-Saxon legal system, and the change was expressed in the new Criminal Procedural Code of 2001, which came into force since July 1, 2002.