Abstract: This article is dedicated to the questions of organization of prosecutorial supervision of legality and justification of the decisions issued by the preliminary investigation bodies on refusals to institute a criminal case. The author reveals the procedural aspects of organization of prosecutorial[WU1]  oversight is this section of pre-trial proceedings, as well as the forms of interaction between the prosecutor’s office and bodies of inquiry and preliminary investigation. The subject of this research is the norms of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, statistical data of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, court rulings, as well as scientific literature on this matter. The author notes a significant amount of cancelled by a prosecutor decrees on the refusal to initiate a criminal case alongside the common cases associated with the repeated cancellation by a prosecutor of the decrees on refusal to initiate a criminal case adopted based on the materials of inspecting the same claim, which testifies to the low quality of the investigative work. Due to this, for the purpose of remedying the situation, the author provides specific suggestions of procedural and organizational legal character.



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Abstract: This article is dedicated to the questions of organization of prosecutorial supervision of legality and justification of the decisions issued by the preliminary investigation bodies on refusals to institute a criminal case. The author reveals the procedural aspects of organization of prosecutorial[WU1]  oversight is this section of pre-trial proceedings, as well as the forms of interaction between the prosecutor’s office and bodies of inquiry and preliminary investigation. The subject of this research is the norms of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, statistical data of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, court rulings, as well as scientific literature on this matter. The author notes a significant amount of cancelled by a prosecutor decrees on the refusal to initiate a criminal case alongside the common cases associated with the repeated cancellation by a prosecutor of the decrees on refusal to initiate a criminal case adopted based on the materials of inspecting the same claim, which testifies to the low quality of the investigative work. Due to this, for the purpose of remedying the situation, the author provides specific suggestions of procedural and organizational legal character.



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Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues of the balance between functions and directions of prosecution service in the Russian Federation. The author systematizes positions on the matter presented in the theory of prosecution science. Bobrenev also describes reasons of its existence, shares his own point of view on the matter and offer a list of functions and directions of prosecution activity in the Russian Federation. The subject of the research is the provisions of the Federal Law 'On Office of Public Prosecution', legal acts of the General Prosecutor's office and academic literature on the matter. The methodology of the research involves general research methods such as analysis, synthesis, induction, and special research methods (formal logical and historical law methods). The author of the article concludes that we can actually talk about functions and directions of prosecution service as part of the applicable legislation system, provided that there are not identical terms. Prosecutor's functions are fiexed in federal laws that define the general mission, purposes and objectives of prosecutor's activity. Directions of prosecution activity is a component of a function that is characterised with a certain subject matter, tasks, powers and legal means as well as form of organisation.