Is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the criminal procedural features of the participation of foreign citizens in criminal proceedings at the stage of initiating a criminal case. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to increase the effectiveness of compliance with the rights and legitimate interests of participants in the criminal process in the conditions of modern geopolitical realities. The involvement of foreign citizens in the orbit of criminal proceedings in the Russian Federation requires the legislator and law enforcement agencies to have a well-established mechanism for the implementation of criminal procedural rights and obligations of participants in the criminal process. The author conducted a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation regulating the process of submitting, registering, and resolving reports of crimes, taking into account the existing features of the participation of a foreign citizen as a crime complainant. The results of this analysis revealed problems in ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of the latter, as well as problems in ensuring proper access to justice for a foreign citizen acting as a crime complainant. Based on the identified problems, it is proposed to consider the possibility of involving a representative of a foreign citizen at the stage of initiating a criminal case, in particular at the stage of reporting a crime.
representation, representative, foreign citizen, representative of a foreign citizen, access to justice, crime complainant, representative of the complainant, initiation of a criminal case, criminal procedural representation
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