Problems and Ways of Development of Modern Russian Criminalistics

Abstract

This article deals with the main directions of development of Russia's forensics and theory of criminalistics from the beginning of the 21st century. A social revolution in Russia occurred in the early 1990's, and the new Constitution declared Russia to be a state of law and justice, and proclaimed the rule of law and the priority of human rights and freedom. According to these proclaimed priorities, massive judicial and legal reforms were instituted, and are still lasting. Russia began progressing from the investigating type of criminal procedure to a more controversial one. The changes that took place in the home and foreign policy have had a great influence upon the contemporary Russian criminalistics as well. The adaptation to new conditions of legal reality became a main task of Russian criminalistics in the last few years. The article discusses the modification of Russian criminalistics (both forensic and scientific researches).