Davydov Sergey Ivanovich ↑, Pinchuk Anton Pavlovich

The article discusses legal issues and the practice of obtaining explanations as the test action. The methodological base of the research consists of the dialectical method of scientific knowledge, historical, comparative legal, logical, statistical methods, as well as observation and other particular methods of legal phenomena researching. The research materials include norms of domestic criminal procedural legislation, scientific works, as well as the results of the survey, conducted by the authors among the employees of investigative bodies of the Siberian Federal District. The research allows revealing the disadvantages of the legal regulation of obtaining explanations. Based on the analysis of available data authors suggest the definition of obtaining explanations. The results of previous studies are presented. The problems that arise in practice are formulated and analyzed during the survey, and ways for solving them are proposed based on improving the legal regulation of obtaining explanations as the test action. Based on the available in science, as well as own research, conclusions about the expediency of spreading Articles 307, 308 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the Article 113 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation over the obtaining explanations at the stage of initiating the criminal case are justified in the article. The concept of “obtaining explanations” is advisable to consolidate in the Article 5 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. Also including in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation the rules about spreading the interrogation rules over this test action is necessary.

stage of criminal proceedings, test actions, obtaining the explanation, drive, survey

Davydov Sergey Ivanovich – Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Law Institute, Altai State University (61, Lenin av., Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation), e-mail: davidov_ord@mail.ru

Pinchuk Anton Pavlovich – Student, Law Institute, Altai State University (61, Lenin av., Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation), e-mail: gos.2207@mail.ru

Davydov S.I., Pinchuk A.P. Poluchenie ob"yasnenij kak proverochnoe dejstvie na stadii vozbuzhdeniya ugolovnogo dela: problemy pravovoj reglamentacii // [Obtaining the explanations as the test action at the stage of criminal proceedings: problems of legal regulation] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2020, no 3 (90), pp. 96–102.

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