On the Issue of the Stage of Initiation of a Criminal Case: It’s Time for the Legislator to Dot the Dots
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The publication discusses issues related to the assessment of the genesis and current state of the rules for the adoption by an investigator, inquirer, body of inquiry of a procedural decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, the legality and validity of making such decisions based on the results of a procedural check of an application, a report on a crime and the negative impact of these decisions on the implementation of the right of citizens to access provided for in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation access to justice and compensation for the damage caused by them, and is also one of the reasons for the distortion of statistical data on the state of crime.

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