Abstract

The article considers the issue of inter-parliamentary cooperation of the member states of theCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS), formed in 1991. The main form of inter-parliamentarycooperation of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States is model lawmaking. As aresult of a comparative legal study, it was concluded that the model legislation of the Commonwealth ofIndependent States and the national legislation of the CIS member states, in particular the legislation ontrial with the participation of jurors, are interrelated and mutually influenced. The subject of the study wasthe norms of the “Model Criminal Procedure Code for the CIS Member States” in 1996 and the norms ofthe “Model Code on the Judicial System and the Status of Judges for the CIS Member States” in 2011. Thegeneral tendency to improve the judicial systems of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, theKyrgyz Republic was revealed — the legislative consolidation of the possibility of considering criminal casesby a court with the participation of jurors. In the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, thecourt with the participation of jurors is successfully functioning, in the Kyrgyz Republic it will be introducedin January 2025.

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