The Current State of Electronic Digital Enforcement in the Criminal Process in Russia and Some of the EAEU Member Countries

Abstract

Dealing with this problem the authors aimed at analyzing the current state of electronic digital enforcement in the criminal proceeding in some member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), in particular Russia, as well as the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main methodology of the work is the dialectical method of cognition, which allowed to reveal the goal of the study. To solve the tasks of this study, the authors used various private/particular methods of cognition. The results of the study indicate that most of the EAEU member countries are only beginning the transition from the written model of criminal proceedings to the digitalization of criminal procedure enforcement. The criminal proceeding in Russia continues to be kept in a written form, which is largely outdated and does not reflect the development of public relations in the age of the fourth technological revolution. Naturally, the paper analyzed the adoption of modern digital technologies in the Moscow City Court and 35 district courts of Moscow by implementing the project of the Integrated Information System of the General Jurisdiction Courts. The successful experience of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the member country of the EAEU along with Russia, sets a pattern of success in digitizing criminal process. The work resulted in concluding that a digital model of pre-trial proceeding could be used for building a type of electronic digital justice in Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member-countries.