The relevance of the research stems from the awareness of the need to improve the legal regulation of domestic legal proceedings not in isolation, but on the basis of established historical legal ideas about the fair resolution of criminal law conflicts, taking into account the national mentality of the Russian people. Such an approach to improving the legal regulation of legal proceedings is most effective if it is based on a comparison of the legal regulation of the criminal process, laid down by the Statute of the Criminal Court of 1864 with the modern edition. The article aims to evaluate one of the stages of the Russian criminal process - the stage of bringing the accused to trial (according to the Criminal Procedure Code) and its modern counterpart, the stage of preparation for the court session (according to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation). The research methodology includes a systematic approach using the axiological method (from the perspective of the value system of society); comparative legal, historical, legal, functional research methods. The results of the study allowed us to draw conclusions about the preservation and continuity of the traditional legal values of criminal proceedings of the 19th and 21st centuries at the stage of preparing the materials of the criminal case for the court session. Attention is drawn to the fact that the systemic unity and consistency of criminal procedural norms can be achieved with the mandatory identification and consideration of the features of the manifestation of the principle of competition at the stage under study.
B.S. VYSKREBTSEV (Wed,) studied this question.