Published: 15 January 2015
The article is devoted to the analysis of the rules governing the production of pretrial investigation in the form of pretrial investigation in the criminal procedure code of Ukraine and the preliminary investigation under the criminal procedure law of Russia. The author identifies the grounds which is the study and comparison of these forms of the pre-trial investigation: categories investigated criminal cases; the entities carrying out the investigation; initiation of an investigation; the terms of the investigation of crimes; the application of measures of restraint in the course of the investigation; investigative (detective) actions during the investigation; termination of the investigation. During the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the pretrial investigation of the criminal procedure code of Ukraine and a preliminary investigation under the criminal procedure code of Russia have similarities and differences. The pretrial investigation of Ukraine starts from the moment of registration messages about crime in the Unified register of pretrial investigations. A preliminary investigation of Russia begins from the moment of making an official decision on a criminal case, and not from the date of registration messages about the crime.