The Principles of Criminal Justice as the Embodiment of the Moral Guidelines of Russian Society

The article examines the implementation of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values in criminal procedural activities on the basis of doctrinal approaches to determining the purpose and principles of criminal proceedings. The purpose of the study is to develop theoretical provisions on the possibility of transformation based on a change in the understanding of the purpose of criminal proceedings and its principles embodying traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical method of cognition, general scientific methods of abstraction, analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, as well as special legal methods: logical-legal, etc. Conclusion. Many traditional Russian spiritual and moral values are reflected in the principles of criminal procedure and are implemented through them in criminal procedural activities; the system of principles of criminal procedure, as normative prescriptions, can be supplemented with provisions on high moral ideals, humanism, justice, which requires a change in approaches to determining the purpose of criminal proceedings, which currently the moment does not reflect the true purpose of this type of public activity and contradicts traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.