Round table "Pre-trial cooperation agreement: law enforcement issues and defense tactics"

On March 20, 2026, the Department of Criminal Law, Process and Criminalistics of the HSE Faculty of Law hosted the All-Russian Round Table "Pre-Trial Cooperation Agreement: Law Enforcement Issues and Defense Tactics." The event brought together leading Russian procedural scientists, practitioners and novice researchers for a comprehensive discussion of one of the most complex and controversial institutions of modern criminal procedure law.

On March 20, 2026, the All-Russian Round Table "Pre-Trial Cooperation Agreement: Law Enforcement Issues and Defense Tactics" was held at the Department of Criminal Law, Process and Criminalistics of the HSE Faculty of Law.Leading Russian procedural scientists and practitioners discussed the substantive and criminal procedural grounds for concluding a pre-trial cooperation agreement; the specifics of proving such criminal cases; the role and powers of the prosecutor in concluding and implementing a pre-trial cooperation agreement; the tactics of protecting a person who has entered into a cooperation agreement; the specifics of judicial proceedings against a person who has entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement; the problems of sentencing a person who has entered into such an agreement; the specifics of reviewing a sentence against a person who has entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement.The round table was attended by invited scientists and practitioners: MGIMO Professor A.V. Grinenko, Professor of the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia B.Ya. Gavrilov, Professor of the Russian State Unitary Enterprise E.V. Markovicheva, Professor of the Russian State State University A.V. Agutin, Professor at V.Ya. Kikot University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia P.V. Fadeev, researcher at the National Research University S.A. Solovyov, Leading researcher at the ISPI under the Government of the Russian Federation O.I. Semykina, Associate Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University D.P. Chekulaev; teachers of the Department of Criminal Law, Process and Criminalistics: A.G. Khaliulin, D.A. Ivanov, E.A. Artamonova, K.K. Klevtsov, A.A. Trefilov, V.M. Yakovleva, V.O. Lapin, and others. There was also a youth section, in which students, undergraduates and postgraduates discussed the current problems of applying the pre-trial cooperation agreement in criminal proceedings.