Information and Analytical Activities of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office: Genesis and Evolution

Abstract

Generalizing the practice of the organization and implementation Russian Prosecutor’s activities since its inception to the present day, the author examines the information and analytical support as a factor in ensuring the unity of the prosecutorial system. It’s accentuated the role of information technology in this field.Proposed changes to the Federal Law «On Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation» which can oblige the prosecutor to carry out information and analytical activities.A study of the genesis of the information-analytical activity and its organization to certain extents possible to look at from a new angle on the problematic issues of data collection, processing, analysis and uses of information by prosecutors.It is stated that the development of the prosecution affects the evolution of information-analytical component of prosecutorial activity.