Essence and Content of the Guiding Idea in the Eurasian Concept of Criminal Procedure

Purpose of study. The paper investigates the Eurasian ideology in the criminal procedure. The purpose is to formulate and substantiate the essence and content of the guiding idea which serves to be the ideology of criminal procedure, to reveal the key features of the guiding idea as energy, to compare the interpretation of energy in various religious doctrines, to reveal the essence of two components of the guiding idea’s energy – energy of life and celestial energy, to stress the influence of Orthodoxy on formation of the guiding idea’s energy. Conclusions. It is concluded that the essence and content of the guiding idea is manifested in the harmonic unity of the life’s energy and the celestial energy. The guiding idea governs the participants of the criminal procedure and contributes to the formation of the moral fibre, makes criminal procedure relations systemic as well as convenient and transparent to the criminal procedure participants. In general, the guiding idea’s energy, being the ideology of Eurasian criminal procedure. serves to be the engine of the entire criminal procedure, specifically, the moral basis, legal relations and specification of these relations in the new Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.