PECULIARITIES OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICES OF THE CIS MEMBER STATES (on the example of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus)

There is a comparative analysis of the prosecutor’s offices of three CIS member states – Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. The article studies the constitutional and legal status of the prosecutor’s offices, the peculiarities of the legislative regulation of the organisation and activities of the prosecutor’s office, the procedure for the appointment and dismissal of prosecutors of various levels, the powers of the prosecutor in criminal prosecution and the participation of the prosecutor’s office in law-making. The author concludes that it is necessary to implement the experience of the states that have similar socio-economic, legal, historical and other conditions in order to realize the full potential embedded by the Russian constitutional reform 2020 and to develop the organisational and functional characteristics of the prosecutor’s office.