Proceedings of INTCESS 2020- 7th International Conference on Education and Social Sciences 20-22 January, 2020 - DUBAI (UAE) ISBN: 978-605-82433-8-5 485 THE CONCEPT OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS: THE ROLE OF THE INTERPRETER IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS Olga Gorbatenko PhD in pedagogical sciences, RUDN University, RUSSIA, vegera2009@yandex.ru Abstract The research is devoted to the language of criminal proceedings in terms of involving the interpreter in the process. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the concept of criminal proceedings and the role of the interpreter in criminal cases. The criminal procedure science in its terminological turnover is of current interest as it implies such a concept as the principle of legal language and it needs a clear and comprehensive interpretation. Criminal justice is quite a broad term that covers a wide range of different aspects such as the procedure to investigate criminal conduct, to gather evidence, to make arrests, to bring charges against offenders, to secure defence, to conduct trials, to render verdicts and to order punishment. The criminal process is part of the legal system of both National and International law. The European Council Committee pointed out that when one of the parties to the process does not have sufficient knowledge of the language in which proceedings are conducted attention should be drawn to the interpretation and translation problems (Recommendation No. R (81) 7 of May 14, 1981, “On measures facilitating access to justice”). The theoretical aspect of the article is that it focuses on a number of aspects of an interpreter’s involvement in criminal proceeding as well as in preliminary investigation of criminal cases. The article also lays particular emphasis on tactics and strategies to cope with translation and interpreting activities, to creatively develop and update interpreting techniques through comprehensive analysis of professional activities findings. Keywords: to investigate, criminal cases, term, translation, interpreting techniques, to secure, sufficient knowledge. 1 INTRODUCTION The concept of criminal proceedings and its characteristics, including the language of proceedings is described, as well as the professional competence of court interpreters, their role and functions. Criminal procedure is the process stipulated by criminal procedure rules pertaining to initiation, investigation, trial and adjudication of criminal cases, i.e. this is a system of relations envisioned by criminal procedure rules based on constitutional principles that exist among authorities, citizens and other entities being responsible for criminal case management. Criminal procedure is also known as criminal process. No corrective action can be applied automatically to perpetrators. They can be applied only in the course of action to make it possible to determine all circumstances of what happened to properly qualify and issue a well-founded and law enforcement action. This process can only be executed by national government and is known as criminal proceedings. The key tasks of court proceedings are as follows: protecting the rights and interests of persons involved in court proceedings. Criminal procedure is the activity of authorized persons stipulated by criminal procedure rules pertaining to solving, investigating of a crime and trying a case in court as well as a system of legal relations entered into by authorized entities and other entities involved in a criminal process. Thus, criminal process is a type of state activity based on the principles of criminal procedure and regulated by criminal