Urgent
You have been detained or investigative actions are already underway
When time is counted in hours, it is better to begin not with long articles but with a call to counsel and a review of the first documents.
Services
Criminal-defense assistance: choose your situation
If you or a relative need defense in a criminal case, this page lets you move quickly to the relevant section: detention, preparation for interrogation, search, defense during the investigation and trial, or challenging the judgment. Choose the situation and you will open a page with practical steps and contact options.
Core practice areas
Which tasks are solved within the defense work
Urgent help at detention
Immediate response, attendance at the first procedural actions, and protection of rights from the very first hour.
The first hours often define the future of the case: explanations, records and early admissions appear exactly at this stage, and later they are extremely difficult to challenge. The right to counsel arises from actual detention, not only from the moment someone formally offers a lawyer.
Review the first 48 hours after detention
What to do during a search and seizure of devices
First defense steps under Article 228
Understand the risks of custody and house arrest
Defense during investigation
Participation in investigative actions, preventive-measure challenges and evidence strategy.
Building the defense position, filing motions, recording violations, challenging restrictive measures and testing the admissibility of evidence are all core parts of work during the investigation stage.
Open the page on defense under Article 228
How to prepare for the preventive-measure hearing
Defense in court
Representation of the defendant at all stages of the criminal trial.
This includes examination of witnesses, analysis of evidence, motions, objections and oral argument. Prior judicial experience helps build the defense with an understanding of how a court actually evaluates the materials of the case.
Appeals against convictions
Appeal, cassation and further review: analysis of the judgment, procedural violations and complaint strategy.
This stage requires a fresh passage through the whole case file, the hearing record and the judgment to identify substantial errors and present them clearly before the higher court.
Open the dedicated page on appeal and cassation
Consultations and legal position
Assessment before a case is opened, during the pre-investigation stage, before questioning or other early procedural contact.
The practical task is to assess risk, define a safe plan of action and understand status before the first explanations or questioning create unnecessary exposure.
Open the page about being called for questioning
Review witness questioning separately
What matters for the family of a minor in a criminal case
Understand the difference between an explanation and questioning
What to do during the pre-investigation stage
When the right to remain silent helps
Expertise and the first step
This page is not only about services, but about a clear format of criminal defense
In criminal-defense scenarios, it is useful from the outset to see who handles the case, how the qualification is confirmed and which documents are worth preparing before the first conversation.
Status
Criminal Defense Lawyer
Bar register No.: 23/6126 · Practice: Krasnodar
Qualification
Investigation → federal judge → defense practice
Experience from different sides of criminal procedure helps assess not only the client's position, but also the logic of the investigation, the court, and the evidentiary record.
Legal framework
Legal guidance without unnecessary procedural clutter
For the working scenarios on this page, the key reference points are usually the constitutional right to counsel, the privilege against self-incrimination and the core criminal-procedure guarantees. In consultation, the important thing is to turn those rules into a clear action plan for your specific situation.
First step
What to prepare before reaching out
Summonses, records, rulings, the judgment, correspondence and a short chronology all help. If documents are not yet available, it is enough to describe what has already happened and what is expected next.
Quick contact
Need a quick conversation with counsel
If the matter is urgent or it is still unclear which route fits best, you can go directly to the inquiry form and leave your phone number, documents and a short description of the situation for direct contact with counsel.
