From Code of criminal procedure of Russian Federation:

Article 318. Institution of a Criminal Case of the Private Prosecution 1. Criminal cases on the crimes indicated in Item Two of Article 20 of this Code shall be instituted with respect to a specific person by way of submission by a victim or his legal representative of an application to a court, except for the cases stipulated by Item 2 of Part One and Part four of Article 147 of this Code. 2. If the victim has died, the criminal case shall be instituted by way of filing an application by a close relative of his, or in the procedure established by the third part of this Article. 3. A criminal case may be instituted by an investigator, as well as by an inquirer with the consent of the prosecutor in the cases provided for by Part Four of Article 20 of this Code. With this, the investigator shall start a preliminary investigation and the inquirer shall start an inquiry. 4. The entry of the public prosecutor into the criminal case shall not deprive the parties of the right to the reconciliation. 5. The application shall contain: 1) the name of the court, with which it is filed; 2) a description of the event of the crime, of the place and time, as well as of the circumstances of committing it; 3) the request, addressed to the court, for the criminal case to be accepted for the proceedings; 3.1) information about the victim and also about the documents identifying his identity; 4) the data on the person made criminally liable; 5) the list of the witnesses, who must be summoned to the court; 6) the signature of the person, who has filed it. 6. The application shall be filed to the court with an enclosure of its copies in accordance with the number of the persons, with respect to whom the criminal case of the private prosecution is being instituted. The applicant shall be warned about criminal responsibility for a deliberately false denunciation in accordance with Article 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, about which in the application there shall be made a note which shall be attested with a signature of the applicant. Simultaneously the justice of the peace shall explain to the applicant his right to reconciliation with the person in whose respect the application has been submitted. 7. As from the moment of the court's acceptance of the application for its proceedings, about which a ruling shall be rendered, the person who has filed it shall be seen as the private prosecutor. To him shall be explained the rights, stipulated by Articles 42 and 43 of the present Code, on which a protocol shall be compiled, which shall be signed by the judge and by the person who has filed the application. 8. If it is established after the acceptance of an application for proceedings that the victim, because of his dependent or helpless state or for other reasons, cannot defend his rights and legal interests, then the justice of the peace can deem it necessary that a legal representative of the victim and the procurator participate in the case.