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The Judiciary of Russia interprets and applies the law of Russia.It is defined under the Constitution and law with a hierarchical structure with the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court at the apex.
Official Website (Russian) The state of the judiciary in Russia International Commission of Jurists, 2010; Judging Russia: The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990–2006; Authoritarian constitutionalism in Putin's Russia: A pragmatic constitutional court in a dual state. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 51(3), 201-214
There are 115 members of the Supreme Court. [2] [3] Supreme Court judges are nominated by the President of Russia and appointed by the Federation Council.In order to become a judge, a person must be a citizen of Russia, be at least 35 years old, have a legal education, and have at least 10 years of service.
Adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993 with 54.5% of the vote, the Constitution took effect on the day it was published – 25 December of the same year. It set out the fundamentals of government as well as proclaiming the rule of law, the ideological neutrality of the state, political pluralism, competitive elections and a separation of power, guaranteeing fundamental human rights ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States issued sanctions against a Russian judge on Tuesday for her role in the detention of human-rights activist Alexei Gorinov over his opposition to Russia's ...
Judicial Power and Procuracy (Russian: Судебная власть и прокуратура) Local Self-Government (Russian: Местное самоуправление) Constitutional Amendments and Review of the Constitution (Russian: Конституционные поправки и пересмотр Конституции)
Judicial review can be understood in the context of two distinct—but parallel—legal systems, civil law and common law, and also by two distinct theories of democracy regarding the manner in which government should be organized with respect to the principles and doctrines of legislative supremacy and the separation of powers.
U.S. leaders have known since the Soviet collapse that Russia’s loss of empire would be traumatic. They may not have foreseen that the trauma would persist for 30 years. “Empires die a slow ...