Courts
Russia has a five-tiered court hierarchy responsible for civil and criminal cases:
- the Constitutional Court of Russia,
- the Supreme Court of Russia,
- regional courts,
- district courts, and
- Justices of the Peace Courts.
In 1995, the courts sentenced about 1 million people for criminal offenses, and considered 3 million administrative offenses and 2.5 million civil cases. The Justices of the Peace Courts were expected to hear two-thirds of all civil cases and close to 100,000 criminal cases.
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Famous quotes containing the word courts:
“Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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“Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory:”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm LXXXIV (l. LXXXIV, 9–11)