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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—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 84:10.
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