Judiciary of Russia - Courts

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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