Legal issue: the constitutionality of rules which permit the judicial review of legality of voluntary dissolution of local assemblies after the new elections, and thus effectively block the execution of the court decision.

Ratio decidendi: the  Court refused to deem the contested rules to be unconstitutional; but it pointed out that, in case of early termination of powers of local assembly through voluntary dissolution, the term envisaged by the federal legislation for holding subsequent early elections may not be used with the purpose to block the judicial review of decision to dissolve the assembly. The terms of such review which are specially provided by legislation should, in their turn,  be reduced as much as possible, in order to exclude an unjustified conservation of the state of uncertainty as regards the legal status of the local assembly which adopted the decision on voluntary dissolution, and of its deputies. In making these pronouncements, the Constitutional Court applied, mutatis mutandis, its holdings set out in the Judgment of 27 June 2013 № 15-П and in the Judgment of 27 December 2012 № 34-П.