Legislation in question: Parts 1 and 2 of Article 28.6 of the Code of Russian Federation on the Administrative Offences
Legal issue: Whether the contested regulation restricts citizens’ rights to obtain professional legal aid in case of their bringing to administrative responsibility?
Ratio decidendi: Administrative offences in the area of traffic rules are wide-spread ones and, by virtue of concrete circumstances of such cases, the failure to immediately provide an advocate at the stage of bringing to administrative responsibility (that is, when making protocol and rendering an act regarding administrative offence) does not violate the constitutional rights of citizens, because in such cases the citizens are not deprived of the possibility to seek assistance of an advocate for the purposes of protection of their rights in court.