Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 26 June 2014 № 19-П on the review of constitutionality of provisions of part 18 of Article 35 of the Federal law “On General Principles of Organisation of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation”, paragraph 4 of Article 10 and paragraph 2 of Article 77 of the Federal law “On Fundamental Guarantees of Electoral Rights and of the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation” and paragraph 3 of Article 7 of the Law of Ivanovsk Region “On Local Elections” upon the petitions of citizens Erin and Lebedev
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- 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
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Ruling of the Constitutional Court of 24 June 2014 № 1350-O on the refusal to admit for consideration the petition of the citizen V. Ginevskiy against the violation of his constitutional rights by Article 128 of the Civil Code
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- Legal issue: the constitutionality of the rule which permits considering the relics of saints as objects of civil rights and, accordingly, obtaining them on demand from another person
- Dissenting opinion:
- Gadzhiev Gadis
Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 17 June 2014 № 18-П on the review of constitutionality of part 4 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code and Arts 1,3,6,8,13 and 20 of the Federal law “On Arms” upon the petition of the citizen N.Uriupina
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- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of rules enabling to subject citizens to criminal liability for the sale of antique (vintage) cold arms
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Ruling of the Constitutional Court of 5 June 2014 № 1211-O on the refusal to admit to consideration the petition of A.V.Mizev against the violation of his constitutional rights by paragraph 3 of part 1 of Article 29 of the Federal law “On the Police” and paragraph 7 of part 3 of Article 82 of the Federal law “On the Service in the Bodies of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation and on Making Changes to Particular Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation”
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of the dismissal of a policeman in cases of termination of criminal prosecution against him on the grounds of the expiry of statute of limitations, reconciliation of the parties, amnesty or active repentance.
- Dissenting opinion:
- Kokotov Aleksandr
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 3 June 2014 № 17-П on the review of constitutionality of provisions of paragraphs 6 and 7 of Article 173 of the Tax Code upon the petition of limited liability company “Kamsnab”
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- Сonstitutionality of rules imposing upon a company the duty to pay VAT with regard to the goods sold, given that the company wrongly considered itself to be a payer of VAT, but was subsequently deemed to be the payer of the unified tax on imputed income
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 20 May 2014 № 16-П on the review of constitutionality of paragraph 1 of part 3 of Article 31 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation upon the petition of citizen Filimonov
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- 1) the constitutionality of exemption of certain categories of crimes committed by minors from the jurisdiction of court with participation of jurors; 2) the constitutionality of denying a minor of the right to the jury trial, given that his motion to that effect has been submitted prior than the law, which had exempted from juror’s jurisdiction the crimes he was indicted for, came into force.
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 19 May 2014 № 15-П on the review of constitutionality of part 15 of Article 3 Federal law “On the Monetary Provision of the Military Personnel and Making Certain Payments to Them” upon the petition of citizen Ledovskikh
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of the rule which deprives members of military personnel of monthly monetary compensation for the injury sustained as a result of military service, if they receive on the same ground other payments, such as an increased pension for long service.
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 13 May 2014 № 14-П on the review of constitutionality of Article 7 (part 1) of the Federal law “On Assemblies, Meetings, Demonstrations, Manifestations, and Picketing” upon the petition of the citizen Yakimov
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of the rule which precludes giving timely notification to authorities about an envisaged public gathering, because the period provided by this rule for such notification fully coincides with non-working days (holidays)
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 22 April 2014 № 12-П on the review of constitutionality of paragraphs 2–6 of Article 13 of the Federal law “On the Circulation of Lands of Agricultural Destination” upon the petition of citizens V.Gerasimenko and L.Gerasimenko
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of provisions which deprive the owner of a share in an agricultural land plot of the possibility to independently determine the location of the parcel of land which was apportioned to him in kind in exchange for his share
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 22 April 2014 № 13-П on the review of constitutionality of partss 5 and 7 of Article 12.16, part 1.2 of Article 12.17, parts 5 and 6 of Article 12.19 and part 2 of Article 12.28 of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation upon the request of a group of deputies of the State Duma
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- Whether increased fines for violations of traffic rules in Moscow and S.-Petersburg are constitutional
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 15 April 2014 № 11-П on the review of constitutionality of paragraph 1 of Article 65 of the Federal law “On the Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and of the Right to Participate in Referendum of the Citizens of the Russian Federation” upon the request of Legislative Assembly of Vladimir Region
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of rules which exclude the possibility of early voting in the federal, regional and local elections for citizens who on the day of voting are not able for a good reason to vote at their place of residence
- Dissenting opinion:
- Kazantsev Sergey , Danilov Yuri
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 8 April 2014 № 10-П on the review of constitutionality of the provisions of paragraph 6 of Article 2 and paragraph 7 of Article 32 of the Federal Law “On Non-Commercial Organisations”, part 6 of Article 29 of the Federal Law “On Public Associations” and part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation in connection with complaints of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, citizens Smirensky, Yukechev, Kuz’mina and the Foundation “Kostroma Centre for Public Initiatives”
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of the contested provisions, so long as they enable classifying a non-commercial organization (NGO) as a “foreign agent” in extra-judicial procedure and allow the imposition of unjust and disproportionate sanctions on NGO’s officials in case of their refusal to apply for being included into the special register of foreign agents
- Dissenting opinion:
- Yaroslavtsev Vladimir
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 1 April 2014 № 9-П on the review of constitutionality of a note to the List of works related to the liquidation of the consequences of the catastrophe on Chernobyl’ Atomic Power Plant and performed within the period from 26 April 1986 to 31 December 1990 in the exclusion area of the Russian Federation, upon the petitions of citizens Kuzichev and Plotnikov
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- Constitutionality of the rule which confers the status of a participant of the liquidation of Chernobyl catastrophe and the appropriate benefits only upon those citizens who were sent to perform such works upon decisions of executive bodies of State power, thus excluding those citizens who were sent to Chernobyl area by decisions of Komsomol committees and approval by the bodies of the Communist Party
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 25 March 2014 № 8-П on the review of constitutionality of a number of provisions of Articles 401.3, 401.5, 401.8 and 401.17 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation upon the petitions of citizens Agaev, Bakayan and others
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of rules which enable the judge of a regional court or a court of the same level to deny the transfer of cassational complaint for consideration in the court of cassational instance
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Judgment of the Constitutional Court of 21 March 2014 № 7-П on the review of constitutionality of the provision of paragraph 7 of part 3 of Article 82 of the Federal law “On Service in the Bodies of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and Amendments to Individual Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” upon the petitions of citizens Asel’derov, Rabadanov, Suleimanov and Taryshkin
- Court:
- Constitutional Court
- The constitutionality of the contested rule to the extent it serves as the ground for dismissal of a policeman in cases when private criminal prosecutions against him has been terminated due to the reconciliation of the parties before the entry of the contested provision into force, and also when the action of which the policeman was being accused had been decriminalized by the time of his dismissal
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