“I propose to merge the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Commercial Court, for which it will be necessary to make amendments to the Constitution of Russia”
"The legal positions formulated by the Presidium and Plenary Session of the Supreme Commercial Court, - they are not only a guidance how to act, but also drafts for future court decisions"
“Let us say that we have a super-precedential law. I mean certain “traditions” in judges’ behaviour, certain attitude towards the authority of the superior court”. (Full version)
“It is impossible not to touch upon recently observed attempts of a significant part of legal community to introduce into Russian law-creation practice the elements of the Anglo-Saxon law of precedent”
Dissenting opinions by judges of the Constitutional Court have been published since the earliest period of its history, that is, from January 1992. Some of them they were designated as merely “opinions”, particularly if an opinion was a concurrence, that is, its author was disagreeing only with the reasoning of the Court, but not with the conclusion it arrived to. In the first years of Court’s activity the publication of dissents was quite messy and poorly organized, and this is the reason why no legal database (even the one of the Court itself) currently offers a full collection of dissents. Therefore, the table below may claim to be the first complete list of dissents for twenty years of Court’s work (1992-2012, excluding the year 1994, in which the Court did not function).
Dissenting opinions shall follow immediately after the text of the decision itself and may be accessed through the respective hyperlink in the left column. The middle column contains the general subject addressed in the Court's decision and judges' dissents attached thereto. In the right column the dissenting judges are listed. Every annual table is complemented with the overall number of dissents for this particular year. See also Biographies of the Constitutional Court judges