“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”

If in the modern Russia precedent will displace constitutional norm, there will be neither Constitution nor precedent. (Full version.)

Those decisions where a legal position on the constitutional meaning of a law is formulated, have precedential significance. This is why they speak more and more frequently of direct precedents of the Constitutional Court. Although not everyone agrees with this, and even among the representatives of the legal community there are those who deny it outright. They say: which precedential significance? The Constitutional Court does not have a right to do so! I believe, this are the worst vestiges of vulgar legal positivism. (Full version.)

The increasingly active introduction of the elements of the law of precedent testifies to the deepening of integration of judicial system of Russia into international judicial community. (Full version.)