“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”
Dissents in the Russian Constitutional Court are prohibited from being published
Nov 9, 2020
President Vladidmir Putin signed into law a bill which prohibits Constitutional Court judges from publishing their dissents, even concurring opinions; it goes as far as making it illicit for judges to refer publicly to their disagreents expressed during deliberations in court room and mentioning the fact of split voting.
This bill suppressing judicial dissents gave rise to much criticism within judicial and academic circles. Here are the links to: