Vladimir Demidov. Обязательны ли для судей разъяснения постановлений Пленума Верховного Суда РФ? // vsrf.ru. January 2004

The explanations on the issues of application of legislation, contained in the decrees of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of Russia, based on the requirements of the law and generalized data of judicial practice on the national scale, represent a form of judicial precedent of some kind. They are a reference point, which is subject to an obligatory taking into account for the purposes of delivering lawful, well-grounded and justified sentences, decisions, rulings and judgments. (Full version.)