Russia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- semi-presidential federation
- CONSTITUTION
- December 12, 1993
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral; Federation Council (Soviet Federatsii) and State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; the Federation Council appoints judges for life, on the recommendation of the Head of State
RELIGIONS
15-20% Russian Orthodox; 10-15% Muslims; 2% Christians
From the country
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Duma would not consider lifting the moratorium...
The Duma would not consider lifting the moratorium on the death penalty in Russia, first deputy head of its committee for criminal and civil law Valery Grebennikov (United Russia) said, adding that in 1996, Russia joined the Council of Europe convention w
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The parliament of the Russian internal republic of...
The parliament of the Russian internal republic of North Ossetia called for reinstatement of capital punishment in Russia
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma,...
The Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma, had not ruled out the possibility of lifting the 1996 moratorium on death penalty and discussed it among other proposals to strengthen security after the terrorist attack in Beslan
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Several members of the upper house of the Russian parliament,...
Several members of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, supported the idea to impose death penalty on terrorists
- JUNE 30, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Russian men were sentenced to life in prison on...
Two Russian men were sentenced to life in prison on charges of complicity in the assassination of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiev
- JUNE 10, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the...
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe for a two-day conference entitled "The Death Penalty and the Right to Live
- JUNE 8, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Qatari prosecutors demanded the death penalty for two...
Qatari prosecutors demanded the death penalty for two Russian spies accused of killing a Chechen rebel leader
- JUNE 7, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Alexander Yakovenko, an official representative of...
Alexander Yakovenko, an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that new reasons had arisen for Russia to ratify the protocol on abolishing the death penalty
- MAY 22, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgarian officials and politicians continued soliciting...
Bulgarian officials and politicians continued soliciting international support for five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death by a Libyan court on charges of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- MAY 5, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court in Yunnan province, Southwest China,...
A Chinese court in Yunnan province, Southwest China, pronounced null and void the death penalty handed down to Russian citizen Yelena Timchenko who was arrested at Kunming airport for carrying more than one kilogram of heroin in 2001
- APRIL 21, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia voted in favour of the resolution on the death...
Russia voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 16, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia's rights activists decried the failure of the...
Russia's rights activists decried the failure of the UN's top human rights body for the third year in a row to censure Russia over abuses in its war-torn republic of Chechnya