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
- JULY 10, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
State Duma deputy speaker Vladimir Zhirinovskiy told...
State Duma deputy speaker Vladimir Zhirinovskiy told Interfax in an interview that Putin's statement about the unacceptability of executions in Russia was "an outright concession to the West"
- JULY 9, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin's...
Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin's administration, insisted that Russia has to uphold its moratorium on the death penalty
- JULY 9, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia is fully observing its moratorium on the death...
Russia is fully observing its moratorium on the death penalty, the head of the country's Constitutional Court said
- JULY 9, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
President Vladimir Putin, invoking the God-given right...
President Vladimir Putin, invoking the God-given right to life, said that Russia had to uphold its five-year-old moratorium on the death penalty despite widespread calls to reinstate executions to fight crime
- JULY 5, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Eighty percent of Russians think that the death penalty...
Eighty percent of Russians think that the death penalty is permissible, the Public Opinion Foundation said based on a June 30 poll of 1,500 village and town residents nationwide
- JULY 3, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Thirty-five percent of 1,600 respondents polled by...
Thirty-five percent of 1,600 respondents polled by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research centre said that if Chechen rebel leaders do not put down their arms and are caught by the federal forces, they should be killed without any trial and investigation
- JUNE 29, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The deputy chairwoman of the Constitutional Court of...
The deputy chairwoman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Tamara Morshchakova, said she opposes the possible introduction of the death penalty in Russia
- JUNE 28, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
A vast majority, 72%, of the 1,600 Russians polled...
A vast majority, 72%, of the 1,600 Russians polled by the All-Russian Public Opinion Centre on June 22-25 believe that capital punishment should exist for grave crimes
- JUNE 28, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia's lower house of parliament raised the problem...
Russia's lower house of parliament raised the problem of the presidential commission for pardons
- JUNE 27, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The work of the Russian presidential clemency commission...
The work of the Russian presidential clemency commission has been suspended, and its members have apprehensions that it might be completely dissolved, the commission's head, prominent Russian writer Anatoly Pristavkin, said
- JUNE 26, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
A Russian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of...
A Russian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe protested against PACE proposals to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 26, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian regional authorities called for the death penalty...
Russian regional authorities called for the death penalty for drug dealers