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
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DECISION TO SENTENCE BESLAN TERRORIST TO DEATH SLAMMED
Russian human rights organizations slammed the decision to sentence Nurpashi Kulayev to death.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DUMA NOT TO RESUME DEATH PENALTY FOR BESLAN TERRORIST
the Russian State Duma will not lift the moratorium on the death penalty to punish Nurpasha Kulayev, the only surviving terrorist who participated in the Beslan school seizure in September 2004, vice speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament Vl
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. SENIOR MPS SPEAK UP ON DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORIST
Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the State Duma's committee on civil, criminal, arbitration and procedural law, said that prosecutors' request for the death penalty for the man being tried for involvement in the Beslan terrorist attack that killed 331 people
- FEBRUARY 7, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. STEPS MAY BE TAKEN TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, PUTIN
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested he might take steps towards abolishing the death penalty in Russia.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. "NO MAJORITY SUPPORT" FOR DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION, KOSACHEV
according to Konstantin Kosachev, head of the State Duma committee for international affairs, there was no majority support in Russia for the abolition of the death penalty.
- JANUARY 23, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. COE WANTS RUSSIA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis called on Russia to ratify a protocol banning the death penalty but admitted that Russia had never violated its death penalty moratorium introduced in 1996.
- JANUARY 20, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. COUNCIL OF EUROPE PRESIDENCY SHOULD PROMOTE DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM, FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Russia's presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe should help advocates of the death penalty moratorium to persuade the majority of State Duma MPs of the feasibility of the sixth protocol ratification which presupposes the cancell
- JANUARY 1, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia is committed to abolishing the death penalty as a member of the Council of Europe
Russia is committed to abolishing the death penalty as a member of the Council of Europe
- DECEMBER 27, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIA MAY ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY IN SPRING - MP
"I expect Protocol No. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which abolishes capital punishment, to be ratified during the spring session of the State Duma [parliament's lower house]," head of the State Duma international affairs committee Konstan
- OCTOBER 29, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 'RUSSIAN PLOTTER' PASSPORT PROBE
it was reported that Russia was seeking consular access to Akhlas Ahmed Akhlak, a Russian man who Pakistan had sentenced to death for allegedly plotting to kill President Pervez Musharraf.
- OCTOBER 25, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. LIFE IMPRISONMENT MAY BE WORSE THAN DEATH - CHURCH OFFICIAL
Father Mikhail Dudko, the public relations head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Foreign Church Relations Department, said that while discussing whether or not the moratorium on the death penalty should be lifted in Russia, one should be aware that life impri
- OCTOBER 18, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DUMA COMMITTEE CHIEF AGAINST DEATH PENALTY IN RUSSIA
State Duma security committee chairman Vladimir Vasiliyev said he supported the idea of abolishing the death penalty in Russia.