President Dmitry Medvedev builds up the team to proceed with the legal reform.
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Medvedev’s Reforms Reached Courts
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev announced yesterday the beginning of a new stage of the court reform targeted at “attaining independence of a court in practice.” To win back the trust of the nation in courts, the president suggested extirpating “ineligible resolutions by call.”
Dmitry Medvedev convened in the Kremlin yesterday a meeting dedicated to the court system improvement. The court system has passed a long way since the start of reform in 1991 and generally corresponds to the world standards, the president said, specifying, however, that there are a few key issues that are to be sorted out to strengthen it. Those are basically “the issues of internal procedures and status of judges rather than the laws,” the president made clear.
When it comes to the court system, the signs of new ideas are evident already. For the first time, a top-ranked representative of Russia’s courts publicly acknowledged the pressure of president’s administration - Supreme Arbitration Court First Deputy Chairperson Elena Valyavina testified as witness in the Moscow Dorogomilovsky Court May 12. What’s more, it emerged yesterday that the Moscow District's Federal Arbitration Court Chairperson Lyudmila Maikova will be probably stripped of her office on charges of diminishing the court authority due to the flat provision.
Medvedev ordered yesterday to set up a taskforce on improving court laws. The team of experts will be chaired by his personal aid Larisa Brycheva. It will elaborate “very interesting bills” by the fall, Supreme Arbitration Court Chairman Anton Ivanov promised after the meeting.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 21, 2008
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