This report summarizes the annual federal agencies’ regulatory activity. We analyzed 550k inspections to highlight trends in Russian regulation in 2021. Full text (in Russia)
In 2019 Russia started a new phase of regulatory reform – „regulation guillotine.“ Our report, „The intermediate results of regulatory reform in Russia during 2016-2019“ summarizes the intermediate results of reform based on data from 11 major federal agencies. Full text (in Russian)
The text is available by the link (in Russian).
Center for Strategic Research has published its report "Proposals for Improving the Judicial System" co-authored by Vadim Volkov, Kirill Titaev, Aryna Dzmitryieva, and Timur Bocharov. The report provides a diagnostic assessment of the work of the Russian judicial system based on a series of empirical studies. These studies have revealed a number of issues that need to be addressed. The report suggests such policy measures as improving the quality of personnel; removing organizational restrictions and giving judges greater independence and the judicial system greater autonomy; and reducing the workload and simplifying the judicial process.
Specialized schools of judges are becoming increasingly popular through Europe. The report preparred by Timur Bocharov, Aryna Dzmitryieva and Dmitriy Skugarevskiy provides a comparative overview of three judicial schools in France, Portugal and Poland.
The training model of these schools involves preparing candidates who already have a basic legal education for judicial positions. The training is therefore based not on the acquisition of new knowledge of the law, but on the acquisition of the practical skills, ethics and specific thinking necessary in the judicial work. The experience of other countries in organizing national schools of judges seems particularly relevant and useful in the Russian context, where the low quality of judges and the lack of independence of judges remain important - if not decisive - problems of the judicial system. Full text (in Russian).
The group of IRL researchers has published the analytical report ‘Acquittal and Rehabilitation in the Republic of Kazakhstan’. This report has been prepared as a part of the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme ‘Support to the Kazakh Authorities in Improving the Quality and Efficiency of the Kazakh Justice System’. The report explores the functioning of the criminal justice system in Kazakhstan and discusses the role of the acquittal and rehabilitation in its improvement. The full text in Russian is available on our website.
The report is devoted to the issues of social adaptation of convicts during and after serving prison sentences. The relevance of the topic is associated with a high level of post-release recidivism in Russia. The author analyzes of statistics, Russian legislation, semi-structured interviews with prison officers, human rights activists. As a result, authors have found that in penal institutions, there are several areas of rehabilitation of convicts, in particular, labor, education, psychological support, medical assistance, and some other. Besides, inmates receive assistance from their families and non-profit organizations. After analyzing the collected data, it was possible to identify the chief characteristics of these areas.
The text is available by the link (in Russian).
The Centre of Strategic Research (Moscow) has published the analytical report ‘Enforcement of Court Decisions and Organisation of Bailiff’s Work’ prepared by Timur Bocharov, Katerina Guba and Alexey Knorre.
The report discusses the problems with the enforcement of court judgments in civil cases in Russia. It identifies drawing on statistics and expert interviews key factors contributing to these problems. The report also provides policy recommendations on how to improve the work of the Federal Bailiff Service. The full text in Russian is available on the CSR website.
