Until recently, the U.S. government and international institutions refused to acknowledge the failure of their programs to improve the Russian court system. This paper discusses the extent of corruption of the Russian court system in cases involving high financial stakes, particularly where a...

The Russian Constitutional Court (RCC) has over time developed a practice of adopting so-called “positive dismissals” (Pozitivnoe Opredelenie) which complements (but also undermines) the existent formal procedure of only delivering decisions on merits with Rulings (Postanovlenie). The paper...