Russian Regions Back Death Penalty

Author(s): Igor Rabinovich
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 10
Pages: 7-8
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

Even though it has been more than ten years since President Boris Yeltsin imposed a ban on the death penalty and opened a window to the Council of Europe, Russia has yet to abolish capital punishment completely. The question is extremely controversial in Russian society and the moratorium does not have wide support. After the terrorist act in Beslan, 84 percent of Russians supported removing the ban, according to the Kremlin-friendly All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).

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