Center for Security Studies

The Unexpected Demise of Russia’s High Arbitrazh Court and the Politicization of Judicial Reform

The Unexpected Demise of Russia’s High Arbitrazh Court and the Politicization of Judicial Reform

Author(s): Peter H. Solomon
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 147
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2014

The closing of Russia’s successful High Arbitrazh Court and its merger with the Supreme Court, an unpopular and disruptive move, struck informed observers in Russia as an arbitrary political decision. As such, it joined other recent initiatives vis-a-vis the courts that reflected political expediency rather than the needs of the courts or aspirations of their reformers.

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