Correlation Between Constitutional Principles and International Standards in the Context of Russian Criminal Justice

The article comprises analysis of the impact the international criminal justice standards, in the context of their correlation with the constitutional basics of dispensation of justice, have on contemporary Russian criminal proceedings. Special attention is paid to the criteria of categorising judgments of the European Court of Human Rights which contain broad interpretations of provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, elaborated on the basis of consensual practice, essentially establishing additional international obligations of states inter alia in the sphere of criminal law as international legal standards. Based on the premise that the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the European Convention on Human Rights do not comprise any prerequisite for contradicting each other, the authors conclude that judicial interpretation of these acts generally cannot lead to the conflict between constitutional and international values; when such conflicts arise, they should be resolved in accordance with the supremacy of the Constitution within the framework of the legal system of the Russian Federation.

About the authors: Konstantin Aranovsky – Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor, Far Eastern Federal University; Sergey Knyazev – Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor, Far Eastern Federal University.

Citation: Aranovskiy K., Knyazev S. (2016). Sootnoshenie konstitutsionnykh printsipov i mezhdunarodnykh standartov v kontekste rossiyskogo ugolovnogo pravosudiya [Correlation Between Constitutional Principles and International Standards in the Context of Russian Criminal Justice]. Sravnitel'noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, no.4, pp.41–58. (In Russian).

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