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| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from an article which appeared in rt.com. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. [ColonelCassad] In Geneva, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Justice reported on the impossibility of returning to the death penalty in Russia. The possibility of returning to the use of the death penalty in Russia is virtually excluded; such a legal regime is based on the position of the Constitutional Court , Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Justice Andrei Loginov said in Geneva. As the deputy minister explained, in Russia there is a “stricter than international” legal regime for the non-application of the death penalty. According to the position of the Constitutional Court, as a result of a long moratorium on the use of the death penalty in the country, stable guarantees of the human right not to be subjected to this type of punishment have been formed. Loginov made such a report during the periodic review of the country at the UN Human Rights Council, his words were quoted by RIA Novosti. In April, the Russian leader's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin was not discussing lifting the moratorium on the death penalty. 1. Based on the text of the news, a change in the composition of the Constitutional Court may open the way to the return of the death penalty in Russia.2. The long period of non-application of the death penalty essentially forms the main argument for refusing it precisely the fact that it has not been used for a long time and, in fact, the refusal is based on a certain tradition. 3. The political position of the Kremlin has long been clear and under Putin it is extremely unlikely that the death penalty will be resumed in Russia under Putin, regardless of the sociology showing the demand of society for the resumption of the practice of the death penalty. 4. Personally, my position is known and has not changed since the 2000s. The country needs the institution of the death penalty for especially serious crimes (the list is optional). In war conditions, this measure is all the more relevant. |
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