Courts

Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Citation Formats

General Reference

Law Atlas. "Supreme Court of the Russian Federation." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-law.interactiveatlas.org/courts/supreme-court-of-russia.

APA Style

Law Atlas. (n.d.). Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-law.interactiveatlas.org/courts/supreme-court-of-russia

BibTeX

@misc{lawatlas-supreme-court-of-the-russian-federation,
  author = {Law Atlas},
  title = {Supreme Court of the Russian Federation},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-law.interactiveatlas.org/courts/supreme-court-of-russia},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is Russia's highest court of general jurisdiction, reorganized into its current configuration in 2014. It has original jurisdiction to rule on Justice Ministry petitions to designate an organization extremist and order its liquidation. On April 20, 2017, ruling on such a petition, the court declared the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia an extremist organization and ordered the liquidation of the Centre and all 395 local religious organizations affiliated with it nationwide.

Facts

Seat

Moscow 1

Jurisdiction Scope

Russia's court of last resort in civil, criminal and administrative matters, with original jurisdiction over Justice Ministry petitions to liquidate organizations designated extremist. 1

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