Differences of a jury of professional judgment in Russia. Political aspects

• Shukyurov A.T.

  Komi Republic Academy of Public Service and Administration
  Russia. Pechora

Institute of jurors is called a tool of popular sovereignty, the source of democratic legitimacy. Independent and free from vested interests and political leanings court must act as a guarantor of law and justice. The administration of justice is always directly connected with the political system in the state. The main problem of the Russian judicial system remains its prosecutorial bias and lack of independence. The reform of the judiciary, which began in 1993 has not been completed, and were subsequently conducted counter-reforms aimed at achieving other goals, but not as scrapping negative events inherited from the Soviet ships.

Keywords: institution of the jury, the independence of the judiciary, adversarial parties, collegiality.