District courts of Russia

The district and town courts of Russia (Russian: районный суд or городской суд; also called rayon or raion courts) are primarily courts of first instance in the judiciary of Russia but sometimes hear appeals from magistrates. They are formed in raion or areas (районах), urban areas (районах в городах), and cities (городах). Decisions of the court are appealed to the regional court.

As courts of first instance, they handle criminal cases where imprisonment is for more than 3 years, and consist of 1 judge and a jury where required. As courts of appeal from decisions of the magistrates consisting of 1 justice of the peace, they consist of 1 judge and retry the case.

They were called People's Courts until 1996.

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  Babushkinsky District Court in Moscow
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  Frunzensky District Court in Vladimir
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  Gdovsky District Court in Pskov Oblast
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  Ivanteyevka Town Court in Moscow Oblast
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  Izberbash Town Court in Dagestan
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  Kanashsky District Court in Chuvashia
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  Kashira Town Court in Moscow Oblast
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  Kholmsk Town Court in Sakhalin Oblast
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  Moskovsky District Court in Kazan
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  Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow
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  Privolzhsky District Court in Kazan
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  Ufimsky District Court is one of lower courts which Supreme Court of Bashkortostan are doing supervises work
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  Verkh-Isetsky District Court in Yekaterinburg
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  Vakhitovsky District Court in Kazan
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  Zavolzhsky District Court in Tver

See also

• Raion
• Magistrate (Russia)

References

• Terrill, Richard J. (2009). World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey (7 ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 978-1-59345-612-2.