Jeffrey Kahn

Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

Professor of Law

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Dallas, TX 75275

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1.

Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law in Russia

Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 36, No. 511, pp. 511-57, 2008, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 277
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, Vladimir Putin, legal reform, rule of law, Chechnya, Council of Europe, criminal procedure

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The Search for the Rule of Law in Russia

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2006, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 278
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, Rule of Law, Soviet Union, Reform

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Russia's Criminal Procedure Code Five Years Out

Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 33, pp. 1-93, 2008, Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 07-35, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 00-17
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 06 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2018
William Burnham and Jeffrey Kahn
Wayne State University Law School and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, Criminal Procedure, Adversarial Principles, Civil Law Tradition, Legal Reform

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Russian Compliance with Articles Five & Six of the European Convention of Human Rights as a Barometer of Legal Reform & Human Rights in Russia

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2002, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 285
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, European Convention, Human Rights, Legal Reform

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Hybrid Conflict and Prisoners of War: The Case of Ukraine

Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare Book Series - Complex Battlespaces: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare, ed. by Christopher M. Ford and Winston S. Williams, Oxford University Press, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190915360.003.0007, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 381
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2021
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, International Armed Conflict, Non-international Armed Conflict, Russia, Ukraine, Hybrid Warfare, Nadia Savchenko, Valeriy Garasimov, Nadia Savchenko, Yevgeny Yerofeyev, Aleksandr Aleksandrov

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'Protection and Empire': The Martens Clause, State Sovereignty, and Individual Rights

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2016, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 142
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Law of Armed Conflict, International Humanitarian Law, Martens Clause, Terrorism

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Russia's 'Dictatorship of Law' and the European Court of Human Rights

Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2004, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 284
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, European Court of Human Rights

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The Parade of Sovereignties: Establishing the Vocabulary of the New Russian Federalism

Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2000, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 286
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, Soviet Union, Federalism, Parade of Sovereignties

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Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia

Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia, Oxford University Press, 2002, https://doi.org/10.1093/0199246998.001.0001, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2021
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, Federalism, Democratization, Comparative Law, Comparative Politics

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Report Prepared for the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Regarding the Verdict of the Khamovnichesky District Court of the City of Moscow Against M.B. Khodorkovsky and P.L. Lebedev, Criminal Case N 1-23/10, 27 December 2010

SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 90
Number of pages: 116 Posted: 31 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2025
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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International Travel and the Constitution

SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 00-18, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 20 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Constitutional Law, International Travel, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Fourteenth Amendment, Citizenship

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The Nacirema Revisited

67 SMU Law Rev. 807 (2014), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 167
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Jan 2015
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Nacirema, Miner, Rule of Law

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The Extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: How the United States Controlled International Travel Before the Age of Terrorism

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2011, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 60
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 May 2010 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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National Security, Constitutional Law, Legal History

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Responses to the Ten Questions

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 5, 2010, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 63
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2022
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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National Security Law, Military Detention, Citizenship

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Zoya's Standing Problem, or, When Should the Constitution Follow the Flag?

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, pp. 673-725, March 2010, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 46
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2010
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Standing

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The Origins of Russian Membership in the Council of Europe and the Seeds of Russia's Expulsion

14 Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law 1 (2024) , SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 575
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Council of Europe, Russia, Legal history, Article 3, Human rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Eastern policy, 1950-1989, Mikhail Gorbachev

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The Case of Colonel Abel

Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 276
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Rudolf Abel, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, Counterterrorism

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What is the New Russian Federalism?

in CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLITICS: A READER, pp. 374-83, Archie Brown ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Dec 2017
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russian federalism, post-Soviet Russia – legal reforms, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Dictatorship of Law, bilateral treaties, presidential decrees

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The Law is a Causeway: Metaphor and the Rule of Law in Russia

This essay is a chapter in J.R. Silkenat et al. (eds.), The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat), Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 38 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05585-5_15 , SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2021
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Rule of Law, Russia, Khodorkovsky, Metaphor, Robert Bolt

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Terrorist Watchlists

in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF SURVEILLANCE LAW, pp. 71-100, Gray & Henderson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316481127.004, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 377
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2021
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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terrorist watchlists, civil litigation, September 11, Terrorist Screening Database, TSDB, TSA, No-Fly-List

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Freedom of Expression in Post-Soviet Russia (Contribution to the Symposium Building BRICS: Human Rights in Today's Emerging Economic Powers)

UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 18, 2013, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 149
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2014
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russia, freedom of expression, speech, association, separation of powers, European Convention on Human Rights

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Putin's Federal Reforms: A Legal-Institutional Perspective

in BEYOND THE GARDEN RING: DIMENSIONS OF RUSSIAN REGIONALISM, pp. 73-109, Kivinen & Pynnöniemi eds., Kikimora, 2002
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Dec 2017
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Vladimir Putin – federal reforms in Russia, Russian federalism, Putin’s legislative reforms

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The Unreasonable Rise of Reasonable Suspicion: Terrorist Watchlists and Terry v. Ohio

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 26, pp. 383-405, 2017, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 384
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2018
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Terry v. Ohio, reasonable suspicion test, terrorist watchlists, terrorist databases, Fourth Amendment, constitutional law, national security, Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)

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Brief of Amici Curiae Former Consular Officers in Support of Respondent, Kerry v. Din, No. 13-1402 United States Supreme Court

SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 380
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Feb 2018
Ira J. Kurzban, Edward F. Ramos, Jeffrey Kahn and Trina Realmuto
Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzeli & Pratt, PA, Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzeli & Pratt, PA, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and American Immigration Council
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U.S. consulates – visa screening process, visa denials – judicial review, watchlisting, visa-security system, immigration, visa applications, Doctrine of Consular Non-Reviewability, Database, Terrorist Watchlist, Terrorist Screening Center, TSC, Consular Lookout and Support System (CLASS), Kerry v.

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The ‘Anti-Deference’ Device: Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights

31 J. Transnat'l L. & Pol'y 117 (2021-2022), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 574
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Oct 2022
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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European Convention on Human Rights, Article 18, Good faith doctrine, Margin of Appreciation, Rule of law, Russia, Human rights violations, Khodorkovskiy & Lebedev v. Russia, Navalnyy v. Russia, Council of Europe, International courts

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Very Like a Whale: Analogy and the Law

This is a draft. The final version is published in Law, Culture and the Humanities, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.335-352, 2017, DOI: 10.1177/1743872115606009 , SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 383
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2018
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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analogy, metaphor, simile, rule of law, technology, social context, terrorist watchlists, Riley v. California, Terry v. Ohio, Latif v. Holder, U.S. v. Al-Nashiri, Guantánamo Bay

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No-Limit Texas Hold 'em, or, The Voir Dire in Dallas County

Green Bag 2d, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2010, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 279
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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voir dire, Texas, evidence, litigation

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The Unification of Law in the Russian Federation

Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 25, 2009, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 281
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Kahn, Alexei Trochev and Nikolay Balayan
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Nazarbayev University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Russian legal system, post-Soviet Russia, Russian federalism

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Russia, Ukraine, and the Challenge of Wartime Accountability

56 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1 (2023), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 643
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Apr 2024
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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International criminal law, war crimes, Vladimir Putin, Russian politics, Russian Constitution, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine war, International Criminal Court

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Brief of Jeffrey Kahn as Amicus Curiae In Relation to the Complaints of Aptysheva, Olga, [and 20 others], for Violation of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms by Parts 1 and 2 of Article 20.3.3 Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses

Amicus brief filed in Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia (2023), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 618
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Sep 2023
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression, Russia, United States, First Amendment, Legal History, Constitution, Human Rights, Rule of Law, War

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Conference Presentation of Jeffrey Kahn

in THE RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION AT FIFTEEN: ASSESSMENTS & CURRENT CHALLENGES TO RUSSIA’S LEGAL DEVELOPMENT, Dresen & Pomeranz eds.,Occasional Paper No. 304, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Dec 2017
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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1993 Constitution, Russia, Post-Soviet Russia, legal system

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The Ghost in the Machine: The Threat Screening Center and the Mootness Tool

SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 673
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 21 Jan 2025
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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FBI v. Fikre, Terrorists watchlists, Yonas Fikre, Supreme Court, Justice Gorsuch, Mootness doctrine, Voluntary cessation, National security

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‘Unlawful Influence’ and the Al-Nashiri Military Commission at Guantánamo Bay

20 Journal of International Peacekeeping 219-229, 2016, DOI: 10.1163/18754112-02003005, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 376
Posted: 11 Jan 2018
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

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Richard Kammen; Mark Martins; United States military commissions; Vance Spath; Al-Nashiri; unlawful command influence; Vaughn Ary; unlawful influence; Guantanamo Bay; Brian Mizer; USS Cole

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The Rule-of-Law Factor

in INSTITUTIONS, IDEAS AND LEADERSHIP IN RUSSIAN POLITICS, pp. 159-83, J. Newton & Wm. Tompson eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 373
Posted: 21 Dec 2017
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

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rule-of-law – Russia, Vladimir Putin - legal reform, metaphors, Council of Europe, criminal procedure, Robert Bolt

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Adversarial Principles and the Case File in Russian Criminal Procedure

in RUSSIA & THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE: TEN YEARS AFTER, pp. 107-33, Malfliet & Parmentier eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 372
Posted: 21 Dec 2017
Jeffrey Kahn
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

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Russian criminal procedure, adversarial legal system, European Convention on Human Rights, Council of Europe, Russian Criminal Procedure Code, criminal justice system – Russia