7. Answer the questions on the text "The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

1. How would you define the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation head?

2. What does the Supreme Court head?

3. Does the Supreme Court act as a court of first instance?

4. What is it in relation to the federal courts?

5. What is the structure of the Supreme Court?

6. What is the sphere of activities of the plenum?

7. What is the role of the Presidium?

8. Choose the right equivalent

1. clarification	1. appeal to super court
2. tier	2. preliminary written version of a document
3. valid	3. person who gives advice
4. substantiality	4. the moral ideal of being right
5.supervision	5. science of collecting and analysing significant numeri­cal
6. statistics	6. watching or directing work
7. cassation	7. suitable, proper
8. draft	8. having real importance or value
9. appropriate	9. suitable, proper process of making transparent
10. evidence	10. available fact, circumstances, indicating whether or not a thing is true or valid
	11. not yet expired
	12. special structure

9. Match the given phrases

1. law-envisaged	1. законный
2. to provide clarification	2. бесспорный
3.in relation to	3. принимать на рассмотрение
4. to provide guidance	4. относительно
5 .chamber	5. руководить
6. in the legislative order	6. должное обращение
7. evidences	7. в законном порядке
8. proper application	8. факты
9. to exercise power	9. палата (суда)
10. to accept for consid­eration	10. осуществление власти
	11. прояснять
	12. анализировать юридическую статистику

10. Insert the right word

1. The Supreme Court carries out judicial over activities according to the

Federal law.

2. It provides on the issues of court proceedings.

3. The Supreme Court heads the judicial system of general jurisdiction, represent­ing a supreme of this system.

4. The Supreme Court is a instance in relation to the federal courts.

5. This judicial body legality, and of sentences and other decisions

of courts of lower level.

6. The plenum of the Supreme Court provides its guidance to courts on the basis of judicial .

7. The of a federal law has already been presented to the state Duma.

11. Federal Constitutional Law on Judicial System of the Russian Federation

Judicial power in the Russian Federation is performed only by courts in the persons of judges and jurors, people's and arbitration assessors drawn in the administration of justice in the order stated by Law. Judicial power is self-dependent and acts inde­pendently from legislative and executive powers. Judicial power is performed through constitutional, civil, administrative and criminal court procedure. Judicial system of the Russian Federation is established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and this Federal Constitutional Law. Unity of judicial system of

the Russian Federation is ensured by: establishment of judicial system of the Russian Federation by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and this Federal Constitu­tional Law; observance of the rules of court procedure established by federal laws by all federal courts and Justices of the Peace; application of the Constitution of the

Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, universally recognized

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principles and norms of the international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation, and also constitutions (by-laws) and other laws of the subjects of the Rus­sian Federation by all courts; acceptance of compulsory execution of judicial deci­sions, which came into legal force, on the whole territory of the Russian Federation; legislative securing of the unity of judicial status; financing of federal courts and Jus­tices of the Peace from federal budget.

Justice in the Russian Federation shall be administered only by courts established un­der the Constitution of the Russian Federation and this Federal Constitutional Law Establishment of extraordinary courts or the courts not mentioned in this Federal Constitutional Law is not allowed.

There are federal courts, constitutional (by-laws) courts and Justices of the Peace of the subjects of the Russian Federation functioning in the Russian Federation which compose judicial system of the Russian Federation.

Federal courts are: the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, supreme courts of the republics, regional (kraj oblast) courts, city courts of federal importance, autonomous region and autonomous circuits courts, district courts, military and specialized courts, which compose the system of federal courts of general jurisdiction of the Russian Federation; the Su­preme Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation, federal circuit courts of arbitra­tion, courts of arbitration of the subjects of the Russian Federation, which compose the system of federal courts of arbitration.

The courts of the subjects of the Russian Federation are: constitutional (by-laws) courts of the subjects of the Russian Federation and the Justices of the Peace, which are the judges of general jurisdiction of the subjects of the Russian Federation,

- self-dependent - независимый;

- court procedure - судопроизводство;

- legislative and execu­tive powers - исполнительные и законодательные власти;

- observance of the rules -соблюдение правил;

- compulsory execution - обязательное исполнение;

- extraordinary court -чрезвычайный суд;

- autonomous circuits courts - автономные окружные суды.