Olga Kudeshkina

Olga Borisovna Kudeshkina (Russian: Ольга Борисовна Кудешкина; born 1951) is a Russian former judge of the first qualification class of the Moscow City Court, Candidate of Legal Sciences.[1] She was deprived of the status of a judge after she made public allegations of political interference in the justice system of Russia.[2][3]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Borisovna and the family name is Kudeshkina.
Olga Kudeshkina
Ольга Кудешкина
Judge of the Moscow City Court
In office
6 November 2000 – May 2004
PresidentVladimir Putin
Personal details
Born1951 (age 71–72)
CitizenshipRussia
EducationKemerovo State University
Law Faculty
Candidate of Legal Sciences
Occupationjurist

Biography

Olga Kudeshkina was born in 1951. In 1976 she graduated from the Law Faculty of Kemerovo State University, Soviet Union (USSR).[4] The topic of her dissertation was "Systematization of domestic legislation" (Russian: Систематизация отечественного законодательства).[5] She worked as a people's judge of the city of Kemerovo, and then as a judge of the regional Kemerovo court.[4] From November 6, 2000 to May 2004, she worked as a judge of the Moscow City Court.[4]

Deprivation of the status of a judge

In May 2003, Kudeshkina began to re-examine the criminal case against the senior special investigator of the Investigative Committee of Russia Pavel Zaytsev,[lower-alpha 1] who was involved in the Three Whales Corruption Scandal. During the trial in the Zaytsev case, the chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Yegorova, summoned Kudeshkina several times to her office with the requirement to report on the details on the judicial proceedings.[4] Yegorova advised to Kudeshkina to "follow the desires of the prosecutor", but Kudeshkina refused.[3][6][7]

On July 23, 2003, Yegorova withdrew the case from Kudeshkina's proceedings.[4][8][9]

In October 2003, Kudeshkina put forward her candidacy in the elections to the State Duma of Russia. On December 1, she gave an interview to the Echo of Moscow radio station about the actions of Olga Yegorova and the pressure on the judge.[9][10] Kudeshkina also gave an interview to the newspapers Izvestia[11] and Novaya Gazeta.[12]

In May 2004, the qualification board of Moscow on the complaint of Yegorova made a decision to deprive Kudeshkina of the status of a judge.[13]

Kudeshkina v. Russia

Kudeshkina filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). On February 26, 2009, the ECHR recognized that the Russian Federation had violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, that provides the right to freedom of expression, and ruled that Kudeshkina demonstrated facts of influence on her by the Moscow City Court and by the prosecutors.[14][15] The ECHR also awarded her compensation in the amount of 10,000 euros.[1][14][16]

Despite the decision of the ECHR, the Moscow City Court on December 18, 2009 refused to review the decisions on Kudeshkina's complaint against the decision to deprive her of the status of a judge, and on March 10, 2010, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld this decision.[17]

Personal life

Kudeshkina is married to a former employee of the KGB of the USSR.[3][4]

Notes
  1. Alternatively: Zaitsev

References
  1. "Rights Court Condemns Russian Judge's Dismissal". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Moscow. 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  2. "Tackling Russia's legal nihilism". openDemocracy. 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  3. Chazan, Guy (2004-08-05). "In Russia's Courts, A Judge Speaks Up -- And Gets Fired". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  4. "Своими словами: судья Ольга Кудешкина" [In my own words: judge Olga Kudeshkina]. Zasudili.ru (in Russian). 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  5. Kudeshkina, Olga; Gorbachev, Ivan (2002). Систематизация отечественного законодательства [Systematization of domestic legislation] (in Russian). Kazan: Kazan Federal University. OCLC 1077211613.
  6. Hendley, Kathryn (2015). "Resisting Multiple Narratives of Law in Transition Countries: Russia and Beyond". Law & Social Inquiry. 40 (2): 531–552. doi:10.1111/lsi.12132. ISSN 0897-6546. S2CID 142726872.
  7. Bowring, Bill (2006). "Judicial Independence in Russia" (PDF). The EU-Russia Review. l: 33 – via Academia.edu.
  8. Churilov, Yuri (2011-03-22). "Всем сесть – суд идет!" [All sit down – the trial is coming!]. yur-gazeta.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  9. Khairullin, Denis (2018). "Особое Мнение Судьи А.и. Ковлера По Делу "Кудешкина (kudeshkina) Против Российской Федерации"" [Dissenting Opinion of Judge A.I. Kovler in the case "Kudeshkina (kudeshkina) against the Russian Federation"]. Collection of Works of Young Scientists (in Russian). Kazan: University of Management "TISBI": 239–246 – via ru:eLibrary.Ru.
  10. Varfolomeev, Vladimir [in Russian] (2003-12-01). "Тема: "Давление, которое оказывает Генпрокуратура РФ на расследование судебных дел в Москве"" [Topic: "The pressure exerted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on the investigation of court cases in Moscow"]. Echo of Moscow (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  11. Perekrest, Vladimir (2003-12-04). ""Угрожали мне и моей дочери"" [Threatened me and my daughter]. Izvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  12. "Бунт Судьи Кудешкиной" [Riot of Judge Kudeshkina]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). 2003-12-08. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  13. "Судья Ольга Кудешкина: Девяносто процентов наших судей продажны или управляемы" [Judge Olga Kudeshkina: Ninety percent of our judges are corrupt or manipulated]. Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 2005-02-06. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  14. "CASE OF KUDESHKINA v. RUSSIA". European Court of Human Rights. 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
  15. Konov, Yegor (2017). Shutova, Valentina (ed.). "К Вопросу О Реализации Решений Европейского Суда По Правам Человека На Территории РФ" [On the question of the implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on the territory of the Russian Federation]. Конференция Конституционные Права и Свободы Человека и Гражданина в Российской Федерации: Проблемы Реализации и Защиты (in Russian). Иркутский институт (филиал) ВГУЮ (РПА Минюста России): 44–48 – via ru:eLibrary.Ru.
  16. Shary, Andrey; Shakirov, Mumin (2009-02-26). "Судья Ольга Кудешкина выиграла дело в Европейском суде" [Judge Olga Kudeshkina won the case in the European Court]. Radio Liberty (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2010-08-16. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
  17. "Верховный Суд не пожалел бывшую судью Ольгу Кудешкину" [The Supreme Court did not regret the former judge Olga Kudeshkina]. Pravo.ru (in Russian). 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
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