If there are any texts/actions/statements that everyone in the profession ought to be ashamed of, this is clearly one of them.
The “chairman” of the “Constitutional” “Court,” “Valery” “Zorkin,” has written an article that every Russian lawyer ought to be ashamed of. And the great jurists of Russia’s past must be spinning like tops in their graves.
The main idea is straight out of Dostoevsky: ~~if there is no God, everything is permitted~~ after ’93, anything goes, but even that is barely noticeable behind the overall hypocritical, two-faced, lying hell_._
Give it a read — your eyes will start burning from the very first paragraph.
I’ll give just one quote: For centuries, even millennia, Russia was held together by higher spiritual bonds, called different things at different times.
At the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs academy, where Zorkin spent many years lecturing on the leading role of Marxism-Leninism and scientific atheism in legal scholarship, this would have been appreciated.
And on top of that, he has the nerve to write about “legal double-dealers.”
People