Lawyer Stanislav MARKELOV

Was born on 20 May 1974in Moscow. In 1996 he graduated from Moscow State Academy of Law, full-time course.

The recent regular conference of the Rule of Law Institute has stated existence of developed network of independent lawyers and legal advisors working in various regions of Russia and the CIS countries, and has established principles of work of the Institute for the coming work year.

 

Laws have nothing to do with people, and real lawpractice has nothing to do with laws. This fact is known by each practicing lawyer and any person facing our legal system. All rule of law principles exist in textbooks, films and slogans. Deprived of an opportunity to influence in full the situation with respect of human rights and freedoms in our country, practicing lawyers offer the measures to resist the system of dominating corporate, absolutely corrupted law. We understand that working directly in courts, in process of investigation and other bodies and rendering assistance to our clients, we can improve the developed system, instead of becoming cogs in a penal machine, so called “runners”, whose role is simple transfer of bribes.