Modern Russian advocacy as a civil society structure

The modern Russian advocacy starts from the date of acceptance of the current Federal law of May 31st,2002, On Advocacy in the Russian Federation, which has already been amended considerably. The legal reform of 1990s in concernedthe institute of advocacy. The existing republican and regional Bars began to prove as separate independent associations of professionallawyers; fixed fees were cancelled; and, most importantly, there appeared new associations of lawyers engaged in rendering legal servicesto the population and legal bodies: legal cooperative societies, alternative, parallel Bars which were registered by judicial authoritiesas independent associations. If to speak directly about the process of working out of the law on advocacy, as a result of numerousdiscussions at different levels, including the State Duma of the Russian Federation, offered suggestions and publications in the presstwo basic bills appeared: the ministerial and the advocatory ones. Their main difference was, perhaps, that the ministerial projectprovided forms of control of the state over the advocacys activity, while the advocatory one aspired to release it from any control of thefederal power structures. The law that the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed is a synthesis of the two projects. In general, thequestion on realization of the constitutional guarantee of rendering qualified legal aid, including the required and free of charge cases, isserious in lawyer community. And the state searches for various ways of solving this problem, among them - creation in the country of anetwork of federal free (for citizens) legal consultations, so-called municipal advocacies.

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