[
Babel] The Constitutional Court explained its decision by the fact that the previous powers of the NAAC allowed the department to influence all judges, including the judges of the Constitutional Court. And this means "control of the judiciary by the executive branch." The Constitutional Court does not completely deny the need to declare, but requires that the principle of the independence of the judiciary be observed.
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After the decision of the Constitutional Court, the head of the NAAC Alexander Novikov said that earlier the agency had found "signs of declaring false information" in two judges of the Constitutional Court - Irina Zavgorodnyaya and Sergei Golovaty, and judge Vladimir Moisik in the NAPK was suspected of using a forged document. When all these facts became known, Novikov did not elaborate. .... After the publication of the court's decision, the Scheme program
reported that the head of the Constitutional Court, Alexander Tupitsky, bought land in Koreiz in Crimea in 2018, formalized an agreement under Russian law, but did not enter the land into the declaration.