FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND MEETING IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION - MADE IN THE USSR?: 'WE CANNOT DO BETTER' OR 'WE DO NOT WANT ANOTHER WAY'
The article deals with freedom of assembly in the Russian Federation. The study is focused on constitutional propositions and normative regulations in the Federal Law 'On assemblies, meetings, demonstrations, processings and picketing', especially on its doubtful approach to freedom of assembly and on a number of violations of the Russian constitution. The article has a comparative dimension, with special attention for German constitutional doctrine and the judicial practice of the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.