"PRIDE AND PREJUDIŒ": PROPORTIONALITY OF BLANKET CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR DETAINED PERSONS IN RUSSIA. JUDGMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF 4 JULY 2013
The present paper is concentrated on the issue of proportionality of blanket constitutional ban on the right to vote for detained persons in Russia. It was inspired by the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 4 July 2013 in the case of Anchugov and Gladkov v. Russia. This Judgment had arisen some fundamental legal issues before Russian domestic law. Among them are the role of international justice in creation of the uniform standards of human rights, limits to the state sovereignty, collision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation with international treaties, and, particularly, the problem of prisoners' disfranchisement. The main part of the paper is devoted to the assessment of the application of proportionality principle in this case. The paper argues on the possible settling of the conflicts between provisions ofinternational treaties and Russian basic law through "consistent constitutional interpretation'^ the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Due to the recent judgment of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the topic of prisoners' disfranchisement special attention will be paid to the constitutional case-law in the related legal issues.