Justice shouldn’t wear a military uniform By Grigory Pasko, journalist Recently the government of Russia introduced to the State Duma a new draft law which proposes to fundamentally change the Law “On the military courts of the RF”. Judges of military courts and of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court will no longer be members of the military service. And civilians will also start working in the back-office apparats of the military courts. It is assumed that henceforth, after the adoption of the new law, military judges and employees of the court apparats will be offered a choice: either to leave military service, or to suspend it for the duration of their term of appointment as a judge. The military judges who judged the author of these lines in 1998-1999 (photo from the author’s archive)