Does Russia use jury trials?
Limited use / mixed courts
Jury trials are limited to serious crimes in Russia, with only about 600 per year out of 1 million trials.
Russia is one of 16 countries classified “Limited use / mixed courts” for jury trials — 55% of the 29 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Jury trial
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Norway
- Limited use / mixed courts Norway uses lay judges in lower courts and a jury of 10 in higher courts for serious cases.
- Sweden
- Limited use / mixed courts Jury trials used only for offences against freedom of expression and press, with majority vote required.
- Ukraine
- Limited use / mixed courts Jury trials allowed for life imprisonment cases, but rarely used, with jury members pre-selected.
- South Korea
- Limited use / mixed courts Citizen participation trials use juries only when defendant requests it, with court discretion to exclude cases.
- Hungary
- Limited use / mixed courts Hungary uses a mixed court system with lay judges for specific cases rather than traditional jury trials.
- Germany
- Not used Jury trials were abolished in 1924; serious cases are heard by mixed panels of professional and lay judges.
Other laws in Russia
- Death Penalty
- Not used in practice
- School Corporal Punishment
- Banned
- Military Conscription
- Active conscription
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.