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A draft law on renaming district courts in Chechnya has been submitted to the State Duma, a Rosbalt correspondent reports.

The bill proposes to rename four district courts in the city of Grozny – Leninsky to Akhmatovsky, Oktyabrsky to Baysangurovsky, Staropromyslovsky to Visaitovsky, Zavodskoy to Sheikh-Mansurovsky.

It is proposed to finance the expenditure obligations associated with the renaming at the expense of the federal budget within the budgetary allocations provided for the maintenance of courts of general jurisdiction.

The need to rename courts in Chechnya was explained by the fact that in 2020 the corresponding districts in Grozny were renamed. “Currently, these courts bear the old names of the districts, which creates inconvenience for citizens,” the explanatory note to the project says.

Currently, the legislation does not provide for a mechanism for renaming courts. However, in the practice of the current Russian legislation, there is an example of renaming courts in order to bring their names in line with the administrative division of the relevant territory. “So, federal law No. 403-FE of November 12, 2018 “On the creation, abolition of certain military courts and the formation of permanent judicial presences within certain military courts” renamed several district military courts,” the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation said.