Vasilyeva, T.A. The judicial precedent in the activities of the supreme judicial bodies of the Russian Federation.

Abstract: In Russia the judicial precedent is not the source of law, however, as the author points out, the judicial practice can be regarded as a secondary, subsidiary source of law. The article includes the analysis of practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of Arbitration of the Russian federation within the framework of the above-mentioned issue.