The system that was to fade away is now arbiter of everything
Noon in the Babushkinsky District People's Court in northern Moscow. The judge, a petite brunet in a striped blouse and skirt, enters the room. Two citizen-jurists called "people's assessors," an elderly man and a young woman, follow her to the high-backed chairs behind the bench. On the docket: Borisova vs. Borisov, a divorce case.
Boris Borisov, a researcher at a Moscow institute, and his wife Nadezhda, who have been married for 15 years, sit apart in the front row of seats...
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