УДК 342.7 THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS NUMERICALLY-SMALL PEOPLES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN PRACTICE OF HIGH AND REGIONAL COURTS ПРАВА КОРЕННЫХ МАЛОЧИСЛЕННЫХ НАРОДОВ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ В ПРАКТИКЕ ВЫСШИХ СУДОВ И СУДОВ СУБЪЕКТОВ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ N. A. Chertova, M. Yu. <...> Zadorin Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov Поступила в редакцию 15 августи 2015 г. <...> Abstract: the protection of indigenous numerically-small peoples’ rights in the Russian Federation is inconceivable without scrutiny of the court practice and case law based on this issue. <...> Particular attention should be paid to the practice of high courts which de facto is obligatory for all subordinate levels of Russian unitary court system. <...> Russian legal system is related to the Roman-Germanic legal family where a normative act is a basic source of law. <...> The article 6 of the Federal Constitutional Law of 21.07.1994 No. 1–FKZ «About Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation»1 determines that «The decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation are compulsory on 1 Federalnyi konstitutcionnyi zakon ot 21.07.1994 No. 1–FKZ (redaktcia ot 12.03.2014 No. 5–FKZ) «O Konstitucionnom sude Rossiiskoi Federatcii» / The Federal Constitutional Law of 21.07.1994 No. 1–FKZ «About Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation» (in edition of 12.03.2014 No. 5-FKZ) / The document was originally published in «Rossiiskaya gazeta», 138–139, 23.07.1994. © Chertova N. A., Zadorin M. Yu., 2015 Вестник ВГУ. <...> Серия: Право all territory of the Russian Federation for all representatives, executive and court branches of authority, municipal bodies, enterprises, institutions, officials, citizens and their associations». <...> The articles 9 and 14 of the federal constitutional law of 07.02.2011 No. 1–FKZ «About courts of general jurisdiction in the Russian Federation»2 specifies that the Supreme Court «inspects and summarizes the court practice and for the purpose of unification explains all positions to courts of general jurisdiction on matters of application of the Russian legislation». <...> But it doesn’t mean that Russia has a case law system in the full sense. <...> The right for summarizing of the court practice belongs only to the high courts on the federal level. <...> In that way «case law» in Russia <...>