Word: polina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typical tribunal empowered to try practically all civil and criminal cases. It employs ten full-time judges (seven of them women) and 750 people's assessors; these lay jurists, elected by co-workers or neighbors, consider the job an honor. Judicial business is booming, explains the chief judge, Polina Gorelova, because "here any citizen can take his case to court...