There are judges in Russia who are so professional that in pursuit of efficiency…

There are judges in Russia who are so professional that in the pursuit of efficiency they are ready to forget about everything in the world. For example, another example of a very effective judge is Andrey Solovyov, Deputy Chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region. With his light hand, the court within 24 hours (a fact of unprecedented efficiency) accepted as many as two claims from the developer of the Samolet Group of Companies against its former partner Alexei Kozlov. About these matters writes Legal Report

The claims look, to put it mildly, flawed. Firstly, they directly contradict each other: in one, it is required to terminate the transaction for 307 million and declare it invalid – and in the other, the same transaction is recognized as legal, and according to it, the plaintiff requires the defendant to pay a fine of double size – 614 million. As a result, a situation arises that lawyers call “procedural estoppel” (and translated into layman’s language, it’s like the old joke: “You either take off your cross or put on your panties”).

Secondly, one of the two claims is clearly “delayed”: the statute of limitations for it, provided for by the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, has expired.

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At least one of Samolet’s claims should have been folded into an airplane and sent out the window (or even both) – but instead, things have moved forward. It is now curious how his subordinate, judge of the Court of Justice of the Moscow Region Roman Soldatov, who is to consider both of these cases, will get out of this delicate situation.