All-Russian Legal (constitutional) dictation held at the Presidential Library

December 11, 2020, from 11:00, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation hosted one of the final events timed to coincide with the Constitution Day - Legal (constitutional) dictation. The central themes this year were the Constitution of the Russian Federation as amended in 2020 and the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.

Speakers at the Presidential Library were Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Alexander Konovalov and Rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropachev.

The dictation was launched online on December 3, and the results will be summed up on the Constitution Day. Joining the dictation was free on the website юрдиктант.рф.

The organizers note that the dictation consists of 40 questions, 60 minutes are allocated for answers. The main topics are the Constitution of the Russian Federation as amended in 2020, measures to support citizens and businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, labor, civil and family rights. In 2020, in honor of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, questions dedicated to the Nuremberg Trials, were included in the legal dictation.

The number of participants and the geography of the project are growing every year. Let us recall that the first dictation took place in 2017 and attracted more than 55 thousand participants, in 2018 the number of registered participants was already 165 thousand people. In 2019, 223 thousand people took part in the dictation, including 3,533 citizens from 24 foreign countries. Among the latter, the largest number of participants was from Abkhazia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Belarus.

The organizers of the All-Russian legal dictation are the Association of Russian Lawyers and the public organization Delovaya Rossiya.