The forms of judge-made law in Russia: Sources of law

It was recently suggested that the debate as to whether judicial decisions constitute a source of law in Russia is methodologically futile because one side of the debate proceeds from the premises of juridical dogmatism, whereas the opposite relies on facts of legal practice.1 Consequently, these two lines of arguments cannot meet and give rise to a meaningful discussion, having produced an excellent example of what Brian Bix defines as ‘talking past one another’.2