A member of Open Russia in Bashkiria was stripped of his lawyer status due to criticism of the judicial system

The Council of the Bar Association of Bashkortostan has deprived Vitaly Burkin, a member of Open Russia, of his lawyer status. The reason was that Burkin criticized the Russian judicial system on social networks, writes . Mediazona

The Board considered that Burkin's posts critical of the judiciary on Facebook, VKontakte and LiveJournal were incorrect, offensive and out of the scope of professional ethics. The Chamber of Advocates decided that he had violated the law "On Advocacy and the Bar in the Russian Federation" and the Code of Professional Ethics of a lawyer.

Topics of corruption, bribery of judges, biased adjudication make up more than half of the number of publications. The titles of the articles are “Judicial scam”, “Judicial AWOL”, “Judges can do anything or how they cover judges in Bashkiria”, “How to become a federal judge?” contain formulaic and provocative language,

- noted in the order to initiate disciplinary proceedings.