Boris Popov, Business Development Director at Vinteo, noted that since 2017
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:03 am
Videoconferencing has been used in Russian judicial practice since 1999. The first to use videoconferencing systems in Russia were courts of general jurisdiction, primarily due to the large distances between places of detention and courtrooms. Later, the use of videoconferencing reached the arbitration system - on November 1, 2010, new provisions of the arbitration procedural legislation on holding court hearings in videoconferencing mode were put into effect, he said. - Equipping all courts with videoconferencing systems is provided for by the federal target program "Development of the judicia germany cell phone number list l system of Russia for 2013-2024". In 2017, the corresponding systems were already installed in 95% of federal courts of general jurisdiction, and by 2022, videoconferencing appeared in almost all arbitration courtrooms. For example, by the end of 2021, courts held 290 thousand hearings via video link, and in January 2022 alone, more than 26 thousand trials were held using videoconferencing.
, the Vinteo videoconferencing system has been used for some of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation's internal events and trials - it was on this system that the country's first online meetings of the civil cases department were held in April 2020 during the lockdown. "The innovation and adoption of the document will contribute to the development of the market. However, it should be understood that in order to work in the judicial system, the videoconferencing solution must meet specific operating requirements - high quality video and sound, uninterrupted operation, strict adherence to security measures for meeting participants, including when connecting to videoconferencing sessions from personal gadgets, the ability to use the solution in closed networks, mandatory recording and protocoling of meetings. An important point is fast and seamless integration into the existing IT infrastructure of departments, often built on the basis of foreign equipment. Not all technological classes of videoconferencing solutions have the entire set of listed characteristics - it is most optimal to use professional telepresence class products," he commented.
Sergey Lyushnin, Director of the Unified Communications and Contact Centers Department at STEP LOGIC, believes that these changes to the Criminal Procedure Code will not lead to global changes in the domestic videoconferencing market. "The number of courts is not large enough to generate significant demand. In addition, in the current reality, solutions will most likely be selected centrally, so the impact on the entire videoconferencing and multimedia market will be small," he believes. "Currently, most courtrooms are being equipped with videoconferencing and multimedia during modernization or construction. The practice of remote participation in hearings was especially in demand during the pandemic. For example, witnesses who, for good reasons, cannot be present in court in person are connected via videoconferencing."
, the Vinteo videoconferencing system has been used for some of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation's internal events and trials - it was on this system that the country's first online meetings of the civil cases department were held in April 2020 during the lockdown. "The innovation and adoption of the document will contribute to the development of the market. However, it should be understood that in order to work in the judicial system, the videoconferencing solution must meet specific operating requirements - high quality video and sound, uninterrupted operation, strict adherence to security measures for meeting participants, including when connecting to videoconferencing sessions from personal gadgets, the ability to use the solution in closed networks, mandatory recording and protocoling of meetings. An important point is fast and seamless integration into the existing IT infrastructure of departments, often built on the basis of foreign equipment. Not all technological classes of videoconferencing solutions have the entire set of listed characteristics - it is most optimal to use professional telepresence class products," he commented.
Sergey Lyushnin, Director of the Unified Communications and Contact Centers Department at STEP LOGIC, believes that these changes to the Criminal Procedure Code will not lead to global changes in the domestic videoconferencing market. "The number of courts is not large enough to generate significant demand. In addition, in the current reality, solutions will most likely be selected centrally, so the impact on the entire videoconferencing and multimedia market will be small," he believes. "Currently, most courtrooms are being equipped with videoconferencing and multimedia during modernization or construction. The practice of remote participation in hearings was especially in demand during the pandemic. For example, witnesses who, for good reasons, cannot be present in court in person are connected via videoconferencing."