http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210301-153949-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-year-of-zeros-legal-responses-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-russia/ A Year of Zeros? Legal Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia Koroteev, Kirill eng 2021-03-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 COVID 19 Russia Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 As the end of the year 2020 approached, the Vice-President of the French Conseil d’État Bruno Lasserre commented on one line of the case-law that appeared in the pandemic year: urgent application judges had to decide on the legality of rules found in press-releases and interviews by first deciphering legal rules and their hierarchy from those texts. This reflected exactly my experience as a practitioner in 2020 Russia: advising a client having weighed whether a blog of the Speaker of the Moscow City Duma carried more authority than a televised interview of the Moscow Mayor.