Rajevsky points out how to deal with the problem with judges in Russian espionage cases

“The first thing I want to say is that people are not responsible for their parents, because then we won’t get anything here if we start looking three generations back, who did what. It will be very sad for us, taking into account our checkered history”, answers the political scientist Filips Rajevskis, in response to the question of the journalist of the TV24 program “Dienas personība ar Velta Puriņa”, how to evaluate the impartiality of the judge in the trial of Russian spies.

Rajevsky points out that the discussion raised the question of whether naturalized citizens can be judges. This aspect, in the opinion of a political scientist, is debatable, assuming that only people who acquired citizenship at birth can become judges. The issue of how judges’ candidacies are evaluated by the Saeima, which appoints judges to positions, is also important. It would be important for the candidate’s previous activities, biography, all available information about him to be thoroughly examined in the Saeima, because the judge is entrusted with a lot of power. Because if such problems appear, then it is reasonable to direct complaints towards the parliament, asking to explain how seriously the candidates have been evaluated.

“Perhaps there needs to be a more serious security check for candidate judges. But I do not think that it is necessary to start dividing the family of judges, that these judges may, but these may not be allowed to hear such cases, because he was not born in such a family,” sums up political scientist Rajevskis.