Legal Standards — principles of law in the pilot judgment of the European Court concerning penitentiary security

In article questions on ensuring physical wellbeing of persons in custody in the Russian penal system are taken up. Resolutions of the European Court on affairs «Ananyev and others against Russia», «Arutyunyan against Russia», «Sakhvadze against Russia» and «Vladimir Vasilyev against Russia», concerning conditions of the maintenance of prisoners are considered. The article contains the analysis of practice of the European Court concerning Russia, reveals a system problem in a law and order of the concrete country, at the bottom of mass human rights violations, lists actions of the Russian authorities for a solution of the problem of an overcrowping and bad conditions of the contents in a pre-trial detention center, and also European Court countermeasures on court unloading from the same complaints.