Most complaints are linked to the application of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Many are on the legislative ensurance of social rights.
"The level of social ensurance should be sufficient and should not humiliate human dignity," Mr. Zorkin said.
He welcomed the decision of the government and the State Duma to increase basic labor pension beginning March 1, 2005. "It is still below the subsistence minimum," he noted.
"I cannot speak of how much the laws that the citizens contest in their complaints are in line with the constitution. Each case is a matter for separate consideration," Mr. Zorkin said.
"The fundamentals of all reforms have already been laid in Russia. But not everything has been finalized," he noted.
"The country should do everything for its citizens to feel legal safety inside the state," he said.
The increasing amount of complaints from Russian citizens to the Strasbourg Court was discussed at the meeting with High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour.
Russian citizens may currently turn to the Strasbourg Court only if all methods of legal protection have been exhausted inside the country. A court decision becomes valid after the cassation authority and the supervisory authority is entitled to dismiss considering a complaint.
"Maybe we should think of making the supervisory instance obligatory," Mr. Zorkin said.
