MOSCOW, September 6 - RAPSI. The Supreme Court will not consider the complaint filed by Vyacheslav "Red Tarzan" Datsik charged with robbery and a church arson attack, who challenged a Criminal Procedure Code provision.

The appellate board's ruling was pronounced by Judge Galina Manokhina. The judgment upholds the trial court's rejection of the complaint.

The rejection is the result of Datsik's reasoning. The applicant holds that the provision in question contradicts both the Constitution and international law.

Therefore, the court has noted that constitutional compliance checks is not the within the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, but rather within the Constitutional Courts.
Neither the applicant nor his representative attended the hearing. However the case materials show that he contested Article 49 concerning the defense attorney in a criminal trial.

As a professional MMA fighter, Datsik was widely known as "Red Tarzan." He has pleaded not guilty to the crimes he is charged with, which are punishable by up to 10 years in prison. His alleged accomplice in the arson, Pavel Stepanov, has also pleaded innocent to the charges.

Datsik was arrested in Russia in 2007 and accused of stealing mobile phones from shops in St. Petersburg. Psychiatrists declared him schizophrenic, absolving him of criminal liability for the robberies. He later escaped from the mental institution where he was treated.

In September 2010, Datsik was detained with a loaded handgun while seeking asylum in an Oslo immigration office. In late December, a Norwegian court sentenced him to eight months in jail for illegal arms possession.

He was deported to Russia for prosecution in March 2011. A psychiatric examination conducted last November found Datsik to be sane.
Datsik is reported to be a member of the Slavic Union ultranationalist movement, which is banned in Russia but reportedly has an office in Norway.