MOSCOW, November 19 (RAPSI) - A draft law prohibiting prosecutor's offices from employing people without a legal degree has been submitted to the State Duma, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported Tuesday.

The draft law states that only people with a legal degree should oversee compliance with the law in Russia.

An explanatory note to the document says that the existing law provides for the employment of people who have completed at least half of the required university law course. "This means that people without a complete legal degree can be employed as assistant prosecutors of regions and cities or in comparable posts," the authors of the bill say.

The bill also stipulates obligatory advanced training courses for prosecutors, which must be taken at least once every five years.

According to the newspaper, universities will train future prosecutors at special departments. Some of them have already established departments which train professionals specifically for prosecutor's offices.