MOSCOW, June 16 (RAPSI) — For the period from January to May 2022, the courts of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) conducted proceedings on 46,918 cases and materials, according to a statistical report presented on the official website of the Supreme Court of the DPR.

Of the indicated number of cases, 2,198 were pending in the Supreme Court: district, city and inter-district courts of general jurisdiction conducted 43,172 proceedings.

There were 1,404 cases in the Commercial Court, 144 criminal cases in the Military Court.

For the same period of 2021, 58,820 cases were in the proceedings of the courts of the DPR, of which 50,356 proceedings were conducted by district, city and interdistrict courts of general jurisdiction, 4,359 cases were pending in the Commercial Court and 146 criminal cases - in the Military Court.

Thus, it can be seen that in quantitative and percentage terms, there is a decrease in the number of pending cases, in the Supreme Court - by 1,746 cases and materials, or by 44.3%; in the Commercial Court - by 2,955 cases and materials, or by 3.1 times; in the Military Court - by 17 cases and materials, or by 10.6%; in district, city, inter-district courts of general jurisdiction - by 7.184 cases and materials, or by 14.3%.

Accordingly, in total, the indicators for the period from January to May 2022 turned out to be lower than in the same period of 2021, by 11,902 cases, or by 20.2%.

As of May 31, 2022, 36,003 cases and materials, or 76.7% of their total number, were completed in the courts of the DPR.

It should be noted that during the same period last year, the courts of the DPR considered 44,100 cases and materials (75% of the total), while the following cases were completed in the Supreme Court of the DPR – 2,308 cases and materials (58.5%); in district, city, inter-district courts of general jurisdiction – 38,148 cases and materials (75.8%); in the Commercial Court - 3,570 cases and materials (81.9%); in the Military Court - 74 criminal cases and materials (46%).

Between January and May 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, the number of completed cases in the courts of the DPR decreased as follows: in the Supreme Court - by 721 cases and materials (31.2%); in the Commercial Court - by 2,502 cases and materials (by 3.3 times); in the Military Court - by 9 cases and materials (12.2%); in district, city, inter-district courts of general jurisdiction - by 4,865 cases and materials (12.8%).

Accordingly, the indicators for the specified period in 2022 were 8,097 cases and materials (18.4%) less than in 2021.

The number of cases in progress as of May 31, 2022 amounted to 10,915 (23.3%).