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The overall expenditures will amount to as much as 40 million rubles ($1.3 million) per year, but the courts hope to get a grant from the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development.

The project has already got the backing from the Supreme Court of Russia, which has also put forward its own suggestions for reforming the country’s judicial system.

The court hopes to get its own TV channel and a news-based website that would cover all the main issues and big stories of the judicial community.

Aleksandr Gusev, director general of Judicial Department for the Russian Supreme Court, believes that the reform is about opening up the judicial system and being more transparent.

“We often hear criticism in the mass media that the judicial system is closed,” Gusev said. “So we're doing our part to show that this is not true. We work a lot with the press and general public, because citizens have the right to judicial information. All our suggestions, including the creation of our own channel, are aimed at one thing: providing the press and society with more information about the courts and judges’ activities.”

“We believe communication between the courts and the general public is very important. And we've made progress in this direction,” Igor Solovyev, from the Russian Academy of Justice, told RT. “For example, since July 1, the courts have been obliged to publish their decisions. Our next step is to allow people to submit electronic documents instead of paper ones.”

The technologies the judges are going to use have to be much more secure than ordinary communication tools available on the Internet, as the issues the officials are dealing with are highly confidential and delicate.

In addition, the new system will be faster and more reliable so that it can be used for video conferences.