Russia has a system of commercial courts, which is called "Arbitrazhniye sudy." This Russian term is often translated to English as "arbitration courts." "This translation may be misleading in that arbitration courts is not a system of arbitration with the parties consenting to have their claims heard by an arbitrator. It is a system of special state courts with compulsory jurisdiction over commercial and some administrative disputes. From this perspective, they may be called commercial courts." Danilenko, Burnham, Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation, 61-62 (1999). To avoid the confusion between state commercial courts and commercial arbitration institutions, the author chose, in dealing with the state commercial courts, to use the literal translation of the Russian term: "arbitrazh courts."