Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on non-execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued after March 15, 2022. On Saturday, June 11, the document was posted on the official portal of legal information, reports DW.
According to the new rule, the payment of monetary compensation in pursuance of the decisions of the ECtHR, issued before March 15, can be made exclusively in rubles and only to accounts in Russian banks.. Decisions of the Strasbourg court will no longer be the basis for reviewing decisions made by Russian courts.
Thus, the new law establishes the supremacy of Russian law over the decisions of the ECtHR, and the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation excludes the provisions that the decisions of the ECtHR are the basis for the annulment of court decisions that have entered into legal force, as well as for the resumption of proceedings in a criminal case due to new or newly.
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This bill was adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on June 7 immediately in the second and third readings.. The next day, the document was approved by the Federation Council. The speaker of the lower house, Vyacheslav Volodin, said that the ECHR had become " As an example, he cited the requirement of the ECtHR to recognize same-sex marriages..
Kommersant, citing the press service of the Council of Europe, previously reported that Russia owed about 74 million euros in fair compensation under the decisions of the ECtHR, excluding a record 1.9 billion euros in favor of the former shareholders of the oil concern Yukos. In total, 2030 cases remain unfulfilled, of which 222 are leading ones (identifying structural and systemic problems that need to be addressed).
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After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation was expelled from the Council of Europe. The text of the PACE statement notes that Russia has committed gross violations of the CE Charter, which are incompatible with the status of a member state, and also does not fulfill its obligations to the organization. In turn, the ECHR stated that Russia will lose its status as a party to the European Convention on Human Rights from September 16.
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