The UN International Court found the complaint in the case of Ukraine against the Russian Federation on Russian violation of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism admissible.
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The UN court did not decide on the merits of the complaint to Ukraine, but a preliminary one regarding jurisdiction, that is, the possibility of applying and interpreting the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism in relation to events in the Donbass. A complaint is also pending on Russia's violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
The court rejected the objections of Russia, which demanded that the court close the case and argued that this convention was not applicable to its assistance to militants in eastern Ukraine.
Thus, in the future, the UN Court may proceed to the examination of the merits..
Ukraine initiated a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in January 2017 and claims damages for ongoing and systematic violations of both conventions.
In April 2017, the UN International Court of Justice decided to apply provisional measures, ordering Russia to refrain from maintaining or applying new restrictions on the rights of the Crimean Tatar community to preserve its representative institutions, in particular the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, and to provide access to education in Ukrainian.
Among the accusations made by Russia: the provision of weapons and other types of assistance to illegal armed groups; shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17; shelling of residential areas of Mariupol and Kramatorsk; the destruction of a civilian passenger bus near Volnovakha; explosion during a peaceful assembly in Kharkov; discrimination against Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities; ban on the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people; waves of disappearances, killings, unauthorized searches, detention; restrictions on the teaching of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages.