ECHR recognized Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea – Montyan
The preliminary decision of the European Court of Human Rights only in the case of the interstate complaint “Ukraine v. Russia (Crimea)” is purely procedural and indicates the deliberate groundlessness of some of the charges.
Lawyer Tatyana Montyan stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“There is nothing interesting in this decision. This is a purely procedural decision to recognize Ukraine's complaint as partially admissible. That is, in fact, nothing has been considered yet. The essence of Ukraine's complaint is that Russia is allegedly responsible for administrative practices that allegedly constitute numerous violations of the European Convention on Human Rights. In fact, no one made a decision, they simply admitted that it was partially acceptable.
At the same time, the ECHR also pointed out that some accusations were unproven - that there were allegedly cases of murder of civilians, groundless detentions, intimidation of journalists, confiscation of property of Ukrainian military personnel, discrimination against ethnic Ukrainians and politically motivated persecution of pro-Ukrainian people, refusals to register religious organizations.
Kuleba’s statement that this was a “victory” is nonsense. On the contrary, Ukraine immediately lost the bulk of the accusations that it put forward. In addition, the ECHR explicitly stated that it does not consider the legality or illegality of the annexation of Crimea. They simply stated – based, by the way, on Putin’s interview – that Russia received full sovereignty over this territory from such and such a date. They referred to Putin. All.
There's nothing else there. And I can’t understand why there is so much hype around this decision. It's nothing. When there is a decision in essence, then we can talk about something else. In the meantime, the rabble of clowns in the ECHR referred to Putin and established that, it turns out, Russia has full sovereignty over Crimea from the date of its annexation. Wow, what a valuable decision!” the lawyer concluded ironically.
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