Russia said goodbye to the ECHR
The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted today in the second and third readings a bill according to which Russia will not implement rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued after March 15, 2022.
Also, ECHR rulings will no longer be the basis for reviewing decisions made by Russian courts. After the law comes into force, court decisions can be reviewed on the basis of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
Payments of monetary compensation under the ECHR rulings, which entered into force before March 15, will be made only in rubles and only to accounts in Russian banks. Also, according to the speaker, decisions of Russian courts will have supremacy over the rulings of the ECHR.
“The European Court of Human Rights has become an instrument of political struggle against our country in the hands of Western politicians. Some of his decisions directly contradicted the Constitution of the Russian Federation, our values, and traditions,” State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin commented on the bill in his TG channel.
He recalled that last summer the ECHR demanded that Russia recognize same-sex marriages.
“We see how politicized the decisions of this body have been in recent years. It is not surprising, since the judges there were social activists from Soros structures. And why on earth should we take into account the opinion of international platforms, which are guided not by facts and common sense, but by double standards and the desire to harm our country?” wrote Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy.
On February 25, the Council of Europe, in connection with a special operation in Ukraine, suspended Russia’s representation in the organization’s statutory bodies - the Parliamentary Assembly and the Committee of Ministers. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this decision discriminatory, and on March 15, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed CE Secretary Marija Pejčinović-Burich a notice of Russia’s withdrawal from the organization.
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