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Do you really think Russia is influenced by the European Court of Human Rights?

SergeAx 6y ago
Currently Russia complies with most (all?) ECHR decisions and orders. I think it can be interpreted as being influenced.
PeterisP 6y ago
Yes, Russia is (still?) a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, in which it agrees to be bound by decisions of ECHR. There have been quite a few ECHR cases where monetary compensation was awarded from Russia to someone, and up until now Russia has been complying with these decisions and paying these compensation amounts.
- int_19h 6y ago
  Russia in the process of amending the constitution right now to, among other things, specifically declare priority of Russian law over any decision of international courts.
  - SergeAx 6y ago
    This is not correct. The amendment text is about priority of Constitution, not all laws. So that mostly means no same sex marriage for Russian citizens.
abrowne 6y ago
Probably? The jurisdiction of the court extends to nearly all European states, with the exception of Belarus, the Vatican City, and the predominantly Central Asian Kazakhstan. But, In 2015, Russia adopted a law allowing it to overrule judgements from the ECtHR, codifying an earlier Russian Constitutional Court decision which ruled that Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution. Compare, Other countries have also moved to restrict the binding nature of the ECtHR judgments, subject to the countries' own constitutional principles. In 2004, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that judgments handed down by the ECtHR are not always binding on German courts. (All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights
- hvis 6y ago
  > Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution And the vote on the new Constitution amendments is scheduled to proceed in a few days.

Currently Russia complies with most (all?) ECHR decisions and orders. I think it can be interpreted as being influenced.

PeterisP 6y ago

Yes, Russia is (still?) a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, in which it agrees to be bound by decisions of ECHR. There have been quite a few ECHR cases where monetary compensation was awarded from Russia to someone, and up until now Russia has been complying with these decisions and paying these compensation amounts.

int_19h 6y ago
Russia in the process of amending the constitution right now to, among other things, specifically declare priority of Russian law over any decision of international courts.
- SergeAx 6y ago
  This is not correct. The amendment text is about priority of Constitution, not all laws. So that mostly means no same sex marriage for Russian citizens.

abrowne 6y ago

Probably? The jurisdiction of the court extends to nearly all European states, with the exception of Belarus, the Vatican City, and the predominantly Central Asian Kazakhstan. But, In 2015, Russia adopted a law allowing it to overrule judgements from the ECtHR, codifying an earlier Russian Constitutional Court decision which ruled that Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution. Compare, Other countries have also moved to restrict the binding nature of the ECtHR judgments, subject to the countries' own constitutional principles. In 2004, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that judgments handed down by the ECtHR are not always binding on German courts. (All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights

hvis 6y ago
> Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution And the vote on the new Constitution amendments is scheduled to proceed in a few days.