The Ministry of Justice will work as the procedure for the implementation of the solutions of the ECHR

The Ministry of Justice will work proposals on the procedure for the implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. Such an assignment to the department was given by the government in a report published on the Kremlin’s website, which is dedicated to law enforcement practice in Russia in 2011.

As stated in the document, the monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Justice revealed 10 decisions of the ECHR, in connection with which changes need to be made to Russian legislation. So, now in Russia there is no law regulating the enforcement of the decisions of the Strasbourg Court by the state. There is also no norm that would oblige state structures and officials to bring federal laws and other regulatory acts in accordance with the European Convention in accordance with the Decisions of the ECHR. Finally, the deadlines for the development and introduction of bills to the State Duma aimed at implementing these decisions have not been established.

In addition, there are questions that need to adjust the Russian judicial practice in accordance with the provisions of the European Convention and the decisions of the Strasbourg Court. In particular, in almost all cases of “the so -called Chechen complaints”, as well as in the affairs of torture and other cruelty, the ECHR saw a violation of both material and procedural aspects of articles 2 (the right to life) and 3 (prohibition of torture) of the European Convention. The Strasbourg court found that the investigations were carried out inefficiently, and therefore, the victims did not have effective means of legal protection. When considering complaints, the court criticized Russian mechanisms of judicial control.

In this regard, it is proposed to summarize the practice of applying Article 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure when considering complaints about the actions and decisions of the investigation, as well as to torture and other hard appeal during detention and during the conclusion. This, noted in the report, would allow the Strasbourg court to demonstrate the effectiveness of existing legal protection funds.

Now, on the consideration of the ECHR, there are a number of complaints from Russia. These, in particular, are complaints of convicted participants in Pussy Riot and some "swamp prisoners". Also, the Strasbourg court considers the complaint of Blogger Alexei Navalny about the illegal actions of the authorities during the dispersal of the May Millions in 2012.