The Ministry of Justice asked the Constitutional Court to check the possibility of implementing the ECHR decisions on YUKOS

The Russian Ministry of Justice asked the Constitutional Court to check the possibility of implementing the decision of the ECtHR on compensation to former Yukos shareholders. This is stated in a press release published on the agency's website.

“The Ministry of Justice believes that the obligations imposed on the Russian Federation by the contested decision are based on the application by the ECtHR of the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in an interpretation that leads to their discrepancy with the Constitution of the Russian Federation,” the report says.

In July 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay Yukos shareholders 1.86 billion euros. In addition, the court ordered Russia to pay the former shareholders of the company 300,000 euros as compensation for legal costs. Representatives of the company demanded the return of taxes unfairly collected from Yukos and the value of expropriated assets, as well as the projected potential profit not received as a result of the company's ruin - 81 billion euros.

Recall that in December last year, Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows you to abandon the priority of international law. According to the amendments, the Constitutional Court may declare unenforceable decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and other international courts, if they contradict the Russian Constitution.