The State Duma offers to refuse to implement the resolutions of the ECHR

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma, which proposes not to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, issued after March 16-the day when Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe due to aggression against Ukraine. The initiative concerns, inter alia, compensations.

Human rights activist Pavel Chikov notes that this violates the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms that Russia has ratified in 1996: after leaving the Convention, the state must comply with its rules for at least six months.

"The Convention ceases to operate in relation to acts of the Russian authorities committed on September 16, 2022, and by virtue of its Article 46, all decisions of the ECHR are and will remain obligatory for the Russian Federation, even if they are issued after September 16. The federal law cannot cancel these obligations," Chikov writes.

The authors of the bill were Senator Andrei Klishas and State Duma deputy Pavel Krasheninnikov. The mention of the ECHR is proposed to exclude from the "Law on the Prosecutor's Office", "On the detention of suspects and accused of committing crimes", "On compensation for violation of the right to proceedings within a reasonable time or the right to execute a judicial act within a reasonable time", the Code of Administrative proceedings and the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation.

In addition, the Foreign Ministry said that Russia can revise relations with the West, given its "aggressive course". “In this context, the issue of preparing the new edition of the concept of foreign policy of the Russian Federation in accordance with the instructions of the President of Russia was discussed,” RIA Novosti quotes the Russian Foreign Ministry.

• On March 16, Russia was excluded from the Council of Europe for the invasion of Ukraine. Later it became known that from September 16, 2022, Russia will cease to be a participant (high contracting party) of the European Convention on Human Rights.