MOSCOW, May 18. At its plenary session on Wednesday, the State Duma adopted a package of two bills providing that the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued after March 16 will not be enforced in Russia and will cease to be the basis for reviewing the decisions of Russian courts. The bills were introduced by a group of senators and deputies from United Russia, the document was published in Monday in the Duma's electronic database.
May 14, 08:00 Russia of the ECtHR judgments, which is based on the date of the adoption by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of the decision to terminate the membership of the Russian Federation, and, accordingly, to provide that judgments issued after March 16, 2022 are not subject to In order to ensure and protect the rights of citizens of the Russian Federation, the document provides that until January 1, 2023, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia can pay monetary compensation to the applicant according to the decisions of the ECHR issued before March 16. As Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation, explained, this will protect the rights of citizens of the Russian Federation and eliminate the formation of a «vacuum» in the execution of decisions. «Changes are being made to certain provisions of the procedural legislation of the Russian Federation regarding the revision of judicial acts adopted by Russian courts on the basis of decisions of the ECtHR. The judgments of the ECtHR will no longer be the basis for reviewing decisions made by Russian courts,» the politician noted. Russia from leaving the Council of Europe
