MOSCOW, June 26 Indictment of Russia by the European Court on human rights in violation of a number of articles of the convention in Ukraine’s claim on Crimea is legally void for Moscow, the Russian Federation does not legally recognize and does not intend to implement any decisions of the ECHR after leaving the Council of Europe in 2022, said Grigory, director of the department of multilateral cooperation on human rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry Lukyantsev.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday found the Russian Federation guilty of violating a number of articles in Ukraine’s claim regarding Crimea, follows from the decision published on the court’s website.
“Of course, we will not (we will — ed.) admit it. We have a federal law that says which decisions we recognize and which we don’t,” Lukyantsev said in a conversation with the agency “on the sidelines” of SPBILF-2024.
He recalled that Russia withdrew from the Council of Europe in 2022, which implies withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the ECHR.
“The decisions made by the ECHR after the withdrawal of the Russian Federation are insignificant for us. We do not recognize these decisions and are not going to implement them,” Lukyantsev emphasized.< br>According to him, it is enough to visit Crimea to understand the absurdity of the ECHR decisions on Crimean cases.
According to the court statement, “there were violations of Articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), 5 (right to liberty and security), 6 (right to a fair trial), 7 (punishment without law), 8 (right to respect for private and family life), 9 (freedom of religion), 10 (freedom of expression), 11 (freedom of assembly), 14 (prohibition of discrimination) and 18 (limitation of the application of restrictions on rights) of the European Convention on Human Rights.»
The complaint “Ukraine versus Russia” was filed with the ECHR in March 2014. In it, Ukrainian authorities alleged that Russia, since February 27, 2014, “has exercised effective control over the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which has led to numerous violations of the Human Rights Convention.” In particular, charges were brought under 12 articles, including the murder of civilians, detention and intimidation of journalists, discrimination against ethnic Ukrainians, and politically motivated criminal prosecutions.
Previously, the Grand Chamber of the ECHR found partially acceptable Ukraine’s complaint that Russia “is responsible for administrative practice», which led to human rights violations in Crimea, but considered the remaining accusations of the Ukrainian side unproven.
In addition, in an interim decision on this claim dated January 14, 2021, the ECHR stated that it was not called upon to decide , whether the reunification of Crimea with Russia was legal from the standpoint of international law.
The Russian Ministry of Justice then noted that the Strasbourg court, by this decision, recognized the existence of actual Russian jurisdiction over Crimea from February 27, 2014.
Crimea became a Russian region as a result of a referendum held there after the coup in Ukraine, in which about 96% of voters on the peninsula supported reunification with Russia. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Crimea issue is “finally closed.”