Moscow: The European Court of Human Rights is becoming a tool against Russia

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said that the European Court of Human Rights has begun to transform from a respectable legal institution into a legal instrument for interference in Russia’s internal affairs.

Grouchko added, in an interview about a round table of the Federation Council under the title:

Russia’s 25-year membership in the Council of Europe: cooperation or confrontation, held today: “This institution’s decisions on the Navalny case are open interference in our internal affairs.”

The Russian diplomat indicated that there is an increase in the number of international lawsuits against Russia, regarding which rulings may be issued that do not comply with the provisions of the Russian constitution.

“It is clear that the court is overusing the suspicious and effective censorship doctrine, which makes its rulings not only unfair, but also inapplicable in advance. This story, I believe, started with the Ilyashko case, which has in fact become a bomb. Timed under the court’s activity, and under the court itself. ”

In 2004, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Illy Ilyashko in his case against Russia and Moldova, according to which Moscow had to pay damages of up to 500 thousand euros for violating several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Previously, in Transnistria, former Moldovan lawmaker Ilashko was sentenced to death for terrorism in 1993. Later, the execution was changed to life imprisonment.

Ilashko accused Russia and Moldova of denying him the right to a fair trial. He claimed that he had been tortured, and that Russia was among those accused, because, according to his allegations, Transnistria “is in fact under the control of Moscow.”

Source: TASS