Russia’s State Duma on Tuesday, June 7, immediately adopted in the second and third readings laws on non -fulfillment of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued after March 15, 2022. Payments of monetary compensations in fulfillment of the decisions of the ECHR made until March 15 can be carried out exclusively in rubles and only to accounts in Russian banks.
According to adopted laws, the decisions of the ECHR will continue to be a basis for revising the decisions adopted by Russian courts, in other words, the rule of Russian law over decisions of the Strasbourg Court is established. The provisions are excluded from the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation that the decision of the ECHR is the basis for the abolition of court decisions that have entered into legal force, as well as for the resumption of proceedings in the criminal case due to new or newly opened circumstances, writes Deutsche Welle.
State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, commenting on the adoption of new laws, said that the ECHR became a “instrument of political struggle.” He noted that some decisions of the Strasbourg Court “directly contradicted the Constitution of the Russian Federation, our values, traditions.” As an example, he cited the requirement of the ECHR to recognize same -sex marriages. “A lot of such decisions have been made by the European court. We cannot agree with this,” Volodin emphasized.