The Ukrainian authorities have taken all the steps that could reasonably have been expected of them to ensure access to the judicial system for residents of territories outside Ukraine's control.
The court considers 4,226 individual complaints related to the events in Crimea or fighting in the east of Ukraine
Ukraine from 2007 to 2017 paid out UAH 1.892 billion (US$65.6 million) to citizens according to the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), of which UAH 1.483 billion ($51.4 million) was paid between 2014 and 2017, according to First Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Bernatska.
The Ministry of Justice planned to file a claim with the European Court of Human Rights against Russia’s oil giant Rosneft before December 19 into the damages incurred to the Ukrainian state, but such an initiative is under threat as a result of a search earlier conducted by detectives of the National Anti-corruption Bureau at the office of the government commissioner for the ECHR, according to Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko who spoke on ICTV channel.
The Council of Europe is considering lifting sanctions it imposed over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine for fear Moscow could otherwise pull out — dealing a blow to human rights protection, the Financial Times reports.
A group of Ukrainian doctors arrived in the city of Krasnodar of the Russian Federation to check on the health condition of an illegally detained 19-year-old Pavlo Hryb, Acting Health Minister Dr. Ulana Suprun wrote on Facebook.
At the request of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Ukraine is sending to Krasnodar a group of doctors to check on the health condition of an illegally detained 19-year-old Pavol Hryb, despite Russia not having issued a relevant permission, that’s according to a comment to UNIAN by director of the consular service department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Pohoreltsev.
Former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Monday he would sue Russia in the European Court of Human Rights over allegations that he fought Kremlin forces in Chechnya, according to Yahoo News.
Testimony by one of the high-ranking mercenaries who was detained by Ukraine’s counterintelligence operatives June 28, 2017, will be a useful tool aimed at proving Russia’s war crimes in Donbas at the European Court of Human Rights, a journalist and editor-in-chief at Censor.net Yuri Butusov wrote on Facebook.
New attempts to redraw borders are being witnessed in Europe, that’s according to Dalia Grybauskaite who spoke at the 4th World Conference on Constitutional Justice - Europe's first Congress in Vilnius Tuesday.
The Ukrainian authorities have filed with the European Court of Human Rights almost 4,000 lawsuits related to the illegally annexed Crimea and the conflict in Donbas, as reported by the Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine (MTOT).