Author Description

Russia in the council of Europe: participation; la carte / Petra Roter (University of Ljubljana) -- The use of European human rights law in Russian courts / Anton Burkov (PhD, NGO Sutyajnik; Yekaterinburg) -- Ecthr and the Russian constitutional court: duet or duel? / Sergei Marochkin (University of Tyumen) -- The Russian constitutional court and the Strasbourg court: judicial pragmatism in a dual state / Alexei Trochev (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) -- Philosophy behind human rights: Valery Zorkin vs the West? / Mikhail Antonov (higher school of economics, St Petersburg) -- Russia's cases in the Ecthr and the question of socialization / Bill Bowring (Birkbeck College, London) -- Russia's impact on the Strasbourg system: as seen by two former judges of the European Court of Human Rights / Elisabet Fura (former Swedish ombudsperson and former judge at the Echtr), / Rait Mmaruste (former judge at the Ecthr) -- Egregious human rights violations in Chechnya: the continuing pursuit of justice / Philip Leach (Middlesex University) -- Property rights in Russia: reconsidering the socialist legal tradition / Vladislav Starzhenetskiy (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) -- LGBT rights in Russia and European human rights standards / Dmitri Bartenev (St Petersburg State University) -- Nativist ideological responses to European/liberal human rights discourses in contemporary Russia / Benedikt Harzl (University of Graz) -- Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: some general conclusions / Wolfgang Benedek (University of Graz)