Case against Russia in the European Court Postponed for Six Months

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The European Court of Human Rights, at the request of Russia, has delayed a decision to move forward with a lawsuit brought against Russia by Ukraine for six months.

This was reported by the court’s press service to Evropeiska Pravda.

The ECHR has extended the time that was given to the Russian government to prepare an official comment on the admissibility of Ukraine’s complaints regarding Russia’s actions in the Donbass and Crimea up until September 25^th, 2015.

The court had previously said that Russia had until March 25^th to submit explanations, but, two days before the expiration of that period, Russia asked for an extension of six months in regarding two of Ukraine’s complaints.

Currently, there has been no consideration on the merits of the case, as the deliberations on the admissibility of Ukraine’s complaints are contingent on the responses made by the Russian Federation.

The first large-scale application was submitted by Kyiv on March 13^th and has since been added to several times. It consists of Ukraine’s accusations of Russia’s actions in Crimea and aggression in the Donbass.

A second lawsuit by Ukraine against the Russian Federation was filed on June 13^th about three groups of orphans and their accompanying adults who were abducted by the Russian authorities and transported into Russia.

In addition to these two complaints now before the court, there are 526 individual complaints either in respect to both Ukraine and Russia (307 applications), or exclusively against one of these states (194 claims against Ukraine, and 25 against Russia).

The European Court of Human Rights has previously accepted a complaint by Ismet Yuksel, an Advisor to the Chairman of Crimean Mejlis, against Russia.