Legal Dilemmas of the European Court of Human Rights After Russia's Expulsion from the Council of Europe. Selected Issues

Abstract

The article argues that the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe created a legal situation which enabled the European Court of Human Rights to develop new ways of proceeding when a State de facto refuses to participate in the proceedings and opened for the Court a possibility to interpret the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights in such a way as to ensure that victims of the Russia’s aggression against Ukraine are afforded the broadest possible protection not only under international humanitarian law, but also under the ECHR.