Russia: In Quest for a European Identity
Journal: Intersentia eBooks
Year: 2017

As this chapter is being written, Russia's relations with the Council of Europe hit a new low. In July 2015, Russia's Constitutional Court proclaimed a judgment in which it explicitly referred to the supremacy of the Constitution of the Russian Constitution over the ECHR and reserved itself a right to review ECtHR judgments on the subject of their conformity with the Russian Constitution. Earlier, in January 2015, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) had decided not to rest