Aspects of application of the European Convention on Human Rights in the territories of the contracting parties
Journal: Eurasian Law Journal
Year: 2021

The issues of the territorial scope of the European Convention on Human Rights are now becoming increasingly important. At the beginning of 2021, the European Court of Human Rights delivered the judgment on the interstate complaint “Georgia v. Russia (2)”, which established effective Russian control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the period from August 12 to October 10, 2008 after the cessation of fire. At the same time the Ukrainian government has filed four inter-state complaints against R