The European Convention on Human Rights in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian
Journal: Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія «Право»
Year: 2014

Annotation: In late 2014, the mother of a young woman who was on board the Malaysia Airlines aircraft which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 brought a case against Ukraine before the European Court of Human Rights. The applicant claimed that Ukraine had failed to close its airspace and in doing so had violated the human rights of her daughter. This raises a number of issues concerning the applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights to the current situation in