Different but Similar? : A Comparative Case Study of Russia's and Lithuania's (Non)Compliance with Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Journal: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year: 2025

This dissertation examines compliance with final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by two former Soviet states that joined the Council of Europe (CoE) and ratified the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the 1990s – Russia and Lithuania. Originally created in the aftermath of World War II with the aim of achieving a closer unity between “like-minded” European democracies, after the Cold War, the CoE embraced a new role – to “socialize” its new members from Ce