26 April 2007, 22:35

European Court for Human Rights gets tired with claims from North Caucasian Republics

Quite recently the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that Russia was a source of 20 percent of the cases currently under consideration at the European Court for Human Rights. And the majority of these complaints originate from the Republics of North Caucasus, in particular - 200 cases were received from Chechnya. It has become known right today that the Council of Europe and the European Commission are going to allocate 1.9 million euros on reducing the number of applications lodged to the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) from Russia. The money will go on training programs for judges, public prosecutors, militiamen, lawyers and human rights activists. Yesterday, the project was officially presented at the Moscow Office of the European Commission. The "Gazeta" newspaper writes about it today.

Annually, the ECtHR spends about 12.5 million euros on consideration of more than 20,000 cases initiated by Russians against their own state. It makes about a quarter (22 percent) of all the claims submitted to Strasbourg. "We want fewer cases to reach the ECtHR and more problems to be solved at the national level. To this end, we need to ensure faster and better litigation," Hanna Yuncher, head of the CE's department for cooperation on human rights, said to the "Gazeta."

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