@article{2022:giegerich:struggling,
title = {Struggling for Europe’s Soul: The Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights Counter Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine},
year = {2022},
note = {Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe with immediate effect
and also from the ECHR with a six-month delay. The expulsion was based
on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine which actually began
in 2014 and only intensified in 2022. It was inevitable in view of the
fact that Russia had not only distanced itself from the values of the
CoE and the ECHR, but started to actively undermine them. This becomes
evident from an overview of the pertinent case law of the European
Court of Human Rights and Russia’s increasingly assertive
unwillingness to comply with the Court’s decisions. While the
pertinent resolutions by the Committee of Ministers and the ECtHR were
made in accordance with the CoE Statute and the ECHR both procedurally
and substantively, they should have been better explained to the
European and world public. Russia has meanwhile begun to boycott the
ECtHR procedures in violation of Art. 58 ECHR.},
journal = {ZEuS Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien},
pages = {519--558},
author = {Giegerich, Thomas},
volume = {25},
number = {3}
}