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16 July 2021, 21:26Duma's Slutsky doubts impartiality of ECHR judges
Moscow, July 16, Interfax - The judges of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) may not be objective, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, said.
"I will remind you that the current ECHR was largely formed in the period of Russia's absence from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe," Slutsky was quoted by the committee's press service as saying on Friday in relation to a Duma statement critical of the judgement handed down by the ECHR on same-sex marriage.
Furthermore, in the winter of 2020, a French magazine, Valeurs Actuelles, published an investigation by lawyer Gregor Puppinck into ECHR judges. The article claimed that a number of ECHR judges had previously worked for George Soros's Open Society Foundations, an organization designated undesirable in Russia, or one of its affiliated nongovernmental organizations, he said.
"If that's the case, then the impartiality of such 'servants of Themis' raises very big questions," Slutsky said.
Earlier on Friday, the State Duma Council approved a statement criticizing the ECHR recommendations for Russia regarding the registration of same-sex marriage and said that Russia has no intention of complying with them. |
