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The Duma and the European Court of Human Rights: Everyone goes their own way

For the authorities in Moscow, the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights will no longer be binding. Although the case of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows that the Kremlin did not care about the judgments of the court in Strasbourg even before, the State Duma, by adopting new laws, formally broke with the European international body that obliges to respect human rights.