Putin signs law rejecting worldwide courts’ verdicts

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the federal budget for next year, according to an official statement published Tuesday on the governmental web portal for legal documents. Under the new law, which was approved by parliament last week and signed by Putin on Monday, the Russian court will look into every ruling of any intergovernmental body based on an global treaty and determine whether it aligns with the Russian Constitution, according to RT.

The new legislation also establishes the order and the procedure for processing an inquiry to the court.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law which allows the Russian Constitutional Court to declare decisions of global courts unenforceable if they contradict the Russian constitution.

Ratification of the treaty is required of members of the Council of Europe, a 47-member body guided by the stated goal of promoting “human rights, democracy, and the rule of law”.

He rally patriotic support for sanctions that include prohibitions on fruit and vegetable imports in addition to limitations on tourist vacations to Turkey, one of the most famous destinations for Russians before the battle and can give more criticism.

In July 2015, the Russian Constitutional Court reviewed the ECHR judgment and ruled that Russia is not legally bound to observe all of the ECHR’s verdicts, especially when they are not in compliance with Russian law.

In July, the Constitutional Court decided that judgments of the ECHR could not be implemented if they contradict Russia’s constitution.

Putin has project Russian Federation as directing the global fight against Islamic State with air strikes in Syria that started September 30. “And only then would the European court itself need to decide, you know, what is going on”, Bowring said. It has also shared that the ECHR recently passed a verdict that finds several lacunae in Russia’s surveillance laws and reveals that there is a dearth of adequate safeguards to protect against potential violations and abuse.

“I don’t see any problem there, I think that people are worrying for nothing”, Valery Zorkin, head of the constitutional court, told Reuters.