The principle of non-intervention in recent non-international armed conflicts
1. Introduction The principle of non-intervention is one of great importance in the international legal system but at the same time one of complex definition. This is due to doubts regarding both the content of that principle (for example, whether it covers any and all types of external intervention in a foreign territory or just...
Russian Constitutional Court and the execution ‘à la carte’ of ECtHR judgments
1. Introduction By judgment of 19 April 2016 the Russian Constitutional Court ruled out that it could fully execute the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the Anchugov and Gladkov v Russia[1] case, in which the ECtHR held that the Russian Federation had violated Article 3 of Protocol I to the European...
