Russia and the Council of Europe

... Russia and the case of Kononov against Latvia, the ECtHR went against these “golden” rules. In one case, the ECtHR whitewashed the actions of the central authorities of Moldova in the Transnistrian conflict and blamed the possible violation of the ECHR in the self-proclaimed republic on Russia under the pretext that it allegedly exercised real sovereignty over this territory at that time. In the other, it supported the conviction of a fighter against fascism being at the command of a partisan detachment, who had been falsely convicted ...