Russia Wants to Be Protected From Politicized ECHR Decisions – Lavrov

Russia fulfills all decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), but wants to be protected from politicized ones, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – In July 2014, Europe’s top human rights court ruled that Russia must pay about $2 billion to shareholders of the country’s now-defunct energy company Yukos that was declared bankrupt in 2006 and absorbed into state-owned Rosneft.

The Russian Justice Ministry said it would not comply since the court’s decision violated Russia’s constitution.

"When a real politicization of the court’s decisions takes place, we want to be protected from outright politicization," Lavrov said at a press conference following talks with Council of Europe’s Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland.