The power of law versus the law of power - Interview with Stanislav Markelov, Lawyer, Moscow, 3 June 2008

Merlin, Aude

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“…(Lawyer from Nizhny Novgorod, 2011, interview by author). While the lawyers underline the significance of international litigation, they assert that social change can only be achieved through domestic courts (Lawyer from Moscow, 2011, interview by author, see also Merlin, 2009). According to McGregor (2012: 738), the ECtHR provides the vital access to justice for individuals, but it 'cannot substitute or lessen the need to correct the remedial framework at the national level'.…”

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Russian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) increasingly pursue domestic change by litigating before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The Russian government aims to decrease the amount of these applications and curtail the activities of these NGOs. In Russia, where legalism is often performed but sparsely delivered, NGOs engage into advocacy to supplement their international litigation. Advocating for domestic policy changes has, however, become potentially dangerous for NGOs under new curtailing legislation. Through interviews with Russian human rights practitioners, this article analyzes how two NGOs -the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and the Committee against Torture -work in between their belief that law can effect into change and the necessity to supplement their litigation with other strategies. In particular, it analyzes the interactions between the state and the NGOs by examining, first, how NGOs mobilize claims before the Court as leverage in disputes, and second, how a restrictive environment affects the NGOs' litigation.

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Section: Implementation: Provoking Criminal Lawsuitsmentioning

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The power of law versus the law of power - Interview with Stanislav Markelov, Lawyer, Moscow, 3 June 2008

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