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  • Philip Nedelcu

Article 18 in the face of an objectively genuine criminal prosecution: The case of Yuriy Dmitriyev v. Russia

June 19, 2026

by Philip Nedelcu On 31 March 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in the case of Yuriy Dmitriyev v. Russia (case no. 47934/17), one of the several thousand individual applications still pending against Russia after it ceased to be a member of the Council of Europe on 16 September 2022. […]