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Alekseyev and Others v. Russia (Eur. Ct. H.R.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

Pieter Cannoot
Pieter Cannoot*
Affiliation:
Dr. Pieter Cannoot is a postdoctoral researcher at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium).
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Extract

On November 27, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter the ECtHR or the Court) delivered a judgment in the case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia. The judgment is one of the latest episodes in a series of applications launched by well-known Russian LGBT+ activist Nikolay Alekseyev. In the judgment, the Court unanimously found violations of several articles of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), including the right to nondiscrimination.

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International Legal Documents
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 58 , Issue 6 , December 2019 , pp. 1251 - 1280
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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ENDNOTES

1 See, e.g., Case of Alekseyev v. Russia, App. Nos. 4916/07, 25924/08, and 14599/09 (Oct. 21, 2010) [hereinafter Case of Alekseyev v. Russia]; Case of Zhdanov and Others v. Russia, App. No. 12200/08 (July 16, 2019).

2 Case of Bayev and Others v. Russia, App. No. 67667/09 (June 20, 2017).

3 See Pieter Cannoot & Claire Poppelwell-Scevak, ECtHR Finds Russia's Gay Propaganda Law Discriminatory in Strong-Worded Judgment, Strasbourg Observers (July 11, 2017), https://strasbourgobservers.com/2017/07/11/ecthrfinds-russias-gay-propaganda-law-discriminatory-in-strongworded-judgment/.

4 Case of Alekseyev v. Russia, supra note 1.

5 Case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia, App. No. 14988/09 (Nov. 27, 2018) [hereinafter Case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia], Concurring Opinion of Judge Dedov.

6 Case of Alekseyev v. Russia, supra note 1, ¶ 77.

7 Id. ¶ 76.

8 Id. ¶ 81.

9 Id. ¶¶ 82–86.

10 Id. ¶¶ 97–100.

11 Id. ¶¶ 106–10.

12 Case of Alekseyev and Others v. Russia, supra note 5, Partly Dissenting Opinion of Judge Keller, ¶ 23.

13 Id. ¶ 24.ß.