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Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: Enhancing the Dialogue

Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: Enhancing the Dialogue

Vasily Torkanovsky Partner, Law Practice Group, Ivanyan & Partners

Mikhail Galperin Doctor of Science in Law, Head of the Scientific Direction “Private and Public International Law” at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation; Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the S.S. Alekseev Private Law Research Centre under the President of the Russian Federation

Anatoliy Kovler Professor Kovler is now serving as Head of the Foreign Law and Comparative Law Center at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation. He was elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights in 1999 and served until 2012

Robert Spano Judge, Section President, European Court of Human Rights

Michele de Salvia Jurisconsult, European Court of Human Rights (retired), Professor of Law, Catholic University of Milan

Aleksey Ispolinov Head of the Department of International Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Philippe Boillat Head of the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe (retired since July 2017)

Yury Berestnev Chief Editor, “Bulletin of the European Court of Human Rights”

Natalia Brady Registry, European Court of Human Rights

Mikhail Fedotov Adviser to the President of Russian Federation, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

On October 27, 2017, International and Comparative Law Research Center and LF Academy with the support of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and St. Petersburg International Legal Forum held the Conference "Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: enhancing the dialogue".

The Conference was opened with the welcome addresses of Alexander Konovalov, Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Christos Giakoumopoulos, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe, Andrey Klishas, Chairman, Committee for constitutional legislation and state construction, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Among the speakers of the first session on Application Control: Concept of the ECHR. Legal Consequences of Application and Approaches of other International Bodies were:

Anatoliy Kovler (Russia) — Moderator;
Robert Spano (Iceland);
Michele de Salvia (Italy);
Aleksey Ispolinov (Russia);
Philippe Boillat (Switzerland);
Vasily Torkanovsky (Russia).

The participants of the second session on International Standards and Principles of Enforcing Freedom of Speech Right in the Light of the ECHR Case-Law:

Yury Berestnev (Russia);
Natalia Brady (Russia);
Mikhail Fedotov (Russia);
Dmitry Dedov (Russia);
Genevieve Mayer (France);
Alexey Kartsov (Russia);
Anita Soboleva (Russia).

Closing remarks were made by Mikhail Galperin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights — Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.