The lower house of the Duma has approved Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights. Russia has been the holdout country in ratifying Protocol 14, which the other 46 participating nations had all approved by 2006.
Protocol 14 is largely a procedural reform to the speed up the court’s work by reducing the number of judges required to make major decisions. The Strasbourg Court has been the subject of complaints due to the extremely large backlog of cases, especially against Russia.
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