Enforcing Strasbourg Court’s judgments concerning the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova

Council of Europe experts took part in this conference which aimed at identifying ways to achieve progress in the enforcement of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. In a number of cases, the Court, whose judgments are binding, has found that both the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation exercise jurisdiction over the region; the Republic of Moldova because of its unchallenged claims of sovereignty and the Russian Federation because of its decisive influence over the administration there. Most human rights violations have been found to be imputable to the Russian Federation. More...