CS: Russia did not transfer part of its sovereignty to anyone, the Convention on Human Rights – Politics
SAINT PETERSBURG, October 30. / TASS /. Russia, by ratifying the European Convention on Human Rights, did not transfer part of its sovereignty to anyone and did not thereby enter into any supranational entity, unlike the countries of the European Union. Russia has retained its sovereignty in full. Thus, the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) has the right to decide on the execution of decisions of interstate courts that contradict the laws of the country. This opinion was expressed by TASS Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court Sergei Mavrin.
“As for Russia, by ratifying the European Convention on Human Rights, no one and in what capacity does not transfer its state sovereignty to any state entity, thus preserving it in full. Sovereignty should mean only one thing: Russia, as a sovereign the state functions on the basis of public law and order formed and normatively enshrined in the Constitution, “he said.
The interlocutor assesses how the Court of the Russian Federation has the right to decide whether the decision of a foreign or international court imposing obligations on Russia will be executed.
As an interlocutor, he commented on the situation in Poland, where earlier the country’s constitutional court ruled that national legislation has superiority over the laws of the European Union, which includes the state. According to Mavrin, in Poland in this case the situation is different and “joining the European Union, Poland could well, and possibly could share in this community a part of its state and legal sovereignty.”
“By the way, this is the situation in Russia in its relations with its constituent entities, when the legal acts of the federation have a higher legal force in comparison with the legal acts of its constituent entities,” he said.