Russia and European Human-Rights Law

Lauri Mälksoo is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, previously has published Illegal Annexation and State Continuity (Martinus Nijhoff, 2003), and, also, is one of the three Editors-in-Chief of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law, published by Brill Nijhoff since 2000.

• Preface, Lauri Mälksoo Foreword, Angelika Nussberger Introduction, Lauri Mälksoo The Human-Rights Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church and its Patriarch Kirill I: A Critical Appraisal, Lauri Mälksoo Culture Re-introduced: Contestation of Human Rights in Contemporary Russia, Petr Preclik Tilting at Windmills? The European Response to Violations of Media Freedom in Russia, Dorothea Schönfeld Orthodox Pluralism: Controus of Freedom of Religion in the Russian Federation and Strasbourg Jurisprudence, Dara Hallinan Assessing Human Rights in Russia: Not to Miss the Forest for the Trees. A Response to Preclik, Schönfeld and Hallinan, Valdislav Starzhenetskii Concluding Observations. Russian and European Human-Rights Law: Margins of the Margin of Appreciation, Lauri Mälksoo List of ContributorsIndex

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