Russian Constitutional Court says Crimea treaty legal

He said that usually, when an appeal to verify an international unratified treaty is submitted to the Constitutional Court, there is a side contesting this treaty. [Valeriy Zorkin] stressed that in this case no-one was contesting the treaty: the request was submitted to the Constitutional Court by t...

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Published inBBC Monitoring Newsfile
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published London BBC Worldwide Limited 19.03.2014
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Zorkin, Valeriy
Crimea
RUSSIA
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Summary:He said that usually, when an appeal to verify an international unratified treaty is submitted to the Constitutional Court, there is a side contesting this treaty. [Valeriy Zorkin] stressed that in this case no-one was contesting the treaty: the request was submitted to the Constitutional Court by the president of the Russian Federation.