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Judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (Photo: Council of Europe)

Why the new ECHR Ukraine-Russia ruling matters

The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) has made a landmark ruling recognising Russia's occupation of Eastern Ukraine since 2014. The finding, part of the Court's decision on the admissibility of Ukraine's case against Russia, has far-ranging consequences.

The ECHR announced on 25 January that Russia was in "effective control" of separatist regions of Eastern Ukraine from 11 May 201...

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

Author Bio

William Goodhind was a monitoring officer with the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine between 2015-17 and 2020-22. He is now a consultant and deployable civilian expert with the UK government's Civilian Stabilisation Group.

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