RELATIONSHIP OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION WITH THE ECHR

Abstract

According to Part 4 of Article 15 of the Constitution of the RF, generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation are “an integral part of the legal system” of the country. The consolidation of this norm in the Basic Law for the Russian legal system was of double significance. Firstly, this means that the range of normative sources on the basis of which regulation of social relations within the country is being carried out was substantially expanded by virtue of the norms of international law. Secondly, for the first time in the domestic law the principle was fixed, according to which, when conflicts arose between national and international law, the norms of international law prevailed. Thus, international law was proclaimed the criterion of legal support of the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen of the Russian Federation. It also formed the basis of the constitutional status of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of Russia.