Day: December 15, 2015
Putin’s Taking the Piss over Human Rights, but Let’s not Be Too Smug
Author: Wallace Runnymede Published Date: December 15, 2015
It turns out that the authoritarian Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has signed a law allowing Russia (or rather, the Russian state!) to avoid following rulings from international human rights courts… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-human-rights-law_566fc6bbe4b011b83a6c7040 Making such rulings subject to the authority of the Constitutional…