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8. OUR ACTIVITIES:
Publications
Law Journal Articles
In 2004 thirty-seven articles by
Sutyajnik lawyers were printed in nationally distributed legal and human rights
periodicals on the following topics:
Russia and the European Court of Human
Rights
State Structure
Challenging Unlawful Legislation
Administrative Law
Authorities and Human Rights Access to
Court
Judges and Law
Protecting One’s Own Rights
The articles can be accessed in the
Sutyajnik’s web-library at
http://sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/articles
Sutyajnik also issued a report on human
rights violations in Sverdlovsk Oblast in 2004.
This year Sutyajnik attorneys authored
two articles in the English language:
A. Demeneva, A. Burkov, «Probable Legal
Consequences of Rakevich v. Russia», Human Rights Law Review Student
Supplement 2003-2004, August 2004, at 7. The article provides the background
and details of the Rakevich v. Russia case, in which the European Court of Human
Rights ruled against Russia following the hearing on 17 June, 2003. Authors of
the article investigate the case’s possible influence on Russian administrative
law and practice. The entire article is accessible at
http://sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/articles/2004/probable_legal_consequences.htm
Anton Burkov contributed his paper «Detention
of Mentally Ill Persons in the Russian Federation under Article 5 of the ECHR»
to the book The Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in
Russia: Philosophical, Legal, and Empirical Studies (= Soviet and
Post-Soviet Politics & Society, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-89821-387-0, Paperback, 228 pp.
For more details please refer to
http://sutyajnik.ru/eng/news/2004/book_echr_implement.htm
Three Sutyajnik’s attorneys and the
ISLP volunteers wrote the article «The Legal Order of the Russian Federation and
the Council of Europe Standards». This article surveys decisions by the European
Court of Human Rights on the merits of cases involving the Russian Federation,
as well as decisions on admissibility of cases for which a decision is pending,
during the entire period during which Russia has submitted to the Court’s
jurisdiction. The entire article is accessible at
http://www.sutyajnik.ru/eng/news/2004/russian_legal_order.html
Books
The Right to a Fair Trial: European
Standards and Russian Practice
In June 2004, Sutyajnik issued a book
entitled The Right to a Fair Trial: European Standards and Russian Practice.
This is the second volume of the series «International Human Rights Protection.»
The authors are: Professor Jeremy McBride, Director of the Human Rights Law &
Practice Programme at the University of Birmingham and Vice Chair of the Board
of Trustees of the International Centre for the Legal Protection for Human
Rights INTERIGHTS; Anna Demeneva and Elena Goncharova, lawyers with Sutyajnik’s
Urals Centre for Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection; and
Svetlana Mukhambetova, a lawyer with Social Fund Pravoborets. The book analyses
Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and related judgments from
the European Court of Human Rights. Also, several Russian authors explore
Russian judicial practices and existing problems in the right to a fair trial.
This book is in Russian.
The entire text is accessible at
http://www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/sborniki/echr2
The Russian Constitution: 10 Years of
Implementation
Published in August
2004, this book is dedicated to the 10th Year
Anniversary of the NGO Sutyajnik. Featuring an introduction by the well-known
professor of Russian Administrative Law and member of the Sutyajnik’s Board of
Directors Demyan Bakhrakh, the book contains decisions by Russian courts of
various different levels and jurisdictions on human rights cases advocated by
Sutyajnik. All the judgments illustrate direct and effective implementation of
the Russian Constitution, which is 10 years old. Edited by Anna Demeneva and
Anton Burkov, this book is in Russian.
The entire text is accessible at
http://www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/sborniki/konst_10_let_primen
Essays
A Russian Represents France in the
Model UN Conference, by
Anton Burkov, Chevening on-line.
«Anton Burkov writes a fascinating
account of his attendance at the Model UN Conference. As one of the Chevening
scholar team, Anton was chosen to represent France in the Commission on Human
Rights, although he is actually a native of Russia. This entailed some hard work
to get up to speed with French foreign policy, and the whole experience provides
a glimpse into the inner workings of international diplomacy». —Stephen
Farnsworth — British Chevening Scholarships web-site.
For the essay please refer to
http://www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/publizistica/model_UN_eng.html
or
http://www.chevening.com
Down Broadway Toward ... or the Tragic
Events through the Eyes of a Russian Volunteer,
by Anton Burkov, Fellow’s Stories. JUSTICE INITIATIVE FELLOWS NEWSLETTER October
14, 2004.
«There are defining moments in the
world’s recent history. For one generation everybody could tell you where they
were and what they were doing when they heard that US President John F. Kennedy
had been assassinated. For others it was when they heard that Princess Diana had
died. For the majority of the world’s population today, it was that fateful day
in September 2001. For Anton Burkov however the memories do not come from
television images». —Stephen Farnsworth — British Chevening Scholarships
web-site.
For the essay, please refer
to
http://www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2?res_id=102234
or
http://www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/articles/down_broadway.html
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