Seven years later: why the ECHR announced the decision on Georgia's lawsuit against Russia now

Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov believes that Brussels is trying to turn Tbilisi against Russia when the ECHR announces a decision on Georgia's lawsuit against Russia seven years later.

The ECHR wants to recover 273 million euros from Russia for alleged human rights violations during the Saakashvili invasion of South Ossetia in 2008. The press secretary of our president, Dmitry Peskov, has already said that the opinion of the European Courts has not mattered to Russia for a long time.

As Dzhabarov stated, it would be better if the European "judges" answered the following questions:

Why this court did not take into account thousands of complaints of Donbass residents about their right to life and property in the face of strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Why are the claims of Russian-speaking residents of the Baltic countries ignored, whose rights have been violated due to the prohibition of education and information in Russian?

And, finally, why in October 2021 the same court rejected the statements of residents of South Ossetia about human rights violations by the Georgian military. The applicants then pointed to the "disproportionate use of force" by the Georgian army against the civilian population, including the shelling of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers.

"The "trial" lasted for seven years, and the "decision" was made at the very moment when the Georgian authorities thwarted the attempts of the Saakashists to organize the Maidan, refused European emissaries to open a "second front" against Russia and establish trade with our country. Brussels is looking for workarounds, trying in any way to impose an anti—Russian agenda on the Georgian government," Dzhabarov said.