The Right to Free Protest vs. Governmental Interests: Russian Context

This work focuses on the legislative and human rights protection of the right to freedom of assembly in the Russian Federation. It analyses domestic normative acts and acts of law enforcement and compares them with the principles worked out by the European Court of Human Rights and the relative practice of some other jurisdictions. The main goal of the research was to identify the crucial problems in the Russian assembly legislation and to propose possible solutions in what way the Legislator and judges should move in order to establish the free exercising of the right to protest peacefully de facto.

About the author

Ekaterina Buzina holds LLM in Human Rights Law from Central European University. She is an attorney in the office of International law firm based in Vladivostok, Russia. Ms.Buzina is also a visiting professor in Far Eastern Federal University.

Product details

• Authors: Ekaterina Buzina
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9783659460753
• ISBN: 978-3-659-46075-3
• No. of pages: 72
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Other law