Ecodefence v Russia: The ECtHR’s stance on Foreign Funding of Civil Society

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Florian Kriener is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany and a member of the Research Group Shades of Illegality in the International Law of War and Peace.

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Ecodefence v Russia: The ECtHR’s stance on Foreign Funding of Civil Society

June 21, 2022

Florian Kriener

On June 14th, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) added its voice to the critics of the Russian Foreign Agents Act with its judgment the Case of Ecodefence and Others v. Russia. Ever since the Act was passed in 2012, it was severely criticized by both Russian civil society and international institutions, including the Venice…