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Le règlement des conflits d'interprétation de la Convention Européenne des droits de l'homme: le cas de la Russie
The application of international rules by national jurisdictions inevitably involves the complex issues of interaction of national and international norms as well as of the authority of international courts' jurisprudence. The complexity of the issue is also due to the possibility of conflicts arising from such interpretation given by different actors. The theoretical question of relationships between international and municipal laws thus has important practical significance as it is to be resolved in the course of particular cases resolution by national and international courts. As to Russia, it has a long and different evolution of possible solutions, which changed from pre-revolutionary Russian doctrine to the Soviet law and does not find an easy way in the modern Russian legal doctrine and practice. The application of the European Convention on Human Rights by the Russian courts during more than two decades when Russia was a party to the Convention, also had its ups and downs. The article offers a detailed analysis of how the attitude of the Russian courts changed and evolved, with a special focus made on the case-law of the Russian Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, with distinction made with regards to different rights violated and subject to restoration according to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights.