Friday, May 21, 2010

State Duma Accuses Strasbourg Court of Revising Nuremberg Judgments

The State Duma (Russia’s parliament) unanimously condemned the European Court of Human Rights for upholding Latvia's conviction of Soviet partisan Vassili Kononov for war crimes. The Duma's resolution accused the ECHR of "changing the legal approaches to evaluating the events of World War II" and of "attempting to initiate a revision of the Nuremberg Tribunal decisions."
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/05/21/revision/

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