MOSCOW, February 3 (RAPSI) – A new search engine which aims to make process of execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) more transparent was launched by the Council of Europe, according to the Council’s Friday statement.

Based on the existing search engine of the ECHR, new system uses a single unified interface and “provides access to relevant information and documentation in all cases pending before the Committee of Ministers.”  The Committee is responsible for monitoring implemented of ECHR rulings as well as publication of corresponding reports.

As of today, 3844 cases are listed as appeals filed against Russia. According to the Committee, Russia was on a third place, behind Italy and Turkey, regarding the amount of unimplemented ECHR rulings. In fact, Russia exhibited a negative trend with amount of unimplemented rulings rising by 5% in 2015.

At the end of 2015, Russia's Constitutional Court was granted the right to recognize decisions of international courts, including Strasbourg based European Court of Human Rights, as non-executable. The legislation was developed taking into account the respective Constitutional Court’s ruling establishing that each case of the ECHR decision implementation should be reviewed individually and these decisions should be executed only on the principle of supremacy of the Russian Constitution.

The Council of Europe expressed its concern with the ruling of the Constitutional Court, especially after January 19 ruling of the latter, allowing Russia not to pay €1.9 billion compensation awarded to former Yukos shareholders by ECHR. According to the Court, the ECHR ruling contravenes the Russian Constitution.