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Article: RUSSIA-EUROPEAN-COURT-HUMAN-RIGHTS.
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- October 5, 2006
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RUSSIA-EUROPEAN-COURT-HUMAN-RIGHTS
Russia tops list of applicants to European Court of Human Rights
Moscow, October 5 (Interfax) - Russia tops the list of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights, Court President Luzius Wildhaber said in an interview with the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.
"The same as a year ago, Russia tops the list in of the number of applicants. We had received 18,500 cases from Russia by September 2006, which was 20.8% of all lawsuits," he said.
"The number of lawsuits from Russia grew by one-third this year," he said.
Romania (11.6% of the total), Turkey (9.8%), Poland (7.1%) and Ukraine (6.8%) ...