Russia

Europe’s top rights court on Tuesday ruled against Russia for setting up a so-called border line separating Georgia from pro-Moscow separatist enclaves, blocking people from crossing it freely. The Georgian government brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights, complaining that Russian and de-facto authorities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia detained Georgians for crossing the separatist frontier on an almost daily basis, which was “unlawful”.