ECHR

A fifth Katyn case has been lodged at the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, with Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor accused of failing to clarify the circumstances of the fate of 20,000 Polish officers killed by Stalin’s security service (NKVD) in 1940.
 
The current, individual complaint has been made by the family of Jozef Dawda.
 
“My grandfather Jozef Dawda was an officer of the Polish police force stationed in the vicinity of Kolomea,” recounts Dariusz Dawda, who lives in Canada. .

On February 26th Russia’s Constitutional Court ordered the state to obey decisions by the European Court of Human Rights, based in Strasbourg, and demanded further legislative action to ensure their smooth implementation. "Decisions by the European Court of Human Rights are binding for Russia," the court said in a ruling published on its web site.