The European Court of Human Rights has very limited theoretical jurisdiction, and only in certain very specific areas of ‘human rights’, when it comes to members of the Council of Europe. It also has no means of enforcement and in Russia is generally ignored.
Your earlier post stated that a traffic ticket from a Siberian highway patrolman or a Russian court verdict were subject to a Europe court’s approval: not the case, and knowing Russians, I very much doubt it ever will be.
I’ve yet to meet a Siberian patrolman who gave out tickets, in any case. They all just take bribes: with either smiles or threats depending on their mood that day - don’t you just love Russia?
Well, I heard a lot of their corruption but fortunately or not it wasn’t involved in my engegements with Russian traffic cops.
First time they got me with tinted windows which is as I know now is illegal there. They took my inspection and ordered to attend a ‘comission’ a week later. ‘Comission’ was a crowd of people in a class at a police department and three officers teaching ‘pupils’ morals and ordering sanctions. As I got ‘pupils’ were accused with minor charges wasn’t worth a court trial. Most typical was a public drunkness, loud family disputes hurting neighbours’ sleeping etc. Most people were a ghetto trash there with a few drivers like me and some builders accused with hiring illegals. Officers taught me morals too, told me they could shot me as a terrorist since they can’t see who is there in a tinted car. At the end they ordered to pay about 10$ fine and to remove a tint with my own hands. I went to a bank to pay it, clerk has given me a sticker. I got back to a police department, an officer watched at me removing a tint with my poor nails, when I gave them a sticker from bank and they given my inspection back.
Next time I was caught with illegal u-turn through a double line. Officer first grabbed my license and told that ‘comission’ will suspend it for 6 months. When he saw it is canadian he has start to doubt they can they suspend it since they haven’t issued it, but he told he’ll take a license with him & order me to attend anyway to put me in jail for 15 days. I started to argue telling it is not worth jail and they are unlikely to suspend foreign license which I desperately need to keep working. At the end he given it to me back, promised to punish me if I’ll do something wrong again and driven away.
There were no any bribe demand in both cases.