
Welcome to my online office!
My introduction to the European Court of Human Rights began in the early 2000s during my studies at Duke Law School’s Institute of Transnational Law at the University of Geneva. After returning to Russia, where I had obtained my law degree in the 1990s, I received my doctoral degree in law in 2002 and subsequently carried out research and taught European Convention law at my alma mater. I also worked as a staff attorney for the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), and then became a deputy coordinator of the US Department of State’s Regional Initiative. After completing legal training at Rutgers University in the United States, I returned to Russia and, for several years, headed an NGO called the Center for Clinical Legal Education and Human Rights Protection. From 2004 onwards, we actively worked with the European Court of Human Rights.
Since the early 2010s, I have been providing online legal services from my office, registered in St. Petersburg. Over this time, I have had the pleasure of working with clients from various European countries and around the world on more than 1,200 cases, and have offered consultations on several thousand matters related to the European Court of Human Rights. In recent years, I have expanded my practice to include cases against various States, individual communications (complaints) to UN committees, and requests to the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files.
Below are some examples of my work with the Court.