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The President of Russia presented three candidates for judges of the ECHR from Russia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), News.ru reported.

They are: Andrei Bushev – a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, he is known as a judge who tried the YUKOS case against Russia.

Mikhail Lobov has been an employee of the Council of Europe staff since 1997, since 2014 he has been head of the Department of Policy and Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights in the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe.

Natalya Pavlova is a judge of the Economic Disputes Board of the Supreme Court.