On Tuesday 17 July, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia twice, for having made no efforts to identify those who commissioned the murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskäia in 2006 and for having handed out degrading treatment to the three members of the punk group Pussy Riot, whose freedom of expression and rights to a fair trial were also breached in 2012.
Having had the first case referred to it by Politkovskäia's mother, sister and children, the Court...