The Inter-State case procedure to the European Court of Human Rights has been used only a dozen of times between 1956 and 2008. In 2009, Georgia used it against Russia and Ukraine currently has four such cases pending against Russia. Moscow, for its part, has only used it once since its accession (1996), that was in July of 2021 against Kyiv.
In the Georgian case, the Court held that Russia should pay Georgia €10 million for non-pecuniary damage, to be distributed among the victims, or at...