On October 5, 2021, the ECtHR ruled in Shavlokhova and Others v. Georgia that the application is inadmissible. According to an information note on the Court’s case law, the case concerned the Russian applicants’ complaint of violations with regard to Georgian armed forces’ military actions that took place during the conflict between the two states that took place on August 8- 9, 2008.
According to the ECtHR, the violations took place in and around the administrative capital of South Ossetia. The ECtHR stated that the area fell within Georgia’s territorial jurisdiction under...