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by abrowne 2196 days ago
Probably?

The jurisdiction of the court extends to nearly all European states, with the exception of Belarus, the Vatican City, and the predominantly Central Asian Kazakhstan.

But,

In 2015, Russia adopted a law allowing it to overrule judgements from the ECtHR, codifying an earlier Russian Constitutional Court decision which ruled that Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution.

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Other countries have also moved to restrict the binding nature of the ECtHR judgments, subject to the countries' own constitutional principles. In 2004, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that judgments handed down by the ECtHR are not always binding on German courts.

(All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights

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> Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution

And the vote on the new Constitution amendments is scheduled to proceed in a few days.