Dmitry Dedov. Защита прав человека – задача прагматическая // Право. Блог. 27.05.2013

The importance of preceding practice and available court decisions, the very precedentiality liberate a particular judge from individual responsibility.  During a year ECHR receives about 50 thousand complaints. They mostly have one-type character. Usually it is possible to find an apposite decision, based on the ones adopted earlier… In Russia we, judges, exercise justice, often being guided by our intuition, our ideas of justice, good and evil. In ECHR the same things also exist, but bear less emotional character. The approach is rather pragmatic, procedural, precedential. (Full version.)