Suzanne Mettler's "piece":http://journals.cambridge.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7874752 in Perspectives on Politics (free access to
The "New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/world/europe/29russia.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=european%20court%20of%20human%20rights&st=cse has an interesting piece on Russia