Although the ECtHR found the claim to fall better under to the right to private life provision under Article 8 of the ECHR, it ultimately held the application inadmissible on the ground that the domestic courts had appropriately balanced the right to private life with the right to freedom of expression. ![]() He brought the case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for violations of Article, 6, 10 and 14 of European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), alleging that the domestic courts’ decisions had amounted to approval of slander against his grandfather. The grandson of Joseph Stalin sued a local newspaper because of an accusatory article about his grandfather and the USSR during the 1940s that he found to be “false, fanciful and completely unsubstantiated”.
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