Russia and the Council of Europe

... the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and whether the authorities of the Russian Federation execute or fail to comply with decisions of the ECtHR. Even about the activities of the international mechanism for monitoring the implementation of ECtHR judgments, which are crucial for the effectiveness of the whole mechanism, is written much less and lapidary. Andrey Kortunov: Europe and Russia: Four Scenarios for the New Cycle Lesson or deception number 1: the fall of the role and significance of the Council of Europe in European architecture In the early 1990s, Russia's entry into the CoE was for the ruling elite an absolute imperative. Russian authorities did not want to be left behind by the pan-European processes — and, unlike the EU and NATO,...