The Council of Europe’s Association of Schools of Political Studies (ASPS) announced, on Wednesday 7 April, that it has filed a complaint with the Tverskoy (Moscow) District Court challenging the decision of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, which last December placed it on the list of “undesirable organisations”.
“This decision is totally arbitrary because the ASPS which promotes human rights, democracy and the rule of law could never be a threat to...