Classified by the Russian Federation as an ‘undesirable organisation’, the Association of the Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe (ASPS) filed a complaint in April in a Moscow court. “The procedure against this decision dating from December was long to initiate because of the pandemic”, says Jack Hanning, Secretary General of the ASPS, to EUROPE, but it was essential, as “these schools defend precisely the values that Russia voluntarily pledged to respect when...