“The Secretary General of the Council of Europe has received formal notification of the Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights and information about its intention to denounce it”, announced Daniel Holtgen, spokesman of the Council of Europe, on Tuesday 15 March in Strasbourg.
It was 5.30 pm. Since the beginning of the morning, the Parliamentary Assembly, meeting in extraordinary session, had been debating the possibility of initiating the procedure...