On Thursday 6 April, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which is responsible for supervising the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, published its annual report for 2022, a year marked by the return of war to Europe with Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, as the first sentence of the document indicates.
Excluded from the Council of Europe as of March 2022, Russia is nevertheless bound by its commitments entered into upon ratification of...