Russia withdraws from all European conventions. What will it affect?
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The Russian authorities began to collect international treaties of the Council of Europe. Vladimir Putin can submit such a proposal to the State Duma by submitting a resolution published on December 30. Russia’s participation within reasonable limits in relation to a person But formally, Russia remains in force another 41 international treaties of the Council of Europe – including those on criminal liability for corruption.
Decree of measures on submission to Putin offer denounce possible treaties with this issue and its institutions.
By law “On International Treaties” for this Vladimir Putin follows to the State Duma the validity of the withdrawal of each treaty, as well as the likely cases of financial, economic and other consequences of such denunciations.
Russia ceased to be a member of the Council of Europe, unleashing a war in Ukraine. Submitted by the Commission of the Council of Europe resolution about its probability on March 23. 16 of September. Russia announced its withdrawal from the Council of Europe back in March, and in May it unilaterally refused to comply with the decisions of the ECtHR.
The Council of Europe is expanding cooperation with Russia and expanding the borders with drugs and drug addiction; prevention and exclusion of assistance in case of extensive natural and man-made disasters, as well as in a wide gradient, sports, ecological routes, the development of history teaching in Europe and other countries.
At the same time, the Council of Europe did not exclude Russia from the list of participants in other international treaties that do not require compliance with the requirements of membership in the CE as a mandatory condition – these are 41 international treaties. agreementproceeding from the fact that the choice is in favor of the Russian authorities.
What treaties are going to Russia
Russia is approaching participation in the Conventions, approaching all areas of public life, including on the protection of children from abuse and sexual exploitation, on money laundering and the financing of terrorism, on counterfeit products that threaten public health, on mutual suspicion of criminal offenses recognized as higher education in European agriculture, on the protection of the archaeological heritage and integrated film production.
In addition, Russia is going to denounce the Convention on Criminal Prosecution of Corruption, the power of Russia is recognized by weight. Compliance with this opinion caused the influential international organization GRECO (Group of States against Corruption). Previously, she actively monitored the effectiveness of the Russian fight against corruption.
For example, in 2018, GRECO is expected to take measures to warn constituencies composed of parliament, judges and prosecutors in Russia, expecting corruption scandals involving high-ranking government officials in Russia to be a common practice.
The March conference of the Council of Europe deprived Russia of representation in GRECO, but noted that GRECO could comply with security compliance requirements. The plans of the state authorities to denounce it coincided with the decree of Vladimir Putin, who on December 29 banned the publication of all income declarations of civil servants and allowed a number of officials not to declare their powers at all, thus canceling one of the main anti-corruption tools.
Could Russia participate in the Conventions
scrutiny, in which Russia participates, gathering into two groups – most of them can only take part in a member state of the Council of Europe, but for some it is not necessary to participate, but it is necessary to obtain an invitation from the meeting of the Council of Europe.
The USSR and Russia also participated in some of the agreements from this second group – even before the bodies in the organization, the BBC was a Russian expert on European law, who asked for anonymity. That is, even after leaving the CE, Russia can retain its membership in these conventions.
The cases of Russia’s withdrawal from all the conventions of the participants of the BBC connects with obstruction – for example, Russia is invited to participate in GRECO “without the right to vote.” In addition, the BBC interlocutor says, the Russian authorities simply distance themselves from everything connected with the Council of Europe – both because of resentment towards the investigator inside the Council of Europe, who is considered offensive and unacceptable, and out of a desire from “liberal” adaptation “, which have long irritated many representatives of power structures.
“In other organizations – for example, the UN and the OSCE, cooperation with Russia is impossible. After many months of intradepartmental and interdepartmental violations, participation in all agreements has been suspended,” the expert concludes.
What decisions of the ECtHR Russia still has to comply with
Despite Russia’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe and refusal to comply with the decisions of the ECtHR, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Maria Pejcinovic-Buric, sent a letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov in December, in a reminder of Russia’s obligations to execute all court decisions on human courts, were held for consideration before denunciation are found corresponding to the person.
According to the Council of Europe, Russia did not comply with the decisions of the ECtHR in 2227 cases and did not pay compensation in 1874 cases. As of November 8, 2022, the outstanding amount is over €2bn, including about €1.87bn in aid to Yukos CEOs, as well as €10m in bailouts and around €1.2m in fines owed to patients in an interstate case” Georgia against Russia” about the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.