The exclusion of Russia from the Council of Europe will have a number of negative consequences, the Center for Civil Liberties said..

What are the main consequences of such a decision:.

First of all, all representatives of Russia in the statutory bodies of the Council of Europe lose their powers and cannot further participate in their meetings, we are talking, among many others, about the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and others.

Russia can denounce all treaties signed and ratified by the Russian Federation within the framework of the Council of Europe, and these are more than 200 international treaties relating to many issues of human rights, as well as democratic governance, in particular, this also applies to the issue of recognizing university diplomas, etc..

Russia plans to denounce the European Convention on Human Rights and, accordingly, withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. She has not done it yet, but such actions are expected in the coming days..

At the same time, the denunciation of the Convention will enter into force 6 months after the submission of such an application by the country, that is, not earlier than September 2022, and the European Court of Human Rights will have the competence to decide on all applications that have been received by that moment in relation to cases.

At the same time, citizens of Ukraine and Ukraine have the right to submit new applications against the Russian Federation to the European Court of Rights until September 2022.

Also, the European Court of Human Rights has prioritized cases against the Russian Federation in order to quickly consider all existing cases, but it is obvious that their consideration will take longer than September 2022.

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