Russia on Tuesday quit the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, pre-empting possible expulsion over its attack on neighbor Ukraine.
Russia's withdrawal from the institution that devised the European Convention on Human Rights and helped eastern European nations to democratize their political systems after the collapse of Communism carries symbolic weight. FILE PHOTO
Greece had done the same in 1969, also to avoid expulsion, after a group of army officers seized power in a military coup. It rejoined after restoring democracy five years later. The human rights convention will cease to apply to Russia and Russians will no longer be able to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against their government.
In a draft resolution set to be adopted later on Tuesday, the Council of Europe's assembly was poised to ask Russia to leave the institution, saying: "In the common European home, there is no place for an aggressor." "We are glad; we do not want you here," Polish lawmaker Miroslawa Nykiel said in response during the debate at the assembly.
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