Putin submitted to the State Duma a draft on the Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the Convention on National Minorities
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Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on denunciation of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities. The document, as it became known on Friday, is placed in the electronic database of the lower house of the Russian parliament.
In the explanatory note to the document, it is emphasized that withdrawing from the convention will avoid a discriminatory attitude towards Russia and will not harm the observance of the rights of national minorities. The note notes that in September 2022, by the decision of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the powers of the Russian expert in the committee, which was created to monitor the fulfillment by the participating countries of their obligations under the convention, were significantly limited. Moscow was also left with the opportunity to participate in decision-making and monitor cases of violations of the rights of national minorities, primarily the Russian-speaking population abroad, the document says.
The editors of Idel.Realii earlier in September asked Daavr Dorzhin, a lawyer from Kalmykia, to comment on the possible denunciation of the Moscow Convention of the Council of Europe on the Protection of National Minorities. In particular, he said that leaving the convention by itself is unlikely to change anything. “It only confirms the emerging trend towards a decrease in the international legal protection of Russians, including non-Russians,” Dorzhin noted.
Russia signed the convention in 1995. The document provides, among other things, a ban on any discrimination of national minorities, their assimilation against their will, the right to free use of their native language, writes RBC.
- In March last year, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe due to the military invasion of Ukraine. After that, Russia denounced a number of conventions of the Council of Europe, including those on human rights.
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