The rupture is now a fact: the Russian president Vladimir Putin He proceeded on Monday (29.09.2025) to the signing of a law that denounces the European Convention to prevent torture from the Russia.
Vladimir Putin’s announcement was published on a government website, confirming Russia’s official exit from this particular human rights protection mechanism.
The Russian Duma had already approved this decision, which was presented in response to the Council of Europe’s refusal to accept a Russian spokesman in the body that oversees the contract.
Moscow had validated the text in 1998, but now considers that its stay in it is unnecessary in a climate of more and more intense confrontation with European institutions.